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

Futurism

Activists Plaster New Name on Larry Ellison’s Superyacht - "It's called the Musashi, but not for long — because we're about to rename it." The post Activists Plaster New Name on Larry Ellison’s Superyacht appeare...
Mediaite

‘Get Out of My Courtroom!’ Clip of Judge Viciously Berating IT Worker Ignites Trial by Fury on Social Media - In the clip, a frustrated Harris County Judge Nathan Milliron is being helped by a court IT technician over an apparent tech issue. The post ‘Get Out of ...
Mediagazer

A global WTO ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on March 30; negotiations are set to continue in Geneva this spring (Ana Swanson/New York Times) - Ana Swanson / New York Times: *A global WTO ban on taxing digital streaming and downloads across national borders expired on March 30; negotiations are s...
Raw Story

Matt Gaetz makes admission in Chinese spy sex scandal: 'I probably would have indulged' - Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) undermined MAGA host Benny Johnson's segment on an alleged Democratic sex scandal by admitting he would have slept with a C...
Political Wire

Pentagon May Use Anti-Drone Lasers in D.C. - New York Times: “The Pentagon is considering sending a powerful anti-drone laser system to the military base in Washington where Defense Secretary Pete Heg...
Independent Political Report

Nebraska Dem Senate Candidate Burbank Paid Third-Party Candidate’s Filing Fee - *This article by Juan Salinas II was originally published by the Nebraska Examiner on March 24, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY‑NC‑ND 4.0 lice...
Eschaton

Get Elon To Fix It - I bet it would be trivial to egg him on to claim he could. After 16 years and $8 billion, the military’s new GPS software still doesn’t work “It’s a very...
memeorandum

Supreme Court finds law banning gay conversion therapy for minors likely violates free speech (Justin Jouvenal/Washington Post) - Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post: *Supreme Court finds law banning gay conversion therapy for minors likely violates free speech* — The major ruling c...
The Verge

Meta launches new ‘prescription optimized’ smart glasses - While Meta has released several versions of its AI glasses over the last few years, today it announced it's released two new styles specifically geared tow...
The Hill

Democrats investigating TSA, ICE data sharing after San Francisco airport incident - California Democratic Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla sent a letter on Monday to top immigration officials, requesting more information on data sharing ...
Salon.com

7 ways to make chia seeds more exciting - From Thai tea pudding to savory crunch, new ideas that move chia beyond basic breakfasts
Bonddad

February JOLTS report confirms low hire, low fire, low quit economy - * - by New Deal democrat* I normally don’t pay too much attention to the JOLTS report, and I won’t this month, either. It does break down the labor m...
San Antonio Current

Partner in Michelin-recognized San Antonio restaurant Leche de Tigre has died - [image: Brothers Axel Oliva, Emil Oliva and Alec Oliva, left to right. opened Leche de Tigre in 2023.] Axel Olivo, who started the restaurant with his two...
SCOTUSblog

Justices debate ability of federal courts to confirm arbitration awards - Yesterday’s argument in Jules v Andre Balazs Properties showed a bench with some uncertainty about the jurisdiction of federal courts to enforce an arbit...
Election Law Blog

“The Unlikely Ensemble Leading Trump’s Hunt for 2020 Election Fraud” - WSJ: When a former CIA officer and a Venezuelan fixer flew to Palm Beach, Fla., two years ago to brief top Trump campaign officials on how Caracas had m...
Axios

Supreme Court rejects Colorado's conversion therapy ban - The Supreme Court sided Tuesday with a Christian talk therapist who contended a Colorado law banning the discredited practice of conversion therapy to ch...
Houston Public Media

Security wait times at Houston airports see significant drop this week - The improvement from wait times as long as four hours last week comes after President Donald Trump directed TSA agents to be paid during a partial shutdown...
Courthouse News

Supreme Court backs religious counselor, ruling against ban on conversion therapy - Colorado is one of two dozen states that bars medical professionals from attempting to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Shares Rendering Of His Presidential Library Plans: A Miami Skyscraper, Air Force One And A Giant Gold Statue Of Himself - Donald Trump has unveiled a video rendering of his presidential library, a skyscraper proposed for downtown Miami. Like many of his buildings, the name “Tr...
naked capitalism

Michael Hudson and Steve Keen: How the Global Crisis Will Unfold - Michael Hudson and Steve Keen: discuss how the Iran war economic crisis will generate inflation first, and then deflation and depression.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

ICE agents will screen attendees of Marine Corps graduation ceremonies - Families fear undocumented relatives could be turned away or detained at recruit celebrations in South Carolina Federal immigration agents will be statio...
Undernews

Religious abuse of the Defense Secretary - This religious abuse of a Secretary of Defense’s position of power has never before happened within our modern military. He and his enablers in the GOP are...
Scheerpost.com

Uncovering Palestine’s Forgotten Uprising: The Story Behind Palestine 36 - ScheerPost Staff Palestine 36 Resurrects the Revolt Britain Tried to Bury Nearly a century before the present devastation in Gaza, before checkpoints carve...
Glasstire

Letter from the Publisher: The Circuit: Art Fairs, Festivals & Beyond - Over the past 25 years, Texas has seen the rise and sometimes fall of myriad large-scale art events, including but not limited to: the Texas Contemporary...
Daily Howler

HEALTH: Tur was also concerned by the Sharpies! - *TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2026* *No specialists need apply:* As we noted yesterday, the president held a televised "cabinet meeting" last Thursday. That even...
Dissent Magazine

Abolitionist Feminism - An interview with Kathi Weeks.
WhoWhatWhy

Crying Uncle - [image: Donald Trump, Uncle Sam, War, Recession, Iran] How much more Trump can the country take? Crying Uncle originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
ArcaMax

Over a Barrel: Iran Has Us Between a Rock and a Hard Place - In Washington recently, the Foreign Minister of a Middle Eastern country under attack by Iran argued that Iran must at last be forcefully confronted by the...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: A German Journalist’s ‘Civil Death’ - Hüseyin Dogru is the first E.U. citizen to be sanctioned by the union and the first journalist to land on the list because of his work. What is Dogru’s cri...
First Draft

Don’t Be Scared To Keep It Simple - With two decisions that only he could make, Trump has made survival more expensive for Americans since the week he took office.
El Paso Matters

El Paso doctors diagnose more colorectal cancer in younger adults - In El Paso County, the colon and rectum are the second leading sites for cancer in both men and women, with an estimated 340 new cases reported in 2023....
Al Jazeera English

Are ICE detention deaths caused by systemic failures? - Mexican official Vanessa Calva Ruiz says the deaths of immigrants in ICE detention are caused by systemic failures.
The Progressive Wing

3/31 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Democracy Now!

The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets - The Trump administration says the United States has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli war on the country began. Critics have questioned ...
The Conversation

How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner - The Clean Air Act gave California the authority to issue tough pollution standards for vehicles, with EPA approval. The Trump administration is now trying ...
Techdirt.

David Ellison Pretends He Won’t Fire Half Of Reeling Hollywood If Pointless Warner Bros Merger Is Approved - We’ve repeatedly noted how the Ellison family’s acquisition of Warner Brothers (after their recent acquisitions of CBS and a part of TikTok) would be very ...
The Week

Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès: the manhunt for the ‘French Lord Lucan’ - Aristocrat suspected of murdering his family in 2011 may be hiding in the US, new book claims
Vox

Why some American accents have endured — while others have faded away - On Explain It to Me, Vox’s weekly call-in podcast, we hear a lot of stories from listeners. Recently, we asked people to tell us about their accents: what ...
Space City Weather

Warmer this week, with decent rain chances, before a front hops in ahead of Easter Sunday - In brief: In today’s post I share a few words of appreciation for Matt Lanza, my long-time partner here. As for the forecast, we have a very welcome return...
Mother Jones

Trump Calls on “God Squad” to Bypass Endangered Species Laws for Offshore Drilling - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is tu...
Mondoweiss

Israeli policies pose an existential threat to Palestinians in the West Bank. Why isn’t there more resistance? - [image: Aftermath of Israeli settlers attacks on the Rahwa area in the town of Sa'ir, northeast of Hebron, March 30, 2026. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: When to Act and What to Use for Seasonal Pest Control - Pest management is most effective when the man-made cycles of the pests are observed in... The post Guest Idea: When to Act and What to Use for Seasonal ...
Skeptophilia

Beneath the labyrinth - One of the things that bothers me most about the woo-woo mindset is the apparent need they feel to superimpose some kind of paranormal *frisson* on top o...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump's Magical Thinking -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Wars and Rumors of Peace - Ramirez captures the administration’s decision-making system, which is that there is no system and it all depends on how Dear Leader is feeling at the mome...
The Root

Florida’s Rooney Rule Challenge is Rooted in White Supremacy – and Legal Fiction - OPINION: The ongoing legal challenge to Florida's Rooney Rule, a policy designed to promote diversity in the hiring of state college coaches and athletic...
Off The Kuff

The new Fort Worth ISD Superintendent speaks - I’m trying to hear how he differs from Mike Miles. I’m still thinking about it. “It’s going to take a while to correct the system,” [appointed Superintende...
Slate

My Sister Uses the U.S. Postal Service to Harass our Family. She Expects Me to Help Her. - Do I owe her this?
San Antonio Report

OLLU students explore culture, art and community roots while reviving 50-year-old mural - The Barrio Arts and Popular Culture class is part of OLLU's Visual Arts Program where students explore their own roots and the community around them. -----...
Countercurrents

Trapped by His Own Image: Trump’s Iran War and the Politics of Ego - The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the analytical spher...
NPR's Health Shots

Babies are an afterthought in the birthright citizenship case, advocates say - An end to birthright citizenship would mean a new layer of bureaucracy for all babies born in the U.S., and could cause delays for health insurance and oth...
ProPublica

Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration - The post Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration appeared first on ProPublica.
Texas Observer

Texas Saw a $50 Billion Future in Clean Energy. Then the Political Winds Shifted. - This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Texas Observer. On an unseasonably warm January day, Duff Hallman’s goats and sheep wandered u...
Grist

Texas saw a $50B future in clean energy. Then the political winds shifted. - Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the...
Novara Media

Israel Approves Death Penalty Law – but Only for Palestinians - Israel’s parliament has passed a law making the death penalty the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in military courts of killing Israelis. The ...
High Country News

A DNA archive critical to identifying missing migrants has itself gone missing - The database is no longer accessible after the organization that started it shut down. The post A DNA archive critical to identifying missing migrants h...
Crooked Media

SHOCKING GOP Plan to Fund War with Health Care Cuts - The post SHOCKING GOP Plan to Fund War with Health Care Cuts appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Staircase to Nowhere: MAGA's Crowning Achievement - In a perhaps unprecedented dark time for America and the world, let us take solace in our indomitable Dear Stable Genius, who remains unwaveringly focuse...
The Socialist

Daniel Goldman Net Worth 2026: The Levi Strauss Heir’s $206M - Table of Contents The Levi Strauss Legacy: A $200 Million Trust Foundation East Hampton’s Embrace: A $5 Million Summer Retreat Acquired in 2018 Strategic P...
Counterpunch

Zionism and the Iran War - Zionism’s common agenda is for a majority Jewish state in what was and is Palestinian land. From its beginnings, Israel has been a Zionist project, and Z...
Wolf Street

Farm Action’s Letter to Congress, Lambasting the Concentration of Fertilizer Makers and its Impact on Prices - “These structural dynamics allow supply disruptions … to translate into rapid, outsized, and sustained price increases.”
jobsanger

Trump "Deadlines" Are Not Real Deadlines -
Informed Comment

Dimona’s Shadow: Israel’s Nukes Warp Mideast Security - Mideast security is not threatened by a nuclear capability that might exist in the future, but by one that has existed for more than 6 decades
Portside

Trump’s Distorted Reality on Iran War Runs Into a Brick Wall - Trump’s Distorted Reality on Iran War Runs Into a Brick Wall barry Mon, 03/30/2026 - 22:25
Socialist Alternative

Amid War & Chaos, Eight Million Join Protests—What’s Next For “No Kings”? - On Saturday, March 28, “No Kings” Day was once again the largest single day of protest in US history, with upwards of eight million people participating in...
Claytoonz

Wrong Island - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
See You In 2020

Social fascism’s role: cover for CIA/Mossad interference, push World War III from a “progressive” angle - To understand why the “progressives” helped manufacture consent for the Iran war, we have to look at social fascist theory. Social fascism is the explan...
Ballot Access News

Newspaper Story About Three Minor Party Candidates for Governor of South Carolina - See this story about three minor party candidates for South Carolina Governor. … Continue reading →
OpEd News

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Will Donald Trump Take the Planet Down With Him? - Honestly, I can't believe I'm in this world of ours (or do I mean His?). Yes, this very one and no other![...]
Antiwar.com

Donald Trump: A Threat to World Peace - President Trump and his minions assured America that he was a man of peace who would abandon the “failed policy of regime change”. Yet, since taking office...
Rallblog

Israel Legalizes Lynching | 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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Leader of national Republican group says gay men take over gyms to spread AIDS' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - Kai Schwemmer *Leader of national GOP organization says gay men take over gyms to spread AIDS:* * The College Republicans of America (CRA) — an organiza...
The NM Political Report

Commentary: Ethical rules apply to judges and judicial candidates in New Mexico - [image: Karl Reifsteck, Administrative Office of the Courts] Karl Refisteck is the director of New Mexico’s Administrative Office of the Courts, which ove...
CultureMap Houston

These are Houston's 11 best dessert programs of 2026 - For this year’s *CultureMap Tastemaker Awards*, we’ve shifted our dessert-focused award from Pastry Chef of the Year to Dessert Program of the Year.
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap: Kansas - [image: state flag]A few questionable choices but not the official reptile or official soil, which both rock!
Popular Resistance

International Citizen Solidarity Is Strong For Cuba; Nations Turn Their Backs - As 700 international solidarity citizens visited Cuba last weekend, Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio smirked at the humanitarian disaster hi...
Progressive.org

Trump’s Phoney War on Narcoterrorism - The Shield of the Americas sets a dangerous agenda for the Western hemisphere.
Texas Standard

Stores scramble to sell smokeable hemp products before Texas-wide ban takes effect - The March 31 ban comes as part of a set of stiff new regulations from the Texas Department of State Health Services, enacted earlier this month.
Alternet

'MAGA is dying': Young Republicans 'eager' to ditch Trump - Younger members of the conservative political movement think that "MAGA is dying," according to a new report from the New York Times, and many of them ar...
Ian Welsh

It’s Time For Iraq To Free Itself And Get Revenge For the Gulf and Iraq Wars - You may remember when Iraq said “Americans must remove all troops from Iraq” and the US said “who cares what you think?” Well, right now the Iraq resistanc...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - The House Negroes have been very active of late. As a result, the House Negro power rankings have to be constantly updated. Here goes. 10. *Tim Scott:...
Texas Freedom Network

Low-Key High-Powered: Myths & Facts About the Texas SBOE - We Texans have a reputation for going BIG. From the ‘dos of beloved leaders, to the world’s largest cowboy boots in San Antonio, to the 72-ounce-steak ch...
slacktivist

Bluebonnet, Beka, and Bigfoot - The Bible-infused textbooks Texas is using in public schools turn out to be full of errors. Have at it kids. This is gonna be fun for you. Plus: All AI Cop...
The AltWorld

EXPOSED: Did the US & Israel BOMB Kuwait’s Desalination Plant to BLAME IRAN? | Ep. 190 - Live coverage of the war on Iran. Updates, analysis, and the latest developments as the conflict escalates […] The post EXPOSED: Did the US & Israel BOMB...
World Socialist Web Site

Zack Polanski’s Greens block anti-Zionist motion at conference - Polanski made clear that he was opposed to the motion’s description of Zionism as racist.
Liberation News

U.S. & Israel waging all-out war on Lebanon - The U.S. has tried to crush the Lebanese people many times, but failed. Imperialist and Zionist oppression has always bred resistance.
Brad Blog

Potential Disaster for Democracy in Deep 'Blue' CA - The information from two recent polls on California's upcoming Gubernatorial race suggests a moment we've long warned about. One where California's "Cajun ...
The Daily Poster

“Affordable” Care Gets Pricier Under Trump - After Republicans sunsetted extended federal subsidies, Obamacare enrollees owe 57 percent more for their monthly premiums.
Project Censored

Paradox of Power: Judgment of Gender and Modern Warfare - First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with educator and author Allison Butler to talk about her latest book: The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Center...
DeSmogBlog

BBC Under Fire for Producing Paid ‘Propaganda’ for Saudi Arabia - The BBC has been accused of creating “propaganda films” for Saudi Arabia, the state behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, DeSmog and The Guar...
Angry Bear

Tax season - The quote “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society” (is attributed to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. As we enter the 202...
NORML

Idaho: Campaign To Place Medical Cannabis Question on November’s Ballot Surpasses Signature Threshold, Lawmakers Call on Voters To Reject Effort - [image: A stethoscope is draped across a clipboard holding a medical marijuana certification form and a green pen][image: A stethoscope is draped across ...
Capital & Main

She Wrote a Book on Sexual Harassment in the Labor Movement. The Cesar Chavez Allegations Don’t Surprise Her. - Labor lawyer Ana Avendaño says unions must do more to protect women. The post She Wrote a Book on Sexual Harassment in the Labor Movement. The Cesar Chav...
Church and State

Will Israel now be attacked more than before the Iranian War? And is terrorism here in the US more likely? - We should continue to apply pressure and organize additional No Kings marches ahead of the midterm elections.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: Are We Putting Boots on the Ground? - I answer subscriber questions
Rewire

Dolores Huerta Feared Speaking About Her Abuse for Years. The Farmworkers She Advocates for Understand. - They grapple with a system where their income, housing, or immigration status may depend on supervisors who perpetuate sexual violence without oversight....
Dorf on Law

Broccoli, Birthright Citzenship, and How to Confront Terrible Constitutional Arguments - In the Spring of 2012, the most publicly discussed constitutional law question of the day was whether the Supreme Court would strike down the Affordable ...
Infidel753

An urgent appeal for help - The daughter of fellow blogger Mary Kirkland, whose photos I've sometimes used here, is suffering a serious medical crisis and is in need of help with medi...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Crooked Timber

Ravens and robots - As I approach formal retirement from my academic job, I’m still thinking about ideas in my main theoretical field of decision theory. But I’ve largely lost...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Thoughtful Introduction to my book, Subtractive Schooling—Through Becky Morales’ Lens, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - A Thoughtful Introduction to my book, *Subtractive Schooling*—Through Becky Morales’ Lens, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. *Every now and then, someone comes ...
The Texas Signal

No Kings Protests Return To Texas - Thousands of Texans took part in No Kings protests in all corners of the state
Bracing Views

Hard Chargers, Yes–Deep Thinkers, No - Kakistocracy at the Department of War BILL ASTORE MAR 27, 2026 I was reading an article today about Pete Hegseth, self-styled Secretary of War, and his dec...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Should We Ridicule Alien Technology Claims? Are They Related to Wars? - "Wait for the weekend to go off the deep end." Many or most people may have been indoctrinated to believe that UFOs or aliens are a fringe belief that ...
The Grayzone

Who’s behind the mysterious ‘Iran-backed terror cell’ haunting Europe? - Claims that an Iran-backed group is carrying out attacks in European cities raise questions about why they’re not targeting countries directly involved i...
Workers World

Despite the unjust conviction of the Prairieland Nine, the struggle continues - [image: Despite the unjust conviction of the Prairieland Nine, the struggle continues] On March 14, a Fort Worth, Texas, jury found nine activists guilty o...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: PHONEY WAR EDITION. - *He looks like a high school science teacher but sometimesMichael Franks gets into Wesley Willis territory.* One good thing about everything getting stu...
MintPress News

Trump’s Iran Gamble Is Spiraling Out of Control: From Shock & Awe to Strategic Failure - In this week’s episode of the MintCast podcast hosted by MintPress director Mnar Adley, we are joined by Iranian political analyst Ali Alizadeh to talk a...
Duck of Minerva

Was I wrong on the Gulf states and Iran? An exercise in academic humility - When I was in graduate school, my training included the methods and theories of international relations but also some of the epistemology and philosophy of...
The Militant

End US war in Mideast! Bring troops home now! - “We are getting very close to meeting our objectives” and ending the fighting, President Donald Trump claimed March 20, but then ordered another 2,500 Mari...
Debunking Christianity

Leaving the Church: A Welcome Relief or Trauma? - *It can be a mixture of both* By the time I finished my PhD in Biblical Studies in 1975 (Boston University), I had become an atheist. Primarily because...
Greg Palast

1931 is here again. We hope. - It’s 1931 again. Not 1933, with Hitler still just a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand. In 1931, America was in deep pain. Holding our breath. Today, we’re ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/27/2026 - 06:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Earthworks

Methane Gas Is Different: How Trump’s Attack on EPA Power Does Not Affect #CutMethane Rules - Oil and methane gas are different. In February, the Trump administration announced an unprecedented attack to sabotage the Environmental Protection … T...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The House: 11 Rating Changes in Democratic-Held Seats; Non-Presidential Party Typically Doesn’t Lose Many of Their Own Seats in Midterms - Because the presidential party usually loses ground in the House in midterms, it is also the case that they typically flip only a handful of seats from t...
The Mind Unleashed

Rahasia Menang dan Pola Terbaru yang Wajib Dicoba - Rahasia Menang dan Pola Terbaru yang Wajib Dicoba 2026 Dalam dunia permainan online, banyak pemain mencari cara untuk meningkatkan peluang kemenangan. Arti...
Seeing the Forest

A Progressive Populist Agenda - Here’s a first stab at some ideas for a post-Trump agenda that would actually be popular with the public. Democratic “We the People” Government is based on...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter : What Awaits US Ground Troops - JUDGE NAP—The chapter examines claims of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran: President Trump’s assertion that his envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkof...
Sludge

DCCC Sets Lobbyist Cash Record as Dems Campaign on Affordability - The campaign arm pulled in $4.1 million from lobbyist bundlers in February, including firms representing pharmaceutical, insurance, and corporate landlords.
Ecosophia

March 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Alas, a Blog

Parents’ Rights - The right-wing (plus some alleged liberals cough Singal cough) assault on trans kids is genuinely horrifying. Literally hundreds of anti-trans bills – most...
LareDOS

April 1 at Casa Ortiz: Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and art exhibit of Bethany House residents - The Laredo Cultural District’s (LCD) upcoming Concierto en El Jardin – Bolero Jazz Bajo La Luna Llena and the art exhibit of Bethany House residents is set...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #19: Iran Updates, ICE at the Airport, the State of Magazine Covers, and Chappell Roan vs. Jude Law's Daughter - Official War Correspondent Cros is back to tell us what to think about the war.
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Edinburg Politics

Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, with more than 20 years experience in the Texas Legislature, higher education, and economic development, selected Executive Director, Rio Grande Valley LEAD (Linking Economic and Academic Development) - Maricela “Mari” De León, MPA, CPM, whose extensive public service credentials also include more than 20 years of professional experience in the Texas Legis...
Unlimited Hangout

Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland - Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "...
Krebs on Security

‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran - A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secu...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / FOREIGN POLICY / Trump’s War of Choice - Caricature by DonkeyHotey SPECIAL TO THE RAG BLOG By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / March 23, 2026 People in the media have been scrambling in an attemp...
Trivial Knot

Four reviews of musical sequels - In my family, I have a reputation for hating movies. To some extent this is humorous exaggeration, but it has been a noticeable pattern since my teenage ye...
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Invades Lebanon Again: The Greater Israel Project That Keeps Failing - Israel has expanded its war across the region, bombing Lebanon and Iran while preparing a potential ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Israeli official...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. The "war" in Iran continues. Israel is picking off Iranian leaders, one by one. Iran...
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...
Environment Texas

Sued for plastic pollution, Dow asks Texas regulators for permission to discharge pellets - Dow argues the “trace amounts” limit on plastic discharges – the basis of Texas’ lawsuit – is “vague” and unnecessarily stringent. The post Sued for plas...
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Two Party Opera

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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...
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...
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 ...
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 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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