Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Futurism

Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon - The countdown is on. The post Astronauts Suit Up for Their Journey to the Moon appeared first on Futurism.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘I want that escape route’: once a sign of disloyalty, Americans seek dual citizenships under Trump - Some US citizens, grappling with issues from LGBTQ+ rights to the economy, are looking to the countries their families once left behind Daniel Kamalić wa...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Red-State Governor Went to Harvard and Was “Surprised.” That Says More About Politics Than College Campuses, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *A Red-State Governor Went to Harvard and Was “Surprised.” That Says More About Politics Than College Campuses* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Decemb...
Mediaite

Kristi Noem Triples ‘Holiday Stipend’ to $3,000 for Migrants in US Illegally to Self-Deport - Kristi Noem is offering a last-minute holiday deal to incentivize illegal immigrants to ditch the USA — $3,000 for people to self-deport by the end of 20...
Al Jazeera English

At least three killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon’s Sidon - Deadly Israeli air strike is latest in Israel's near-daily violations of 2024 ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.
Election Law Blog

“Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.” - Politico: At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a po...
Raw Story

MAGA hosts say Kennedy Center should not be renamed — 'til Trump is dead - Hosts of the pro-MAGA Real America's Voice network agreed that the Kennedy Center should not be renamed until President Donald Trump is dead. Hosts Emily...
Political Wire

The Epstein Cover Up Enters a New Phase - The Department of Justice blew past a legally imposed Friday deadline to turn over the Epstein files to Congress — and did so with a familiar mix of opacit...
Salon.com

The patron saint of 2025 is . . . Gwyneth Paltrow? - Paltrow laughed off biographers and adulterers before turning in one of her best roles. We can learn a thing or two
Eschaton

Sharyn Alfonsi's Final Work Email - (probably) News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our st...
Slate

The Democrats Had One Huge Shutdown Win. Trump Tried to Thwart It. He Just Failed. - Congress struck back in a little-noticed move that shifted power away from the Trump administration.
Mondoweiss

California’s AB 715 claims to combat antisemitism but is a direct attack on free speech regarding Palestine - [image: California Governor Gavin Newsom (Photo: Wikimedia)]Proponents claim that California’s AB 715 aims to combat antisemitism by strengthening anti-dis...
ProPublica

The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did - The post The FDA Often Doesn’t Test Generic Drugs for Quality Concerns, So ProPublica Did appeared first on ProPublica.
Deadline Politics

Bari Weiss Tells CBS News Staffers ’60 Minutes’ Piece Needed To “Do More,” Cites Need To Get Principals “On The Record And On Camera” - CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss addressed the furor over her decision to pull a planned 60 Minutes segment on the Trump administration’s deportation of...
naked capitalism

Near-Term Climate News and Other Tall Tales - A new climate sighting plus AI fakery.
San Antonio Current

As ICE ramps up deportations, Texas prosecutors say they’re losing key witnesses in criminal cases - [image: From left to right, District Attorneys José Garza of Travis County, Sean Teare of Harris County, and Sarah Stogner of Ward County, with ProPublica’...
The Week

Guess the Number: December 2025 - The daily number puzzle from The Week
Houston Public Media

Waco judge who refused to marry same-sex couples asks federal courts to overturn right to gay marriage - Judge Dianne Hensley, who has been fighting the state judicial oversight body since 2019, is hoping to tee up a new challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s O...
memeorandum

Trump admin pausing all off shore wind project construction due to national security concerns (Fox News) - Fox News: *Trump admin pausing all off shore wind project construction due to national security concerns* — The move was made after classified reports ...
SCOTUSblog

Off-ramp remains to birthright citizenship decision - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
Mediagazer

Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that "attack" its armed forces (Reuters) - Reuters: *Israel's cabinet votes to shut down popular national radio station Army Radio, saying it has become a platform for views that “attack” its arme...
Dissident Voice

The Proof is in the Pudding: A Few Comments on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics - Anyone interested in socialism in the twenty-first century must take into account what is happening in China seriously. It’s future economic supremacy wi...
First Draft

A Nation Of Ingrates - Donald Trump’s feelings are hurt because the country doesn't love him as much as he loves himself.
The Hill

25 years later, we’re still feeling the damage from Bush v. Gore - The five justices who stopped the Florida recount took a first step toward entrenching Republican control of the federal government.
Daily Dot

“I immediately knew”: Woman walks out of date in under 2 minutes after realizing what he was trying to do - [image: Woman sitting in her car looking into the camera, text overlay reads, "First date lasted less than 2 minutes."] A woman on TikTok is being applau...
The Verge

Samsung ‘Wide Fold’ rumored to rival Apple’s foldable next year - Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone is set to arrive next year, and already faces some preemptive competition from Samsung. Korea's ET News reports that S...
Democracy Now!

"Destroying Knowledge": Michael Mann on Trump's Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado - Climate scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm after White House budget director Russell Vought announced the Trump administration will break...
Scheerpost.com

Report: Netanyahu To Ask Trump To Support Another Attack on Iran - The Israeli PM is expected to make the case during a December 29 meeting at Mar-a-Lago.
Techdirt.

CEO David Zaslav Poised To Get $567 million (!) Payout For Screwing Up Warner Brothers - I’ve written a lot about the AOL–>AT&T–>Time Warner–>Discovery mergers simply because I think they perfectly encapsulate the pointless, destructive incompe...
Alternet

New study torpedoes Trump’s claims in Supreme Court lawsuit - President Donald Trump signed countless executive orders after returning to the White House, one of which declared an end to birthright citizenship. But ...
Rallblog

Nothing To See Here! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Texas Observer

Our Best Longform Stories of 2025 - In case you find yourself this holiday season with a little extra reading time, or maybe time to return to a story you left open in a tab some many month...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better - ‘If seven maids with seven mopsSwept it for half a year,Do you suppose,’ the Walrus said,‘That they could get it clear?’‘I doubt it,’ said the Carpenter,An...
Vox

Can you trust your brain? - Our brains have a way of playing tricks on us — like that ringing in our ears known as tinnitus. It’s a sound in your head, created to make up for hearing ...
Mother Jones

Climate Change Is Coming for Christmas - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As snowflakes fall lazily from...
Axios

Many Americans don't share Trump's rosy economic vision: poll - As the calendar year comes to a close, the Trump administration is projecting a dazzling economy in 2026 — but a recent round of polls shows Americans' e...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Okhtapus Cofounder Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy Accelerates Ocean Solutions - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. The ocean provides half... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Okhtapus Cofound...
CultureMap Houston

Over-the-top thriller The Housemaid revels in camp, chaos, and excess - Both Amanda Seyfried (the upcoming *The Testament of Ann Lee*) and Sydney Sweeney (*Christy*) are starring in movies with Oscar ambitions this year. By she...
Undernews

Treating our cultural differences as an asset rather than a problem - *Sam Smith –*I was one of six children and so learned early in life that other people weren’t like me. After all I had one sister who voted for Donald Tr...
Dorf on Law

Remedies Revisited in the Removal Case - My latest *Verdict *column assesses President Trump's proposal to use tariff revenue to fund $2,000 payments to Americans earning under $100,000. I chose...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Crackdown on the Left Has Decades of Precedent -
Skeptophilia

The advantage of simplicity - One of the most common misconceptions about evolution is that it is goal-oriented. You hear it all the time. Giraffes evolved longer necks so they could...
Off The Kuff

The full slate - In case you hadn’t heard. A Democrat is running in every state and federal race on the Texas ballot next year, the first time in modern state history that ...
San Antonio Report

Award-winning pastry chef Alessia Benavides sells confections, teaches baking at Chocolatl - Alessia Benavides is a rare chocolatier. She bakes and teaches at Chocolatl in Stone Oak and she's twice been named Pastry Chef of the Year. ---------------...
The Daily Poster

Regulatory Ruptures For A Lab-Grown Blood Vessel - Despite controversies and safety concerns, biotech firm Humacyte is pushing its cutting-edge lab-grown blood vessels for uses far beyond what regulators ha...
NPR's Health Shots

Some patients face hurdles getting HIV prevention drugs. Here's what to know - A daily preventive pill can be invaluable for people at risk for HIV. But some doctors don't know much about prescribing them. And billing headaches are co...
Grist

What changed for deep-sea mining in 2025? Everything. - Trump reshaped the industry this year, even as it faced opposition from the United Nations, scientists and Indigenous peoples.
The Root

Black America Reacts To Nicki Minaj’s Surprise Appearance With Erika Kirk - After weeks of being suspected of "turning MAGA," Nicki Minaj joining hands with Charlie Kirk's widow and praising Trump has Black folks outraged. Read ...
ArcaMax

It's Hard to Hide the Dysfunction of the Trump White House - Will someone please tell President Trump that he’s not running against Joe Biden anymore? That much should be obvious, even to casual observers, but, halfw...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 22 December 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] Almost entirely, in fact. If it weren'...
Countercurrents

PESA celebrations in Vizag- Resolve to enforce PESA 100% in mineral leases and projects, if the celebrations are to be credible - To Shri Vivek BhardwajUnion Secretary (Panchayat Raj) Shri Vibhu Nayar Union Secretary (Tribal Affairs) Dear S/Shri Bharadwaj and Nayar, I understand that ...
High Country News

Inside California’s wild Christmas tree harvest - [image: Crews work through a blizzard, loading trees into a dump truck on the slopes of Haight Mountain. The season is short, just two or three weeks a yea...
Crooked Media

Our Favorite Things, 2025 - The post Our Favorite Things, 2025 appeared first on Crooked Media.
Portside

Sunday Science: Trump Team Plans To Break Up ‘Global Mothership’ of Climate Science - Sunday Science: Trump Team Plans To Break Up ‘Global Mothership’ of Climate Science Ira Mon, 12/22/2025 - 03:08
Duck of Minerva

Remembering Our Lost Colleagues - I started this post sort of confessionally. It’s been a while since I wrote on the blog. I had started one earlier this year on the destruction of USAID an...
Avedon's Sideshow

Stop all the firing and the fighting - Look, it's manifestly obvious that bombing small boats making local transit in the Caribbean is unjustifiable and no one should have to explain it, but ...
Counterpunch

Why We Are on Hunger Strike in UK Jails - Amu Gib is one of eight prisoners incarcerated for alleged involvement in direct action against Israeli genocide currently on hunger strike in UK jails. ...
jobsanger

Trump Administration Thinks Rights Are Only For The Wealthy -
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: NSW premier, police justify violent arrests in Sydney following Bondi shootings - The police operation was clearly intended by the NSW Labor government and the police to create an atmosphere of fear and send a political message about the...
Informed Comment

“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30 - Since my advent here on that first day wasn't up to me, but my unwilling departure has been firmly decreed...
Popular Resistance

The Turtle Island Liberation Front Warning For Activists - The United States has a long history of using informants and entrapment as tools to discredit or to defeat leftist movements. There are other objectives ...
The Greanville Post

Trump Intensifies The Decades Long War On Venezuelan Socialism - ROGER BOYD—Ever since Chavez was elected in 1998, the United States and the corrupt comprador Venezuelan economic elites have waged a never-ending campaign...
Claytoonz

Limp Noodle Monument - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Antiwar.com

How Washington’s Syrian Caper Debunks the Case for Empire - Sometimes a microcosm sheds a powerful light on large-scale macro issues. That was surely the case with respect to last weekend’s news that five US militar...
See You In 2020

War on Iran & Venezuela is the U.S. banking regime’s attempt to manage an upheaval that’s beyond its scope - If the U.S. empire decides to pursue war with Venezuela or Iran, it will be risking a new level of resistance from the forces of popular revolution. Res...
Courthouse News

Netflix and Paramount are fighting over Warner Bros. Discovery. Here’s the regulatory outlook - Regardless of who wins, new ownership of Warner properties would drastically reshape the industry — impacting movie-making, streaming platforms and the bro...
OpEd News

Throw the Bums Out? - Real change in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) requires replacing entrenched incumbents, but challengers are scarce. Who will step up to de...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Push For “Peace” in Ukraine—A Nightmare For European Capitalism - Almost four years after the Ukraine war began, Western imperialism is in disarray. European governments, not least in Kyiv, are in panic, scrambling from o...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 21, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 21, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy The $79 Trillion Heist Harold Meyerson, December 03, 20...
Reform Austin

Trader Joe’s Set to Land in Bellaire After Years of Requests - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Bellaire residents will soon get a taste of the beloved grocer Trader Joe’s, the city announced...
WhoWhatWhy

A Second Look at Trump’s Latest National Security Strategy - [image: Donald Trump, National Security Strategy, 2025] The strategy seemingly ignores active threats to the US and instead seeks to redefine what it means...
Angry Bear

New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for December 15-19, 2025 - – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Update: All of the trends that we have been seeing for the past several month...
Glasstire

An Archive Without Faces: Karen Schiff’s “Borderlines” - The room pulls you into focus: seven tall rubbings of herringbone brick climb the back wall, their seams visible, faint pencil numerals marking the top e...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Suecia violó sus propias leyes al darle el Nobel de la Paz a María Corina Machado - Al premiar con su premio de la paz a la figura favorita de Trump de la oposición venezolana, la conspiradora golpista y proguerra María Corina Machado, e...
Brad Blog

'Tis the Sunday Before Christmas Toons - (Click to enlarge...) ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial c...
El Paso Matters

EPISD’s Douglass Elementary state rating turnaround highlights gains, gaps in school accountability - The school in the Chamizal neighborhood, which saw the closure of nearby campuses as district enrollment declines, improved its overall state accountabi...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
The AltWorld

Russia’s Long-Delayed Sudanese Naval Base Might Be Back On Track - The timing of this latest report was probably aimed at complicating the revived Russian-US talks on Ukraine […] The post Russia’s Long-Delayed Sudanese N...
Wolf Street

Oh Deary, Condo Prices Already Dropped by 12% to 30% in these 28 Bigger Markets - Across the US, after a mindboggling Condo Bubble, from Manhattan (-19%) to Oakland (-29%), from Cape Coral (-30%) to Seattle (-14%).
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Sets Case Management Conference in California Minor Party Lawsuit on Top-Two System - On December 19, U.S. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney set a case management conference in Peace & Freedom Party v Weber, n.d., 3:24cv-8308. It will be F...
Environment Texas

Success stories from four state parks leaders - Hear from state park representatives on how they’ve been able to fund, expand, and maintain their state parks. The post Success stories from four state p...
Liberation News

A ‘blue wave’ or a new system? How to make universal healthcare a reality - The U.S. has the resources, knowledge and skills to adopt universal health care right now. Socialism would redirect our resources towards people’s health, ...
Consortium News

Support CN’s Middle East Coverage - Seven-year old Consortium News in 2002 was one of the first outlets to reject the politicized intelligence for the disasters Iraq invasion and has run circ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for December 15 - 19 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. All of the trends that we have been seeing for the past several months ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: It's a disease, top newspaper says! - *SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2025* *Ever so slowly they turn:* Peter Baker, he of the New York Times, is an *extremely *clear-minded journalist. For that re...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Workers World

12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia - [image: 12 days vs. 44 years: The 103-mile march to free Mumia] Philadelphia A rally in Philadelphia on Nov. 28 kicked off the 103-mile March for Mumia to ...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico cannabis industry cheers Trump’s rescheduling order - [image: President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order directing federal agencies to speed up the process of reclassifying marijuana as a drug...
Democracy Chronicles

An Interview With the Illinois Green Party’s Eyde Arndell - Right now, the most concerning issue in our country and Illinois is masked, armed ICE agents terrorizing our communities completely disregarding the rule o...
Capital & Main

‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change Accelerates California’s Cost-of-Living Crisis - In ways subtle and extreme, the warming climate is hitting those with the least the hardest. The post ‘The Poor Are in a Very Bad State’: Climate Change ...
The Conversation

As DOJ begins to release Epstein files, his many victims deserve more attention than the powerful men in his ‘client list’ - Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a blurred...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
Church and State

Why is Africa’s extreme population growth ignored, despite very serious consequences? And how will Europe respond? - How will EU countries act in the face of Africa’s extreme population growth and increasing migration?
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
Second Nexus

Woman Freaks Out After Getting Stuck In Entry Pod At Her 24-Hour Gym—And It's Pure Nightmare Fuel - This may not be the most innovative thought, but sometimes it's true that if it's not broken, you don't need to fix it. That wasn't how the 24-hour gym ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Boutros Boutros Carpathia - Even good writers would not have been able to escape the trap that Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye set for themselves here in "Left Behind."
Texas Standard

Longhorn Ballroom celebrates 75 years of music history with big plans for the future - The Dallas venue, now on the National Register of Historic Places, has hosted a diverse array of acts – from Bob Wills and Nat King Cole to the Sex Pistols...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Announces State Leadership Changes - The Libertarian Party of Michigan has shifted its state leadership following the resignation of Justin Miramonti as chair, with former Vice Chair Tim Tea...
Common Dreams

Trump Ends Year on Voters’ Naughty List As Rising Unemployment and Snowballing Prices Crush Holiday Spirit - As 2025 comes to a close, Americans are taking stock of an economy that looks nothing like what Donald Trump promised. Instead of lower prices and stable...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where the Bodies are Buried: The Hidden DNC Autopsy - The DNC is choosing to hide what went wrong in 2024 and, in turn, is making future failure much, much likelier
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: XENOPHOBOMANIA EDITION. - *My new music cicerone Gabbie hooked me up.* Another rocky week, America! Lots to be bummed about, like Judge Dugan being found guilty for protecting a ...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Rewire

FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnancy. But Doctors Call Them a Lifeline. - “Treating mental illness in pregnancy is not a luxury,” said one doctor. “It’s a necessity.” The post FDA Panelists Questioned Antidepressants in Pregnan...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025 - Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Wo...
Space City Weather

After today Jack Frost is gonna get lost - In brief: It is chilly across Houston this morning, with some outlying areas falling all the way into the upper 30s. Most of us are in the lower 40s. This ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Insane claim about children's penises highlights Trump Administration effort to ban healthcare for trans kids - Trump official Mehmet Oz voices a wild and absolutely ridiculous claim about creating children's penises as a part of the administration's effort to ban g...
Progressive.org

Are We Celebrating America’s 250? - Celebrating our country under the Trump Administration feels tough, but doing so is an important act of resistance.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
DeSmogBlog

Amazon Sponsors AI Energy Summit Featuring Climate Deniers - Tech giant Amazon, which has for years portrayed itself as a global corporate climate leader, sponsored an AI energy summit featuring prominent climate d...
The Texas Signal

An Economic Reality Check In Texas - The president claimed that Texans will begin feeling the impacts of his economic policies next year, a cold comfort for the millions experiencing the pinch...
NORML

President Trump Takes Executive Action to Federally Reschedule Marijuana - [image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf background][image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf backgr...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Land Destroyer

Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design - *December 15, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Major hostilities erupted once again early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand a...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
TalkLeft

Trump's Speech - Live-Blogging of Donald Trump's Economic Speech: Tales from the Crypt Donald inherited a mess and he's fixing it. He blames life being unaffordable due to...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
Discourse

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time - Weiss guys finish last
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Dissent Magazine

The Child-Care Challenge - To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
The Progressive Wing

12/15-12/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Warming trend happening, but floods to follow in parts of the Northwest. It will be a temporary reprieve, but welcomed. Meantime, news below the jump and y...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Reveal

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

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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 ...
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...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
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.
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 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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