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/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

Eschaton

Buy A Newspaper - One thing I decided, years ago, was that there was no point in stepping out on any kind of limb for individuals and institutions, especially powerful ones,...
Daily Howler

AMERICA(S) THE BEAUTIFUL: After Omar appeared on Face the Nation... - *TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2025* *...The Five engaged in an act of fraud: *The madness within which our America(s) dwell—what used to be called the "mental il...
Political Wire

Cheryl Hines ‘Surprised’ to Lose Friends Over RFK Jr. - Cheryl Hines has admitted she was “surprised” to see friends peel away over her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Daily Beast reports. Said Hines: “I ...
Second Nexus

Trump Completely Melts Down Over 'Low IQ Traitor' MTG's Sit-Down Interview With '60 Minutes' - President Donald Trump attacked Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene after his former ally-turned-nemesis criticized him in an interv...
Raw Story

'Don't be dramatic': Sneering Trump belittles tales of struggling Americans - Donald Trump was in no mood to hear from another female reporter asking about his administration's failures during an interview with Politico’s Dasha Bur...
memeorandum

The Movement: Warning signs emerge for MAGA populism over ObamaCare (Emily Brooks/The Hill) - Emily Brooks / The Hill: *The Movement: Warning signs emerge for MAGA populism over ObamaCare* — The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influ...
Futurism

Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation - It "lost its primary safety functions." The post Russia Damaged Protective Dome Around Chernobyl, Can No Longer Contain Radiation appeared first on Futur...
The Verge

Spotify’s music videos feature arrives in the US and Canada - Spotify is launching its beta music videos feature to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada today, over a year after it rolled out to Premium users in o...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: One Podcast After Another - Matt and Sam are joined by *Know Your Enemy*’s intrepid producer, Jesse Brenneman, to discuss the recent film *One Battle After Another*.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

He was called one of the most violent prison guards in America. Then he got promoted - Roderick Gadson showed no remorse after beating a man to death. As Alabama advances him to lieutenant, the case lays bare a culture of violence the state...
Mediagazer

JioHotstar plans to invest $444M over five years to acquire and produce content from South India, as it plans to more than double its 200M+ subscriber base (Praveen Paramasivam/Reuters) - Praveen Paramasivam / Reuters: *JioHotstar plans to invest $444M over five years to acquire and produce content from South India, as it plans to more tha...
Slate

The 10 Best Albums of 2025 - Plus the best songs—and the best protest anthems.
San Antonio Report

Local families serve up churros, Mexican coffee and more at Pearl Ice Rink - New this holiday season, Pearl Ice Rink serves up holiday treats: churros, hot chocolate, Mexican coffee and more. ------------------------------ Local fami...
SCOTUSblog

When rules of statutory interpretation change midstream - Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Depending on who you ask, the ...
naked capitalism

Trump’s Idea for Health Accounts Has Been Tried. Millions of Patients Have Ended Up in Debt. - A look at Trump's non-solution to the looming problem of the expiration of Covid-era ACA subsidies.
Glasstire

Glasstire’s Best of 2025 - Glasstire’s staff and contributors share which Texas-based shows, events, and works made their personal “best” lists for 2025. **** Emma Ahmad Stay: Vict...
Al Jazeera English

How India plans to continue buying Russian oil despite sanctions - Indian imports of Russian oil have soared since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Courthouse News

Darfur militia chief Ali Kushayb sentenced to 20-year prison term by ICC - As Sudan once again descends into war, the International Criminal Court's sentence closes one chapter of Darfur’s long fight for justice.
Houston Public Media

Texas launches plan to open Turning Point USA chapters in every high school - Republican officials in Oklahoma and Florida have also launched plans to expand the presence of the conservative youth organization founded by Charlie Kirk.
The Hill

Trump refuses to rule out sending US troops to Venezuela - President Trump did not rule out sending U.S. troops to Venezuela in an interview released Tuesday as tensions between Washington and Caracas rise. “I don’...
Daily Dot

Joe Jonas responds to New Yorkers who filmed him trying to parallel park for 7 minutes - [image: Left: Joe Jonas in his car in New York City, seen through a window in a building. Text overlay reads, "I love New York because I've been watching...
Mother Jones

The Story Behind the “Misconduct” Allegations Against RFK Jr. - A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides b...
The Progressive Wing

December 9-14 News Roundup and Open Thread - December continues cold in the Northeast.
Mediaite

‘NATO Calls Me Daddy!’ Trump Gloats About Forcing Allies to Ramp Up Defense Spending - Trump joked that NATO calls him "daddy" – repeating a remark made by the alliance’s Secretary General Mark Rutte in July. The post ‘NATO Calls Me Daddy!’...
Axios

Trump blasts allies, praises strongmen — and claims "NATO calls me daddy" - President Trump offered a grim assessment of America's closest allies in a new interview, dismissing European nations as "decaying" while embracing autho...
Undernews

Best states for college students - *SmileHub - *With over 3.8 million high schoolers expected to graduate in 2026, the non-profit organization SmileHub today released new reports on the Be...
The Week

How dangerous is the ‘K’ strain super-flu? - Surge in cases of new variant H3N2 flu in UK and around the world
Deadline Politics

Matt Gutman Departs ABC News For New Post At CBS News - Matt Gutman is leaving ABC News for a new post at CBS News, where he will be chief correspondent, reporting across the network as well as lead corresponden...
Salon.com

Trump’s new security strategy endangers democracy - The president's retrograde National Security Strategy emphasizes profit and bluster at democracy's expense
Crooked Media

Gotta Read the Fine Print… - The post Gotta Read the Fine Print… appeared first on Crooked Media.
First Draft

FIFA Fête and Other Fiascos - The things these people can do with a straight face. Plus some troubling signage at the White House.
Countercurrents

Appeal to President of India: Restore the independence of the Election Commission of India - Appeal for making a reference under Article 143(1) of the Constitution to the apex court for advice on restoring the independence of the ECI To Smt. Droupa...
The Conversation

6 myths about rural America: How conventional wisdom gets it wrong - Many people understand rural America through stereotypes. Two scholars who study rural communities bust 6 of those myths, complicating the conventional wis...
Space City Weather

After today’s cold start, Houston will warm up. Also, we solve the mystery of the missing cities in our app - In brief: In today’s post we discuss this morning’s chilly start, and our warming trend through Saturday. We also provide some clarity on the weekend forec...
Texas Observer

Lina Hidalgo Had a Vision. Harris County Won’t See It. - On September 9 at 6:51 p.m., Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo exited an ongoing budget meeting in protest. “Shame on you,” she scolded her colleagues—nam...
Angry Bear

Three Charts on US Tariffs - Erica York – Tax Foundation For those keeping track at home, the President has said he is using tariffs to offset the cost of a long list of programs, in...
ArcaMax

Secretary of Embarrassment: Mr. Ethos Goes to Washington - If you were looking for a great choice for a terrible Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth was always your man. It was entirely unsurprising that President D...
Rallblog

Japanese Militarism: What Could Go Wrong? | 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...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Sunset in the East - In case you missed it, the world has shifted, and, as Eliot predicted, not with a bang, but a whimper. A bang you would have noticed, and perhaps resisted....
Vox

People are nicer than you think - It’s probably happened to you: A stranger starts talking to you at a party. In this moment, you’re not nearly as clever or charming as you hoped you’d be, ...
WhoWhatWhy

A Big Fish Story - [image: fisherman, Caribbean, Pete Hegseth, boat strikes] That drug boat was THIS BIG. A Big Fish Story originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Functional Snacks Are A Sustainable Solution for Modern Nutrition - Your 3 PM energy slump doesn’t have to mean reaching for single-use packaged junk food... The post Guest Idea: Functional Snacks Are A Sustainable Soluti...
Dorf on Law

What We Learned From the Trump v. Slaughter Oral Argument - Having wasted spent two and a half hours of my day listening to yesterday's oral argument in *Trump v. Slaughter*, I have less time than I typically spend...
The Smirking Chimp

FIFA’s Phony “Peace Prize” Can’t Redeem Donald Trump -
Skeptophilia

Repulsive - Back in 2006, some people in Hong Kong noticed that despite its facing out over the warm waters of the South China Sea, it seldom gets hit by typhoons. ...
Off The Kuff

Deadline Day roundup, part 1 - I’m putting Part 1 in the headline because there’s always some delays between filings at county headquarters and what you can see on the SOS candidate fili...
ProPublica

These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills. - The post These Health Centers Are Supposed to Make Care Affordable. One Has Sued Patients for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Bills. appeared first on ProPubl...
NPR's Health Shots

After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left - Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if...
Common Dreams

Garbage: Racist Shits 'R Us - Improbably, the White-Nationalist-In-Chief still plunges to lower, ranker, more nakedly racist depths as he tries to deflect from his failings, lies, nap...
The Root

Understanding the Plight of Somalis Making it to the U.S. — Only to Get Trashed By Trump - In order to understand the Somali Civil War and why President Trump is targeting Somalis, you have to start form the very beginning... Read more...
High Country News

Water across the West at risk as Trump targets national monuments - [image: Hole in the Rock in Grand Staircase-Escalante.] A new study found that about 83% of water passing through public lands uses monument designation f...
Counterpunch

Iraq’s Sovereignty Cannot Grow While U.S. Power Only Changes Shape - In U.S. political talk, Iraq is often treated as a “finished chapter.” The invasion is history, the occupation is history, and even the war against ISIS ...
jobsanger

Trump Sleeps Through His Own Cabinet Flattery Session -
World Socialist Web Site

Elisabeth Zimmermann-Modler 1956–2025: Trotskyist and fighter for the working class - Elli devoted her entire adult life to building a better, socialist society. She joined the Trotskyist movement in 1975 and remained an active and leading m...
Informed Comment

Was Volcano-Driven Climate Change partially Behind the Black Death? - Mongols of the Golden Horde catapulted the cadavers of plague victims over the wall of the city of Caffa
Portside

IDF Chief Says Ceasefire Line Is a ‘New Border,’ Suggesting Goal To Annex More Than Half of Gaza - IDF Chief Says Ceasefire Line Is a ‘New Border,’ Suggesting Goal To Annex More Than Half of Gaza Mark Brody Mon, 12/08/2025 - 23:29
Techdirt.

Maximum Chaos: Latest Top FDA Regulator Peaces Out After Only 3 Weeks - In mid-November, we talked about yet more chaos occurring under RFK Jr., this time at the FDA. At issue was George Tidmarsh, who joined the FDA in July as ...
Election Law Blog

“Redistricting bill clears first hurdle in Indiana Senate as it passes out of committee” - IndyStar reports that the Indiana redistricting (unabashed partisan gerrymander) has cleared committee and will be voted on later this week. The post “Re...
The Greanville Post

Estamos viviendo la CRISIS más COMPLEJA de toda la HISTORIA Gabriel Salazar Historiador - TGP—Gabriel Salazar’s interview offers a sweeping diagnosis of Chile’s political and social crisis, deeply intertwined with global upheavals and the disint...
Consortium News

Europe in Panic Over US Strategy for Stability With Russia - Alastair Crooke on the Trump administration’s most recent National Security Strategy, which critiques U.S. pursuit of global primacy as a failure. By Alast...
Alternet

Why MAGA is still clinging to conspiracy theories about pipe bomb suspect despite arrest - Well after President Donald Trump pardoned the roughly 1,500 defendants arrested, charged and/or convicted as part of the January 6 2021 siege of the U.S...
Brad Blog

The High Cost of Trump's Terrible Policy Making: 'BradCast' 12/8/2025 - Today on The BradCast: Don't let our ridiculous, sociopathic President's absurd antics and unspeakable corruption prevent you from losing sight of the rele...
Popular Resistance

Another US-Backed Coup Attempt Is Underway In Honduras - On November 30, six million Hondurans voted in their presidential election. One week later, the outcome of the election has not yet been announced due to...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Progressive podcaster calls out Charlie Kirk's widow as a 'grifter'' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Erika Kirk *‘Should Be Kicked To The Curb’: Progressive Podcaster Attacks Widow Erika Kirk as a ‘Grifter’* - I fail to see any lie here. Charlie Kirk was ...
Dissident Voice

Denmark’s Ritual of Militarisation - On December 8, 2025, the Copenhagen Security Summit convenes at Falkoner Centret in Frederiksberg. With 35 speakers and more than 1,200 participants, it ...
Antiwar.com

The Hegseth Killings Must Stop - Last week the Pentagon, under “War Secretary” Pete Hegseth, carried out yet another military attack on a boat in the high seas that the Administration clai...
Socialist Alternative

Pittsburgh Coalition Organizes To Shut Down Trump & ICE - Since Donald Trump returned to office in January, his administration has undertaken scores of attacks against the working class and all oppressed groups. I...
Workers World

Dec. 9 rally for Mumia outside Mahanoy prison - [image: Dec. 9 rally for Mumia outside Mahanoy prison] This statement was issued by the March for Mumia on Dec. 8: A rally on Dec. 9 will mark the end of t...
San Antonio Current

Bob Dylan coming to Texas in 2026 but not stopping in any major cities - You probably won't guess the two Texas cities Dylan's playing. Neither of them is San Antonio, for what it's worth. The post Bob Dylan coming to Texas ...
Independent Political Report

LNC Alternate Calls for Censure of Libertarian Party of Ohio Over 2026 Governor’s Race - Ben Weir, the Region 6 Alternate on the Libertarian National Committee, is asking the national organization to censure the Libertarian Party of Ohio on t...
Progressive.org

Broadview: Where the Border Never Ends - An ICE processing center in Illinois has become a stage for a new kind of border enforcement.
CultureMap Houston

Award-winning ramen shop sets opening date for new Memorial location - Memorial-area diners will soon be slurping noodles and chowing down on Sweet & Sour Yodas. *Ramen Tatsu-ya* is opening its second Houston-area location thi...
El Paso Matters

ACLU: ICE detainees at Camp East Montana beaten, threatened with illegal removal to Mexico - The ACLU and other organizations are calling for Fort Bliss facility to be shut down, alleging detained immigrants are beaten and sexually abused, lack ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

Colin Allred Abandons Senate Race at the Last Minute - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Colin Allred has ended his campaign for the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate and will...
Scheerpost.com

Watchdog Denounces Trump AI Order Seen as Giveaway to Big Tech Billionaire Buddies Like David Sacks - By Brad Reed Republished from Common Dreams President Donald Trump is drawing swift criticism after announcing he would be signing an executive order aimed...
Wolf Street

In Edgy Bond Market, 30-Year Treasury Yield Hits 3-Month High, 10-Year Yield Hits 1-Month High, Mortgage Rates Jump - The expected rate cut gets complicated: A dovish Fed amid rising inflation can spook the bond market.
Church and State

Jury-shopping with Jeanine, and abortion-pill liars get a pass - If this case were about anything other than abortion and conservative Christians hating it, this would be a slam dunk for New York.
Texas Standard

‘It’s now or never’: Jasmine Crockett joins the race for U.S. Senate in Texas - After weeks of speculation, Crockett officially filed to run Monday.
Discourse

Discourse Pod #07: Wicked 2: Wicked-er - Producer Sam joins us for a jam-packed episode where we cover everything from Wicked: For Good, Olivia Nuzzi-gate, the University of Oklahoma essay scandal...
Ian Welsh

American Will Try To Maintain The Monroe Doctrine. Can It? - The Chief of Staff hints as much: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs hints at military combat deployment “in our own neighborhood.” GEN. DAN CAINE: “ We haven’t ...
NORML

Yet Another Study Links Cannabis Use to Reduced Alcohol Intake - [image: a woman raises her hand to signal no to the person offering a glass of liquor][image: a woman raises her hand to signal no to the person offering...
OpEd News

When it Comes to War Crimes, the Arc of History Often Forms a Closed Circle - If you are heaping scorn on President Trump for extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean, you might wish to examine the history of five of his predecessors.
The AltWorld

A Change in Course: President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Document - Dear readers this website depends on readers support. Your support is the only indication I have that […] The post A Change in Course: President Trump’s ...
The Texas Signal

Houston Museum Opens Office of Indigenous Community Relations - The Houston Museum of Natural Science created the Office of Indigenous Community Relations as a liaison between tribes, nations, and activist groups
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Time Sensitive—Texas House Democratic Caucus hosts Special Hearing on Free Speech tomorrow, 10AM, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025 - *Friends:* *The Texas House Democratic Caucus will hold a Special Hearing on Free Speech tomorrow, Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 10:00 AM.* *If you wish...
Mondoweiss

‘Genocide is not an Oakland value:’ inside Oakland’s grassroots campaign to end military shipments to Israel - [image: Protesters from the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo at Oakland International Airport. (Photo: Saman Qadir)]Oakland International Airport has become a...
The Daily Poster

The FBI’s New Naughty List - Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the bureau to compile a watchlist based on its expanded definitions of domestic terrorism.
Project Censored

Antizionist Futures and Immigrant Rights in Labor Organizing - In the first half of the show, we welcome back the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents Arielle Angel to talk about the need for new Jewish institutions th...
Capital & Main

This L.A. Museum Is Standing Up to Trump’s Whitewashing, Vowing to ‘Scrub Nothing’ - The Japanese American National Museum stands out among cultural institutions by refusing to bend to President Trump’s attacks on diversity, history and t...
The NM Political Report

State senator prepping bill to rate school library books for race, sex and LGBTQ+ content - A conservative New Mexico lawmaker is drafting legislation allowing schools to rate library books for sexual and violent content and possibly materials a...
Ballot Access News

New Jersey Bill for Ranked Choice Voting in State and Federal Elections - Two New Jersey legislators will introduce a bill for ranked choice voting for federal and state office. They are Senator Andrew Zwicker (D-Hillsborough) an...
Bonddad

While capital spending increased sharply, yet more evidence of consumer weakness - - *by New Deal democrat* On Friday I noted that real personal spending on goods, especially durable goods, had declined in September. If we have rea...
slacktivist

Say you can’t sleep, baby, I know - Two different kinds of ICE jokes, a Whale rips through a Net, Dollar store rip-offs, and a cease-and-desist playlist.
Rewire

Back Pain During Pregnancy Is Often Dismissed as a Passing Discomfort−A Nurse Explains Why it Should Be Taken Seriously and Treated - Many people do not know about the serious harms that untreated pain in pregnancy can cause. The post Back Pain During Pregnancy Is Often Dismissed as a ...
Democracy Now!

"The Problem with Plastic": Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It's Too Late - We speak with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, *The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before ...
Media Lens

The Magic Begging Bowl, Part 2 – Self-Inquiry - In Part 1, we saw how even the most exalted stars in the celebrity firmament look on in dismay as their greatest successes – Wimbledon titles, World Cups, ...
Grist

Illinois families are going electric — for free - As federal incentives for home electrification disappear, an innovative state law lets utilities meet energy-efficiency mandates by getting people off gas.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 8 December 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] He actually looks better without the ora...
Claytoonz

Happy Trumpmas - 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...
See You In 2020

When America’s workers connect with the globe’s anti-imperialist forces, Trump 2.0 will lose its effectiveness - An essential lesson to take away from Trump 2.0’s recent imperial losses is that for the workers movement to win, it must unify with all forces which ar...
DeSmogBlog

Exxon’s Next Supreme Court Play - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. Facing a growing number of law...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Braunton Road - [image: Braunton Road]
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...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: Corporate Monopolies, Betting on the News, Tucker and the CIA, Conspiracies, and What was 2025? - I answer your questions and dive into some of the more consequential stories we haven't had a chance to discuss
Field Negro

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

Drones to Diplomas: How Russia’s Largest Private University is Linked to a $25M Essay Mill - A sprawling academic cheating network turbocharged by Google Ads that has generated nearly $25 million in revenue has curious connections to a Kremlin-conn...
Lowering the Bar

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

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

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CHEESY SCENES OF WINTER EDITION. - *RAWK.* In the not-too-distant future, I hope and pray, we will look back on the Age of Tubby II and think, “Holy shit, I know I complain about President...
The Militant

‘Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa’ - Below is the introduction by Mary-Alice Waters to the new book Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde: The Fall of the Last Colonial...
Environment Texas

Environment Texas delivers briefing to solar installers on new bill that cuts red tape - The post Environment Texas delivers briefing to solar installers on new bill that cuts red tape appeared first on Environment Texas.
LareDOS

TAMIU students invited to participate in City visual arts, writing contest - Submission deadline is Sun., Dec. 7
MintPress News

Sudan’s War, UAE Gold Networks, and the Rise of Anti-Imperialist Alliances - Journalist Ahmed Kaballo joins Mnar Adley to examine Sudan’s civil war, UAE’s gold operations, US pressure in Africa, and the rise of the anti-imperialis...
Debunking Christianity

The Case for Jesus as a Real Historical Person Continues to Erode - *“But I feel Jesus in my heart” is evidence for what you’re feeling* In my most recent articles here I explained why we no longer need to pay much atte...
Seeing the Forest

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

Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 5, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/05/2025 - 05:53 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Alas, a Blog

Reasons To Support Trump - I’m generally against “bothsidesism,” but one thing I believe conservatives and liberals have in common in the U.S.: We both find the other side’s choices ...
Earthworks

Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at New Mexico Through an OGI Camera - The first time I pointed the optical gas imaging (OGI) camera at a well site in New Mexico, an entire … The post Seeing the Invisible: My First Look at ...
Sludge

House GOP Advances Clean Energy Rollbacks - Gas hookup bans, showerhead water limits, and mobile home energy efficiency requirements were among the measures targeted by Energy and Commerce Committee ...
The Rag Blog

MARTIN J. MURRAY / REMEMBRANCE / Larry Caroline disarmed critics without demeaning them - By Martin J. Murray / The Rag Blog / December 4, 2025 Martin J. Murray is the author of Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar ...
Trivial Knot

On Steam AI disclosures - The Steam game store has a policy that games with AI-generated content are required to say so. The CEO of Epic Games (which owns a competing game store) re...
The Grayzone

Former Israeli spies now overseeing US government cybersecurity - The Pentagon, Treasury Department, DHS, and a variety of other US government agencies have begun relying on a firm launched by former Israeli military in...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House Rating Changes Following TN-7 Special, Plus Updates on Indiana Redistricting and the Overall House Map - Notes on the TN-7 special, North Carolina ratings changes, a proposed Indiana Republican gerrymander, and the overall House map The post House Rating Cha...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Road from Raswashingsputin - Two weeks ago, in our ongoing exploration of the ideas of the Situationist International and their application to the ongoing crisis of industrial society,...
Bracing Views

Apocalypse Soon? - Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain BILL ASTORE DEC 02, 2025 Hello Everyone: In 2007, I was fed up with the lies of the Bush/Cheney administration ...
Greg Palast

Got Democracy? Give to Save 2026This Giving Tuesday, Help Protect the American Vote - You can make a difference and already have. Atlanta Public Radio reported that without Greg Palast’s investigation, Raphael Warnock would not have been ele...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Democracy Chronicles

On Business and Power - The government is the only entity big enough to stop business from having all the control and economic sway, yet the United States is failing at this.
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
Liberation News

¿Por qué Trump amenaza con invadir Nigeria? ¿Realmente es para “proteger a las y los cristianos”? - A comienzos de noviembre, Trump amenazó con tomar acciones militares contra Nigeria, el país más poblado de África.
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.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
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...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
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 ...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
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

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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

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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
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 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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