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

NPR's Health Shots

Dr. Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling a leadership vacuum - Schwartz takes command of a public health agency that has lost thousands of employees, amid layoffs, resignations and leadership turmoil.
Axios

Senate confirms Schwartz for CDC director - The Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz for Centers for Disease Control director on Wednesday, giving the beleaguered agency its first full-time political le...
Al Jazeera English

Brazil’s Flavio Bolsonaro names Alfredo Gaspar as running mate - The announcement comes as Lula warns of foreign interference and polls show a tightening presidential race.
Futurism

It’s So Hot in Japan That Zoo Animals Are Dropping Dead - Poor creatures. The post It’s So Hot in Japan That Zoo Animals Are Dropping Dead appeared first on Futurism.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Angry fellow makes accusations! - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2026* *The rage of Kennedy Junior: *Dana Bash and Bobby Kennedy never got on the same track on Sunday morning's State of The Union....
Eschaton

Classy - Let's see if the "Democratic Strategist" cable news/consultant crowd can behave. Putting your hand up to participate in democracy is no easy thing. Than...
Mediaite

‘Be a Man!’ Cory Booker Berates Trump Judicial Nominee in 2020 Election Grilling - Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) grilled Trump DOJ nominee Adam Candeub and told him to "be a man" when asking about 2020 election conspiracy theories. The post ‘...
Techdirt.

Ninth Circuit: Your AI Agent Can’t Violate Hacking Law. But You Might. - The rise of AI is bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect. The latest one: who is liable if an agentic s...
Mother Jones

This Data Center Foe Just Won His Democratic House Primary in Michigan - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. William Lawrence, a prominent environ...
memeorandum

Five Things to Know About Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed (John McCormick/Wall Street Journal) - John McCormick / Wall Street Journal: *Five Things to Know About Michigan's Abdul El-Sayed* — The 41-year-old progressive won the state's hotly contest...
IVN

The Voters Who Weren’t Supposed to Show Up - CA's primary turnout record was powered by Latino independents. So why are party insiders trying to shut the door behind them?
Mediagazer

ABC News digital workers have voted unanimously to form a union with WGAE; the unit includes about 50 reporters, editors, and video and social media producers (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *ABC News digital workers have voted unanimously to form a union with WGAE; the unit includes about 50 reporters, editors, and v...
Undernews

Climate - *Inside Climate News - *Climate-fueled wildfires could scorch many of the sites that shape America’s cultural identity. A study published in May found...
The Daily Poster

Midterm Madness: El-Sayed Wins, Overcomes $62 Million Corporate Spending Spree - Abdul El-Sayed overcame a 9-to-1 spending deficit to clinch his primary.
Novara Media

Lobbyists Spent $70m to Defeat a Pro-Palestine Candidate. He Still Won - A progressive Democrat and fierce opponent of the genocide in Gaza has won a key primary race in the US, even after corporate and pro-Israel lobbying group...
Texas Standard

New children’s book shows how Roy Velásquez steered a segregated Austin towards equality - “A Taxi for Everyone” tells the story of the cab company that sought to serve all in the capital city.
Deadline Politics

Republican Senator John Kennedy Warns FCC Official Of Agency’s Scrutiny Of Network Content: “You’re Getting Into The Foothills Of Violating The First Amendment” - The FCC’s general counsel Adam Candeub faced pointed questions as the agency has delved into network content, with one Republican senator, John Kennedy, wa...
Ballot Access News

At Least Three States Have No Democrat in U.S. Senate Race - This year, there will be no Democrat on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Idaho, Nebraska, and South Dakota. It is possible Montana will be on this list, but ...
Raw Story

'Make this guy a star': Retiree who 'humiliated' Trump charms with scribbled note to FEC - The Michigan retiree who "humiliated" President Donald Trump by beating his endorsed candidate even after dropping out of the race won a host of new fans...
Salon.com

At 60, The Beatles’ “Revolver” is still unfolding its secrets - The legacy of "Revolver" as The Beatles' creative turning point just never gets old
Slate

Slate Pears Game 356: Aug. 5, 2026 - Today's puzzle has eight pears.
San Antonio Current

National Democrats add former GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales’ district to Texas congressional target list - WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is adding Texas’ 23rd Congressional District to its target list, the third red-leaning, His...
Ecosophia

Energy: Predicaments and Prospects Revisited - A few weeks ago, as regular readers will remember, I glanced back twenty years to my earliest and least accurate overview of the future of industrial civil...
Bonddad

The economically weighted ISM indexes for July show a reasonably strong but stagflationary expansion - - *by New Deal democrat* The economically weighted ISM manufacturing + services indexes continue to be the best timely snapshot of the US economy. W...
Idavox

BREAKING: MI Rep. Haley Stevens concedes, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary shaped by party divisions, gender and faith - This story was published before Stevens’s concession and while the race was still tight. The... The post BREAKING: MI Rep. Haley Stevens concedes, Dr. Ab...
Green Pages News

Chino Garcia Obituary - While we were meeting at the GPUS national meeting in Chicago on Friday, July 24, one of the OGs (Original Greens) the American Green Party movement, Chino...
SCOTUSblog

The justices should hold regular press conferences - *This is the second piece in a series on what I believe the court can, and should, do better.* *** The Supreme Court justices have an unusual relationsh...
Vox

Abdul El-Sayed’s win tees up the first true swing state test for the Bernie left - Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary — albeit by a significantly smaller margin than preelection polling sugge...
naked capitalism

El-Sayed on Track to Win US Senate Primary, Overcoming AIPAC’s $30 Million Onslaught - Abdul El-Sayed's opponents, with substantial AIPAC funding, outspent him 11 to 1 but still lost. Israel support is becoming a scarlet letter.
Ian Welsh

Understand China’s Plan To Become A Full Socialist State - “The banks, as we know, are centres of modern economic life, the principal nerve centres of the whole capitalist economic system.” –Vladmir Lenin Deng had ...
Political Wire

Bill Lee Endorses Primary Challenge to Andy Ogles - “Tennessee is the next state with a primary this week, and Gov. Bill Lee endorsed against Trump-backed Rep. Andy Ogles, a fellow Republican, ahead of the T...
WhoWhatWhy

Midwestern Voters Reject Republican Power Plays - [image: University of Kansas] Missouri voters thoroughly rejected the attempt of state Republicans to make it more difficult to pass citizen-sponsored cons...
Texas Observer

The ‘Houston Miracle’ Shell Game - When Aubrie was a freshman in the Houston Independent School District (ISD), she was assigned to an Algebra I class. On the first day of school, her teac...
Scheerpost.com

The Attention Engine - Media Manipulation, Institutional Decay, and the Strategy Behind Trump’s Grip on Power Nolan Higdon Substack “I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattac...
First Draft

Florida v. the Catholic Church - Religious freedom is the most important thing to Christian Nationalists. But if you are a religious person who is not aligned with Christian Nationalism, t...
El Paso Matters

Mission Trail Art Market returns; Giving Day workshop helps nonprofits prepare - Browse local art, prepare for El Paso Giving Day, enjoy a museum fundraiser, tropical entertainment, hiking, movies and more during a busy week of Borde...
Democracy Now!

"This Is an ICE Murder, Too": Gabriela Soto Says She Miscarried While Husband Was Detained in Solitary - In the wake of a third ICE death at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, we speak with Gabriela Soto, whose husband Martín was one of the leade...
Crooked Timber

Perfectly Plausible - In the final comment on my most recent CT post, John Q strategically grants a premise from an earlier comment by poster Matt: John Q grants that “it’s perf...
Rallblog

Progressive Abdul El-Sayed Wins in Michigan | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Dorf on Law

Precedent and Personnel: When the Justices Change so Does the Constitution - Readers of this blog know that I am a harsh critic of the Roberts Court (to say the least). The current GOP justices have dramatically altered the constitu...
The Verge

Disney gives TikTok creators official access to Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar characters - Disney is introducing fan-created TikTok content to its Disney Plus app in its latest attempt to break into short-form creator videos. The Walt Disney Comp...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Humpday in the Nick of Time - I don’t know if New York’s Lt. Gov. was a Democrat or a Republican in 1920, but here’s a peek into the duties of the office back then. Happy Humpday in the...
Rewire

Planned Parenthood of Michigan To Close Three Clinics After Funding Cuts - A state funding request went unanswered as the organization warned closures were imminent.
Space City Weather

A slight respite in Houston’s heat, to the extent you can call it that in August - In brief: Shower chances! They’re in Houston for a little bit, though most places will see little rain each day. Still, some less hot weather and additiona...
The Root

Exclusive: Olivia Miles Is Taking The WNBA By Storm and We’re All Here For It - The rookie guard opens up about her electric transition to the pros, staying grounded through the hype and being her authentic self Read more...
Debunking Christianity

A.I. On Bayes Theorem Stressing David Hume's Contribution! - "Is Bayes theorem a legitimate tool to evaluate miracles in the Bible?" ------ Yes, Bayes’ Theorem is a legitimate mathematical and philosophical tool for ...
The Smirking Chimp

Exonerated Ex-Olympian Just Put the Trump Administration on Notice -
Off The Kuff

TSU poll: Talarico 47, Paxton 45 - That’s the headline, but this is the bulk of the story. Fewer than one in 10 Black voters in Texas say they are less likely to vote in November’s midterm e...
ProPublica

James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising Questions. - The post James Talarico Accused Ken Paxton of Voter Fraud. His Own Voter Registration Is Raising Questions. appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Media

Far Right Freaks Freak Over Migrants in Spain - The post Far Right Freaks Freak Over Migrants in Spain appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earth 911

Is My Roof Too Shaded for Solar Panels? - Many people want to install solar panels but their roofs are very shaded. Is it... The post Is My Roof Too Shaded for Solar Panels? appeared first on Ear...
Two Party Opera

Imaginary Friends - Read More
Counterpunch

The Rising Danger of Regional Confrontation - The U.S.-Israeli invasion of Israel was planned as a short war, but it is turning into an unmitigated, gale-force cock-up. Fighting continues in the six...
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: Don Corleone Trump - The White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way the U.S. president bankrupted his casinos. By Chris Hedges Scheerp...
jobsanger

Oligarchs' Victory Celebration Was Premature -
Informed Comment

Hormuz Crisis: Electric Car Sales Double in Major Markets - "EV exports from China have grown over 120%.." Nearly half (45%) of China's auto exports in H1 '26 have been EVs!
Courthouse News

Americans most concerned about inflation and cost of living: Survey - Americans grow increasingly dissatisfied with elevated costs and the president's response to the issue.
The Hill

Tennessee governor bucks Trump, endorses against Ogles in primary - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Tuesday endorsed Charlie Hatcher (R), who is challenging incumbent Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) in the GOP primary in the Volun...
Brad Blog

Cornyn, Tillis Approve Blanche for A.G., Ratify Trump’s Historic Taxpayer-Funded Heist: ‘BradCast’ 8/4/2026 - It’s all sort of being reported as just another wacky political kerfuffle on Capitol Hill. In fact, as detailed on today’s BradCast, what we are all witnes...
Antiwar.com

The New Big Three - Reprinted from The Realist Review. “The enemy at last was plain in view, huge and hateful, all disguise cast off. It was the Modern Age in arms…” Such was ...
Portside

A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One? - A 4-Day Work Week Sounds Great. How Do We Get One? Judy Tue, 08/04/2026 - 19:44
The Greanville Post

Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar: Saudi Tankers Just Fled the Red Sea, Iraq and Yemen Are Changing the Game - DW—This video features a conversation between host Nima and Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar regarding the escalating regional conflicts in West Asia and the invol...
Claytoonz

Stupid and Gullible - Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
High Country News

The Spokane burns show that not even suburbia is immune to wildfire - The Old Trails Fire burned through the city’s northwest corner — an area considered outside the highest risk zone. The post The Spokane burns show that ...
CultureMap Houston

Top Houston chefs fire up new pizza pop-up series for local nonprofit - A Houston pizzeria has recruited some of the city’s top chefs for one-day-only collaborations. Super Pizza Friends will unite *Shredders Pizza* with five c...
slacktivist

Sheep and Goats and ‘Hell’ - It's a very tricky business clinging to "depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels" while dismissing "I was hungry and you...
Project Censored

News That Didn’t Make The News From Palestine - On this episode of The Project Censored Show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with associate editor at the Electronic Intifada Nora Barrows Friedman. S...
Black Agenda Report

Iran, China, Fascism, and Boycotting FIFA - Iran, China, Fascism, and Boycotting FIFA bareditors Wed, 08/05/2026 - 01:22 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor
Wolf Street

Labor Market Turnover Increased all Year, Bouncing Off Late 2025 Low. What that Means - Another sign of underlying strength in the labor market.
Progressive.org

The People’s Historian - Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, has found the perfect biographer in Dave Zirin.
Mondoweiss

‘Silent extermination’: Israel bombs medicine stores in Gaza, worsening the Strip’s dire healthcare crisis - [image: Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on the pharmaceuticals warehouse of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, August 1, 2026. (Pho...
World Socialist Web Site

Rescue of 173 migrants narrowly averts mass Channel deaths, as Burnham pledges “relentless” efforts to “stop the boats” - A report titled *How ‘stopping the boats’ kills* show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".
Trivial Knot

The modal ontological argument - The king of all useless arguments Arguments for the existence of God are, generally agreed, not very compelling, and irrelevant to any real political argum...
Common Dreams

Senate Judiciary Republicans Advance Blanche Nomination, Co-Signing His Scandalous Record at DOJ - Today, Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney General to the full Senat...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Sur le quai - A surreal techno-reverie.
Alternet

White House agenda in meltdown as Trump drifts 'further from reality' - On Tuesday, a conservative journalist offered a stark assessment of President Donald Trump’s recent behavior, writing that the Commander in Chief has “dr...
NORML

Analysis: Adoption of Medical Cannabis Access Laws Associated With Increased Workplace Productivity, Innovation - [image: A chart indicating increasing cannabis sales][image: A chart indicating increasing cannabis sales]"From job creation to tax revenue to improved i...
Dissent Magazine

Who Owns American History? - Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country’s memory?
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Why an Appeals Court Blocked a Dangerous Censorship Law in Florida’s Universities - The ACLU filed a lawsuit in 2022 on behalf of professors forced to censor race and gender in their instruction.
Angry Bear

Quote of the day - It’s not just that people don’t want data centers in their backyards or regions. We basically know why they don’t want them. They’ll bogart all the elect...
The Progressive Wing

8/4 News Roundup and Open Thread - Election Day in Michigan (and Missouri)
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The US government’s mislabelled map of Africa at a global Aids conference shows again a failure to understand the continent | Kenneth Ngure - This crude lack of thought is influencing crucial budget decisions on HIV programmes, which were cut by 25% worldwide in 2025 At the end of July, thousan...
Church and State

Can Trump be convicted and ousted? Why won’t the 67 votes needed out of the 100 Senators happen? - Anyone reading the recent book “The Fix” by Barbara McQuade will agree that Trump’s crimes have far exceeded anything necessary to oust him.
Capital & Main

AI Is Being Used to Boost Medicaid Enrollment, But Not Without Concerns - A California health plan uses "Angelica," an AI program, to keep people from losing coverage. It says it does the work of 40 employees at a fraction of t...
Grist

What another Texas flood revealed about the state’s warning system - Texas revamped its early warning system after a Hill Country flood killed 139 people last year. July's historic flood revealed what it accomplished — and w...
Media Lens

‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’ - ‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3395: X-Ray’s First Year - Episode: 3395 Century Magazine reveals how scientists were viewing the new X-Rays in the year after their discovery. Today, X-Rays one year old.
Popular Resistance

Ukraine Demonstrates It Is A Mercenary For Western Imperialism - It has been nearly four and a half years since the Russian intervention into Ukraine instigated by the United States and other Western nations. Ukraine, ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'WA state ballot initiative could require genital exams for girls to play sports' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure* - *Are we moving into the phase where anti-trans legislation could harm a...
Sludge

AIPAC Tops $100 Million in Election Spending for Second Straight Cycle - The pro-Israel group's PAC and super PAC have poured $104.3 million into the midterms, including more than $30.6 million in Michigan's Democratic Senate pr...
San Antonio Report

Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, Gov. Greg Abbott says - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid. ---...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Welcome the Death Rattle of the Democratic Establishment - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
The NM Political Report

AG Torrez escalates fight with DOJ over unseized fentanyl shipments - [image: New Mexico's overdose crisis just got a new villain, according to the governor: the federal agency that's supposed to be fighting it.] By Kevin He...
Alas, a Blog

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? - Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller ...
Workers World

Iran: Harassment of commercial shipping shows U.S. is still pursuing confrontation. - [image: Iran: Harassment of commercial shipping shows U.S. is still pursuing confrontation.] The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA – Tehran) published the...
Election Law Blog

“A Democracy Funder’s Confession: We May Be Making Things Worse” - Rachel Pritzker has this piece at the Council of Philanthropy: Over the past 10 years, American philanthropy has mobilized to defend the nation’s democra...
Glasstire

Nominations for Texas State Artists Accepted Through October 15 - The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is seeking nominations for 2027-2028 Texas State Artists. Every two years, the TCA selects State Artists in sever...
The Week

All you need to know about everything that matters -
ArcaMax

The stink of Musk - Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. Mu...
LareDOS

Marcos E. González: he’s pulling more than your focus - This is not a novel for the easily offended or for the politically correct
OpEd News

Can What the Israeli Nationalist Government is doing to the Palestinians be Defined as "Genocide"? - This column briefly considers the question of whether what the present Israeli Nationalist government is doing the Palestinians still living in the territo...
See You In 2020

America is coming apart. When it comes back together, this will look like Haiti’s revolution. - Above: Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the face of Haiti’s mass revolutionary movement. The extent to which the United States is becoming lumpenized will ma...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Rot We Refuse to Name: Montgomery, Alabama, and the Living Legacy of Racial Terror, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., August 3, 2026 - *The Rot We Refuse to Name: Montgomery, Alabama, and the Living Legacy of Racial Terror* *by* *Angela Valenzuela* *August 3, 2026* *Legacy Museum link...
Bracing Views

Extractive Capitalism - Gusher Up, Trickle Down, Leads Me to a Sinking Feeling BILL ASTORE AUG 02, 2026 Extractive capitalism is the economic model for the United States. We’ve be...
The Texas Signal

The Candidates Running Against Corruption - For many of the Democratic challengers in Texas, combating corruption is taking center stage in their campaigns.
Independent Political Report

Nebraska Examiner Asks Supporters What Draws Them to Independent Senate Candidate Dan Osborn - *This article was originally published by Nebraska Examiner* *on July 31, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed ...
Land Destroyer

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities - *July 21, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - On July 10, 2026 China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered the first stage booster of its Long ...
The Grayzone

US DOJ relying on anonymous Israeli intel agent to convict US resident of Oct 7 participation - US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost ent...
Socialist Alternative

Support Left Independent Candidates—Build An Alternative To The Two Corporate Parties - The US midterm election is fast approaching and the Trump administration is plunging deeper into crisis. Trump’s second term has been devastating for worki...
Field Negro

News roundup. - The main stream media seems to be more fixated on an ideological difference within the Democratic party, than they are actual fascism being practiced b...
Liberation News

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August - “Black August” is honored every year to commemorate the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to call for the release of political pris...
Progressives Chat

Prediction: Nomination for Abdul El–Sayed - I am predicting, with next Tuesday’s [August 4, 2026] primaries in my home state, the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Michigan will be wo...
Lowering the Bar

Former Employee Sues Comcast Over Alleged Pie-in-the-Face Policy - [image: alleged evidence, picture of whiteboard]The highest-ranking salesperson for the month allegedly got to hit the lowest-ranking one.
The AltWorld

Pawns of the Desert: Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Game - Pawns of the Desert: Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Game The post Pawns of the Desert: Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Game appeared first on TheAltWorld.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" 21st CENTURY EDITION - *Oooh, this is a* nice* version.* Another week of mayhem and mendacity in the books, and the thing that bugged me most was the show trial of Anthony Fauci...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! End oil blockade, war threats - July 26 meetings celebrate the victory of the Cuban Revolution NEW YORK — On July 25 some 80 people attended a celebration here of the 73rd anniversary of ...
MintPress News

How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEM - The most infamous arms companies manufacturing the very bombs for the United States and Israel to use in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are partnering up...
Edinburg Politics

Stronger public safety, improved rehabilitation for inmates, $150 million in taxpayer savings, among major improvements to Texas Department of Criminal Justice under milestone state law led by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg - Stronger public safety for Texans, improved programs for rehabilitation and reentry into society for inmates, and an estimated $150 million in taxpayer sav...
The Conversation

58 years of attacks on the media by powerful leaders trying to deflect criticism, from Nixon to Trump - American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What does...
Environment Texas

Changes to the Endangered Species Act threaten vulnerable wildlife - A reinterpretation of the word “harm” may push some species to — or over — the brink of extinction The post Changes to the Endangered Species Act threate...
Duck of Minerva

Divided Government and Multilateral Assistance - In January of 2025, the Republican party gained “the trifecta,” controlling the Presidency and the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Since then, co...
Krebs on Security

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick - Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time f...
Greg Palast

Trump bombed…the audienceHe killed it at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner - I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the W...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Thirteen House Rating Changes Toward Democrats as Seat-by-Seat Assessment Better Aligns with Our November Expectations - We’re revamping our House ratings this week, which has the effect of bringing the number of seats at least leaning to each party to rough parity after re...
Discourse

Ascending to the Big Mar-A-Lago in the Sky (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Odyssey talk, choice moments from Lindsey Graham's funeral, checking in on Mitch McConnell, and exciting (derogatory) developments at 60 Minutes
Seeing the Forest

Free Speech - Here’s a free speech question. Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his “Libtards” and “Econazis” were part of an organized, strategic effort...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Would You "Press a Button" For Genocide, Or Anything else? - This, of course, sounds like an absurd question, but it was less than two years ago that Eytan Weinstein, the co-host of "Two Nice Jewish Boys" Podcast ...
Texas Environmental News

IDJS-064 Maki -
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb (Full title: “Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall With Off-Ramp Bouquet”) There’s something stiffening out there ri...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Texas Monthly

They Came to Protest ICE. On the Live Stream, Their Chants Were Drowned Out by a ‘Friday Night Lights’ Theme Song Knockoff. - In the aftermath of the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston City Council found a novel way to silence those who showed up to demonstrate.
Earthworks

Victory! Louisiana Residents Defeat Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project - Residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have defeated plans for what could have been the largest carbon sequestration and storage project … The post Vic...
Democracy Chronicles

Statesmen, Not Escalation - As global tensions rise, the world needs diplomatic leadership, not political brinkmanship that risks widening conflict.
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature - So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is act...
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...
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 ...
Equality Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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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