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

The Hill

Saudi Arabia condemns drone strike against US Embassy - Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned Tehran's drone strikes against the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh as conflict in the Middle East heats up following U.S. strikes ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Texas votes in high-stakes primaries in test of appetite for change under Trump - Nominees for key Senate seat to be set while voters choose in congressional contests reshaped by GOP gerrymander The first votes of the 2026 midterm cycl...
Axios

Oil prices surge as Trump team readies to "mitigate" costs - Data: Financial Modeling Prep; Chart: Axios Visuals *Crude oil prices* are at their highest levels since the military campaign against Iran after climbing ...
Raw Story

Trump just committed a naked crime — and the horrific reason is all too clear - Operation Epstein Fury — with a bonus to help Bibi get re-elected so he doesn’t have to face charges for *his* criminal behavior — is rolling on as Donal...
Mediaite

Joe Scarborough Fumes Trump Allies ‘Can’t Get Their Stories Straight’ on Iran War ‘Justification’: ‘We’re Looking Stupid!’ - Scarborough raged that ranking members of the Trump administration and key allies were making the U.S. “look stupid.” The post Joe Scarborough Fumes Trum...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: That Old Familiar Feeling - This isn’t a Juxtaposition of the Day because it’s a Juxtaposition of 23 Years. Bramhall’s is current, Englehart’s ran back when we went into Iraq in 2003 ...
ArcaMax

Both Sides Now: The Cons and Pros of 'Operation Epic Fury' - A young lawyer once asked an old Washington hand what to expect when he went down to work for a U.S. Senate committee. The old hand, who'd worked in the Ca...
Mediagazer

Versant reports 2025 revenue fell 5% YoY to $6.69B and net income fell 32% to $930M; platform revenue hit $826M, up 3.9% YoY, the only segment with YoY growth (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC) - Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: *Versant reports 2025 revenue fell 5% YoY to $6.69B and net income fell 32% to $930M; platform revenue hit $826M, up 3.9% YoY, the ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It Wouldn’t Take Much for 2026 to be a Big Year for House Incumbent Primary Defeats - Typically, only a handful of House incumbents lose renomination in a given year. But with several big House primaries already set for Tuesday, that also ...
Slate

Money Talks: This Season on ‘Industry’ - Hillary Frey and Anna Szymanski join Emily Peck to unpack the wild ride that was ‘Industry’ season 4.
memeorandum

The casino-fication of war — On February 28, the United States and Israel began major combat operations in Iran. (Judd Legum/Popular Information) - Judd Legum / Popular Information: *The casino-fication of war* — On February 28, the United States and Israel began major combat operations in Iran. F...
Mother Jones

The Culture Wars Are Coming for Your Electricity - This story was originally published by Grist and made possible through its partnership with the Salt Lake Tribune, a nonprofit newsroom in Utah. It is repr...
Political Wire

Trump Gambles His Presidency - New York Times: “With his decision Friday to authorize war against Iran, Mr. Trump is taking the biggest gamble of his presidency, risking the lives of Ame...
Election Law Blog

2028 presidential ballot access disputes have already begun - ELB readers will recall the slow moving train wreck of ballot access disputes on a range of fronts in 2024, from litigation over Trump’s disqualification...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 7 Innovations in Energy Storage and Transmission - The U.S. electric grid loses roughly 5% of all electricity generated just moving it from... The post Guest Idea: 7 Innovations in Energy Storage and Tran...
Vox

The case for — and against — striking Iran - This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. The ...
Dorf on Law

Guns, Drugs, and Supreme Court Insanity - Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in *United States v. Hemani**, *which raises the issue whether a federal law prohibiting the possession ...
San Antonio Report

Construction jobs are San Antonio and they’re building our future - [image: Construction takes place at a future Microsoft Data Center north of Castroville.]Commentary: AGC president Lauren Mandel argues data center constru...
Mondoweiss

The U.S. media goes to war on Iran - [image: A CNN segment on the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran that aired on March 1, 2026. (Screenshot: CNN)]The U.S. media is predictably spreading government pro...
naked capitalism

Links 3/3/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Hasn’t a Fucking Clue What He’s Doing -
Salon.com

America’s enduring appetite for Trump’s deportation cruelty - Polls show that tens of millions of Americans still support ICE and the president's mass deportations
Eschaton

Morning - Taco Tuesday
WhoWhatWhy

Oops: Cops Post Seized Crypto Wallet Password — and $5M Swiftly Vanishes - [image: tech, cybercrime, South Korea, crypto wallet seized, police post password, $5M stolen] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors...
Skeptophilia

Guilt by association - I've played English country dance music for years. It's a lovely repertoire, and playing for dances creates a wonderful synergy of sound and movement. ...
Al Jazeera English

Iran mourns 165 girls, staff killed in school strike during US-Israel war - Attack in southern Iran that hit civilians was the deadliest of the US-Israeli war against Tehran so far.
Scheerpost.com

Trump’s Deportation Crackdown Is Hurting Tourism - Fear of aggressive deportation raids is deterring foreign visitors, leading to a reduction in hours for workers and lost revenue.
Off The Kuff

On Republican meddling in the Democratic Senate primary - I have three things to say about this. The Democratic primary for U.S. Senate is closing with a fierce debate that has animated it from the start: Who woul...
Houston Public Media

Primary Election Day (March 3, 2026) - On Tuesday's show: We have the latest news on voter turnout during primary election day. And retired astronaut Butch Wilmore joins us to talk about his car...
Crooked Media

War with Iran, and Award Shows in This Political Moment - The post War with Iran, and Award Shows in This Political Moment appeared first on Crooked Media.
Ian Welsh

The Doom Spiral Of Executive Decision Making - ~by Sean Paul Kelley A tweet I encountered last night and obsessed over as I followed its logic all the way to the bottom terrified me in its potential imp...
The Week

Underrated Italian gems for a memorable city break - Ditch the crowds for a relaxing trip to one of these lesser-known spots
Novara Media

Greens Storm Ahead of Labour in National Poll As Second Most Popular Party - The Green party is now polling second behind Reform, according to a poll carried out in the wake of new Green MP Hannah Spencer’s win at Gorton and Denton....
ProPublica

Nike Wants Factory Workers to Earn a Decent Living. In Indonesia, It’s Moved Into Areas Where Workers Don’t. - The post Nike Wants Factory Workers to Earn a Decent Living. In Indonesia, It’s Moved Into Areas Where Workers Don’t. appeared first on ProPublica.
The Verge

Big Google Home update lets Gemini describe live camera feeds - Google Home chief Anish Kattukaran announced several updates to the smart home platform that fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies. There's also...
Grist

After a lawsuit, USDA agrees to share climate risk data with farmers - Now, even if the webpages come down again, the data can remain public.
NPR's Health Shots

As more people turn to chatbots for health advice, studies say they may be led astray - People are turning to AI chatbots to help them with medical advice. Recent studies suggest these bots are not always helpful in making decisions about health.
Alternet

Judge blocks Trump admin policy in yet another win for Democrats - WASHINGTON — A federal judge Monday temporarily blocked a Department of Homeland Security policy that instituted a seven-day notice requirement for membe...
High Country News

Why Western states are pushing for plug-in solar - State laws and product standards could make or break the nascent portable solar market. The post Why Western states are pushing for plug-in solar appear...
Dissident Voice

Going Native in the Trump Jungle - The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we kee...
Countercurrents

The Decline and Fall of the United Nations: Is the UN Still Relevant? - Since the 7th of October 2023, Israeli forces have killed just over 72,000 people and injured 171,741 others as a result of the conflict, according to the ...
Portside

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All - Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All Mark Brody Tue, 03/03/2026 - 02:51
LareDOS

Tu Casa Gráfica prepares for papermaking workshop March 15 in San Ygnacio - Register now! Participation limited to 10
Counterpunch

A War That Cannot be Won: Israel and the United States Bomb Iran - Having just formed the Board of Peace, the United States and Israel have begun the board’s first war, this time on Iran. The US-Israel attack launched ea...
Courthouse News

US Embassy in Saudi Arabia hit with Iranian drones as American and Israeli attacks on Iran escalate - The U.S. State Department urged U.S. citizens to leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries due to safety risks, as have many other countries, though...
jobsanger

Trump Want Democracy For Iran (But Not For The U.S.) -
World Socialist Web Site

Trump and Hegseth launch “total war” against Iran - The unprecedented language used at a Pentagon military briefing indicates that the Trump administration is preparing to use nuclear weapons in the war of a...
Crooked Timber

Golden (missed) opportunities - She told me she’d be ten minutes late, which was fine. But when it was nearly twenty minutes I messaged – where are you? Shall I walk towards you? My daugh...
Informed Comment

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended? - From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers - Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities
CultureMap Houston

Country singer Riley Green kicks off RodeoHouston with Toby Keith tribute - Looking like a member of the Dutton clan that grew tired of the ranching business and got really into Toby Keith and duck hunting, Riley Green opened the 2...
Popular Resistance

The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course - Is the United States a fascist state? There is an authoritarian in the White House, systemic racism is rampant, our cities and towns are being militarize...
Techdirt.

The Return Of Measles Is Bad. A Polio Comeback Would Be So, So Much Worse - We’ve talked a lot about the resurgence of measles in America over the past 14 or so months, and for good reason. It’s a horrible disease of historic signi...
Consortium News

Iran, Epstein & Human Sacrifice - Journey to the center of the world of American leaders’ madness and ruin, writes Dennis Kucinich, to see desperate Iranian parents picking through rubble, ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso election results: Follow live March 3 primary results with El Paso Matters - Polls close at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3. Check back with El Paso Matters throughout the evening for live results and updates from the El Paso County Elec...
Workers World

U.S. aggression starts regional war in West Asia - [image: U.S. aggression starts regional war in West Asia] March 2. Two heavily and nuclear-armed rogue states — the United States and Israel — launched a t...
Deadline Politics

White House Mocks Kesha Over Singer’s Outrage About “Disgusting” Use Of Song In Military Posting; She Responds: “Stop Using My Music, Perverts” - Kesha has joined the coterie of Olivia Rodrigo, the Rolling Stones, Celine Dion, Radiohead, Sabrina Carpenter and Issac Hayes and others who really don’t l...
Brad Blog

Trump Attacks Iran in 'Operation Epstein Fury': 'BradCast' 3/2/2026 - Okay. It's not called "Operation Epstein Fury". It's called "Operation Epic Fury". But who's kidding who here? Here we ago again. Today on The BradCast, an...
Claytoonz

Pedophile Warmonger - 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...
SCOTUSblog

Court sides with parents in dispute over California policies on transgender students - The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request from a group of California parents to reinstate a ruling by a federal district court that prohibits s...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Senate Ad Wars - The blockbuster Senate race in Texas has tallied millions of dollars in ad spending. And for the five leading candidates, the gloves are off.
See You In 2020

Framing Luigi was how Epstein’s accomplices hoped to put a lid on the backlash to their crimes - Every sign points to Luigi Mangione being innocent, and to Brian Thompson’s slaying having been done by a team. I’m not even talking about the idea that...
Independent Political Report

Bryce Thon Named Second Region 1 Alternate to Libertarian National Committee - Bryce Thon, a member of the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, has been selected as the second Region 1 alternate to the Libertarian National Committee foll...
The Daily Poster

Operation AIPAC Fury - Israel lobby-backed Democrats Greg Landsman, Josh Gottheimer, and Jared Moskowitz could determine whether Trump must seek approval before escalating the wa...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Restores Old New York House Districting Plan - On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an injunction in the New York redistricting lawsuit, Malliotakis v Williams, 25A914. By a vote of 6-3, the old b...
Antiwar.com

Stuck in Another Disastrous Middle East War - Unfortunately, President Trump listened to the neocons and Benjamin Netanyahu instead of his MAGA base and other voices of caution as he launched a surpris...
Texas Standard

Austin Police, FBI say they haven’t found the ‘ultimate motivation’ behind the Buford’s shooting - APD is investigating the incident along with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Police Chief Lisa Davis said Monday that the suspected shooter was weari...
San Antonio Current

D’oh! Texas Gov. Greg Abbott thought a video game was actual footage of Iran war - [image: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during the CPAC Texas 2022 conference in Dallas.] How embarrassing. Texas governor Greg Abbott was duped by someone’...
Futurism

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses - "In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed." The post Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’...
Two Party Opera

Triple Digits - One of the longest-running gags in 2PO is making a Washington/Eye comic on the repeat digits (111, 222, 333…). Now that we’re past 999, it’s its own wild r...
The Greanville Post

JUDGE NAP’s DISPATCH: Alastair Crooke—Trump’s Dangerous War of Choice - JN—Crooke reveals that the decision to commence war was premeditated at a December 29th meeting at Mar-a-Lago, exposing the U.S. administration’s negotiati...
Progressive.org

The Return of the Luddites - Artificial intelligence will supposedly bring great benefits. But what’s driving it is corporate greed.
Church and State

Crazy Trump has finally crossed the red line to earn his ousted!! - Trump has used war as a cover for his inability to accept reasonable ways of stopping violence.
Environment Texas

Repair techs explain why appliances aren’t lasting as long - Opponents of energy efficiency standards have claimed that they make our appliances less durable. What do the experts think? The post Repair techs explai...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Music critic in Amsterdam! - *MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2026* *Young music lover revealed: *There was once a person who read a three-volume biographer of a famous composer and ended up writin...
Capital & Main

From SoCal to Minneapolis, Fatal Encounters Show Impunity of Immigration Officials, Advocates Say - To activists, the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti echo two controversial killings in San Diego under Rodney Scott’s watch. The post From So...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / RELIGION / Make America’s public school children bible-readers again - By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 2, 2026 It is increasingly likely that Republicans will make Texas the first state in the country to mandate all pu...
OpEd News

What pivotal role can midterm elections play? - What pivotal role can midterm elections play in driving the United States toward a more resilient and prosperous future, where economic growth and opportun...
The Conversation

‘Destruction is not the same as political success’: US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of endgame strategy - As US bombing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have shown, destruction is not the same as political success.
Project Censored

Narratives of Power: Cartel Media Spin and Epstein Cover Stories - First up this week, Mexico City-based journalist José Luis Granados Ceja joins the show to talk about the recent Mexican operation that captured and kill...
First Draft

A Distraction Chasing Its Tail - The attack on Iran was always going to happen, Epstein or no Epstein.
NORML

Several Supreme Court Justices Express Skepticism Over Governments’ Categorical Gun Ban for Cannabis Consumers - [image: a legal cannabis flower sits next to a lawfully owned handgun][image: a legal cannabis flower sits next to a lawfully owned handgun]"Based on the ...
Discourse

SPECIAL EDITION: The Traitors U.S. Season 4 (w/Caitlin Schneider & Producer Sam) - We joined together at the roundtable to discuss the best and worst of the latest season
Undernews

Donald Trump - Joe G
Wolf Street

10-Year US Treasury Yield Flipflops, Spikes by 14 Basis Points to 4.07%, after Plunging to 3.93%, amid Massive Volatility - It undid more than the entire haven trade that had started on Thursday and blew through the hot PPI inflation on Friday.
Common Dreams

Sanders and Khanna Introduce Legislation to Tax Billionaire Wealth and Invest in Working Families - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) today...
The Root

Trayvon Martin and Other Black Men, Women Unjustly Killed - 14 years after Trayvon Martin was killed, these other Black men and women were also murdered in shocking similarity. Read more...
Texas Observer

Why This South Texas District Is a Proving Ground for One of Democrats’ Biggest Questions - Editor’s Note: This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality coverage from the U...
Bonddad

ISM manufacturing In February positive, but with a major helping of inflation - * - by New Deal democrat* Most official data series remain about one month behind their normal schedule, despite the government shutdown having ended...
Glasstire

Fusebox Festival Shifts to Biennial Event, Announces 2026 Lineup - After two decades as an annual Austin event, Fusebox Festival returns in 2026 as a biennial multimedia, multivenue, multiday series of performances, art ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

How We Got to War and Where We're Going: Bourbon Talk Q&A - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Angry Bear

“tariffs depress economic activity” - Commentary by Erica York at the Tax Foundation addressing tariffs and President Trump’s use of them with his intent of protecting the US economy. They do...
Rewire

Anti-Abortion ‘Bounty Hunter’ Laws Spread from Texas Across U.S. - Analysis: Several GOP towns and states now allow residents to sue each other for getting abortion care. The reward: money. In February, Kansas passed a s...
Democracy Now!

Trump's War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody - The United States and Israel launched a devastating war against Iran on Saturday without approval by the U.S. Congress or support from the United Nations S...
The Progressive Wing

3/2 News Roundup & Open Thread - State Rep. James Talarico (D-TX) holds a Senate campaign event in San Antonio, Texas. More news, videos, etc. in the comments.
Space City Weather

Saddle up Houston as we ride into a warm week with a good soaking at the end - In brief: In today’s post we discuss our unseasonably warm weather this week, which will persist into the weekend. The big thing we’re watching for is rain...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 2 March 2026 - If images are hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the first post on the attack on the Iranian theocracy, cli...
Rallblog

The Republic Strikes Back | 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...
The AltWorld

Diez horas que sacudieron Asia Occidental - Es posible que estemos llegando al umbral del orden postestadounidense en Asia Occidental. Diez horas. Eso es […] The post Diez horas que sacudieron Asia...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Still Just A Confirmation Bias Machine - It used to be that when I used AI I found that it would give me obviously wrong answers to questions about things I had some knowledge about. Later new ver...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Trump Kills Khamenei — Iran Hits Back | Regime Change War Day 2 - The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters day two, with bombs falling across the Middle East. After assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Washingt...
Socialist Alternative

Trump, Tradwives, and “Traditional Values”—We Need Socialist Feminism - It has been nearly ten years since #MeToo went viral, sparking a movement that took down rich and powerful serial abusers and brought conversations around ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom in Texas Higher Education, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom * *in Texas Higher Education* *You may listen to ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Horses - Here’s a horse I folded at a conference many years ago. It’s meant to stand on its hind legs, although you’d really need to attach it to a stand. Earlier ...
Idavox

US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call for Regime Change - The first casualties reported by Iran were those from strikes on an elementary girls’ school.... The post US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call ...
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...
Sludge

Here Is How Much AIPAC Has Funneled to Every Member of Congress - Sludge analyzed FEC data to create a searchable list of AIPAC’s donations this cycle to every member of Congress.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

When Genocidal Governments Label their Victims As Terrorist! - Since October 7th Social Media has gone viral with atrocities committed by Israel, including many confirmed by credible sources, and among these claims ...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Stop Trump’s War on Iran! - The Trump administration and Israel have launched a massive war against Iran that has already brought death, destruction and chaos all across the Middle East.
Bracing Views

Yet Another Illegal Regime-Change War - Bibi and Trump Launch Their War on Iran BILL ASTORE FEB 28, 2026 I woke to the news that Israel/USA is launching attacks (New York Times) and strikes (NBC ...
MintPress News

Scott Ritter: US vs Iran: What War Would Really Look Like –Military Power, Oil Shock & Global Fallout - War with Iran has been the goal of both neoconservative and Zionist factions in Washington for decades. With an increasingly belligerent and erratic Trum...
The NM Political Report

New Mexicans in Congress condemn Trump’s Iran actions without Congressional approval - The United States and Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran Saturday morning, prompting near universal condemnation from New Mexico’s elected ...
Field Negro

The Epstein War has begun. - I have a friend who bought this really nice sports car a few years back, and he wouldn't let his nineteen year old son at the time get within a hundred...
Krebs on Security

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”? - In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world's largest ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TOO GRIM TO BE FUNNY & VICE VERSA EDITION. - *Ry Cooder doesn't get enough love.* If the actions of this administration weren’t so harmful to actual human beings, I could enjoy them as living satire...
Debunking Christianity

"Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian - "Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian is Secular Web's Editor's Choice, Kiosk Article! Congrats goes to Edouard who is t...
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...
Dissent Magazine

A Tale of Two Plumbers - Hannah Spencer’s victory in a UK parliamentary by-election is a major win for the Green Party, which aims to build a viable left-populist alternative to ...
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...
Earthworks

We Caught Shell Polluting in PA, again! Our Partner did, too. - Since opening in November 2022 the Shell Plastic Plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania has been wrought with malfunctions and violations. … The post We C...
Greg Palast

Two Speeches. Two Americas. One Liar. - Trump doesn’t just tailor his message to the room. He fabricates reality from scratch for different audiences, with total indifference to being caught, as ...
The Militant

Protests worldwide say ‘US hands off Cuba!’ - Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up at...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/27/2026 - 05:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage Paid £27,000 to Speak at Pro-Trump U.S. Think Tank - Nigel Farage is preparing to fly more than 3,000 miles from his UK constituency to address an anti-climate U.S. think tank with close ties to Donald Trum...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Donald Trump's SOTU, Sage Blair, and 'sex transitioning operations for minors' - Hoping to draw attention away from his disastrous poll numbers and piss poor performance as president, Donald Trump used a small portion of his recent St...
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...
Ecosophia

February 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...
Democracy Chronicles

Karl Marx: A Pillar of Democratic Theory in the Age of Inequality - By integrating economic analysis with political philosophy, Marx expands democracy’s horizons and urges modern societies to build systems where all can ope...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
The Grayzone

NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence - The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, i...
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. ...
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
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 ...
Unlimited Hangout

Redacted - Redacted.
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...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
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...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
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. —...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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