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

memeorandum

Christa Pike's failed execution puts lethal injection in focus (Herb Scribner/Axios) - Herb Scribner / Axios: *Christa Pike's failed execution puts lethal injection in focus* — Lethal injections are under scrutiny after Christa Pike survi...
The Verge

Steam Deck 2: Is AMD Gainsborough the chip Valve’s been waiting for? - The Steam Deck is four and a half years old, and handheld gamers are eagerly awaiting a Steam Deck 2 - but Valve has consistently said it needs a new chip ...
Political Wire

GOP Eyes Quick Debt Ceiling Hike - “Republican lawmakers are considering a plan to deny a newly elected Democratic congressional majority a powerful piece of leverage over President Donald T...
Raw Story

Alarm as Hegseth gives mega MAGA donors a say in future of warfare: 'Feels different now' - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth alarmed some analysts Thursday after he announced he was inviting a few private citizens to collaborate with the Defense D...
World Socialist Web Site

Hunger, homelessness, overwork and debt: Save the Student survey shows crisis facing UK higher education students - Among survey respondents, 63 percent skip meals to save money, 9 percent used a food bank during the last academic year, and 28 percent hold two or more jobs.
Mediagazer

The final season of Amelia Dimoldenberg's Chicken Shop Date will stream on Netflix, alongside YouTube and social media; Netflix will also add past episodes (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety) - Ethan Shanfeld / Variety: *The final season of Amelia Dimoldenberg's Chicken Shop Date will stream on Netflix, alongside YouTube and social media; Netfli...
Eschaton

Puddinghead - Well okay then (Time interview. It's real). *TIME: I'm curious about your dinner last night with Dario.* Trump: Oh. *Yes, exactly. Do you still disagree...
Al Jazeera English

School protests spread as fires, blockades deepen unrest in France - Police have detained hundreds as students protest overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities.
naked capitalism

Two Reasons Why the AI Industry Is Calling for Potential Nationalization - Frontier labs seek nationalization to socialize massive AI bubble losses and cement their place inside the government's ruling power structure
Ballot Access News

Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds 2023 Law That Requires Primary Voters to Have Enrolled in Their Party by 96 Days Before Primary - On April 1, the Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 2023 law that says voters who change party affiliation during the 96 days before a primary canno...
Futurism

It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide - "The largest misallocation of capital in history." The post It’s Looking Possible That Zuckerberg Is Accidentally Committing Corporate Suicide appeared f...
Election Law Blog

President Trump in TIME Interview Doesn’t Rule Out Declaring National Emergency or Using Insurrection Act During Elections or Sending Ice Agents to the Polls, But Seems Mostly Unaware of the Issue - What’s interesting from this TIME interview, despite all of the most fervent election denier conspiracists urging him to declare a national emergency and...
Brad Blog

‘Green News Report’ – October 1, 2026 - Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!…(Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Extreme rain and flooding strike from the U.S. SW...
Mondoweiss

‘They face an existential threat’: Eli Clifton on the past, present, and future of the Israel Lobby - [image: Protest at AIPAC headquarters in New York City, 2024. (JVP)]Eli Clifton speaks to Mondoweiss about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, the shiftin...
Courthouse News

Swiss glaciers are vanishing: 20% gone in 5 years - Switzerland's iconic glaciers are quickly melting as climate change heats the planet. This year, they shed about four times as much water Swiss households ...
Mother Jones

Why Trump’s Crypto Business Wants to Become a Bank - In a move that Sen. Elizabeth Warren has decried as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption,” one of the Trump family’s most lucrative businesses is o...
Deadline Politics

Fox Business To Debut ‘Big Money In The Morning’ To Replace Maria Bartiromo’s Show - Fox Business Network will launch Big Money in the Morning, with a lineup including Dagen McDowell, Brian Brenberg, Taylor Riggs and Barron’s Josh Schafer, ...
Daily Howler

HEALING: "They'll fall to ruin one day?" - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026* *In search of ways to heal:* It's a favorite set of lyrics for us*—*lyrics from all the way back at the end of our days in th...
Salon.com

Eric Schmitt’s failed Jack Smith gotcha exposes GOP propaganda - MAGA media was ready to amplify the Missouri senator's conspiracy theory. It turned out to be laughably false
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Empire Psychosis - Clever manipulators have figured out how to generate vast fortunes by harnessing the restlessness they deliberately stir up within us. By Caitlin Johnstone...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims continue to decline near historic lows - – by New Deal democrat We’ll get important information on manufacturing and construction later this morning, but in the meantime let’s take our regular ...
Mediaite

Gavin Newsom Says His Son Pushed Him to Publicly Support Andrew Tate: ‘What the Hell Is Going On?’ - California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) revealed that his son pushed him to publicly support accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate. The post Gavin Newsom Says ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

SpaceX launches crew to ISS successfully: ‘Thanks for an amazing ride’ - Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit, is making her second trip to the space station Four astronauts rocketed into orbit on Thu...
Scheerpost.com

THE MAMDANI ERA: TRUMP, NETANYAHU, DOOR DASH AND OPERA - Danny Goldberg ScheerPost As Zohran Mamdani begins his ninth month in office, he continues to function on several levels at once. On the international stag...
SCOTUSblog

Court agrees to hear arguments in important immigration case, religious zoning dispute - The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments early next year in cases involving the enforcement of zoning ordinances against religious institutions, the Tr...
Undernews

Trump still blocking CNN - *New Republic - *President Donald Trump blocked CNN from the White House press pool Thursday morning, continuing his feud with the network despite a cour...
Novara Media

Spain’s Tenants’ Rights Protesters Win Reforms After 87-Year-Old Evicted - Spain’s government has approved new measures to support tenants’ rights following widespread protests – but they need approval from congress and campaigner...
Project Censored

Make America Read Again - The Banned Books Week Coalition encourages us to stand up for library staff, students, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers by “Letting Freedom ...
CultureMap Houston

Pop star Carly Rae Jepsen calls on Houston on spring 2027 tour - Pop singer/songwriter *Carly Rae Jepsen* will hit the road in 2027 with her *Day and Night Tour*, which will include a stop at 713 Music Hall in Houston on ...
Ian Welsh

America Continues To Destroy Its International Markets - Sanctions come with a cost. When the US, in Trump’s first term, put chip sanctions on China and particularly sanctioned Huawei (the leader in 5g networks),...
The Hill

Judge dismisses Reflecting Pool case against former Olympian with prejudice - The federal case against a former Olympian accused by the Trump administration of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is officially dead after a ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Icosahedral Weave - I spent an inordinately long time designing this model in 2024, so let me talk about it. In modular origami, there are many models that have exactly 30 uni...
Slate

Slate Crossword: Strike Zones? (Six Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Oct. 1, 2026.
Bonddad

The inflationary AI data center Boom continues, while the rest of the goods producing economy appears recessionary - * - by New Deal democrat* As per usual, we start out the month with the ISM manufacturing report (for September) and the construction report (for Aug...
Texas Standard

Texas education savings accounts boost special needs kids’ funding, but schools can be hard to find - Texas’ voucher program offers students with disabilities awards that can reach tens of thousands of dollars. But some families are finding that qualifying ...
The Week

Table 17: a ‘stylish and exhilarating theatrical experience’ - A meeting between two exes flips from ‘laugh-out-loud hilarity to genuine tragedy in minutes’
IVN

Let Vets Vote. 3.1 Million New Yorkers Locked Out of Primaries. Rieckhoff & IVA Files Landmark Lawsuit - A new lawsuit backed by independent veterans takes aim at New York’s closed primaries—and puts a fundamental question before the courts: Is voting a right ...
Alternet

'Not great for us': GOP senators say they’re paying price for Trump policies - The Republican lawmakers are now in the last phase of their *midterm campaign* and are worried that voters might retaliate against the party for not havi...
Daily Cartoonist

Lee Papers Switch to Creators - Being the Fall of an even numbered year it is time for the Lee Enterprise newspapers to play musical chairs with their comics page syndicates. In their bie...
The Conversation

Dan Rather has followed the news wherever he goes, in a career that highlights 75 years of evolving journalism - Dan Rather anchored the ‘CBS Evening News’ for over 20 years, starting on March 9, 1981. But he always seemed more in his element as a reporter, and now as...
Glasstire

Fort Worth Modern Launches Permanent Collection Exhibitions; Offers Programming While Galleries are Closed for Installation - During the month of October, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will close all of its galleries for the installation of In the Making: Stories from the ...
San Antonio Current

Texas schools reported losing 14,200 immigrant kids last year. The true number is likely higher. - The actual enrollment loss amid increased deportation efforts is much higher as the federal definition that identifies immigrant students is limited, ex...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The United States of Enshittification: AI and the Flattened Future - The purpose isn’t progress. It’s profit for less.
Houston Public Media

Trump’s proposed ban on diesel exports could have unintended consequences for Texas refineries - Texas refineries turn millions of barrels of crude oil into diesel and jet fuel daily for several industries, such as agriculture and aviation. They also s...
Independent Political Report

Berkshires DSA Endorses PSL Candidate Joe Tache for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts - The Berkshires chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has endorsed Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate Joe Tache in his bid for U.S. Se...
The Progressive Wing

October 1st News Roundup and Open Thread - tRump’s government AI site verifies he is a loser. Good to know! — MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-09-29T15:38:31.570Z
The Texas Signal

The Author With A Fix To The Immigration Crisis - Almost a decade ago, Houston author Loren C. Steffy laid out a clear case for why draconian anti-immigration policy was economically destructive. His new b...
First Draft

Kash Patel’s FBI Fun House - Kash Patel moved the freaks from the side show to center stage. It’s time for the clown car to crash and the Fun House to close.
WhoWhatWhy

A Real October Surprise Would Be If Trump Didn’t Interfere in the Midterms - [image: Firemen, fighting, Reichstag Fire] Donald Trump has shown that he is willing to go to great lengths to win (or overturn) elections. Therefore, we w...
El Paso Matters

Registered to vote Nov. 3? Here’s what you need to know before the deadline - The voter registration deadline for the November general election is Monday, Oct. 5. We help you find an application and answer all your questions. The...
Socialist Alternative

Settler & State Violence Escalates In The West Bank—For International Mass Struggle! - Under the cover of the horrific Israeli onslaught on Gaza, far-right settlers and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are increasing their violence against the...
Democracy Now!

Rise of the Far Right in Germany Raises Fear of an Even Wider Crackdown on Migration - As we continue our coverage on the rise of right-wing political parties across Europe, we speak to Wiebke Judith from the German organization for asylum se...
Axios

The rocky road to a new permitting law - A sweeping bipartisan deal to cut permitting red tape faces a long road ahead despite a broad show of support. *Why it matters: *Cutting hurdles for ener...
Techdirt.

Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ New AI Guardrails Are Meaningless Pudding - Corporations have long enjoyed creating toothless “self-regulatory” regimes that exist primarily to pre-empt real government oversight. While the quality o...
Vox

The two athletes in every horse race - Horse racing can be an unusually dangerous profession for both the jockey and the horse: Riding a half-ton animal at nearly 40 miles per hour means your fa...
ArcaMax

Cutting Off a Parent Can Be Self-Preservation, Not Cruelty - An in-law, age 95 and on her deathbed, was having some final conversations. She brought up a memory of her own mother, who had lost a 2-year-old daughter t...
Rallblog

Will Romania Join the Far Right? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas ...
Texas Observer

Texas Tells Students to Report Threats. It Should Give Us a Seat at the Safety Table. - This fall, Texas students are receiving a serious message: If you see or hear a threat, do not make it, do not share it and do not ignore it. Report it. ...
Space City Weather

Heavy rains to remain west of Houston today, but weekend still looks soggy - In brief: In today’s post we provide an overview of Houston’s rain chances over the next four days, which will be elevated. Although there’s the potential ...
The Root

The Ultimate Betrayal: Former Pastor of Historic Tulsa Church Pleads Guilty to $500K Fraud - The historic Tulsa-based church, Vernon AME, survived the race massacre of 1921 and was restored—only for its senior pastor to steal $504,000 from it. Re...
Dorf on Law

The Puzzling Gaps in Federal Civil Rights Law - Yesterday on this blog, I reproduced my supplemental statement to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for its campus antisemitism investigation. I simult...
Rewire

Why Black Women Are More Likely To Die of Breast Cancer: An Oncologist Explains - Here's what you need to know to talk to your doctor about your breast cancer risk and available screening options.
The Smirking Chimp

The Rot at the Top -
Crooked Media

We Need to Talk About Ethics Reform - The post We Need to Talk About Ethics Reform appeared first on Crooked Media .
Off The Kuff

Interview with Darlene Breaux - One more legislative interview for the week, and it’s one I could have done for the primaries, as it was the highest-profile challenge to a sitting Democra...
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
San Antonio Report

SAWS made its case for a rate increase again to City Council. The vote is next week. - It was the first time SAWS had presented to city council since they pushed back against a rate increase proposal in June. ------------------------------ SAW...
Media Lens

Peter Oborne On 25 Years Of Media Lens And An Appeal For Support - In response to news that we are this year celebrating 25 years of Media Lens we have received many kind comments from readers, some of them sympathising th...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump administration reverses stance on integration of people with disabilities - Disability rights advocates are angered by the latest reversal but are rallying behind proposed legislation and working with states to strengthen protectio...
ProPublica

Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing. - The post Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The surprising allies backing Boulder’s climate case before the Supreme Court - Ranchers, conservative legal scholars, and former Republican EPA chiefs are siding against oil companies. Here's why.
High Country News

How old battles over land, power and identity continue to shape the West’s politics - [image: Clockwise from top left: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. BLM; Ammon Bundy. Lauren Grabelle / HCN; The Virgin River flows past the Bund...
Portside

Hegseth Confirms Plan To Cut 20% of US Top Military Brass and Rails at ‘Beardos, Weirdos and Wimps’ - Hegseth Confirms Plan To Cut 20% of US Top Military Brass and Rails at ‘Beardos, Weirdos and Wimps’ Mark Brody Thu, 10/01/2026 - 01:14
jobsanger

Our Voting Rights Can Only Be Protected By Voting For Pro-Democracy Democrats -
Workers World

PDF of October 1 issue - [image: PDF of October 1 issue] Download the PDF NYC protests condemn war criminal Netanyahu Editorial: Native Americans drive mining company off sacred la...
Informed Comment

Why the Iran War Equation Is Changing, and Why a Third War May Be Closer Than It Seems - if negotiations fail, Iran could also consider military action to break the blockade and reopen its export routes
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
The Daily Poster

Trump’s SEC Can Now Rewrite Wall Street’s Rules With A Single Vote - A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate gove...
Wolf Street

The US Economy “Is Running Hot,” Lots of Consumer Spending Growth, Lots of Inflation. The Bond Market Sees it Too - Spending on discretionary goods and services that people buy to have fun with was particularly motivated.
Antiwar.com

Reporting of the RAF Fairford Arrests Blows the Idea of a ‘Free Press’ Out of the Water - It’s easy to forget that the western media – the so-called “free press” – likes to distinguish itself from media in authoritarian regimes on the basis that...
Progressive.org

The Tech Threat to Women’s Privacy - Growing surveillance of women’s intimate health data puts them at risk.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-trans grifter Riley Gaines suffers major court loss against NCAA - Riley Gaines From the online publication them: A federal judge dismissed Riley Gaines’ lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Venezuela Coup & Iran War Part of Neo-Colonialism Tyranny! - If there ever was any doubt about the fact that our government is behaving like the biggest criminal organization in the world Trump's obvious behavior, wi...
Capital & Main

Downtown L.A. Residential Hotel Closed by City, Leaving Some Tenants Homeless - A developer bet he could clean up the St. George Hotel. But former tenants describe mold, bedbugs and neglect. City records show conditions had deteriora...
Claytoonz

Schmitt Head - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 34 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
slacktivist

White evangelicalism and the ’86 Mets - Yes, the devoutly Christian, teetotaling Gary Carter was captain of the 1986 Mets. But that doesn't mean there was no cocaine at Shea Stadium.
The Greanville Post

To Kick Against the Pricks - PE—I am not a religious man, but it has always seemed to me that Jesus’ message had great application in life, where those who elect to fight great power m...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich introduces long-sought permitting reforms with key Republicans to expedite energy projects, and he wants a Senate vote right after Election Day - [image: Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks during a press conference Wednesday.] By Kevin Hendricks, NM Political Report — New Mexico families watching their ele...
Crooked Timber

The Office: A sort of conjecture about why some US sitcoms are the way they are. - People here often ask me what part of England I grew up in, which isn’t a particularly easy question – I was born in the north, but then lived in South Wal...
Common Dreams

Senate Quashes Johnson’s Congressional Insider Trading Ruse - The U.S. Senate defeated House-approved legislation today that would have allowed all members to retain their conflicting stock investments and continue ...
Alas, a Blog

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Will Trump Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding. - The ACLU argued in court that Trump administration officials broke the law by defying a judge’s order and sending 100 Venezuelan men to a notoriously bruta...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The End of Science? Agnosis and American Fascism, by Paul Edwards, Ph.D., September 2026 issue, Science, Technology, & Human Values - *Friends,* *I urge you to read this deeply concerning and important essay by Dr. Paul N. Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Information, History, and Science...
Ecosophia

Notes on Magical Geography - As my regular readers know well, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to my commentariat to nominate and vote on the topic for the fifth ...
Two Party Opera

Coolidgenomics - Read More
Infidel753

For Blasphemy Day - Today is International Blasphemy Day -- a day for denigrating, mocking, and denouncing deeply-held spiritual beliefs of every kind! The day is observed e...
See You In 2020

The growth of the lumpen, the rise of “nomad” workers, & what reorganizing the masses will have to look like - I’ve talked many times about how U.S. communists must learn from Haiti’s popular revolution in response to the lumpenization of our society. Haiti shows...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
MintPress News

Iran Seizes US Submarine As Anti-Ship Missiles Inflict Soldier Casualties - Damning reports confirm dozens of casualties amongst US navy sailors and marines in Iranian attacks this month, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Won’t Stand for Being Jerked Around - In case you weren't sure.
OpEd News

Having Viewed Nolan's "Odyssey" a Second Time - A talk on Nolan's film "Odyssey" as well as the epic as a whole by Princeton's Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Classics Professor Barbara Graziosi.
Church and State

Trump and his tech billionaires have made a crisis that only informed voters can solve! - Again, the only route to stopping Theil and his assassins remains for those of us of all parties and persuasions who still favor democracy.
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
Black Agenda Report

INTERVIEW: The US is Firmly Committed to Global Hegemony - INTERVIEW: The US is Firmly Committed to Global Hegemony bareditors Tue, 09/29/2026 - 23:07 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist G...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Vote This November To Keep Marijuana Legal in Massachusetts - [image: green traffic light with cannabis sign][image: green traffic light with cannabis sign]This campaign is not about promoting the health and safety ...
Bracing Views

Mordor in the USA - Deterring Our Way to Doomsday Loving the Bomb Yet Again BILL ASTORE 23 HOURS AGO It’s amazing the enormous sums of money the U.S. government spends on dest...
Liberation News

Fighting for every Black child means fighting for socialism - Nikole Hannah-Jones couldn't beat the segregated education system alone. That fight requires a collective, organized struggle for working-class power.
LareDOS

San Ygnacio, Texas: en aquel entonces and now - In 1951 a group of Zapata and San Ygnacio residents, ranchers, farmers, business owners, and veterans formed the Executive Committee for the Preservation o...
Sludge

Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr. - The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their infl...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Trump admin greenlights dirtier, less efficient vehicles - The Trump administration announced Monday that it will loosen minimum fuel economy standards for American cars. The post STATEMENT: Trump admin greenligh...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Access Excess - 10 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 696kb I can’t even begin to pretend to care about the Donster kicking MSNOW (the artist formerly known as MSNBC) ...
Greg Palast

The OG of Political Documentary - Yes, that's me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I'm celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert ...
Krebs on Security

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hac...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: End Times Fascism - Matt and Sam talk to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their new book, *End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World*.
The AltWorld

The faulty premises underlying Europeans’ ‘war on Russia’ hyper-ventilation - It was the West’s mistaken analysis that has trapped the West into an escalatory staircase of actions […] The post The faulty premises underlying Europea...
Idavox

A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania - When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming “White Power,” folks there wanted to... The post A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Field Negro

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Militant

Seattle hotel workers strike wins substantial gains - SEATTLE — After a hard-fought 85-day strike against Embassy Suites by Hilton here, UNITE HERE Local 8 members ratified a new contract Sept. 10. It was the ...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Debunking Christianity

Never Think about the Religion You Were Taught as a Child? - *Yes, DO THINK about it: study and research it ceaselessly!* At the Methodist church I attended as a child in rural northern Indiana, every Sunday servi...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Duck of Minerva

When Constitutional Functions Blur - Constitutional orders rarely announce that they are becoming less constitutional. More often, the institutions remain in place while their functions begin ...
Earthworks

A mineração suja da Sigma não vai salvar nosso clima - Manifestantes pedem justiça climática na Nasdaq Read in English Em uma decisão descaradamente fora de contexto, a Sigma Lithium foi … The post A mineraç...
The Grayzone

Top Nepal court demands answers after gov’t arrests analyst for sharing Grayzone exposé - Kathmandu’s arrest of a prominent political observer who shared critical reporting by The Grayzone is the latest sign that a government which promised re...
Discourse

The World Ed Sheeran Wants to Live in No Longer Exists (w/Katherine Krueger) - Plus: A touching tribute from Project Mohammed
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Life as a Thought Criminal - What follows is a timeline of events that have transpired since I published The Rise of The New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021),...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE HIM MAD EDITION. - *Like The Streets? Sleaford Mods? Then this might be for you! * Maybe I’m just contrary -- I won’t say “contrarian,” that’s obviously a synonym for “dor...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Web of Debt

The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks - Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears - GOP still favored, but just barely The post The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears appeared first on Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Counterpunch

A Rupture in Israeli Security Politics: Can the Palestinians Exploit It? - Settler colonialism is a fairly common phenomenon, both ancient and modern, as the unhappy history of the indigenous people of Palestine testifies. The f...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

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

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

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

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

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

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Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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