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

Futurism

McDonald’s Has Hundreds of Pages of Intel on Its Repeat Customers, and You Can Get a Copy of Yours - "McDonald's secret sauce is really commercial surveillance." The post McDonald’s Has Hundreds of Pages of Intel on Its Repeat Customers, and You Can Get ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Michelin-recognized restaurant has closed and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including several abrupt closures and a couple of openings. Plus, a hotel trans...
Al Jazeera English

Ukraine hits Russian Starlink-style network, Moscow tracks arms package - Ukraine used domestically produced Flamingo missiles to hit targets in Russia's southwestern Samara region.
Courthouse News

Hawaii’s Big Island lashed by rain and wind as Tropical Storm Lala closes in - Tropical Storm Lala brought heavy rain and strong winds to Hawaii’s Big Island as forecasters warned it could become a hurricane.
San Antonio Current

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro to receive Hispanic Heritage Award for public service - U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro will receive the Public Service Award at the 39th Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards in September. The Hispanic Heritage Foundati...
Consortium News

WATCH: TWTW — ‘A Fraying Empire’ - An empire is as good as its military and the U.S. military is in crisis: running out of ammunition; Middle East bases destroyed; volunteers exhausted. Ann ...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! Hot August Books - Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for August 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though o...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-16 Weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - Today in the Catskills is very nice.
The Verge

Xteink’s tiny e-readers are getting access to free books through Libby - One of the big tradeoffs with Xteink's pocket-friendly e-readers is a lack of easy access to ebooks. On a Kindle or Kobo you can download tens of thousands...
Vox

Ozempic is not just a weight-loss story anymore - Just last month, I marked my 25th year as a professional journalist, which I guess means my journalistic career is old enough to rent a car, no questions a...
Rallblog

Wanted: More Luigis | DMZ America Podcast | Ep 253 - LIVE 11 am Eastern Fridays, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear/watch it: In a surprise turn, Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to the shooting death ...
Mediagazer

Q&A with Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro: he's not interested in spinoffs of ESPN or ABC and says Disney will stand up for ABC's journalistic integrity against the FCC (CNBC) - CNBC: *Q&A with Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro: he's not interested in spinoffs of ESPN or ABC and says Disney will stand up for ABC's journalistic integrity ag...
Political Wire

Inside the Trump Campaign Plan to Keep Congress - “President Donald Trump has finally given the green light to pour millions of dollars from his personal PAC toward boosting vulnerable Republicans in Novem...
The Hill

Katie Miller’s podcast serves as safe space for MAGA world - Katie Miller’s podcast is emerging as a go-to platform for leading figures in President Trump’s administration as she targets an audience of Republican wom...
Off The Kuff

Emerson College poll: Paxton 47, Talarico 46 - Paxton’s best result in awhile. A new Emerson College Polling/Nexstar Media survey of Texas likely voters finds the U.S. Senate race in a dead heat: 47% su...
Crooked Media

1 Offline Host vs. 1 Jubilee Founder - The post 1 Offline Host vs. 1 Jubilee Founder appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

5 exercises that can prevent (and relieve!) pregnancy pain - Hemorrhoids, leg cramps, sciatica — oh my! Alongside the joy of pregnancy often comes a parade of physical discomfort. Alleviate and prevent common aches w...
naked capitalism

‘Freezers Are Getting Empty’: Food Banks Struggle to Meet Demand as SNAP Cuts Rip Through Communities - Food banks are having an even harder time as SNAP cuts means even more have difficulty in paying for an adequate diet.
The Week

China’s green revolution and what it means for the world - Beijing is embracing clean energy on a massive scale
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1616: Ivan Polzunov - Episode: 1616 Ivan Polzunov and early Russian steam engines. Today, the steam engine comes to Russia.
Informed Comment

Mamdani merits a 9/11 Observance Role: Shia Were al-Qaeda’s Victims Too - Al-Qaeda members hated the Shia branch of Islam with a white hot passion.
Mediaite

‘TREASONISTS’: Trump Rails Against Group That Sued To Stop Ballroom - President Donald Trump fired off an unhinged Truth Social post late Friday night, accusing a nonprofit organization of treason because it sued to stop th...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | August 14, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | August 14, 2026 barry Fri, 08/14/2026 - 23:02
Techdirt.

Dev Kills Cloud Version Of Game On Switch, Offers Discount To Rebuy It For Switch 2 - We’ve talked a great deal about the Stop Killing Games movement and those discussions have typically traveled along two paths of importance. On the one han...
Alternet

'This is Trump's economy': Nobel winner butchers president's claims - Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman left no room for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to hide in a blistering Friday night fact check on MS NOW. Bess...
Popular Resistance

What Fidel Castro Gave Us - Fidel was not a utopian socialist. He rejected those who believed that you could leap from poverty directly to wealth. He had read Marx, particularly the...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Picasso print stolen from Milwaukee art gallery in 2018 found by landlord while cleaning apartment - Torero print, one of 30 known to exist signed by Picasso, was stolen from Bill DeLind’s gallery in 2018 Bill DeLind thought the Picasso print that was st...
The Greanville Post

FISH OR CUT BAIT - PE—If Trump, however, hazards a more potent assault of the same type— by missile, of which he now has a sharply diminished supply—he faces the reality lear...
Raw Story

Ivanka served brutal snub at America's most exclusive club — where money can't buy way in - Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos have all failed to get access to America's "most exclusive" country club in Miami — but they'r...
The Daily Poster

EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk’s Banking Empire Just Got Gov. Hochul’s Blessing - Despite lawmakers’ warnings about Musk, New York gave the world’s first trillionaire a critical approval in his plan to turn X into an “everything app.”
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Forward: Changing population will reshape region’s future, experts say during El Paso Matters’ summit - An aging population, slower growth and the loss of younger residents are changing El Paso's workforce, schools and housing market, prompting local leade...
Texas Standard

Texas schools see modest improvement in 2026 A-F ratings. Here’s how they fared - About 85% of Texas public schools earned a passing grade in the state’s latest A-F accountability ratings, while roughly one-quarter of districts and campu...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - FRIDAY
Capital & Main

Imperial Valley Dreamed of a Lithium Boom. It Just Hit Another Roadblock - Court finds lithium project may not have enough Colorado River water. County supervisors vote to offer developers millions in refunds. The post Imperial ...
Wolf Street

My Thoughts about those July Retail Sales - Consumers spent at retailers & restaurants just fine, but Amazon Prime Day and seasonal adjustments wreaked some havoc.
WhoWhatWhy

Blanche Kills Irony in Front of Cops and Police Academy Cadets - [image: Emil Bove, Todd Blanche, oath of office, Attorney General] Todd Blanche, who conspired with Donald Trump to richly reward the January 6 insurrectio...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Out Of Missiles - 12 x 16 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2mb According to this Reuters report from a week or so back, the USA is basically running out of missiles in Iran. ...
memeorandum

Woman Charged With Vandalizing World War II Memorial (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times) - Karoun Demirjian / New York Times: *Woman Charged With Vandalizing World War II Memorial* — Two felony charges have been filed against a Kentucky woman...
Angry Bear

John Roberts needs to read the Constitution - There’s an article in the latest New Yorker on Chief Justice Roberts. In it, he’s quoted as saying: “Only the President (along with the Vice President) i...
World Socialist Web Site

East Midlands Railway workers continue strikes over safety faults with Hitachi fleet linked to Bedford crash - Rail workers have stepped in to enforce safety against the regulator and the Labour government.
IVN

Lauren Pinkston Is Betting Tennessee Isn’t as Red as It Looks - The independent candidate for governor argues Tennessee’s one-party dominance is fueled by historically low turnout—and she thinks the voters sitting on th...
Claytoonz

Ship of Fools - Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Ian Welsh

How I Learned About Leaders & Human Nature - As a kid, my parents moved around a fair bit. I went to a lot of schools during my elementary years. It was instructive. From grade 3 to grade 6 1/2 I was ...
Lowering the Bar

RFK Jr. Claims He’s Not Allowed to Vote Because He Has “No Legal Residence” - The court didn't say he had "no legal residence," just that he lied about where it was. Falconry records notwithstanding.
The Militant

Quash government subpoenas, Defend constitutional liberties! - The following statement was released Aug. 9 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee....
Ballot Access News

New Jersey Libertarian Congressional Candidate Files Federal Lawsuit Against Out-of-State Circulator Ban - On August 13, Libertarian congressional nominee Lana Leguia filed a federal lawsuit against the New Jersey ban on out-of-state circulators in general elect...
Independent Political Report

Why Is the Green Party Trying to Kick a Green Party Candidate off the Ballot in the Pennsylvania? - *This article was originally published by Pennsylvania Capital-Star on August 12, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views ex...
Novara Media

Farage Beats a Bin - Farage is victorious in his valiant quest to wrest control of Clacton-On-Sea from the clutches of an intergalactic bin! So why didn’t he show up to celebra...
The Root

15 Ways Black Families Can Set Their Kids Up to Win This School Year - Back-to-school planning means more than supply lists for many Black families. These expert-backed tips can help families plan for success and prepare stu...
Undernews

Sanders wants to cut big donations to candidates - *Congressional Insider - *Bernie Sanders is pressing Democrats to shut super PAC money out of their primaries, and he is tying that demand to a fresh bil...
Glasstire

“And the Blood is real…”: Rambo Salinas’ Pachuco Punk Collages - I. An overwhelming nostalgia seems to be in the air, yet again. While some of us revel in the joys of our youth — in cinema, fashion, culture — others ye...
San Antonio Report

James Talarico pushes new plan to woo Texas veterans, pledges to ‘fight for them the way they fight for us’ - Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico unveiled a veterans and military agenda Friday aimed at ending forever wars, strengthening support for milita...
Daily Howler

NEW ARRIVALS: The furious streamer came fighting back! - *FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 2026* *We won't repost what he said: *Judged by any normal standard, last week's "new arrival on the front" would be no one's idea of...
Scheerpost.com

How to Take an Election Without Breaking the Law - The first attempt broke the rules and lost. The second one follows them. Jeffrey Wernick The Justice Department has sued thirty states to force them to tur...
Dissent Magazine

*The Odyssey* Belongs to All of Us - In many ways, Christopher Nolan’s film is not a faithful adaptation. But it takes seriously both what the text is doing and how it has been read since. W...
Bonddad

July retail sales lay en egg; a hangover after a spring Budget Bust-out Bill binge? - * - by New Deal democrat* Let me start out this post with two comments: (1) real retail sales is one of my favorite economic indicators, because it t...
OpEd News

"Thank-you for your service", sorry you were trashed - . . . The military failed to provide him with the support he needed to live his life which apparently became unbearable. Heard this story before? I'm sure ...
Salon.com

We’re all amateur food safety inspectors now - MAHA wants Americans to scrutinize their food. Taylor Farms recalls show how hard that has become
Texas Observer

Indigenous Group Sues to Stop Big Bend Border Wall on Religious Grounds - The People of La Junta for Preservation, a nonprofit founded in 2024 that works to preserve Indigenous sites, and two Indigenous worshippers of Lipan Apa...
Debunking Christianity

More Examples of Disappointing, Inferior, Even Alarming Jesus-Script - *The devout might snap out of it—if they faced these texts honestly* A primary example of the dishonesty of New Testament translators is printing the sup...
Idavox

South Africans protest against xenophobia - #operationubuntu calls for an end to xenophobic violence by vigilante groups and the government. Elitsha... The post South Africans protest against xenop...
Democracy Now!

"American Doctor": New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients - The new documentary *American Doctor* tells the story of how the besieged hospitals of Gaza have continued to treat the sick and wounded throughout Israel’...
ArcaMax

Bill Press: Has anybody seen POTUS? Look in the dumpster! - Exclusive! Conversation overheard two nights ago in the White House. Susie Wiles: Has anybody seen the president? Natalie Harp: Nope, I haven’t seen him fo...
Krebs on Security

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out - It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day....
Rewire

More College Students Will Have Access to Abortion Medication - Five states now require schools to offer pills on campus or make it available through an off-campus provider.
Dorf on Law

Are the Lives of Public Officials More Valuable than the Lives of Others? (Thoughts Inspired by the Air Force One Ruse) - Judge Irving Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was an infamous bosshole to his clerks. He frequently pitted them against each o...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Public Deserves To Know’: Angry Judge Grills DOJ Over Hidden Epstein Files -
Texas Environmental News

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ProPublica

Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters - The post Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt for Noncitizen Voters appeared first on ProPublica.
Axios

A convergence of biological risks - What's the common thread connecting AI advances, biological breakthroughs, a preponderance of high-risk-high-reward research, escalating geopolitical ten...
Grist

The EPA’s data on cancer risk from air pollution has gone dark - For decades, communities have relied on the agency's cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it's missing.
High Country News

‘Quite frustrating:’ what it’s like to have a treaty with the United States - Heirs to the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott explain their ancestors’ wisdom and how they defend it today. The post ‘Quite frustrating:’ what it’s like to ...
Two Party Opera

Return Policy - Read More
Counterpunch

Cuba after Six Months of the Oil Blockade: Crisis and the Road to Recovery - For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to make the Cuban people pay for their decision to pursue an independent, socialist path. The ...
jobsanger

Authoritarianism Begins When Rights Are Taken From Any Group -
Progressive.org

Trump’s Vaccine Order Will Harm Public Health - It's greatest immediate impact will be the confusion and chaos it sows among parents and caregivers.
Black Agenda Report

Racist Policies End TPS and Criminalize Haitian Immigrants - Racist Policies End TPS and Criminalize Haitian Immigrants Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/14/2026 - 08:42 The Supre...
Brad Blog

We’re Paying an Unspeakable Price for the Cost of DOGE: ‘BradCast’ 8/13/2026 - As we have been documenting for years on The BradCast, Republicans do not give a rat’s ass about the national debt or deficit spending, much less federal g...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

“I Will Not Submit”: A Powerful Day at the Historic Texas People’s Hearing, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., August 13, 2026 - *“I Will Not Submit”: A Powerful Day at the Historic Texas People’s Hearing* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *August 13, 2026* *Yesterday’s historic Te...
Antiwar.com

The Right To Be Left Alone - “The makers of our Constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness… They conferred against the Government the right to be...
The Grayzone

Iran ‘human rights activist’ Masih Alinejad takes credit for ICE abduction of US legal residents - A family of Iranian legal permanent residents was abducted and confined to an ICE prison after US government-backed regime change activist Masih Alinejad...
Deadline Politics

Parties Lay Out Key Discovery And Other Dates For Pending Paramount-WBD Antitrust Trial - This week has been dominated by headlines about Paramount’s threat to leave California, by unions and other officials urging a settlement and by Capitol Hi...
Mother Jones

A Trump Judge Called Mail-In Ballots a Threat to Democracy - On Wednesday, the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ruling blocking key measures of Texas’ sweeping voter suppression law, SB 1. A l...
The Texas Signal

The Trail Helping Houston Regain Freedom From Roads - Transforming the trail into something actually useful started in stages in 2009, but the formation of the Friends of Columbia Tap Trail really got the ball...
Workers World

What is Black August to the Black comrade - [image: What is Black August to the Black comrade] “What I do feel is the urge to resist, resist and never stop resisting or even think of stopping my resi...
slacktivist

‘Goliath has cousins’ - Wherein I share some links and try to persuade you to watch an entire Sunday-morning sermon, which I realize is a big ask, but I still think you'll want to...
The NM Political Report

Luján, hospital leaders talk Medicaid ‘headwinds’ and rural health gaps at Rio Rancho roundtable - [image: U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat from New Mexico, told hospital administrators at Presbyterian Rust Medical Center on Aug. 13 that Republican-ba...
See You In 2020

DSA’s politically correct “anti-Zionism,” and the proletarian mass politics that will sweep it away - This is from my upcoming book “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why the pro-Palestine movement failed to stop a holocaust, & how it can still win.” Since Zoh...
Slate

J.D. Vance Is Learning an Important Foreign Policy Lesson the Hard Way - This must have been an embarrassing moment for the vice president.
Common Dreams

Progressives Win Pair of Victories at DNC Meeting; Committee Approves Resolutions for Abolishing ICE And Affirming Law That Could Bar Military Aid to Israel - The Democratic National Committee today greenlighted resolutions that call for abolishing ICE and implementing “full and consistent enforcement” of two f...
Greg Palast

DSA has a race problemThe Arab v. Black collision - African-American radio host Cleopatra Draper is worried. The victory of Democratic Socialist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary for US S...
Mondoweiss

The Mecca Pact is the latest sign of the U.S.’s declining influence in the Middle East - [image: Photo shared on the official White House Twitter/X feed on May 14, 2025 with the caption: "President Donald J. Trump to His Royal Highness Crown Pr...
Election Law Blog

Alaska: “State continues Whittier voter misconduct prosecutions despite landmark U.S. Supreme Court citizenship ruling” - KTUU: The State of Alaska is doubling down on its criminal prosecution of nine American Samoan residents in Whittier, opposing a motion to dismiss that ...
Discourse

Drafting the Woke 1 Accords (w/Paul Blest & Jack Crosbie) - Plus: AOC egg freezing drama, the Michigan Senate primary, and Francesca Hong.
Infidel753

A potpourri of popery - Time for a light-hearted look at one of the world's most powerful institutions, the Catholic Church. If you've ever thought those outfits worn by the upper...
SCOTUSblog

Once upon a time: storytelling in Learning Resources v. Trump - Every fall, with each new class of 1Ls, we legal writing teachers undertake a strange job. We spend an entire year trying to get students to *not* write ...
Sludge

Dark Money Group Sends Staffers to Tech and Pharma HQs to Kick Off August Recess - Center Forward, funded in part by the companies it sent congressional staffers to visit, paired the tours with policy briefings for aides who sit on the co...
Bracing Views

Telling Headline at the New York Times - Trump Is the Real Victim of Gaza and the Iran War? BILL ASTORE AUG 11, 2026 Caught this headline at the New York Times this morning (8/11): Top News Trump ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Despite 'New' Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat - In response to Flock’s announcement of operational changes, the ACLU breaks down why many fall short.
The Conversation

The false and the furious: We aren’t just bothered by different beliefs – we’re bothered when we think others are wrong - Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.
Space City Weather

Friday may offer a brief reprieve from ongoing August heat wave - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the potential for some scattered showers on Friday, which will then give way to an extended period of hot and sunny we...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Police called on trans men using women's restroom as required by law' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Trans men in Kansas simultaneously point out the quandary trans people have to deal with when using public restrooms and the idiocy of laws policing their...
Liberation News

Flanagan wins big in primary as Minnesotans reject AIPAC and ICE - We need an independent political movement that is completely by and for the working-class, that rejects all billionaire and corporate funding, and is willi...
The AltWorld

Trump Turns the Screws: The High-Stakes Move Against Iran - Trump Turns the Screws: The High-Stakes Move Against Iran The post Trump Turns the Screws: The High-Stakes Move Against Iran appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Part 2 of 2: The Dissociative States of America - The Check-In - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
LareDOS

Janet Krueger’s Thick and Thin exhibit opens at the Hunt Gallery Sept. 3 in San Antonio - Artist talk is set for September 12 from 1 to 2 p.m.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Wisconsin Gubernatorial Race Moves to Leans Democratic After the Establishment’s Great Escape; Other Primary Takeaways; Rating Changes in Montana and Ohio - Passing on Hong makes Democrats favorites to hold the Wisconsin governorship, plus other observations from Tuesday's primaries and elsewhere The post Wis...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 1 - In our journey through the neglected kingdom of Yeats’s A Vision we have now reached one of the points where many previous explorers decided to give up and...
First Draft

If I Go, You Go - Trump doesn't care if you die, and he's not going to do anything to save any of us, either.
Environment Texas

Small is Beautiful - Today’s environmental problems can feel overwhelming. Sometimes it helps to think small The post Small is Beautiful appeared first on Environment Texas.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
Crooked Timber

My comprehensive plan for US strategy in the Middle East… * - … is set out over the fold. I’m confident readers who take a little time to think about it will realise it’s far superior to existing policy, and to any al...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: High Time To Remove Cannabis from Schedule I Status - [image: a pair of hands with open palms rest on a green table holding a cannabis leaf][image: a pair of hands with open palms rest on a green table holdi...
Duck of Minerva

Today’s sanctions aren’t special. They’re just keeping up. - We keep hearing that we live in an unprecedented "age of sanctions." Trade and globalization data tell a different story --- the world got bigger, not meaner.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Green Bins Are Spreading Faster Than the Habit of Using Them - Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored posting. Curbside food scrap collection has spread fast. BioCycle’s... The post Guest Idea: Green Bins Are Spreading F...
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: August 2026 - Artificial Life | Emergent Garden (video, 35 min) – A video about simulations that simulate evolution or generate life-like complexity. He draws a distinc...
Earthworks

Don’t let San Bernardino County permit mines without public input - Sloppy drafting in a new San Bernardino County mining regulation risks giving up local oversight. The post Don’t let San Bernardino County permit mines ...
Church and State

Lack of civics education for our citizens gave us Donald Trump - The history of civics education in America reminds us that failure to understand history and act to confront its hard lessons gave us Trump.
Project Censored

Media Dictates Democracy - On this episode of The Project Censored Show, independent journalist and winner of the Illinois Library Association’s 2026 Intellectual Freedom Award, Ke...
Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
Campaign for America's Future

Un pueblo organizado aún puede vencer a los multimillonarios - Si hablamos directamente con los votantes que han perdido la fe en ambos partidos políticos sobre las preocupaciones en sus vidas diarias, podemos comenzar...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2026 - Walmart had at least eight more shootings in July 2026 with one of them fatal where a suspect who had allegedly fired one or more shots and the officer ...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
MintPress News

UK Government Targeting of Muslim Scholar Part of a Coordinated Campaign to Clamp Down on Pro-Palestine Solidarity - Amid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular acti...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
Green Pages News

Chino Garcia Obituary - While we were meeting at the GPUS national meeting in Chicago on Friday, July 24, one of the OGs (Original Greens) the American Green Party movement, Chino...
Seeing the Forest

Everything Is Trickle-Down Now - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. “Trickle-down” thinking – the idea t...
Socialist Alternative

After Berlin Pride Attack: Defend Queer Lives & Queer Rights—We Will Not Be Divided! - We are shocked and outraged by the attack on Berlin Pride on Saturday, July 25, 2026. Our solidarity goes out to all those affected, their families, and ev...
Media Lens

‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’ - ‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made...
Alas, a Blog

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? - Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller ...
Land Destroyer

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities - *July 21, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - On July 10, 2026 China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered the first stage booster of its Long ...
Field Negro

News roundup. - The main stream media seems to be more fixated on an ideological difference within the Democratic party, than they are actual fascism being practiced b...
Progressives Chat

Prediction: Nomination for Abdul El–Sayed - I am predicting, with next Tuesday’s [August 4, 2026] primaries in my home state, the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Michigan will be wo...
Edinburg Politics

Stronger public safety, improved rehabilitation for inmates, $150 million in taxpayer savings, among major improvements to Texas Department of Criminal Justice under milestone state law led by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg - Stronger public safety for Texans, improved programs for rehabilitation and reentry into society for inmates, and an estimated $150 million in taxpayer sav...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Unlimited Hangout

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The Rag Blog

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Equality Texas

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The Socialist

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Stinque

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Free & Equal

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Countercurrents

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Skeptophilia

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DeSmogBlog

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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nonsite.org

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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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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
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...
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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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

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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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

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

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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...
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

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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
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

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Border/Lines

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Robert Reich

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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

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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...
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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)

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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

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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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...
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Washington Babylon

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Liberal America

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Popehat

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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

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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

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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

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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Latino Decisions

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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

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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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