Brains and Eggs: Sunday "What? Where?" 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

memeorandum

U.S. and China Conclude Talks With 'Framework' on TikTok Sale (New York Times) - New York Times: *U.S. and China Conclude Talks With ‘Framework’ on TikTok Sale* — Top economic officials met in Madrid for a second day, with deadlines...
The Verge

How brands and creators are fighting for your attention — and your money - Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Hank Green, the cofounder of Complexly, where we make SciShow, Crash Course, and a bunch of other educational YouTub...
Political Wire

Shawn Fain Faces Internal Dissent at UAW - “Two years ago, Shawn Fain led the United Automobile Workers union through simultaneous strikes at three large carmakers, a strategy that helped produce bi...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US and China reach deal to transfer TikTok ownership, trade official says - Framework agreement is a breakthrough in long-running dispute over TikTok’s ownership amid security concerns in Washington - Business live – l...
Mediaite

FBI’s Dan Bongino Won’t Rule Out Wider Conspiracy in Charlie Kirk Assassination: ‘We’re Looking Into Everything’ - FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino is refusing to rule out the possibility that there was a wider conspiracy to assassinate Charlie Kirk. The post FBI’s Dan...
Courthouse News

Raytheon recall - NEW HAVEN, Ct. — A federal court in Connecticut dismissed a class action brought by pension funds and investors who accuse Raytheon of failing to disclose ...
Election Law Blog

Essays on Measures to Overcome Social Polarization, from NYU’s Democracy Project - In our first week, we published three additional essays with views on several ways to address the toxic political culture of our era, in addition to Rand...
Al Jazeera English

Gaza City evacuation order leaves families in “desperate conditions” - “She went into labour and gave birth on the side of the road while trying to find help.”
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 222: “Hochul Finally Endorses Mamdani” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: So late that it no longer matters or helps, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul tries to heel the rift between progres...
Futurism

When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolutely Nowhere - We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robot...
Axios

Trump suggests TikTok deal, will talk to China's Xi on Friday - President Trump on Monday suggested U.S. and Chinese negotiators had reached a deal on a sale of TikTok, and said he would talk to Chinese leader Xi Jinp...
Salon.com

War or peace? GOP divided on the path forward after Kirk’s killing - Even a traumatic assassination can't stop the right's infighting
Rewire

RFK Linking Tylenol To Autism Could Harm Pregnant People’s Health, Doctors Warn - Acetaminophen is one of the few drugs that pregnant people can safely use to relieve pain or fever—conditions that, if left untreated, can increase the r...
El Paso Matters

UTEP, EPCC and Texas Tech Health weigh impact of HSI grant cuts - Federal funding cuts to Minority-Serving Institutions leave UTEP, EPCC and Texas Tech Health El Paso unsure of program futures, raising concerns about r...
Eschaton

Violence - We have learned, once again, that to upper echelon mainstream media, being mean on the internet to people like them is violence, while massive nationwide s...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court, tariffs, and judicial consistency - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Raw Story

'Trashy behavior!' Fox & Friends throws tantrum over Emmys speech - "Fox & Friends" co-host Lawrence Jones lashed out at actress Hannah Einbinder on Monday for her remarks during her Emmy acceptance speech the night befor...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: What Are Little Girls Made Of? - Political cartoonists have been having a field day with the message Donald Trump allegedly submitted as part of a birthday book assembled for Jeffrey Epste...
Undernews

COVID shots - *NPR - *Here’s what you should know about trying to get a COVID shot right now: 💉 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a broad list of ...
ArcaMax

Clarence Page: Is another era of political violence upon us? - In his life's work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or le...
The Conversation

Transgender policies struggle to balance fairness with inclusion in women’s college sports - Redefining sports eligibility around gender identity risks erasing the protections that have helped women’s college sports flourish, a scholar argues.
The Hill

Shapiro knocks 'rhetoric of rage' after Trump 'scum' remark - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) late Sunday criticized President Trump's use of the word "scum" in his latest remarks criticizing left-wing groups and p...
First Draft

Shut It Down - It's time for Congressional Democrats to stand firm against the MAGA march of folly.
Techdirt.

Trump GOP Redirected Essential Cybersecurity Funding To Give Rich Assholes More Tax Cuts - Long before the great TikTok moral panic of 2021 to 2024, you might recall that numerous members of Congress spent a solid decade freaking about another Ch...
Common Dreams

Movements Worldwide Draw the Line Against Genocide, Injustice, Fossil Fuels, and Call for Rights, Jobs, and Justice - Draw the Line is a global action (15-21 September) with widespread events taking place across the world peaking over the weekend of September 19–21, 2025...
Mediagazer

WaPo columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired last week over her social media posts "against hatred and violence" in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination (Karen Attiah/The Golden Hour) - Karen Attiah / The Golden Hour: *WaPo columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired last week over her social media posts “against hatred and violence” in th...
Space City Weather

Sorry y’all, we have another week of monotonous, late summer weather (but it’s not that bad) - In brief: Houston’s sunny and warm, but not super hot weather will continue this week. As we get closer to the weekend we may see some slightly better rain...
Vox

Why 2025 has been a banner year for horror movies - Spooky season isn’t here quite yet, but you’d never know looking at the box office. The Conjuring: Last Rites, the latest installment about a (problematic)...
Mother Jones

Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet in the Process? - This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with the Chicago public radio station WBEZ. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk c...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: SePRO’s Mark Heilman On Phosphorus, Waterways, And Invasive Species - Listen now and read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: SePRO’s Mar...
WhoWhatWhy

Main Takeaway From Kirk Killing: Maybe It’s the Social Media Manipulation - [image: Memorial, Charlie Kirk, Orem, UT] Moments of national hysteria like the present require some sense of how we got here. Main Takeaway From Kirk Kil...
Dorf on Law

Play in the Joints - Earlier this year, I was honored to deliver the Dyson Distinguished Lecture at Pace University. My invitation arrived before the second Trump administrat...
Daily Dot

“Stinky girl summer”: What’s up with all the sardine decor this year? - [image: sardine home decor] The nautical theme of 2025 has laser-focused on an unexpected fishy theme that has TikTokers confused about all the sardines....
The Week

England’s ‘dysfunctional’ children’s care system - A new report reveals that protection of youngsters in care in England is failing in a profit-chasing sector
naked capitalism

Links 9/15/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

America Is in Danger of Becoming Numb to Violence -
Skeptophilia

Nerds FTW - There's a stereotype that science nerds, and especially science fiction nerds, are hopeless in the romance department. I'd sort of accepted this without qu...
Crooked Media

How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality - The post How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

A pair of CD18 polls - I am just passing these along out of curiosity. Special election polling is very tricky since you just don’t know what the electorate will look like. These...
Scheerpost.com

Miller Says He and Trump Will Use Law Enforcement to ‘Dismantle’ the Left After Kirk Shooting - “Trump explicitly threatened to use the state to target anyone he and MAGA scapegoat for Kirk’s murder,” said New Republic writer Greg Sargeant.
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Slate

Help! Years Ago, I Got Total Revenge on My Husband. It’s Finally Time to Come Clean. - I can't keep hiding this.
San Antonio Report

As state hospital waitlists grow, Bexar County Jail fills the gap in mental health treatment - On any given day in the Bexar County Jail, over 100 inmates aren’t waiting for a lawyer or a court date. They’re waiting for a hospital bed. ---------------...
ProPublica

We Investigated How Oil Companies Take Millions From Mineral Owners. Now, Some Lawmakers Push for Change. - by Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. ...
NPR's Health Shots

Millions of Americans expected to lose health coverage over the next decade - In the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, 1 in 3 people already lack health insurance. That's expected to get worse as President Trump's spending cuts take ...
American Prospect

What Would a No Kings Budget Look Like? - Democrats are publicly conditioning a budget agreement on health care changes. But they also have powerful options to arrest the slide to authoritarianism.
Progressive Army

Argentina avanza hacia un sistema portuario más competitivo y conectado con cooperación de Bélgica - El Consejo Federal de Inversiones (CFI) organizó el Encuentro Federal de Puertos, una jornada que reunió a representantes de los 34 puertos de las 11 provi...
Consortium News

Trump Trashes the US Constitution - The president of the United States is not taking the U.S. Constitution seriously, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, as due process is the foundation of Am...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 15 September 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Dog vs home intruder. The right-wing activist-fr...
Grist

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections - Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
Crooked Timber

The Peter Principle, and the unintended consequences of financial work motivation - You’ve probably heard of the “Peter principle”: that employees get promoted until they reach a job they are no longer good at. And in political philosophy,...
High Country News

Invasive fruit fly hits the Yakama Nation’s huckleberry fields - Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College were the first to document the presence of the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nati...
The Daily Poster

How The Boomer Generation Failed Us - Robert Reich explains how his generation’s political flaws fueled Trump’s rise and the demise of the Democrats.
Counterpunch

The Doha Assassination Plot, Emergency Summit, and Trump’s Double-Cross - Last week’s failed assassination attempt of the Palestinian negotiating team in Doha, Qatar, raises critical questions that extend far beyond the attack ...
World Socialist Web Site

Pseudo-left “day of action” covers for Australian unions’ complicity in Gaza genocide - The event was not national, there was no action and the unions were largely absent.
jobsanger

Vaccines Don't Just Save Lives - They Also Save Money -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1440: Steam Engines in England - Episode: 1440 Steam engines in England during the 18th century. Today, a look at steam engines in 18th-century England.
Informed Comment

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Bourbon Talk Political Q&A: September 14, 2025 - The first Bourbon Talk Political Q&A since November 2024.
Deadline Politics

Emmys 2025 Politics: Congress Gets Booed For Voting To Defund Public Broadcasting - There were many cheers and a few standing ovations at the Emmys, but also a loud chorus of boos. Those jeers were directed at Congress for voting to defund...
Popular Resistance

Super Predators, Born Criminals, And The Black Misleadership Class - There is nothing more bipartisan in the United States than a racialized crime panic. Neither Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump makes a direct ...
OpEd News

Donald Trump Takes Action to Make America Pray Again - Donald Trump and his team of Christian theocrats in the White House have launched the America Prays Initiative. This program blatantly attacks separation o...
The Texas Signal

Checking In With Houston’s Viral Anti-Trump Sign Guy - The viral social media star known as "FunSignGuy" on TikTok has thousands of followers thanks to the signs he protests with in Northwest Houston
Antiwar.com

Albert Einstein, Palestine, and Israel Today - Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and influential scientists of all time. His theories and equations regarding time, energy, space, and gravity are...
The Greanville Post

Seinfeld Says Palestine Supporters WORSE Than The KKK / Students walk out - DD—The video transcript centers on the controversy surrounding comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s participation in various pro-Zionist activities and events, partic...
The Root

Quinta Brunson, Colman Domingo and More Snubs at the Emmys 2025 - While many actors walked away with the coveted gold statuette, most of the Black creatives weren't so lucky! Let's get into it. Read more...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

delete - Grassroots Dissent! Tell the Supreme Court Racial Profiling is Unconstitutional. *“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 14, 2025 - by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy Process knowledge is crucial to economic development Henry Farrell, Sep 02, 2025 [Programmable Mutter, via Th...
Alternet

'So much uncertainty': Experts sound new alarm over Trump's 'shambolic' economy - In an article for *The Bulwark *published Sunday, journalist Jonathan Cohn argued that President Donald Trump’s recent decisions, including halting work ...
The AltWorld

Putin’s Missile Response SHOCKS Trump, NATO & Ukraine Crumble - Trump has crossed Putin’s red line and it’s Ukraine that will pay the ultimate price says geopolitical […] The post Putin’s Missile Response SHOCKS Trump...
Dissident Voice

Undeniable Proof: How 1945 Taiwan Surrender Ceremony Smashes “Independence” Myths - This year marks the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and #WWII. Eighty years ago, Japan’...
Ballot Access News

No Labels Party of Arizona May Change its Name to Arizona Independent Party - The No Labels Party of Arizona, which is ballot-qualified, is asking its members whether the party should change its name. Voting is still underway, but th...
Reform Austin

Lawmakers Fail to Ban THC for the Third Time - On September 3rd, Texas lawmakers wrapped the second special session and beyond the legislation they had to discuss, the Senate’s proposal to ban nearly ...
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Claytoonz

Let’s Go To Nader’s - 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...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'False Narrative' Toons - ...HELPFUL REMINDER... IN OTHER NEWS...DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always re...
Glasstire

Interview: Michael Slenske, Director of Inaugural Untitled Art Houston, Speaks About Houston as an Art Capital - This is the second new Texas art fair that has popped up this year. I covered Friends Fair in Austin this summer, and now I’m excited about Untitled Art’...
Angry Bear

When the Enhanced Subsidies Die How Much Will You Pay Then? - Take note of the charts and numbers for a half a dozen states detailing the damage to healthcare by Republicans taking no action on ACA subsidies. It wil...
See You In 2020

The USA’s terror campaign against its own people, & the anarcho-Nazi ideology that it’s using for this - The U.S. ruling class is working to normalize the kinds of violent chaos that we’ve recently been seeing, and Ukraine’s fascist movement provides the mo...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
CultureMap Houston

10 Houston billionaires rank among America's richest and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with the richest Houstonians of them all. Plus, a local billionaire i...
Daily Howler

THERE "THEY" GO AGAIN: We're all in this flailing nation together! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025* *Jesse Watters returns:* Yesterday, at 5 p.m., Jesse Watters was back on *The Five.* In the broadest sense, he made the sa...
San Antonio Current

Texas A&M professor fired after viral video disputes termination - [image: The Academic Building at Texas A&M University in College Station is seen on Sept. 9, 2025.] An attorney for Melissa McCoul, seen in a video clashi...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 8 - 12 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. While job growth has almost completely stalled, and inflation shows sig...
Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City - [image: Zohran Mamdani seen on stage at a campaign event. (Photo: Zohran Mamdani campaign)]In taking a stance against Israels' genocide in Gaza and its Zio...
Bracing Views

The End Game for Gaza - Using Old Tools of War BILL ASTORE SEP 12, 2025 I’ve taught military history “from Plato to Nato,” as we used to joke, but my expertise focused on technolo...
Wolf Street

Money-Market Funds & CDs: Americans Grow their Huge Piles of Interest-Earning Cash Further despite Lower Yields - Household money-market funds surged, large CDs also surged. But small CDs are the hot money; they flee when yields drop.
TalkLeft

Bad Bunny and Open Thread - Bad Bunny, who is finishing up a two month residency in Puerto Rico where he sold out 30 shows, is about to embark on a world tour of Latin America, Eur...
The NM Political Report

Poll shows Haaland with a commanding lead in Dem race for gov - This column is a part of New Mexico Political Report‘s analysis and commentary series. New Mexico’s 32nd governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, still has anot...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk assassination proves how spiritually rotten Nancy Mace's soul is - Usually when I wrote a post about the exploits of someone who wants to eliminate our equality, some of y'all say "we're not surprised " when you read it. H...
Workers World

Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar - [image: Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar] The Islamic Resistance Movement–Hamas issued the following statement in response to Israel’s bombing ...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
Progressive.org

How State and Local Republicans Are Disenfranchising Voters to Stay in Power - In Miami and Texas, Republicans have recently fought to undermine the will of voters by disregarding term limits and redistricting procedures.
Church and State

Trump now pulls a TACO on Chicago! - This use of the crime issue to propel his authoritarian agenda certainly equates with all of his other standard approaches.
Texas Standard

Rising costs of insurance and utilities eating into property tax relief efforts - The U.S. Census Bureau offered a sobering report that follows efforts from Texas lawmakers to bring down the property tax burden.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy - Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
The Grayzone

Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals - A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence prov...
Second Nexus

Bride In Tears After NYC Firefighters Surprise Her At Her Wedding To Honor Her Dad Who Died On 9/11 - On September 11, 2001, 343 firefighters were lost while responding to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City. Among them was New York ...
Independent Political Report

Vermont Progressive Party Holding Statewide Reorganization Meetings Throughout September - The Vermont Progressive Party is conducting a series of caucuses across the state this month as part of its 2025 reorganization process. According to a c...
NORML

California: Lawmakers Advance Legislation to Governor’s Desk Halting Tax Hike on Commercially Available Cannabis Products - [image: marijuana money][image: marijuana money]"California NORML is proud to have taken a leadership role sponsoring this bill. Cannabis is already heav...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Capital & Main

ICE Raids Take Toll on Latino Mental Health: ‘It’s Been Nonstop’ - Therapists describe greater stress, anxiety, anger and fear among Latino patients in Los Angeles since immigration raids intensified in June. The post I...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
MintPress News

Trump’s Phony “Cartel” Plot to Invade Venezuela - Washington slapped a $50 million bounty on Maduro and sent warships to Caracas, but experts say the so-called Cartel of the Suns is a U.S. invention to j...
Democracy Now!

Nepal's "Gen Z Protests" Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality - Following massive, youth-led anti-corruption demonstrations in Nepal, the country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime mi...
Texas Observer

‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border - On a late-April weekend, I went down to Eagle Pass to look at Operation Lone Star (OLS), Governor Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar piece of political th...
Portside

The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting - The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting jay Thu, 09/11/2025 - 22:10
Sludge

Blue Dog Democrats Vote for Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget - The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of self-described fiscal conservatives led by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), largely voted for the GOP-crafted bill p...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
slacktivist

What I learned from the murder of Jo Cox - In 2016, I briefly imagined that I understood how explicit fascism and political violence would affect public opinion. Then I quickly came to understand th...
Discourse

You Really Don't Have to Give It Up to Charlie Kirk - Sanitizing his legacy helps nothing except the fascist project he promoted.
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Krebs on Security

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions - In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materializ...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Project Censored

The Great Nonprofit Purge - Through funding freezes, regulatory threats, and legal manipulation, the Trump administration is pressuring nonprofit organizations to fall in line—or fa...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Idavox

Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it Sounded it Would Be - A Nazi rally by any other name stinks all the same. Andy Fleming On Sunday,... The post Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it S...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
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...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
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.
Liberation News

La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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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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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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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Sunday, March 05, 2017

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