Brains and Eggs: Firecracker Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Iran Begins Lifting Monthslong Internet Blackout, Officials Say (New York Times) - New York Times: *Iran Begins Lifting Monthslong Internet Blackout, Officials Say* — Organizations that track online traffic confirmed an uptick in acti...
Texas Standard

Study finds voting can help you live longer - Voting is typically associated with politics and civil engagement, but a new study finds evidence that voting helps older people live longer.
Common Dreams

Vermont becomes first state in the nation to ban Parkinson’s pesticide paraquat - The Environmental Working Group praised Vermont for today becoming the first state in the nation to ban the use and sale of paraquat, one of the most tox...
Houston Public Media

Heavy rain possible for Houston area Tuesday night into Wednesday, weather service says - Rain could continue into the latter half of the week, with the National Weather Service forecasting a 50% chance of showers on Thursday and a 20% chance of...
CultureMap Houston

Salvation Army auxiliary raises $1.2 million in blooming style - Houston’s most fashionable treasure hunt returned with enough floral flair to make even a Valentino rose print feel inadequate. *The Salvation Army Women’s...
Mediagazer

Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (Axios) - Axios: *Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected t...
The Hill

Carney: Alberta independence vote 'dangerous bluff' - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took a swing at an upcoming vote on Alberta’s independence, calling it a “dangerous bluff.” “In these separation issues...
Ian Welsh

Don’t Believe Weekend “Peace Deal” Leaks - So, this weekend there was a leak of a possible peace deal. Iran got most of what it wanted in this hypothetical deal. Israel said “we won’t obey any truce...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Vermont becomes first US state to ban paraquat herbicide over Parkinson’s fears - Lawmakers cite studies linking weedkiller to Parkinson’s as pressure mounts for a wider US ban Vermont is the first US state to ban the weedkilling pesti...
Al Jazeera English

US picks potential partners for using Cold War-era plutonium as fuel - Trump gov't plans to make about 20 tonnes of plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads available to US power firms.
Political Wire

Why Silicon Valley’s Big Bet on Matt Mahan Went Bust - “Silicon Valley’s effort to place Matt Mahan in the governor’s mansion is stalling out amid recriminations, donor frustration and second-guessing,” Politic...
Election Law Blog

Court Orders Quincy to Count Disqualified Signatures on Initiative Petition - A nice win for local democracy, and a nice reminder of the work that can be done in state courts under state statutes and constitutions. After Quincy’s C...
IVN

No Ballot in the Mail? California Voters Still Have Options Before June 2 - With the June 2 primary days away, voters who never received a ballot — or lost, damaged, or made a mistake on one — are not out of options.
Raw Story

Republican governor squirms when pressed about impact of Trump's policies on his state - Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo avoided answering a direct question about President Donald Trump's tariff policies and their impact on the tourism-re...
Futurism

Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System - He says it may be seeding life like an "interstellar gardener." The post Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our...
Axios

The House Democratic campaign arm's unusual new target: Democratic candidates - The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is employing an unusual tactic to blunt what they say is Republican meddling in their primaries: ...
Scheerpost.com

It’s The Genocide, Stupid - The DNC finally released its long-awaited autopsy of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign, and it doesn’t mention Gaza. The Democratic leadership’s...
Slate

Three Judges Just Dared SCOTUS to Say What It Really Thinks About Black Voting Rights - A federal court in Alabama on Tuesday ruled, yet again, that the state had illegally discriminated against Black voters.
Dorf on Law

The Right Chooses to Stop Being Coy About Its Bigotry - We all agree that racism is bad, right? Right? At least as of this moment, opposing racism still appears to be the public position even of some -- but ...
Novara Media

US Resumes Illegal War on Iran - As the US & Israel recommence their unsanctioned strikes against Iran and Lebanon respectively, we ask: why now? Plus: With local by-elections going plumbe...
Sludge

The Consultants Cashing In on Pro-Israel Campaign Spending - A bipartisan network of political consultants—from Reagan White House alumni to Obama and Biden operatives—is raking in millions as pro-Israel groups pour ...
Mother Jones

Why Billionaires Pay Much Less Tax Than the Average American - This story was originally published on Gabriel Zucman’s substack, to which you can subscribe here (for English) or here (for French). Last week, Jeff Bezos...
Undernews

Tourism plummets - *Irish Star - *In 2025, the U.S. saw approximately 4 million fewer international visitors compared to the previous year, marking a 5.5 percent drop in o...
San Antonio Current

City of San Antonio hosting Spurs watch party Tuesday at the Espee - The City of San Antonio is inviting fans to cheer on the Spurs at the Espee in St. Paul Square, 1174 E. Commerce St., for the team’s critical Game 5 aga...
The Week

How Target used style and value to start growing again - Can the turnaround last?
The Verge

Google Health is here, but a lot of people want their Fitbit app back instead - The Fitbit app is no more. Along with the launch of the new Fitbit Air (which you can expect a full review of once we've spent more time with it), Google h...
Vox

Trump still thinks he’s winning in Iran - There’s an old line, sometimes attributed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that the best way to solve a difficult problem is to make it bigger. That migh...
Progressive.org

A Sordid History of Stolen Korean Children - Paige Towers’s new book ‘What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption’ takes a searing look at international adoption.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Cuba Temptation - After a failed Middle East campaign, Washington could face immense political pressure to demonstrate restored American strength through a nearby and seemin...
SCOTUSblog

Court sides with Trump administration in dispute over immigration judges, declines to hear Florida suit against other states over immigrant driver’s licenses - The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court that had revived a dispute over a policy governing speaking engagements...
World Socialist Web Site

Vote No and reject blackmail by CWU’s Martin Walsh to enforce pro-company agreement with Kretinsky - Colleagues have seen through Walsh’s “heavy and light” alternative to the Optimised Delivery Model (“DM26”). It accepts three delivery workers doing the wo...
The Daily Poster

Master Plan Bonus: The Reagan Order That Shifted Power to the White House - How a little-known executive order helped weaken Congress’s control over federal policy.
Techdirt.

Super Meth Isn’t The Hero We Want, But It’s The Hero We Deserve - Our war on drugs began with a simple man with a simple plan. That plan was this: give the government more powers at the expense of civil rights, all under ...
Earthworks

Investors Call for Report on General Motor’s Commitment to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights - At General Motors’ annual shareholder meeting on June 2, 2026, shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on whether the … The post Investors Call f...
Idavox

Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-Wing’ as Terrorists, Akin to ISIL and Al Qaeda - Trump’s real enemy is not foreign. It’s you. Phil Mandelbaum, Unicorn Riot Contributor The White... The post Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-W...
Capital & Main

Conditions at California ICE Detention Centers Are Getting Worse, Inspections Find - A state Department of Justice inspection of seven California facilities found overcrowding, poor medical care, inadequate food and excessive force from g...
The Root

Florida Dems Want Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Stay Out of the Race for Black-Led District - Black leaders in Florida are raising eyebrows after one longtime, white Democrat announced plans to run in a majority-Black district. Read more...
The Greanville Post

GALLOWAY MONOLOGUE: Trump’s peace karaoke - GW—The war in the Persian Gulf is portrayed as over, marking a considerable victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Claims include: Cessation of all host...
Ballot Access News

U.S. District Court Enjoins the New Alabama U.S. House Districts - On May 26, a three-judge U.S. District Court panel enjoined use of the Alabama redistricting plan that the legislature passed earlier this month. Singleton...
Independent Political Report

Independent Rick Bennett Qualifies for November Election for Maine Governor - *This article was originally published by Maine Morning Star on May 20, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed ar...
ArcaMax

Thief-in-Chief, in Brief: Trump Keeps His Cash Register Ringing - Established shortly after the Civil War, Memorial Day is a solemn day of remembrance for Americans to honor those who have sacrificed their lives defending...
Salon.com

How Greg Evigan became “possessed” by The Beatles - The “My Two Dads” star reflects on Beatlemania, songwriting and recording at Abbey Road Studios
Bonddad

Repeat home sales continue to show disinflation; shelter CPI likely to continue to be a non-factor - - *by New Deal democrat* For the last number of months, I have been putting front and center that housing prices have ceased being an engine of infl...
Glasstire

Building People Through Art: Three Decades of Creative Kids in El Paso - This article is part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire’s 25th anniversary. To see other stories from this series, go here. To see pieces from t...
Daily Howler

THE REMAINS: Did the city council get it right? - *TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2026* *Warring subgroups remain: *Friend, please tell us the truth: Did the city council of Cambridge, Mass. get it right last week?...
First Draft

Campaign Finance Sanity Lands An Hawaiian Punch - The latest strategy against corporate influence has gotten up on its board with a new law in the 50th state.
Mondoweiss

‘Life itself no longer feels the same’: Gaza faces another Eid al-Adha amid genocide - [image: Palestinian children watch sheep inside a livestock pen in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 25, 2026, ahead of Eid al-Adha....
Democracy Now!

"He Was in Agony": Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt - Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup inje...
Infidel753

Videos of the day -- Ruth Aisling - On my post about travel last week, a couple of people expressed an interest in Scotland. As it happens, one of the YouTubers I most frequently watch is Ru...
The Conversation

From the San Luis Valley to Vail, Latino labor powers every sector of Colorado’s economy - Latinos were the first Coloradans, and yet they are portrayed by the administration as intruders in an era of immigration enforcement.
The Progressive Wing

5/26 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments. More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, etc. in the comments.
El Paso Matters

El Paso election results: Follow live primary runoff results with El Paso Matters - Check back with El Paso Matters starting at 7 p.m. for live results as we follow the GOP congressional runoff for District 16 and the Democratic runoff ...
Space City Weather

Widespread rains return mid-week, some of which may be heavy - In brief: Follow a splendid Memorial Day in Houston, we are going to see the brief return of potentially heavy rainfall on Wednesday. Note that these storm...
Rallblog

War in Pieces | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
slacktivist

Why don’t you come to your senses? - A Texas courthouse has put up a monument to the Eagles. Go Birds.
Earth 911

What Pet Waste Costs: The Litter, Bags, and Packaging Filling America’s Landfills - Every year, Americans bury an estimated two million tons or more of used clay cat... The post What Pet Waste Costs: The Litter, Bags, and Packaging Filli...
ProPublica

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. - The post She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. appeared first on ProPu...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Meanwhile, Back on the Battlefield - He’s only a bird in a gilded cage, Rowe says, but it’s a cage of his own devise, and while, as the dove of peace says, we’ve heard it all before, the telli...
Off The Kuff

Today is Runoff Day for the 2026 primaries - I’m basically going to rerun my post from the start of early voting, because it’s the same information with the main difference being that there are more v...
San Antonio Report

It’s election day in Texas. Here’s how to vote in the Republican and Democratic primary runoffs. - In races where no one took at least 50% of the vote, the top two must face off in the primary runoff. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today. ---------------...
NPR's Health Shots

Therapists are using AI to take notes. Is it a useful tool or a breach of trust? - New companies are selling artificial intelligence assistance to mental health therapists. The AI tools can help with administration and recordkeeping, but ...
Grist

‘I need Chevron’: The oil company at the center of the California governor’s race - California is trying to phase out fossil fuels, but it still needs gas. That makes for messy politics.
High Country News

The Death Valley opera house that’s sinking back into the earth - [image: The Amargosa Opera House photographed in Death Valley Junction, California, in 2015.] The people trying to save a singular arts landmark face scar...
Countercurrents

Heat, Debt, Migration: The Real Drivers of India’s Farm Crisis - India’s farm crisis is fundamentally about climate change. Extreme weather, not just pricing or policy failures, now reshapes agriculture more rapidly than...
Portside

Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again - Congress Must Investigate War Profiteers Once Again Mark Brody Tue, 05/26/2026 - 02:06
Counterpunch

The Long History of Controlling Water and Why It No Longer Works - The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphere—capturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting,...
Informed Comment

That Time Iran Proposed a Dialogue of Civilizations instead of War - When viewed through these criteria, the ongoing campaign for war with Iran collapses under its own moral weight.
Consortium News

WATCH: McGovern, Ritter Play Putin & Gerasimov - Reacting to the Ukrainian slaughter of 21 students asleep in their Donbass dormitory, Ray McGovern as Vladimir Putin and Scott Ritter as Valery Gerasimov ...
Popular Resistance

At Santa Marta Conference, Challenges To Climate Justice Continue - At the end of April, Colombia and the Netherlands co-hosted a climate conference in Santa Marta that brought nearly 60 nations together to strategize on ...
Mediaite

U.S. Bombs Iran Hours After Negotiators Arrive for Peace Talks - The U.S. bombed Iranian targets on Monday, including missile launch sites and boats trying to lay mines, U.S. Central Command said. The post U.S. Bombs I...
Antiwar.com

When Our Word Is No Longer Good - The pattern of media reports – based on White House leaks – that an agreement with Iran is almost completed has become predictable. Where once the markets ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Biologist and retired police officer win huge monetary settlements for ugly aftermath of Charlie Kirk comments - Charlie Kirk When conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last year, his followers and supporters promised to ruin the lives of those they ...
Claytoonz

White House Dementia - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
See You In 2020

The Zionist right & the “progressive” Dems will unite around brutally repressing America’s people - Amid the release of the Trump White House’s fascistic “counterterrorism” strategy, the Democrats are signaling that they’ll assist in this crackdown pla...
TalkLeft

Memorial Day Open Thread - With gratitude to those who served and died, to our veterans still with us, and to those currently enlisted who are protecting our nation and allies and ...
WhoWhatWhy

Iran Deal Will Be Tough Sell Even for a Seasoned Conman - [image: Donald Trump, media, James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, White House] Americans will be rightfully skeptical of any deal the US reaches with Iran ...
Angry Bear

Memorial Day History and Pres. Trump’s Plans - Kind of a quiet day here in AZ. I am sure there are some parades and festivities going on around Phoenix. I will not be in attendance. It is one of those...
Deadline Politics

California and L.A. Candidates To Participate In Jamie’s List Forum With One Week To Primary - With one week until the primary election, producer and podcaster Jamie Patricof and political strategist Mathew Littman plan to host what may be a final ca...
The Grayzone

Delcy’s ‘gatekeeper’: sources say ex-Trump official Claver-Carone holds keys to Caracas - A mastermind of Trump’s hardline Latin American policies, Mauricio Claver-Carone no longer serves in the administration. But according to well-placed sou...
Brad Blog

Idle Hands… - We’re off this week from both The BradCast and Green News Report, for a much-needed breather. Of course, we never really take breathers around here. Especi...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
Krebs on Security

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carr...
NORML

Why Your Support for NORML Matters More Than Ever - [image: a hand holds up a card with a marijuana leaf cut-out representing support for cannabis legalization][image: a hand holds up a card with a marijua...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Retribution Tour Has Only Just Begun — As Loyal Republicans Face a Catch-22 -
Socialist Alternative

Uprising in Bolivia—Bring Down Rodrigo Paz By the Power of the Streets! - In the popular uprising currently underway against the government of Rodrigo Paz and his policies, the people of Bolivia are addressing the most important ...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Grift - The post Trump’s Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Grift appeared first on Crooked Media.
Wolf Street

Oh Dear, Condo Prices already Dropped by 15% to 33% in 24 Bigger Markets, Some Back to Where They’d Been 20 Years Ago - Plus, in another 44 bigger cities, condo prices dropped by 7% to 14% so far, as the mindboggling Condo Bubble comes unglued.
jobsanger

Today We Remember And Honor Those Who Gave Their Lives For Our Democracy -
Workers World

How the ‘Imperial Six’ support imperialism – and vice versa (part 2) - [image: How the ‘Imperial Six’ support imperialism – and vice versa (part 2)] By Zev Rosen On March 11, Al Jazeera reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolution...
Courthouse News

Fine distinctions - Some recent rulings give us pause to think.
Field Negro

The Field Negro news watch. - Here are some of my takes on a few of the most relevant news stories right now. I will start with the war in Iran. Mr. Trump announced last night th...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pézenas]
Alternet

When the wealthiest people on Earth finally get the world they’ve always wanted - The United States and the Republic of China (the official name for Taiwan) — one of the world’s most vibrant and functional democracies — have had a form...
The AltWorld

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - The US hypothetically seeking a constructive role among nations rather than seeking dominance over them is for […] The post America’s Future: A Prosperou...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Laura “Isis” Sullivan, Photographer: an Appreciation - Just the other night, I learned of the passing of my friend and comrade, photographer Laura Sullivan – a.k.a. “Isis” – earlier this month. I first became f...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

When Texas Regulates Camps but Not Guns: A Comparative Policy Response to Two Child-Centered Tragedies, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. May 23, 2026 - *When Texas Regulates Camps but Not Guns: A Comparative Policy Response to Two Child-Centered Tragedies* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *May 23, 2026* ...
Trivial Knot

Review: I Want to Be a Wall - I write a bunch of book reviews, and review-ish writings on my Pillowfort. Maybe I should port some of these over? I picked out a review I wrote in 2024,...
Land Destroyer

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - *May 7, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosper...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Project Censored

Forged Signatures, Felled Trees: Adani’s Expansion Into Hasdeo Forest - In July 2025, the Chhattisgarh Forest Department recommended diverting 1,742 hectares of dense protected forest in the Hasdeo Aranya region of central In...
Church and State

Big questions with no answers - If you need religion, then embrace it, but don’t allow it to drive you into a secular observance which removes you from true spiritual appreciation.
Texas Freedom Network

The Legal Chat: Constitutional Law Professor Breaks Down Texas’ Ten Commandments in Schools - It’s happening in real time. The Ten Commandments in schools is one of several legal challenges over religion that’s reshaping the national conversation ...
Discourse

Man, What the Hell? RETURNS - The long-lost column returns in this subscribers-only Special Edition episode
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! - US rulers escalate their attacks against Cuba Over the last week, the U.S. rulers launched a dangerous escalation of threats against Cuba. CIA Director Joh...
Rewire

Iowa Restricts Access to Abortion Pills, HPV Vaccines - Plus, a woman gives birth in a Brooklyn courtroom and veterans sue Trump administration over VA abortion ban. The post Iowa Restricts Access to Abortion...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina: How We Would Rate Looming New Republican Maps - A trio of Deep South states are moving to join Tennessee in eliminating heavily Black districts. Alabama and Louisiana are aiming to reduce Democrats to ...
The Texas Signal

Magic And Madness Of Mid-Century Menus in Houston - On display at the Rienzi mansion in River Oaks, is a unique and bizarre display that manages to capture the entirety of the magic and madness of the culina...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Beast - So I tried to write a column about dog rape. I couldn’t do it. Despite my fear of losing the last of my Substack subscribers, going broke, getting evicted ...
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Shredded - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Shr...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 22, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio May 22, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/22/2026 - 04:27 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Ra...
Alas, a Blog

The Search - This strip is drawn by the awesome Mike Lawrence, who really went wild with the chicken fat! I wrote this strip two months ago, after coming across this st...
Environment Texas

Community opposition to rescinding the Roadless Rule - The Roadless Rule is a commonsense, effective, and popular policy, and it should not be rescinded or invalidated. The post Community opposition to rescin...
The NM Political Report

Greater Chaco landscape named one of America’s most endangered historic places - [image: Oil well in the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape] The National Trust for Historic Preservation unveiled its 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endange...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on Texas Bicentennial Commission - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, is being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on the Texas Bicentennial ...
Bracing Views

The Gaza Flotilla as Today’s Righteous Gentiles - Persecuted for Helping Victims of Murderous State Violence BILL ASTORE MAY 21, 2026 Several hundred people (428 people from 40 nations, to be precise) conc...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Calls on Congress to to Hold Federal Agents Accountable by Allowing People to Sue Them for Rights Violations - ACLU and partners urged members of Congress during Community Safety Week to pass legislation that allows people to sue federal law enforcement when they vi...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Richard Carrier Highly Endorses My Book! - Thank you Richard Carrier for this enthusiastic endorsement of my book, "The Outsider Test For Faith"! Thanks also for accurately applying the outsider tes...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Capitalist Horror: A Conversation with Jon Greenaway - Jon Greenaway, author of Capitalism: A Horror Story and host of Horror Vanguard stops by for a chat
Lowering the Bar

ChatGPT Confesses to a Crime It Didn’t Commit - And that it wasn't even capable of committing.
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Baseless indictment of Raúl Castro a pretext for another war - The announced indictment of Raúl Castro Ruz, historic leader of the Cuban Revolution and former President of the Republic of Cuba, by the United States Dep...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Creation of Situations - Some of my readers may be surprised that with everything else happening in the world, I’m returning to the ongoing discussion of Situationism, that bizarre...
Duck of Minerva

I choose to celebrate Eurovision - There are two posts I could have written about the latest Eurovision song contest. One would focus on another controversy over Israel’s participation and h...
Media Lens

Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion - Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likel...
Dissent Magazine

George Scialabba’s Lessons in Solidarity - Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.
Seeing the Forest

Most Voters Too Young To Remember - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. I was thinking about how most voters out there have no memory of all...
LareDOS

LLT auditions for The Lion King Jr. set for May 18 and 19 - Play opens July 30
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
The Rag Blog

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nonsite.org

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Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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The Mind Unleashed

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Downwinders at Risk

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Dissident Voice

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

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Second Nexus

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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The Disorder Of Things

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Dandelion Salad

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Daily Dot

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

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Reveal

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ExChristian.Net

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Texas Monthly

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American Prospect

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

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

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

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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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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Eater Houston

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Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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Robert Reich

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Grits for Breakfast

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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

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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...
Shadowproof

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One People's Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Due Dissidence

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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

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Chicken Fried Politics

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Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

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

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Washington Babylon

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Talking Points Memo

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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

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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

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Art Killing Apathy

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Defend our Movements

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Better Texas Blog

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Texas Rural Voices

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PERRspectives

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Austin 360

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Think 3 Institute

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Modern Democracy

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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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