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

Capital & Main

A Drying Colorado River Threatens Imperial Valley’s Future - Declining flows and the warming climate imperil farms, green energy projects and the economy of one of California’s poorest counties. The post A Drying C...
Futurism

There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry - Doing stuff in space is hard, folks. The post There’s a Blinking Warning Sign for the Data Centers in Space Industry appeared first on Futurism.
SCOTUSblog

Court appears sympathetic to death-row inmate’s attempt to challenge racial discrimination in jury selection - The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed sympathetic to a Mississippi man who argues that a district attorney violated the Constitution’s ban on racial discri...
Raw Story

Pam Bondi 'fired' as attorney general: report - President Donald Trump has reportedly already fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. According to Fox News correspondent Katelyn Caralle, the president met wi...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Iran Speech Offered Zero Answers and Backfired - Donald Trump’s first national address since launching his war in Iran with Israel on Wednesday night tremendously backfired. The speech, reportedly designe...
Courthouse News

New funding transforms lives by expanding electricity access across Africa - Across eastern and southern Africa, only about 48% of the population and 26% in rural areas have access to electricity.
Eschaton

Bye Pam - Bondi is confirmed out.
The Hill

CDC pauses diagnostic testing for rabies, other infectious diseases - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has paused its diagnostic testing for a host of infectious diseases, including rabies. The CDC on Mond...
The Verge

Hisense’s art-inspired CanvasTV has hit a new low price - Samsung’s releasing a new version of The Frame sometime this year, though the exact date is still unknown and, based on past models, it’s likely to be pric...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's 10 best coffee shops of 2026 brew lattes and community - Raise a cup — of coffee, that is — for the nominees of CultureMap Tastemaker Awards’ Coffee Shop of the Year. These 10 standout cafés prove there’s far mor...
Wolf Street

The Massive Unsustainable Trade Deficit in Goods Has Improved Sharply. Tariffs Are Doing their Job - The 6-month average trade deficit in goods fell to $80 billion, the least-bad since 2020.
Election Law Blog

I Spoke with NPR’s Here and Now about Trump’s Executive Order on Mail in Ballots - Listen here around the 15-minute mark. The post I Spoke with NPR’s Here and Now about Trump’s Executive Order on Mail in Ballots appeared first on Electi...
Salon.com

Harry Potter and the half-baked debate - What began with a well-meaning comic questioning a stance became a model for learning what true allyship requires
Novara Media

Serco Wants to Be the European ICE, Human Rights Groups Say - [image: Two flags, one union jack, one says "Serco".]Fancy winning one of five £50 vouchers to spend in the Novara shop? Just fill in the Novara Media audi...
Al Jazeera English

Pakistan, Afghanistan hold talks in China to end months of conflict - China has been trying to mediate a negotiated settlement to the conflict between the allies-turned-foes.
memeorandum

Bondi Is Vulnerable as G.O.P. Frustrations Over Epstein Missteps Grow (New York Times) - New York Times: *Bondi Is Vulnerable as G.O.P. Frustrations Over Epstein Missteps Grow* … Attorney General Pam Bondi emerged from a House Judiciary Commi...
Mediaite

‘All of a Sudden, Boom’: Cops Release Body Cam Footage of Tiger Woods Moments After Rollover Crash - Authorities have released body cam footage that shows Tiger Woods moments after the golf legend's rollover crash in Florida last week. The post ‘All of a...
Bonddad

Jobless claims continue near historic lows; I expect the unemployment rate to decline - * - by New Deal democrat* With the stock market flailing around trying to keep its head above water, jobless claims along with consumer spending are t...
Undernews

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Axios

Trump to circumvent Congress with order to pay all DHS workers - President Trump said Thursday he would "soon sign an order" to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees. *Why it matters*: The president's anno...
Daily Howler

HEALTH: "Clearly insane," the lawyer said! - *THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2026* *But also, the clinical therapist's tale:* "Clearly insane," the lawyer said on Tuesday night, speaking to Jim Acosta The lawy...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist Profiles: Ron Hill - Ron Hill has been a comic artist (caricature quick-sketch entertainment, freelance humorous and fantasy/science fiction illustration work, and graphic desi...
San Antonio Current

International musicians to honor San Antonio icon Flaco Jiménez at Tejano Conjunto Festival - Musicians from around the world will travel to San Antonio to participate in a tribute to accordion legend Flaco Jiménez at the 44th Annual Tejano Conju...
Bracing Views

Stone Age Bombing - A Dead Crippled Country Can Still Bomb People to Smithereens BILL ASTORE APR 02, 2026 I watched President Trump’s speech to the nation last night on the Ir...
Mediagazer

Versant buys StockStory, an AI-powered service that generates reports with investment advice to support CNBC; PitchBook: the startup has raised $3.2M since 2020 (Sara Fischer/Axios) - Sara Fischer / Axios: *Versant buys StockStory, an AI-powered service that generates reports with investment advice to support CNBC; PitchBook: the start...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

AOC vows to block future US military aid to Israel, its Iron Dome and defense - Ocasio-Cortez says Israel can fund its own defense and she will oppose any new US aid amid human rights concerns - US politics live – latest u...
Independent Political Report

Arizona Court Blocks Arizona Independent Party Name Change - An Arizona court has ruled that the party operating as the Arizona Independent Party cannot legally use that name, finding the Secretary of State lacked ...
The Week

Morgan McSweeney’s phone: a murky business? - The stolen phone contained sensitive government information, and is becoming a political issue for Labour
Deadline Politics

WGAE’s CBS News 24/7 Union Reaches Tentative Agreement On New Contract - The Writers Guild of America East’s union at CBS News 24/7 has reached a tentative agreement on a three-year contract with the network. The CBS News 24/7 u...
naked capitalism

Will Trump’s Idiotic Iran War Spell the End of NATO? - Trump attacked on Iran with no consultation with NATO allies, doing them great harm, yet angrily demands help. Who wants an ally like that?
The Socialist

James Risch Net Worth 2026: Idaho Senator’s $56.5M Real Estate - Table of Contents The $33 Million Farm: Risch’s Agricultural Anchor Commercial & Residential Real Estate: A $17.7 Million Empire From Law Practice to Small...
The AltWorld

Le monde russe et la Pax Americana - En russe moderne, le mot « mir » a deux significations: (1) l’espace qui nous entoure, c’est-à-dire […] The post Le monde russe et la Pax Americana appea...
Houston Public Media

DR Congo and Sweden secure spots to play in Houston during 2026 FIFA World Cup - The Democratic Republic of Congo and Sweden both qualified for the World Cup on Tuesday and will play group-stage matches at NRG Stadium in June.
Political Wire

‘Two Weeks’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does - When President Trump asserted that the Iran War would be over in two weeks yesterday, I was reminded of this New York Times piece last year: “It is a slipp...
Glasstire

Top Five: April 2, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Rebel GirlHouston Center for PhotographyMarch 12 – May ...
Dorf on Law

Is "Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof" a General Principle or a Term of Art? Does It Matter? - There was a curious apparent methodological reversal during yesterday's oral argument in *Trump v. Barbara*. At one point, Justice Alito asked ACLU Natio...
Mondoweiss

Plot to assassinate Palestinian activist follows harassment campaign promoted by Zionist groups and elected officials - The plan to assassinate Nerdeen Kiswani was the result of a years-long harassment campaign against the activist, carried out by a wide network of Zionist o...
El Paso Matters

GALLERY: Scenes from ChangeMakers 2026 — art, performance, community - The annual Women’s History Month event hosted by El Paso Matters and Progress321 this year spotlighted 29 honorees with a night of performances, exhibit...
San Antonio Report

For people living or working in Stone Oak, VIA Link service coming soon - [image: Eladio Diaz boards a VIA Link vehicle to ride to his job with Toyota supplier Forma Automotive.]The 20-square-mile area in Stone Oak is the latest ...
Socialist Alternative

A Manufactured Crisis: US Imperialism’s War On Cuba - US imperialism has launched the harshest offensive against Cuba since the Cold War, blocking fuel shipments to the island to forcibly starve it into regime...
Democracy Now!

Israel's Death-by-Hanging Law Marks Further "Dehumanization of Palestinians": B'Tselem - We speak with Sarit Michaeli from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem following the Knesset’s passage of a new law mandating death by hanging for Pales...
The Conversation

Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes - Evolving views about parental gun ownership and liability will likely have ramifications in custody battles.
Techdirt.

WSJ: Lobbyists Easily Destroyed Any Semi-Serious Antitrust Enforcers Left In MAGA - Last election season the Trump campaign lied to everyone repeatedly about how his second administration would “rein in big tech,” and be a natural extensio...
Space City Weather

Your mileage may vary in terms of Houston’s rain chances the next few days - In brief: Houston has a mixed bag of rain chances for the next few days, with Saturday still looking like the most bullish chance at rainfall. Despite warm...
First Draft

A Tacit Tehran TACO? - Trump's Iran War speech lays an egg as does his Solicitor General at SCOTUS.
The Root

Florida Vice Mayor Found Dead Inside Home as Police Investigate Husband for the Crime - The city of Coral Springs celebrated the election of first Black and Haitian American female commissioner. Now, they're forced to mourn her shocking murd...
ArcaMax

News Flash: Bernie Sanders Is Not a New Yorker - Yes, he talks like a Brooklyn tough guy, but Sen. Bernie Sanders is a resident of Vermont, America's most rural and most white state. That he fled New York...
The Progressive Wing

4/2 News Roundup & Open Thread - When times get tough, working people need to stand up! Brian Poindexter is a union ironworker with Local 17 in Cleveland and our local's apprenticeship i...
Vox

What to say to relatives who love to needle you about politics - As someone who has predominantly lived in liberal cities, I am largely surrounded by people who share my political views. Guns, no way. LGBTQ+ rights, yes,...
WhoWhatWhy

Analysis of Trump’s Iran Speech: This Could Have Been a Tweet - [image: Donald Trump, Verst Logistics Manufacturing, Hebron, Kentucky] Donald Trump sought to reassure Americans, especially those on Wall Street, that his...
Rallblog

With a Victory Like This… | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we discuss: • In h...
Countercurrents

Full text of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s letter to the American public - Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian has released an open letter, addressing the American people, calling on them to question the motives of the ongoing US-Isr...
Earth 911

Biochar Was a Billion-Ton Dream, the Reality Is More Complicated - Picture turning yard waste, wood scraps, and farm leftovers into something that stores carbon underground... The post Biochar Was a Billion-Ton Dream, th...
Angry Bear

What Makes a Donor State? - “Ask an Analyst: What makes a donor state?” USAFacts States contribute to the federal budget primarily through residents’ federal taxes and through busin...
The Smirking Chimp

On Trump’s Rambling War Speech — and Four Bizarre Moments That Left Viewers Confused -
Skeptophilia

A monster of a problem - Apparently, it's easier than I thought to give your soul to Satan. You don't have to attend a Black Mass, or hold a séance, or even wear an upside-down cru...
Off The Kuff

No more smokable hemp - You can still smoke what you already have, though. Smokable hemp products are effectively illegal in Texas starting today as new rules on cannabis compound...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Architectural Indigestion - The post Trump’s Architectural Indigestion appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

Slate SoundBites for April 2, 2026 - Build your answer from the sound up with our new game, SoundBites!
Scheerpost.com

Collapsing Empire: The Resistance Disarms Israel - Kit Klarenberg Substack As the criminal Zionist-American war on Iran enters its second month, the conflict has proven so ruinous for the aggressors that di...
The Rag Blog

JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity - By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Jan Lance...
ProPublica

Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border - The post Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U.S. Southern Border appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Solar was poised to help Puerto Ricans survive blackouts — until Trump axed nearly $1B in funding - The money is being redirected to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, a government-owned utility with a checkered past.
Infidel753

Iran -- one month in - It is now a little over a month into the Iran war. While it would be unreasonable to expect really dramatic results in so short a time, it's remarkable w...
High Country News

What a bombing in Nevada reveals about the nation’s appetite for violence - [image: Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Green Beret, blew up a Cybertruck in front of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Jan. 1, 2025.] The ri...
Consortium News

Dennis Kucinich: How to Stop the War - The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off fu...
The Daily Poster

Why Congress Won't Stop Hijacking Air Travel - America's aviation crisis didn't happen by accident. Bill McGee, one of the country's leading aviation watchdogs, explains who broke the system — and why n...
Counterpunch

Shallāl: On Water, Palestine, and the Grammar of the Unrelenting - There are mornings when what I feel is not grief exactly. It is rage that has nowhere to go. A need to climb the highest mountain and scream, not words, ...
jobsanger

International Alliances Are Meant To Be A Two-Way Relationship -
World Socialist Web Site

Nexteer auto parts workers in Saginaw, Michigan reject UAW sellout deal in near unanimous vote - Workers who spoke to the WSWS during the vote denounced its expansion of a two-tier wage system, unaffordable healthcare costs, poverty-level pay for new h...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

From Blockbusters to Boring? Previewing Wisconsin’s 2026 state Supreme Court race - Wisconsin's 2026 state Supreme Court race does not seem to be getting the type of attention that other recent contests there have gotten. But it will sti...
Informed Comment

Israel Plots razing Iran, but it has 330K STEM graduates per Year - Iran is now exporting more petroleum than it did in February and getting twice as much for it, which can rebuild a lot of factories.
Portside

Senegal on the Edge of Collapse - Senegal on the Edge of Collapse Ira Wed, 04/01/2026 - 23:11
Workers World

ICE out of everywhere! - [image: ICE out of everywhere!] Philadelphia, Jan. 8, 2026. The crisis at U.S. airports is big news. Because of the partial government shutdown, employees ...
Alternet

On Trump's rambling war speech —and four bizarre moments that left viewers confused - President Donald Trump’s primetime televised speech from the White House on the progress of his Iran war was shorter than many of the rambling the speech...
Liberation News

Socialist response to Trump’s televised address on Iran War: Trump promises genocidal destruction of the Iranian people - In his anger and desperation to bring about something that can be passed off as a U.S. victory, Trump is pledging the wholesale destruction of Iran and its...
TalkLeft

Donald Trump Addresses Country - Donald Trump sounds out of breath. Iran's navy is dead. Never in the history of warfare has a country suffered such a devastating loss. He starts with a...
Antiwar.com

Philippines Path to ASEAN’s Ukraine? - In the past, PH targets comprised mainly the EDCA sites. Now they include the planned ammo manufacturing sites. Manila is moving from a US logistical enabl...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Kristi Noem receiving brutal reminders of her anti-LGBTQ history in light of husband's crossdressing scandal' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *25 hilarious reactions to Kristi Noem's hypocrisy after husband's cross-dressing fetish leaks: * *Noem has also built a career on supporting policies r...
Progressive.org

ICE Abuses Exemplify a Cruel Prison System - We need a legal system that centers humanity.
Claytoonz

Blackmail Bimbo - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Popular Resistance

Amnesty International Defends US Regime-Change NGOs - Why are many Latin American countries shutting down nonprofit organizations? Amnesty International claims it has the answer: in every case, it’s part of ...
Greg Palast

Trump’s Tanker Toll Triumph - Trump has good reason to claim he’s won regime change in Iran. From our deep files, we have discovered that the new Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei, far from ...
Texas Standard

Trial in Austin will address the ‘lingering cruelty’ of heat in Texas prisons - Lawyers have tried to force the state of Texas to provide air-conditioning in its prisons for years. Now, they say this case may be their best shot to forc...
Church and State

The Psychology of our Strange Overpopulation Taboo - The psychoanalytic literature on the ecological crisis is a case study of disavowal, evasion and distraction with side-issues.
See You In 2020

The plan to nuke Iran, and then put a “humanitarian” face back onto the U.S. empire - *Above: the “earthquake bomb” that Israel dropped on Syria in December 2024.* This week, the UN’s Mohamad Safa resigned from his position to tell the w...
The NM Political Report

A.G. asks N.M. Supreme Court to invalidate Otero County ICE detention contract - [image: Otero County Commission] Otero County’s on-again, off-again contract to hold ICE detainees is headed to the state’s Supreme Court where justices a...
NPR's Health Shots

The FDA approves a new obesity pill, giving patients another option - The daily pill called Foundayo got a fast track through the Food and Drug Administration. It will compete with the pill form of Wegovy as an alternative to...
OpEd News

No Kings in America: Protests Prove the Power Still Belongs to the People - The grievances driving these protests are as concrete as they are urgent.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

When Fascism Meets Reality: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Environment Texas

Eliminating plastic in the produce aisle is low hanging fruit - Our new report shows that getting our produce without plastic packaging is within reach. The post Eliminating plastic in the produce aisle is low hanging...
Ballot Access News

New York Campaign Finance Board Denies Matching Funds for Likely Republican Gubernatorial Nominee - On March 31, the New York Public Financing Campaign Board disqualified Bruce Blakeman’s application for public funding. He is the likely Republican nominee...
Texas Observer

Foster Care Repeats Rejection for LGBTQ+ Texans - When a teenager in Texas is pushed out of their home because of their sexual orientation or gender identity, foster care is supposed to help. It is meant...
Ecosophia

Minutes of the Grand Council of Five of the Bavarian Illuminati, 18th day of Discord, 5975 AM - (see note 1) GRAND MASTER CORNELIUS SCHRECK, ILLUMINATUS PRIMUS: Well, I think we can begin at this point. Brother Sentinel, are we secure? GRAND GUARDIAN ...
Ian Welsh

When Does Money Matter? - The core reason for America and Europe’s decline (and, in a way, Japan’s) was the belief by our elites that money was the only thing which mattered. Money ...
Common Dreams

Trump's Anti-Voter Executive Order Is Hypocritical and Unconstitutional - Today, Donald Trump signed a new executive order that attempts to stop voting by mail. *Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, *issued the followi...
Progressives Chat

The 2026 MLB Season Begins - The new 2026 Major League Baseball season is now in its first full week. I was sorry Milwaukee Brewers, which has been in only one World Series, as the A...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (4.01.26) - Smart words from Kevin Kruse, Ibram X. Kendi, Jelani Cobb, Rep Eveleth, Michael Waters, and Diane de Vignemont.
Consent Factory, Inc.

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #20: It's Gonna Be a Long 2028 Democratic Primary (w/Caitlin Schneider) - This week: A strange story of how Rahm Emanuel eats salad, lunch bowl slop power rankings, guessing which Dems are most popular, checking in on Grimes, and...
The Texas Signal

The New “Smart” Border Wall Comes To Texas - In July 2025, Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a budget package with $46.5 billion for border infrastructure construction. The funds are availa...
Earthworks

How to Cut Methane when the federal government puts profits before health - This blog is part of a series covering methane regulations at the federal and state level. Read our first blog, … The post How to Cut Methane when the f...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Scholarship in Action: What Dr. Álvaro Huerta Teaches Us About Organizing for Justice - *Scholarship in Action: What Dr. Álvaro Huerta Teaches Us About Organizing for Justice* *by * *Angela Valenzuela* *March 31, 2026* *What does it mean ...
NORML

Military Eases Enlistment Rules for Those With Prior Marijuana Convictions - [image: A veteran wears a camouflage hat and shirt and sunglasses with cannabis leaves reflecting on the lenses][image: A veteran wears a camouflage hat ...
Sludge

These State Pension Funds Invest in Palantir - Public pension funds from California to New York hold a combined billions of dollars in Palantir stock, while teachers and other public employees protest t...
LareDOS

Wag the Dog, redux: the Grifter-in-chief starts an unprovoked war to distract from damning evidence in the Epstein files - Rocketing gas and food prices; lack of medical insurance, treatment, and services; Putin plays the tinpot dictator like a cheap fiddle
Dissent Magazine

Abolitionist Feminism - An interview with Kathi Weeks.
Rewire

For Trans Community, U.S. is Less Safe Under Trump - On Trans Day of Visibility, *Rewire News Group * reviews the legal and political attacks faced by trans people in the U.S. over the past year. The post F...
Lowering the Bar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Reality-Based Community

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

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

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

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

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

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

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

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

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