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

Mediaite

Pete Hegseth’s Defense Department Blew $22M On Steak and Lobster in a Single Month, Watchdog Claims - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Defense Department allegedly blew through $22 million on lobsters and ribeye steak in a Sept. 2025, end-of-year spree. T...
The Verge

Listen to the Live Nation CEO’s alleged threats to a concert venue - Was it a threat or a reality check? That's a key question in the government's anti-monopoly case against Live Nation, which is currently in limbo after the...
Raw Story

MAGA country star boasts he put 'disgusting' Lindsey Graham in his place as Trump watched - Pro-Trump country music star John Rich regaled right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren about the time he put "warmonger" Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in his pla...
memeorandum

ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate (Catie Edmondson/New York Times) - Catie Edmondson / New York Times: *ChatGPT, Other Chatbots Approved for Official Use in the Senate* — New guidelines said Senate aides could use A.I. t...
Axios

U.S. destroys 10 Iranian vessels amid worries of mines in Strait of Hormuz - The U.S. military destroyed ten Iranian mine-laying naval vessels on Tuesday amid concerns that Iran is preparing to deploy mines in the Strait of Hormuz...
ProPublica

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. - The post The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. appeared first on ProPublica.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

LA county reports first drop in deaths of unhoused people in a decade - Most populous US county last year also noted fewer unhoused people in area facing affordable housing shortage More than 2,200 unhoused people died in Los...
Popular Resistance

How Decades Of Anti-Iran Hysteria Set Us On The Path To War - The unthinkable has happened: the United States and Israel have launched a war on Iran, now in its second week. More than 1,300 people have reportedly be...
Political Wire

U.S. Showers Iran With Bombs - “Amid what the Pentagon said was the fiercest bombardment of Iran since the start of the war, the Pentagon’s leaders said Tuesday that American and Israeli...
Rallblog

Death Valley | 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...
Deadline Politics

CBS News 24/7 Unionized Writers Deliver “Strike Pledge” As Negotiations Continue For New Contract - Writers Guild of America East members at the division’s streaming service have delivered a “strike pledge” to network and parent company Paramount manageme...
Houston Public Media

Strong storms possible for Houston area on Wednesday, according to National Weather Service - The risk for excessive rainfall is higher north of Houston, while a marginal risk is forecast for the metro area down to the Gulf Coast.
Mediagazer

Streaming pay-TV provider Philo adds a cheaper subscription tier, Essential plan, for $25 per month, $8 less than Bundle+; Philo has 1M+ subscribers (Dade Hayes/Deadline) - Dade Hayes / Deadline: *Streaming pay-TV provider Philo adds a cheaper subscription tier, Essential plan, for $25 per month, $8 less than Bundle+; Philo ...
Dorf on Law

Redistributive Policies Hidden in the US Retirement System - *Note to readers: I am more than a bit worn down by writing about the ongoing political insanity in the US (see, for example, my columns from this past T...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Conrad had the heart of darkness! - *TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2026* *We have those programs at Fox: *Joseph Conrad had the realm he chose to explore in *Heart of Darkness*. The leading authority ...
Novara Media

Trump Administration in Chaos Over Iran War Plans - It’s becoming increasingly clear that Donald Trump has no real plan for the war on Iran. We speak to Middle East expert Vali Nasr on how Iran’s response ha...
Futurism

Amazon Admits Extensive AI Use Is Wreaking Havoc on Its Core Business - Hoisted with its own AI petard. The post Amazon Admits Extensive AI Use Is Wreaking Havoc on Its Core Business appeared first on Futurism.
El Paso Matters

Photos: Book Talk with Jazmine Ulloa, an El Paso native and New York Times reporter - In reading a passage from her “El Paso” book, Jazmine Ulloa described her hometown of El Paso as “a palace of rugged beauty,” where at sunset “the brown...
slacktivist

Andy Ogles and the Flushing Remonstrance - Republican Rep. Andy Ogles demands the establishment of a Single-Sect sectarian America, but he won't say which single sect will be the official one.
The Hill

Joe Rogan: Trump supporters 'feel betrayed' by 'insane' Iran war - Podcaster Joe Rogan said supporters of President Trump “feel betrayed” by what he called the “insane” conflict with Iran. “Well, it just seems so insane, b...
Election Law Blog

“Thune eyes action on SAVE America Act next week — without a ‘talking filibuster’” - Politico: Subjecting the bill to the typical 60-vote legislative filibuster isn’t a surprising outcome, but it will mark the official rejection of an att...
Techdirt.

Stephen Thaler’s Legendary AI Copyright Losing Streak Ends With Nowhere Left To Appeal - We’ve been covering Stephen Thaler’s quixotic quest to get copyright (and patent) protection for works generated entirely by his AI system “DABUS” for year...
Al Jazeera English

Unexploded missile extracted from house in western Iran - Rescue workers carefully extracted an unexploded missile from a house in Kuhdasht City, following US-Israeli airstrikes.
Eschaton

Welp - You might not agree with my implicit and explicit criticisms, but something isn't working.
The Week

How has Iran been preparing for war? - As the Iran war enters its second week, Tehran turns to — and adjusts — longstanding plans to defend itself
Courthouse News

11th Circuit renews scrutiny over Florida’s social media ban for minors - The federal appeals court review comes a day after Florida’s attorney general threatened lawsuits in the next month against tech companies who do not follo...
The Greanville Post

Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Netanyahu Could Turn to Nuclear Bombs If Iran War Escalates - DN—As President Trump gives conflicting statements about the length and objectives of the war he launched with Israel against Iran, fears are growing that ...
San Antonio Current

California’s Starbird Chicken chain will expand into San Antonio next year - [image: Starbird currently has locations in California and Colorado.] The restaurants specialize in organic, antibiotic-free chicken that's hand-breaded w...
Undernews

Immigrants Reduce America’s Deficit - CATO - Amid ongoing congressional debates—culminating, of course, in a partial shutdown—over Trump’s mass deportation agenda, one fact in particular sho...
Vox

You’re already paying for Trump’s Iran war - President Donald Trump continues to give mixed messages about the war in Iran. But what is clear is the impact that the conflict is already having on the U...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio families have one week left to apply for Texas Education Freedom Accounts - Texas families have one week left to apply for the state's new school voucher-like program. ------------------------------ San Antonio families have one wee...
Grist

As gas prices soar, Trump is ignoring the lessons of the last oil crisis - Fuel economy rules have reduced U.S. dependence on oil. Trump ripped them up — and then sent gas prices through the roof.
CultureMap Houston

Women-only Uber rides now available in Houston - Houston women riders and drivers can now be matched to other women on the Uber app. The ride-hailing giant has expanded its pilot program nationwide in res...
Daily Cartoonist

Brian Biggs Launches “Sitting Around Talking About Art Supplies” - Illustrator Brian Biggs has launched a weekly Youtube channel called Sitting Around Talking About Art Supplies. His teaser: Do you like art supplies? Are y...
Scheerpost.com

Trump Makes ‘Most Blasé Admission of a War Crime by a US President in History’ - Stephen Prager for Common Dreams President Donald Trump said the US Navy chose to sink an Iranian frigate, killing more than 100 sailors last week, because...
Salon.com

“Real unfortunate”: KBJ torches SCOTUS conservatives using shadow docket to aid Trump - The liberal justice said that emergency rulings were "not serving this country well."
Independent Political Report

Unified Libertarians of Massachusetts to Hold 2026 Convention in Norwood - The Unified Libertarians of Massachusetts will hold its annual state convention later this month in Norwood. Participating members will elect new state l...
Consortium News

Australia’s Deepening Involvement in US War on Iran - Australia’s support for the U.S.-Israel war against Iran by hosting of a string of U.S. military bases and providing a ‘spy’ plane to defend the Gulf state...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Armed Transgression - The recent sequence of assassinations in the Middle East illustrates how acts once considered extraordinary can become normalized, raising the alarming pos...
First Draft

Palling Around With Seditionists: When Marco Met Enrique - T is for Tarrio, Traitor, and Trump.
The Conversation

Trump’s war against Iran is uniquely unpopular among US military actions of the past century - Trump’s Iran war is historically unique in one critically important way: Early on, the war is not popular with the American public.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - March 10, 2026 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump's War in Iran is bad for the environment and the c...
Bracing Views

Trump’s Disconnection from Reality - And More War By and For Israel BILL ASTORE MAR 10, 2026 Here are some excerpts from recent articles dealing with Trump’s growing disconnection from reality...
Socialist Alternative

11 Days Of War On Iran—Trump Has Unleashed A Nightmare - US imperialism’s war in the Middle East has continued to escalate into its second week. On the war’s eleventh day (March 10), US Secretary of War Pete Hegs...
Slate

The Timothée Chalamet Backlash Has Been Building. This Was the Final Straw. - This caps off a rocky awards season for the Marty Supreme actor.
The Root

Black Americans Respond to Possible Boots on the Ground as Iran Conflict Rages Forward - Black folks woke up on the last day of Black History Month to military strikes in Iran. Now, they're voicing frustrations as questions about ground troop...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #18: Texas Senate Primaries, Olivia Reingold's Rama Duwaji 'Investigation,' and Donna Kelce's Home Renovation (w/Producer Sam) - Sam Grasso aka Producer Sam join us talk an absolutely explosive week in news.
The Daily Poster

War As An Investment Strategy - Private equity is looking to get its cut of the wartime economy.
Wolf Street

Gasoline Prices Spike, Now up 25% since January, Diesel Prices 40%, Heating up Inflation - California is back over $5. Prices in Texas jumped by 25% month to month, to over $3.23.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How Andrew Farkas and an Emirati Sultan Helped Epstein Build a Smuggler’s Paradise - A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure E...
Capital & Main

Climate Chilled at New Mexico Legislature — Again - Thanks to bills that did pass, state will divert money to pay for industry problems: abandoned wells and induced earthquakes. The post Climate Chilled at...
NORML

Alabama: Commissioner Says Patients Can Likely Begin Accessing Medical Cannabis Products Next Month - [image: Alabama Marijuana Laws][image: Alabama Marijuana Laws]“For nearly five years, Alabama patients and their providers have lacked the ability to loc...
Mother Jones

How Taxpayers Are Still Getting Screwed on Kristi Noem’s Big Beautiful Jet - Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, but a luxury 737 she has traveled on remains in government hands. That plane, reportedly dubbed the “Big...
Mondoweiss

U.S. support for Israel continues to plummet, despite media’s best efforts - [image: Bari Weiss on MSNBC's Morning Joe]A fake scandal involving Rama Duwaji’s Instagram likes reveals how desperate pro-Israel pundits are grasping at s...
Bonddad

The “gold standard” QCEW for last Q3 strongly suggests no job growth whatsoever in 2025 - - *by New Deal democrat* The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is “the gold standard of US employment measures. It is an actual census...
NPR's Health Shots

A dose of psilocybin helps smokers quit in new study - The psychoactive substance in magic mushrooms appears to have a powerful effect on people trying to stop smoking.
Countercurrents

The twilight of US hegemony and its implications - The joint U.S.-Israeli offensive launched on February 28, 2026—dubbed Operation Epic Fury — is the culmination of a century-long American effort to “teach ...
The Texas Signal

Detained Family With Award-Winning Mariachi Ties Released - While the Gámez-Cuéllar family has been released from detention, there are still hundreds of people (including children) being held in centers like Dilley
Texas Observer

American Citizenship and Other Myths - In widely quoted speeches delivered over the past couple of years, JD Vance has made the claim that he is more American than you. (Well, unless you happe...
Dissident Voice

The Deep Biosocial Roots of Egalitarian Politics - Orientation: Anthropological confirmation of primitive communism When Marx and Engels proclaimed that the first human societies practiced ”primitive comm...
SCOTUSblog

The how and why of gun control - A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. Last Monday, the Supreme Court heard argum...
Glasstire

Licking the Live Wire - Beauty. Violence. Life. Destruction. Tactfulness. Vulgarity. These are words that come to mind when I think about John Chamberlain sculptures. You can se...
ArcaMax

Grift and Graft: A White House Simply for Sale - In the end, it wasn't the disturbingly Gestapo-like tactics of her U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, smashing cars, pulling innocents off th...
Democracy Now!

"Fossil Fuels as a Weapon of War": U.S.-Israeli War on Iran Exposes World's Dangerous Reliance on Oil - Oil prices surged past $100 a barrel this week as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran threatens global energy supplies and the broader economy. Iranian offic...
Crooked Media

They’re All in Cahoots - The post They’re All in Cahoots appeared first on Crooked Media.
WhoWhatWhy

Schrödinger’s War: Conflict in Iran Is Both Over and Just Getting Started - [image: Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, 911] Donald Trump on Monday covered all the bases on when the war in Iran would wrap up. Schrödinger’s War: Conflict i...
Space City Weather

Storms possible, although not certain, with next front on Wednesday - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the very, very warm temperatures across the Houston region this morning and put them into context. We also look ahead ...
Earth 911

Your AI Carbon Footprint: What Every Query Really Costs - Every time you ask an AI chatbot for a recipe, have it summarize an article,... The post Your AI Carbon Footprint: What Every Query Really Costs appeared...
The Smirking Chimp

Government by Monsters -
Skeptophilia

The vanishing book - The *Oxford English Dictionary* is the single most thorough, exhaustive document describing the meanings and etymologies of words in the English language e...
Off The Kuff

First post-primary poll - A good start. A PPP poll commissioned by Senate Majority PAC found “no meaningful difference in electability” between Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 10 March 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the CENTCOM video, click here. For the mini-ne...
High Country News

Heavily contested pumped hydro-storage project gets federal go-ahead - A pumped hydro-energy storage facility proposed outside of Goldendale in south-central Washington has taken a major step forward, even though, if constr...
Seeing the Forest

Corruption Leads To Corruption Leads To Today - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. Some time back I listened to Ezra Klein interviewing journalist Anan...
Counterpunch

America’s War of Choice is Israel’s War of Necessity - Jeffrey St. Clair recently stated in CounterPunch that “Iran’s leadership was discussing a plan to end its enriched uranium program when [the February 28...
jobsanger

Don't Let Trump's War Of Choice Further His Authoritarianism -
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: The Americas - The 6,000 workers at DHL in the US, members of the Teamsters, are demanding improvements in pay, benefits and working conditions.
Informed Comment

The Unexpected Winner of the Iran War? Green Energy in Asia and Europe - China’s decision to invest in a transition to a green economy has also helped buffer it from the Iran War Fall-Out
Idavox

‘Free the Goat! Kill Yourself!’ An Anti-Muslim White Supremacist Comes to NYC, Almost Gets Bombed Out of Existence. - Jake Lang brought his Islamophobic circus to the Big Apple; someone almost made applesauce out... The post ‘Free the Goat! Kill Yourself!’ An Anti-Muslim...
Portside

New Study: Union Candidates Deliver for Workers - New Study: Union Candidates Deliver for Workers Stephanie Mon, 03/09/2026 - 22:39
Alternet

Nick Fuentes’ assault victim shows contempt for his court-ordered apology - The Forward reports “far-right influencer and unrepentant antisemite and misogynist” Nick Fuentes did something unusual: He apologized to a Jew. It took ...
Workers World

‘The U.S. is trying to control the oil of the Middle East’ - [image: ‘The U.S. is trying to control the oil of the Middle East’] By Wang Wenwen The U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, which began on Feb. 28, 2006, have sent...
Antiwar.com

Will the Dollar Be a Casualty of the Iran War? - President Trump’s unconstitutional and unjust war against Iran is setting back his “affordability” agenda. The war has caused a big rise in gasoline prices...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Moms risk arrest to protect gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth - From* Orion Rummler of The 19th* by way of *The Advocate* comes a simple fact that the parents of trans kids are determined to keep their children healt...
Progressive.org

The Year of Progressive Power; Data Centers’ Journey to Space - Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
Ballot Access News

Chicago Tribune Editorial Calls for Easier Illinois Ballot Access for Independent and Minor Party Candidates - The March 9 Chicago Tribune has this editorial, condemning the Illinois ballot access laws for independent and minor party candidates. … Continue reading →
Ian Welsh

America & Israel Don’t Get To Choose When The War Ends - So, Trump: TRUMP SAYS “I THINK THE (IRAN) WAR IS VERY COMPLETE, PRETTY MUCH” – CBS REPORTER ON X, CITING AN INTERVIEW Israel: A few senior officials in Isr...
Claytoonz

Send Barron - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Church and State

Housing affordability improves when population growth eases - In the past two decades, many high-income countries have endured unprecedented increases in the cost of homes to buy or rent.
Angry Bear

“new research on foreigners bearing the tariff burden” - Commentary by Erica York at the Tax Foundation on the pass-through impact of tariffs on pricing in the United States. The other possibility is companies ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

From Walkouts to Takeovers: Texas Escalates Its War on Student Voice, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - * From Walkouts to Takeovers: Texas Escalates Its War on Student Voice* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 9, 2026* *The recent op-ed by Jasmin Lee...
Texas Standard

Texas Democrats Goodwin, Velez hope to keep voters engaged ahead of lieutenant governor runoff - Texas Democrats busted through turnout expectations for the primaries. But can they keep up that momentum for May’s runoff elections? State Rep. Vikki Good...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Now, The Chaos: The Death of the Liberal Order and Dangerous, Uncharted Territory - We've walked off the cliff. Now we fall.
The AltWorld

Will Iran End US Hegemony? - Will Iran End US Hegemony? The post Will Iran End US Hegemony? appeared first on TheAltWorld.
The NM Political Report

NMGOP scrambles to qualify a write-in against Ben Ray Luján. Who is he and how does that work? - [image: Larry Marker] When the Secretary of State’s Office closed on the deadline day for candidates to qualify for 2026 elections, Republicans had qualif...
Project Censored

What Corporate Media Won’t Tell You: Children in Dilley & Attacks on Iran - First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of the...
The Progressive Wing

3/10 – 3/11 News Roundup & Open Thread - Shane Smith sits down with Senator Bernie Sanders for a conversation that cuts straight to the heart of America's biggest crisis artificial intelligence...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health Transplant Institute one of the more advanced hospital services in Texas providing comprehensive adult kidney transplants, report Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - The DHR Health Transplant Institute, opened in Edinburg in 2017, remains a highly-regarded, specialized center in Texas and is the only CMS and UNOS-certif...
Rewire

New Kansas Bathroom Law Likely to Harm Mental Health, Increase Risks for Trans People, Experts Say - “This type of stigmatizing treatment is associated with significant psychological harm,” one expert said. The post New Kansas Bathroom Law Likely to Harm...
Two Party Opera

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Krebs on Security

How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts - AI-based assistants or "agents" -- autonomous programs that have access to the user's computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task ...
See You In 2020

The war against America’s people, & the anti-Epstein coalition that will unify them in resistance - The class struggle’s path is becoming ever more perilous, yet we are gaining a greater sense of what the route to victory looks like. It looks like an e...
Campaign for America's Future

Lo que hacemos nos dice quiénes somos - Asaltos a nuestros derechos civíles han inspirado a una nación a levantarse de los banquillos. Ahora hay millones de personas que exigen que nos tratemos c...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - 10. *Tim Scott:* Still silent when it comes to criticizing his master, Donald Trump. We will see if he remains quiet if any of the citizens he represe...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: VW reflection - [image: Hebron Road reflection]
Greg Palast

How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma - How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it's fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 ...
Trivial Knot

That indie game money - If a game is on Steam, it’s possible for a public observer to estimate how much money it made. The thing to look at is the number of reviews. There’s a fai...
Environment Texas

Are you ready to get surprised by a deer on a dark road? - Daylight savings is here again, along with a more dangerous morning commute The post Are you ready to get surprised by a deer on a dark road? appeared fi...
WAWG Blog

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

Corporate Media Go All Out To Support The US-Israeli War on Iran - Across the West, corporate media have employed the same tactics of using the passive voice and not naming the perpetrator when describing U.S./Israeli ag...
Dissent Magazine

War, Revolt, and Iran’s Unfinished Struggle - The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizatio...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IRAQ BUT DUMBER EDITION. - *Doo-wop is such a deep well.* It’s Drunky Pete Warfighter time! It’s a weird war for sure, done Trump style -- no warning, no reason, and especially no ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut - From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to e...
Common Dreams

Social Security and the “Millionaires Day” Milestone - A new analysislysis from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) finds that *this coming Monday (March 9)* is the day that million-dollar earn...
The Militant

US out of the Middle East! - The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Co...
The Grayzone

How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war - The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest f...
Debunking Christianity

The Cult-Goofy, Defective Final 16th Chapter of Mark’s Gospel - *Wrapping up my honest sermons on this first gospel* For many centuries, religious scholars and laity alike had no clue that the final chapter of Mark is ...
LareDOS

LC’s Out of the Box art exhibit explores innovation and creative boundaries - Exhibit open to the public through March 20
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 6, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 6, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/06/2026 - 05:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
DeSmogBlog

Mark Carney’s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster - It has been three months since Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed their memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a new bit...
Democracy Chronicles

The Sigh of the Religious: Marx, Suffering and the Politics of Belief - Religion persists not solely as a symptom of those who fail to confront reason, but because society itself inhabits social conditions that make transcenden...
Sludge

Defense Contractor–Funded Think Tank Warns of Weapons Shortage After Iran Strikes - NPR listeners weren’t told the think tank receives millions from Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrop Grumman.
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Cornyn Staying Alive is Enough to Keep Texas Senate as Likely Republican - Recapping the Texas and North Carolina primaries The post Cornyn Staying Alive is Enough to Keep Texas Senate as Likely Republican appeared first on Saba...
Ecosophia

The End of the Bureaucratic Era - For several years now I’ve had readers ask me from time to time about my opinion of the current media and investment frenzy surrounding so-called Artificia...
Media Lens

‘Operation Epic Fury’ – Anatomy Of A War Of Aggression - Commenting last week on the build-up of US military forces targeting Iran, Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, got...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Night Open Thread: War and Regime Change by Remote Control - It's hard to believe only four weeks ago the U.S., at the whim of Donald Trump, invaded Venezuela to snatch its leader Nicolas Maduro. The New York Times...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REVIEW / Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2026 Clyde W. Barrow, a professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is the autho...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Progressives Chat

Can Ds win Texas [Part I]? - Tuesday, March 3, 2026 will give us Uniter States Senate primaries in *Texas*. The primary on the Republican side is whether unpopular incumbent John Co...
Liberation News

Declaración del PSL: ¡Detengan la guerra de Trump contra Irán! - El pueblo de este país no quiere otra guerra interminable que cobre la vida de enormes cantidades de militares, iraníes y otras personas en la región.
Alas, a Blog

The Alpha Wolf - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. And just look at how adorable the wolf pups she drew are! The term “alpha wolf” was coined in 1947 by biologist ...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
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...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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