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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

Raw Story

‘Absurd’: Noem claim to have arrested ‘antifa’ founder’s girlfriend stirs ridicule - A dramatic claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to have arrested “the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa,” therefore putting the Tru...
The Hill

Jason Carter endorses Jason Esteves in Democratic primary for Georgia governor - Jason Carter, a former Georgia state senator and the grandson of the late President Jimmy Carter, is backing former state Sen. Jason Esteves in the Democra...
Daily Dot

Birthday reenactment of *that* infamous “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” dinner fight was so legit, Bravo weighed in - [image: Left: Kim Richards in Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season 2 episode of the fight in Amsterdam. Right: People sitting around a table for a bir...
Al Jazeera English

India’s Himalayan villages slowly reviving decades after conflict - People return to Himalayan villages each summer, despite their decline after the 1962 India-China border closure.
memeorandum

White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs (New York Times) - New York Times: *White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs* — About a fifth of the agency's remaining staff was affected, including emplo...
The Verge

These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected - Microsoft is busy rolling out new curvy and colorful new Office icons, and now it’s revealing a set of design concepts it experimented with before finalizi...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Christian Menefee - Our next candidate for CD18 is another familiar name and the first person to formally announce their candidacy for this seat. Christian Menefee has been el...
Salon.com

Supreme Court redistricting ruling could upend decades of voting rights law - An upcoming case could change congressional maps across the country
naked capitalism

As Trump Sells Peace in West Asia, His ‘Route for International Peace and Prosperity’ in the Caucasus Fails to Live Up to Its Name - As US Zionist plans progress in the Levant, what’s happening at another point in the Iran pressure campaign in the Caucasus?
Vox

5 reasons even conservatives should oppose Trump’s immigration policy - When liberals denounce Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, they often cast his immigration agenda as a case in point. Back in June, Democrats on the House Ove...
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 4, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
Eschaton

Morning - Wacky Wednesday. A bit busy with some things today.
Slate

We Found the Perfect Candidate for Our Open Role. I’m Tempted to Reject Her for Her Own Sake. - It wouldn't be right, right?
Mother Jones

How a Climate Doomsayer Became an Unexpected Optimist - Bill McKibben isn’t known for his rosy outlook on climate change. Back in 1989, he wrote The End of Nature, which is considered the first mainstream book w...
ProPublica

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help. - by Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up ...
Angry Bear

Foreign-trained physicians and the physician workforce - I’ve written previously about the shortage of primary care physicians in the US. In principle, one way to address this shortage is to admit more internat...
Political Wire

Blue States Set Up a Shadow Public-Health Alliance - “The public-health resistance to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is growing,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Governors across ...
The Week

Is The Inbetweeners reboot a good idea? - The cult classic sitcom is set to return over a decade after its final episode – but not everyone is happy
Axios

GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp announces $30M workforce skills training program - *CINCINNATI —* GE Aerospace CEO Larry Culp announced at an Axios event on Tuesday that the GE Aerospace Foundation is launching a $30-million, five-year ...
American Prospect

The AI Ouroboros - Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.
Scheerpost.com

Israeli Forces Kill at Least Seven Palestinians in Gaza Despite Ceasefire - Another two Palestinians died of wounds sustained in previous Israeli attacks.
Mediagazer

As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing ground and launchpad for originals (Ben Croll/Variety) - Ben Croll / Variety: *As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing groun...
Grist

How Vermont lost track of millions in FEMA flood recovery funds - As the federal government pushes more disaster recovery responsibilities onto states, they are “sitting ducks” for contractors.
High Country News

Loopy lagomorphs, warning off wolves, the best of Buddys and diminutive dinosaurs - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Loopy lagomorphs, warning off wolves, the best of Buddys and diminutive dinosaurs appeared first on ...
Common Dreams

Hezbollah and MS-13 'R Us, Naked On Bikes In Frog Ears - Despite court losses, public antipathy, ridicule, a shutdown they ignore, the nascent police state lurches on with its daft apocalyptic narrative of an A...
Crooked Media

Breaking Down Trump’s Gaza Deal - The post Breaking Down Trump’s Gaza Deal appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Poor Sweet Hunky ICE Officer - The Trump administration is distorting reality to an extreme degree. ICE officers, who are brutalizing and terrorizing Americans as well as undocumented ...
Counterpunch

How the IMF and US Helped Loot and Entrap Argentina with Debt - Milei took office in December 2023, and Argentina has been in deep recession since then. The recession has been caused by extreme fiscal austerity which ...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump, China tariffs and the Wall Street bubble - Early last Friday Wall Street was heading for another record but then came Trump’s new tariff threat against China and it had its biggest fall in six months.
jobsanger

Our Representatives Are Being Paid For Doing Nothing -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2815: How Ideas Spread - Episode: 2815 The spread of ideas in social networks. Today, let’s talk about engineered social networks.
Courthouse News

Florida judge temporarily blocks transfer of downtown Miami land for Trump’s presidential library - (AP) — A Florida judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for President Donald Trump’s future presidential li...
Mediaite

AZ Attorney General Threatens to Take Speaker Johnson to Court: ‘Holding the State of Arizona Hostage’ to Protect Epstein Files - Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatened to take House Speaker Mike Johnson to court on Tuesday for refusing to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalv...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Freedoms We Took for Granted in Britain - Now that we have proved to be too defiant and rebellious, Keir Starmer’s government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel. By Jonathan Co...
Informed Comment

Terror from the Skies in the Middle East: Israel and the Ghost of Bomber Harris - Here is my essay for this week’s Tomdispatch.com . Check out the great Tom Engelhardt’s introduction at that site, where he reminds us of the eerie similar...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Overdose in America – a Guardian Series - A series that examines the toll – state by state, county by county – of the US overdose crisis This series is supported through philanthropic funding to ...
Techdirt.

Research: Italy’s Piracy Shield Is Just As Big A Disaster As Everyone Predicted - Walled Culture first wrote about Piracy Shield, Italy’s automated system for tackling alleged copyright infringement in the streaming sector, two years ago...
The Greanville Post

MUST WATCH: IMPERIALISM: DECADENT & DOOMED W/JOTI BRAR EP 46 – EUROPE LOSES THE ILLUSION OF DEMOCRACY - GARLAND NIXON—The video features a detailed and critical discussion between Garland Nixon and Joti Brar about the state of democracy in Europe and globally...
Daily Cartoonist

Around the Cartooning World - Daniel Boris Goes International Washington, DC editorial cartoonist Daniel Boris has had a recent cartoon published by Le Courrier International in associa...
WhoWhatWhy

IMF Predicts Slowdown as Trump’s Tariffs & Volatility Impact the Global Economy - [image: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, CMA CGM Brazil] While the global economy has proven to be more resilient than anticipated to Donald Trump'...
Brad Blog

Pro-Democracy Group Vows to Block Missouri's GOP U.S. House Gerrymander from Taking Effect: 'BradCast' 10/14/2025 - On today's BradCast: The War in Gaza may be in the middle of a very fragile ceasefire, but the Wars both For and Against Democracy in America continue apac...
Election Law Blog

“Educating Citizens on the Complexities of Democracy” - I’m honored to be included in NYU Democracy Project’s “100 ideas in 100 days” series. Here’s my contribution. It makes a point about the need for high sc...
ArcaMax

Your Questions Answered: How To Push Back on Abuses of Power - In his first nine months back in office, President Donald Trump has abused his power to attack our neighbors and communities, suppress free speech and crea...
Alternet

'It’s terrible': CNN data analyst delivers flashing red warning sign about US dollar - As silver prices hit all-time high, an expert has said it is even “outlasting gold.” During an appearance on CNN Tuesday, the network’s chief data analys...
NPR's Health Shots

With new cuts at CDC, some fear there's 'nobody to answer the phone' - More than 1,300 staffers at the health agency got notices they were fired — but more than half were reinstated. The cuts will hobble some divisions, employ...
Workers World

Palestinian Resistance scores historic victory - [image: Palestinian Resistance scores historic victory] Workers World Party salutes the anti-imperialist tenacity, resolve and determination of the Palesti...
Popular Resistance

Israel Violates Ceasefire With Deadly Attacks On Palestinians In Gaza - The Israeli army killed several Palestinians in Gaza on 14 October despite the new ceasefire agreement which has taken effect across the strip. In total,...
Antiwar.com

Gaza: The Peace of the Genocide Alliance - With the silence of the guns, hope grows that Israel’s genocide in Gaza may have come to an end. Hostages and prisoners from both sides have already been e...
Reform Austin

Texas GOP Censures Five Lawmakers, Drops Ballot Ban Threat - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas Republican Party’s governing board voted Saturday to censure five GOP state lawmakers...
Portside

With No Pay Raises in Sight, NC Teachers Group Votes To Join National Union - With No Pay Raises in Sight, NC Teachers Group Votes To Join National Union Greg Tue, 10/14/2025 - 19:51
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition - Microsoft today released software updates to plug a whopping 172 security holes in its Windows operating systems, including at least three vulnerabilities ...
OpEd News

The Covid-19 Origin Essay Further Questions - This is in follow-up to my previous posting of a paper in progress on the subject, with an invitation for folks to collaborate with more information, etc. ...
The Texas Signal

A Complicated Trajectory For DACA In Texas - How DACA looks in the future will be decided soon in a Texas courthouse, and the consequences for many Texans could be huge
Wolf Street

Powell on the End of QT (“We’re Not so Far Away but There’s a Ways to Go”), Shifting Assets to T-Bills, and Selling MBS - Bonus: His doomsday scenario if Congress forces the Fed to stop paying interest to banks on their reserve balances.
The NM Political Report

Heinrich touts proposal to protect govt workers during shutdown, Vasquez backs one-year extension of health insurance tax credits - [image: Martin Heinrich and Gabe Vasquez] [image: Martin Heinrich and Gabe Vasquez] The federal shutdown is entering a third week and there is little pro...
San Antonio Current

Judge halts Texas law banning certain types of speech on college campuses after dark - 'The First Amendment does not have a bedtime of 10 p.m.,' U.S. District Judge David Alan Azra said in the ruling. The post Judge halts Texas law bannin...
Futurism

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets - "It just completely shocked us." The post Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets appeared first on Futurism.
CultureMap Houston

Longtime Houston kolache bakery opens new Memorial location - One of Houston’s most reliable kolache bakeries has opened its new locations. The *Kolache Shoppe* is now open near Memorial City Mall.
Ballot Access News

Wisconsin Legislature Passes Two Minor Improvements to Ballot Access - On October 14, the Wisconsin legislature passed two bills that make minor improvements for independent candidates and minor parties. AB 149 makes it easier...
San Antonio Report

‘Too expensive for the average person’: Bexar County dives into affordable housing - [image: A parking lot that the Missions baseball team wants to purchase in downtown San Antonio is owned by SAISD.]Two major downtown sports venue projects...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court rejects hearing several cases, including on children’s gender identity - The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning turned down a plea from conservative media personality Alex Jones to hear his appeal of a Connecticut case brought b...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Refuses To Take ABC Correspondent’s Question Because Of George Stephanopoulos’ Contentious JD Vance Interview - President Donald Trump refused to take a question from an ABC correspondent on Tuesday, blasting the network over This Week host George Stephanopoulos’ con...
Progressive.org

The Role of Race in Trump’s Authoritarianism - Black people have a rich tradition of collective organizing and action. We’re good at this. I wish we didn’t have to be.
Socialist Alternative

Shut Down Trump’s Invasion of Chicago - On the night of September 30, an apartment complex on the South Side of Chicago, housing children and families, was suddenly subjected to a nightmare: thei...
Second Nexus

Trump Blasted After Bizarrely Claiming That Watergate Was A 'Hoax' In Unhinged Rant - MAGA Republican President Donald Trump has a lot on his plate. There's the GOP-created government shutdown, increasing national and international backla...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Was Wallace back in the silo again? - *TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2025* *Ignoring events in the room:* We remain grateful to Nicolle Wallace for her recent podcast with Rosie O'Donnell. We're stil...
Texas Standard

Stephen Harrigan on memory, myth and meaning in Texas history - The journalist and author goes big in a deceptively slim collection of essays, “An Anchor in the Sea of Time.”
Mondoweiss

How the murder of Gaza journalist Saleh Aljafarawi and Hamas’s crackdown on Israel-backed militias are connected - [image: Members of the armed wing of Hamas, the al-Qassam Brigades, stand guard during the handover of Israeli captives to the Red Cross as part of the sec...
Capital & Main

‘They Just Took You Away’ - In my daughter’s nightmares, a window into how children are processing Trump’s immigration raids. Such expressions of fear are normal, mental health prof...
Church and State

Put Trump‘s day of triumph in Gaza in perspective - Trump's constant efforts to dismantle our democracy will continue and he will stop at nothing to install his authoritarian regime.
Independent Political Report

Maryland Green and Forward Leaders to Host Joint Conversation on Election Reform - Andy Ellis, a candidate for the Green Party of Maryland’s gubernatorial nomination, and P.J. Benenati, Chair of the Forward Party of Maryland, will co-ho...
El Paso Matters

Fact check: Are entry-level El Paso firefighters paid less than entry-level police officers? - Pay scales for police and fire are renegotiated every year. How do the latest starting salaries compare? The post Fact check: Are entry-level El Paso fi...
The Daily Poster

Anthony Kennedy Is Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This - The retired Supreme Court Justice who authored Citizens United is suddenly worried about the future of democracy.
Discourse

Bari Weiss Is Having a Terrible Week - Seems like everything's fine over at CBS. It's fine! Perfectly fine!!!
slacktivist

‘I just thought that life was hard’ (Fall fundraising) - Life sometimes really IS "just hard." But it's possible to get through it thanks to people like you.
Undernews

Donald Trump - [image: First image shows a tweet from Donald J Trump with American flag emojis and heart, username realDonaldTrump, text complaining about TIME Magazine ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Senate Rating Change: Maine Moves from Leans Republican to Toss-up - We are moving the Maine Senate race from Leans Republican to Toss-up, which means we now have four Senate Toss-ups: Republican-held Maine and North Carol...
The AltWorld

Art, Trade and State power at the heart of the Silk Road - Brilliant Eurasian cultures converged, interacted and spread their wings on the Ancient Silk Roads. DUNHUANG – Across […] The post Art, Trade and State p...
First Draft

Where Optimism Goes To Die - On the bad faith of bad faith actors.
NORML

Analysis: Adult-Use Marijuana Legalization Associated With Fewer Opioid Overdose Deaths - [image: A small glass bowl of cannabis buds sits on a table next capsules of medicine][image: A small glass bowl of cannabis buds sits on a table next ca...
The Root

How Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Slowly Turning Against Trump and MAGA - Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't the first MAGA politician to stray away from the pack... but she certainly is one of the loudest. Read more...
Dorf on Law

Smile! We Live in the Least-Bad Timeline, Amazingly Enough (a Dorf on Law Classic) - *Note to readers: Another day of unexpected logistical issues has made it necessary for me to post a Classic. New material returns tomorrow.* Smile! We...
Bonddad

More on stock market indexes’ advance-decline lines: the healthy and the sick - - *by New Deal democrat* I am currently on vacation, and as the shutdown continues with no end in sight, the only sources of economic data are from ...
Dissident Voice

Epstein Files: Don’t Hold Your Breath - I have noticed supposed left organizations considering the Epstein files their secret weapon and naively pouring energy into advocating release. It is a ...
Bracing Views

Should Senior Military Officers Consider Resigning? - Several Coordinated Resignations Based on Principle Could Make a Difference BILL ASTORE OCT 07, 2025 Should senior military officers consider resigning? Th...
Glasstire

More Than Bubble-Gum Pink Press-Ons: Yvette Mayorga’s “Pop-Up Nail $alon” - Call them what you will, be it acrylic nails, press-ons, fake nails, false nails or nail enhancements, the terms all refer to the same thing: disposable ...
Ian Welsh

Revisiting Original Sin and Identity Politics In the Age of Woke Backlash - It’s our annual fundraiser. We’ve raised a little over $6,845 from 61 people in the last thirteen days, out of our goal of $12,500. If you’re a regular rea...
Rewire

Kavanaugh Voted To Overturn ‘Roe’—But His Words Could End Up Helping to Protect Abortion Access - Opinion: Abortion advocates should weaponize the Supreme Court justice's *Dobbs* decision to ensure patients can still get out-of-state reproductive heal...
Democracy Now!

Juan González on Chicago's Grassroots Movement to Protect Immigrants from ICE - As Trump threatens to send more federal troops to Chicago, grassroots movements have mobilized to protect immigrants from ICE raids. *Democracy Now!*’s Jua...
The Conversation

The limits of free speech protections in American broadcasting - Pressuring broadcasters by leveraging the powers of the Federal Communications Commission occurs no matter which party controls the White House.
Texas Observer

Border Barriers to Harm Reduction - Editor’s Note: This story is a collaboration between Puente News Collaborative and the Texas Observer. As the healthcare workers approach the small colle...
Space City Weather

Could a real fall front finally arrive next week? - In brief: Today’s post discusses the difference between ‘humidity’ fronts we’ve had so far this fall, and a stronger front that ushers in colder air. We th...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Confused’ and ‘Befuddled’ Trump Told To Sit Back Down Because It Wasn’t His Turn To Speak -
Skeptophilia

Loose genes - In the course of writing *Skeptophilia* for nearly fifteen years, I thought I'd run into every purveyor of woo out there. I was wrong. Somehow, I missed...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 14 October 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Halloween video post, click here.] Ma...
Earth 911

Trick or Eco-Treat: Halloween Candy Quandary - With Halloween approaching, many of our readers want to avoid contributing to the problem of... The post Trick or Eco-Treat: Halloween Candy Quandary app...
Trivial Knot

Deconversion Narrativization - It’s said that the world is made of stories. But, if that were true, why is translating a personal experience into a story so lossy? Invariably, you must c...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'MAGA falls for fake Turning Point halftime performing list (which refers to present measles outbreak)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *The fact that so many MAGA nuts actually believed this fake list of performers for Turning Point's Halftime show is typical and funny. But the list als...
See You In 2020

Russia’s anti-fascist fight, Palestine’s resistance, & how the KKE works to hinder both of them - *One of the biggest problems in today’s socialist politics is crude economism, as advanced by Greece’s KKE and its affiliated orgs. This is the problem ...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Johnson's Great Society and the Power of Imaginative Policy by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Johnson's Great Society and the Power of Imaginative Policy* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 13, 2025* *Join me in revisiting President Lyndon...
Sludge

Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide - With $26.7 billion in approved Israel arms sales since October 7, 2023, Boeing stands out as a top beneficiary of the Gaza war.
DeSmogBlog

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist - As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new en...
Project Censored

US Military Power, Media Messaging, and Grassroots Strategies - In the first part of the program, cohost Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show US marine veteran Matthew Hoh to talk about the realities vs. the st...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
The Progressive Wing

10/13-10/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - The shutdown continues…more news, videos, and of course, your comments after the jump.
Debunking Christianity

Do You Know God? -
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Glenn Beck Podcast - The Glenn Beck Podcast.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTIFA VS. PRO-FA EDITION. - *Just nice.* According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organiz...
ExChristian.Net

Bentham's "Not Paul, But Jesus" Revisited - By William Walter Kay BA JD JEREMY Bentham was born in 1748 unto a line of London lawyers. His father amassed a fortune flipping real estate. England’s yo...
WAWG Blog

Authoritarian Capitalism and Authoritarian Fascism - These examples show that authoritarian capitalism can coexist with a relatively modest ideological veneer, whereas authoritarian fascism embeds a deep, o...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump - Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
MintPress News

Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report - After MintPress exposed ex-CIA and FBI officials working at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, many deleted their profiles and erased incriminating evidence....
Earthworks

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
The Militant

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Dissent Magazine

Close Attention - An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
Seeing the Forest

The Real AI Question: Who Benefits? - Here’s a different question about AI. Suppose it does what is promised, and does greatly increase productivity, and does bring all kinds of benefits. Who w...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
Crooked Timber

Delighted to be proved wrong - A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice mi...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Principal Symbol - Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
Two Party Opera

Dr. Feelgood For All - Read More
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

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LareDOS

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nonsite.org

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Campaign for America's Future

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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

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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....
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

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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...
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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