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

Popular Resistance

Anti-ICE Protests Continue As Judges Block Trump’s National Guard Deployments - A US federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on October 9, blocking the Trump administration’s deployment of hundreds of National Guard troops...
Raw Story

'Plenty to worry about': Billionaire warns America could be heading into a civil war - Billionaire Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has warned that the United States may be sliding toward a new kind of internal fracture amid de...
Mediaite

New Jersey Governor Nowhere To Be Found As Powerful Storm Hammers His State - New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) was nowhere to be found as a powerful nor'easter slammed his state Sunday morning, forcing Lieutenant Gov. Tahesha Way to...
The Greanville Post

…AND CALLED IT PEACE ! - PAUL EDWARDS—For the small minority of our countrymen who understand the true, monstrous, unmitigated evil of Israel, and whose informed sympathies were al...
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 ...
Grist

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ - A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump says ‘war is over’ in Gaza as Israel awaits release of hostages - US president says Middle East will ‘normalize’ before he boarded flight to Israel for world leaders’ peace summit The war in Gaza has ended and the Middl...
Axios

Trump declares Gaza war over, as he heads to Israel ahead of hostages' release - President Trump said Sunday that the war in Gaza was over and expressed confidence that the ceasefire he brokered several days ago will hold. *Why it ma...
Deadline Politics

Pam Bondi & DHS React To ‘SNL’ Cold Open Parody: “Loving Amy Poehler” - With two Saturday Night Live legends reuniting to give them the parody treatment this weekend, Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem have shared their reactions. Follo...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “I don’t think there’s anything that’s gonna get me in heaven. I think I’m not maybe heaven bound.” — President Trump, speaking to reporters.
Slate

I Thought My Marriage Was Happy. Then My Wife Asked Me to Agree to Something I’d Never Imagined. - I don't even know how to respond.
The Hill

Vance blames CDC layoff ‘chaos’ on Schumer, Democrats - Vice President Vance blamed the rescinded layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ...
Al Jazeera English

France’s Macron unveils new government ahead of budget deadline - The new government, led by Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, must present a 2026 draft budget on Monday.
Daily Dot

“Do better”: TikTok witches have begged Crock-Pot for a cauldron, only to be denied - [image: crockpot cauldron mocked tiktok] The witches of TikTok are turning against Crock-Pot after the company apparently broke their promise to deliver ...
memeorandum

J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists' Questions. It Did Not Go Well (Peter Wade/Rolling Stone) - Peter Wade / Rolling Stone: *J.D. Vance Tried to Evade Journalists' Questions. It Did Not Go Well* — The vice president could not give a straight answ...
Daily Cartoonist

Clay Jones Fundraiser - The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists headed by Kevin Necessary and Jack Ohman have organized a GoFundMe page to help Clay Jones recover from h...
The Verge

Marvel details upcoming slate of shows at New York Comic Con - We got our first proper look at the upcoming Wonder Man series, but Marvel has a whole slate of shows in the works. Other than Wonder Man, though, the comp...
Mediagazer

A look at Re:Public, a new nonprofit outlet focusing on US public lands and aiming for 10-12 stories/year, founded by former Outside Magazine EIC Chris Keyes (Neel Dhanesha/Nieman Lab) - Neel Dhanesha / Nieman Lab: *A look at Re:Public, a new nonprofit outlet focusing on US public lands and aiming for 10-12 stories/year, founded by former...
Consortium News

WATCH: A Time of Grave Peril - Former C.I.A. officer John Kiriakou, former U.S. Green Party V.P. candidate Ajamu Baraka and CN Editor Joe Lauria joined host Danny Haiphong on his webcast...
OpEd News

The U.S., Kurds and Syria meet in Damascus after clashes - This article talks about the latest developments in Syria in the last 48 hours
Eschaton

Afternoon - Go see One Battle After Another. It's good!
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a reply to someone pushing back on calling the Trump administration fasci...
Salon.com

“You did not answer the question”: ABC host cuts Vance’s mic after heated Homan exchange - Vance capped a contentious tour of the Sunday press shows with a heated exchange on ABC
Alternet

'Plenty to worry about': Billionaire hedgefunder warns America could be heading into a civil war - Billionaire Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, has warned that the United States may be sliding toward a new kind of internal fracture amid de...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 12, 2025 - by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly ...
San Antonio Report

With Applewhite expansion, Bexar County doubles down on mental health and rehabilitation - Bexar County opened a $28 million expansion to its Applewhite Recovery Center, adding 130 treatment beds to divert people with mental illness and addiction...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for October 12 - “One national survey of more than 1,800 higher education staff members conducted by consulting firm Tyton Partners earlier this year found that about 40% o...
Courthouse News

A long-lost ancient Roman artifact reappears in a New Orleans backyard - NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious marble tablet...
World Socialist Web Site

Half a million march in London to mark two years of Gaza genocide - With plans advanced for the transformation of Gaza into a US protectorate and amid scenes of desperate Palestinians returning to homes in ruins, platform s...
Election Law Blog

How I Expect the Supreme Court to Kill Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Callais (If It Does So): Not By Direct Overruling but By Pretending They Are Simply Reinterpreting the Meaning of Section 2 - I’ve written of good reason to believe the Supreme Court is going to sap Section 2 of its power in the Louisiana v. Callais case, being argued on Wednesd...
Mother Jones

The White House Is Already Walking Back Hundreds of Federal Layoffs - In Donald Trump’s second term, federal workers have gotten used to being fired and re-hired, and, in some cases, even fired again. As one probationary empl...
Angry Bear

Students Voting for Trump did Not Gain Them any Help or Access to Student Loan Bankruptcy - None of this means people can default whenever they wish. It does mean the consequences for student loans is harsher than for commercial loans, etc. One ...
Ballot Access News

Public Broadcasting Station Carries Major Story About Libertarian Nominee for Governor of New Jersey - WHYY, the public broadcasting affiliate in Philadelphia, and which covers southern New Jersey, has this lengthy story about the Libertarian Party’s nominee...
Futurism

OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds - ChatGPT rated an ad 5/10. The post OpenAI’s Marketing Efforts Are Embarrassingly Ineffective, New Consumer Research Finds appeared first on Futurism.
Dissident Voice

Nobel Committee: A Prize for US Military Regime Change - The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize Rewards Militarism, Defies Alfred Nobel’s Will The board of the Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research (TFF) str...
Reform Austin

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is Coming to Replace Wikipedia - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Elon Musk has announced the creation of a new AI-powered encyclopedia called Grokipedia, a proj...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 217: “What Next for Gaza and Israel?” - LIVE 12:00 noon Eastern, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear/watch it: LIVE 12:00 noon Eastern, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear/watch i...
Undernews

Donald Trump - * Right Pulse News** -* President Donald Trump has formally cautioned Barack Obama against meddling in U.S. foreign policy, warning of potential Hatch Ac...
El Paso Matters

City of El Paso moves to rescue stalled $40 million federal grant for aerospace manufacturing - The El Paso City Council on Tuesday will consider a plan to take joint control of a $40 million federal grant with UTEP to revive a stalled effort to gr...
Mondoweiss

She was taken hostage by Palestinians 55 years ago. Now she’s an anti-Zionist activist. - [image: Women and children from the three hijacked aircraft leave Jordan's Revolution Airfield after being released, on September 8, 1970. Catherine Hodes ...
Debunking Christianity

The Gospels Fact-Check Themselves, Including Two Kickers! - David Madison has written: If we are expected to take the gospels seriously as authentic accounts, we would need to see the rigorous disciplines that histo...
The Root

13 Reasons Dolly Parton Has Always Gotten Love From Black Folks - Music legend Dolly Parton may beloved by country fans, but Black folks are hella fond of her, too. Let's take a look at why! Read more...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Smash and Grab' Toons - Helpful context... • Trump 'border czar' Homan accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents • US offers up to $50k bonus for would-be ICE deportatio...
Glasstire

“Indian Removal Act III: We are a Wounding”: A Conversation with Joe Harjo - I first encountered Joe Harjo’s work in 2017, and then again last year at Blue Star Contemporary in San Antonio, where he presented the second installmen...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Side Effects Include Corporate Immunity - A cancer-lawsuit legal loophole, cracking the Bari Weiss code, and more from The Lever this week.
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: Eye Songs - The eyes have it.
Vox

Expelliarmus! How to enjoy Harry Potter while disarming J.K. Rowling. - Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the ide...
WhoWhatWhy

Our Nominee for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: The Anti-Trump Resistance - [image: Statue of Liberty, Donald Trump, Protests] It is high time that the Nobel Committee recognizes Donald Trump… as the threat to democracy, global war...
NPR's Health Shots

5 things to know about the health care fight behind the shutdown - If Congress doesn't act, costs will rise on premiums for health care plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces. Here's what to know about the politics ...
naked capitalism

Links 10/12/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: The Big Reveal -
Scheerpost.com

Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results Look Alarmingly Like Iraq 2005, Which Produced a Civil War - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on...
Infidel753

Videos of the day -- for Halloween month - As the day approaches.....
Crooked Media

This F*cking Guy: Pete Hegseth - The post This F*cking Guy: Pete Hegseth appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

The quest to defy ageing - Humanity has fantasised about finding the fountain of youth for millennia. How close are we now?
Counterpunch

Borders and Scars - Ambrose Biece, in The Devil’s Dictionary, defines homicide as “the slaying of one human being by another.” Fair enough. But then he elaborates with the f...
jobsanger

Labor Dept. Says Trump's Immigration Actions Hurt Farmers And Raise Grocery Prices -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1456: Paper in Samarkand - Episode: 1456 In which paper goes from China to Europe by way of Samarkand. Today, paper makes a long journey.
Informed Comment

Syria’s Parliamentary Election Results look Alarmingly like Iraq 2005, which produced a Civil War - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syria’s parliamentary elections on October 5 raised alarm flags for me on several grounds. First, they were not conducted on...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

We Have Always Resisted: Mexican Americans and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice in the United States by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *We Have Always Resisted: Mexican Americans and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice in the United States* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 11, 2025* ...
Wolf Street

10-Year Treasury Yield Drops to One-Month Low on Trump’s China Threat, Bond Market Sees One Rate Cut this Year, Deficit-Funding Shifts to T-Bills - Despite the big drop on Friday, the 10-year Treasury yield is higher than shortly before the September rate cut.
Portside

Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism - Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism Dave Sat, 10/11/2025 - 17:07
See You In 2020

Boomer individualism, civilizational collapse, & the trial our society must undergo to rebuild itself - The society that was built by boomer individualism never had any chance of lasting, because it was premised on lack of regard for the future. When I say...
Workers World

A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions - [image: A joint statement from Palestinian Resistance factions] Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — th...
CultureMap Houston

Fast-casual Mexican chain dips into Houston and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, featuring three restaurant openings and one closure, plus a recap of the bigges...
Unlimited Hangout

The Glenn Beck Podcast - The Glenn Beck Podcast.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 6 - 10 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. More roiling of the waters in commodities, in between signs of economi...
Daily Howler

SENDS IN THE CLOWNS: One sits to pee, and the other's a cow! - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2025* *The New York Times keeps its trap shut: *A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY, the flag above Fifth Avenue once said. It flew repea...
ArcaMax

What Did You Do During the Trump Wars, Daddy? - My darling daughter gave me two dramatic blinks of her Aryan-blue eyes and flipped back her pure, naturally blonde pigtails. "What did you do during the Tr...
The AltWorld

What are the reasons that forced Netanyahu to accept the first phase of the ceasefire in Gaza? - How will the scene look after the “Sharm El-Sheikh wedding” ends and Trump does not win the […] The post What are the reasons that forced Netanyahu to ac...
The Conversation

How the government shutdown is making the air traffic controller shortage worse and leading to flight delays - Air traffic controllers are considered essential workers and required to work without pay during the shutdown, but there are reports some are calling in si...
Skeptophilia

Ssshh, it's a secret - To continue with this week's theme, which has mostly been about how completely baffling I find the behavior of my fellow humans a lot of the time, today ...
Common Dreams

A Beacon Of Hope and Woke Bullshit - Citing the value of “keep(ing) the flame of democracy burning," the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado fo...
Progressive.org

‘The Alabama Solution’ Takes No Prisoners as Incarcerated Workers Struggle for Their Humanity - Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: October 2025 - My video game, Moon Garden Optimizer, just released a demo on Steam. If you’ve already tried previous versions, it’s not new. Otherwise… try it! Looking...
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 Kay ~ * JEREMY Bentham was born in 1748 unto a line of London lawyers. His father amassed a fortune flipping real estate. England’s youngest u...
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...
SCOTUSblog

Court grants criminal case on right to appeal - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added another case to its oral argument docket for the 2025-26 term. The justices agreed to take up the case of Mun...
San Antonio Current

Study: San Antonio, South Texas metros have nation’s highest rates of delinquent mortgages - 4.3% of San Antonio metro residents are more than 30 days late on their mortgage. The post Study: San Antonio, South Texas metros have nation’s highest...
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...
Texas Standard

Texas stock exchange gets a green light - Also: The state’s highest court blocks execution and colleges limit classroom speech.
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Continues - The Endgame Remains Unpredictable–Dangerously So BILL ASTORE OCT 08, 2025 Since the last time (July 19th) I wrote about the Russia-Ukraine War, perhaps th...
The Texas Signal

Documentary Shows Librarians Fighting From The Front Line - A new documentary explores the ways in which librarians became front-line workers in the battle for democracy and the First Amendment
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....
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Requests Proposals for 2028 National Convention - The Libertarian National Committee has opened the process for selecting a host city and venue for the 2028 Libertarian National Convention, issuing a det...
Second Nexus

Taylor Swift's Story About How Travis Kelce Drunkenly Met 'Barbie' Director Greta Gerwig Is Too Good - He’s Just Travis. At least that’s how Taylor Swift describes her fiancé—a man who can catch a football midair but apparently can’t tell an Oscar-nominate...
Church and State

Reality Seems to Be Gaining Traction: Religion Is Fake News - Christianity is peddling an inferior product, one that cannot withstand critical investigation.
Dorf on Law

How Could Even the Most Pessimistic Predictions Not Be Pessimistic Enough? - When writing a column like this one, it is no longer possible to provide a manageably short list of the unprecedented things that are happening in the Un...
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 ...
Capital & Main

It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. In Small-Town Texas, Clean Water Is Elusive. - Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind. The post It’s Brown And Burns Your ...
Krebs on Security

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS - The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. ...
Dissent Magazine

Close Attention - An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
NORML

Major Alcohol Producer Links Cannabis Legalization to Sales Decline - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
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...
Rewire

ICE Fears Put Pregnant Immigrants And Their Babies At Risk - Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health—and the health of their p...
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...
Democracy Now!

"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It - Writer Cory Doctorow returns to *Democracy Now!* to discuss his new book *Enshittification*, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how onli...
The NM Political Report

NM’s vaccine shake-up: Governor acts to set independent immunization standards amid CDC turmoil - [image: A bill that temporarily allows New Mexico to formulate its own immunization policy was signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. ] [image: ...
Space City Weather

Drought slowly creeping into Houston, with slightly cooler temps and more dryness expected into next week - In brief: Dry weather will continue in the Houston area for the foreseeable future with warm to hot afternoons and somewhat pleasant mornings. Drought is e...
slacktivist

LBCF: Driving to O’Hare - Wherein Rayford Steele and the authors attempt to explain the problem of evil. It does not go well.
ProPublica

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America - by Melissa Sanchez and Mariam Elba Leer en español. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a new...
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...
High Country News

The case for national monuments - Can one of the nation’s best conservation tools survive? The post The case for national monuments appeared first on High Country News .
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest for Economic Gain Is Like …. - This week’s quote is from scientist Edward O. Wilson: “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest...
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."
Antiwar.com

When Presidents Kill - During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Fron the archives: 'A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2' is the gayest horror movie you will ever see - *A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2* is considered by many to be a very subversively gay horror movie. Of course when I watched it, I was surprised and pleas...
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 ...
The Grayzone

Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show - Behind closed doors, the noted ‘humanitarian interventionist’ successfully lobbied for Israel’s inclusion on important UN committees even after the Human...
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...
Discourse

Donald Trump Is No Peacemaker - Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise.
Texas Observer

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting - On September 24, a gunman shot at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, killing two immigrants, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and...
Environment Texas

Solar panels lasting longer than previously thought - A new study highlights long term effectiveness of solar panels The post Solar panels lasting longer than previously thought appeared first on Environment...
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-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map - Earlier this week, Utah Republicans proposed a new House map that includes two new competitive seats. It is one of several that a judge will consider ahe...
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...
American Prospect

What’s Behind the Viral Katie Porter Attack - Today on TAP: The political establishment in California saw their moment and pounced.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, will not seek reelection, but vows to “give it everything I have until the very end” of his term on January 12, 2027 - Longtime State Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, on Thursday, October 2, 2o25, became the most recent member of the 150-member Texas House of Representa...
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...
Sludge

Israel’s New U.S. Influence Campaigns Target TikTok, Churches, and ChatGPT - In the wake of SKDK’s cancelled contract, three firms newly registered under FARA are executing influence operations in the U.S. for Israel.
Project Censored

Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! - Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in Bann...
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 ...
The Progressive Wing

9/6 – 9/12 Talarico Takes On ‘Billionaire Mega Donors’ & More - Talarico talks fighting mega donors, priorities in Senate bid State Rep. James Talarico says his campaign for the U.S. Senate is about taking on “billiona...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers’ Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
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 ...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has ...
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

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
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

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 ...
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

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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