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

Courthouse News

House launches probe into Rep. Max Miller over domestic violence, drug use accusations - The Ohio Republican, whose ex-wife has accused him of abusing her and their daughter, said he would ask the ethics panel to investigate his conduct and cla...
Eschaton

Donald Trump Is The Least Interesting Man In The World - Or at least we all ran out of insightful things to say about him about 9 years ago. We can't always predict his next step, but we know exactly what moti...
CultureMap Houston

Houston hospitals declared best nationwide in 2026 U.S. News rankings - *Houston Methodist Hospital *and over a dozen more Houston-area hospitals have earned bragging rights in *U.S. News & World Report's* newly released rankin...
Progressive.org

The People’s Historian - Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, has found the perfect biographer in Dave Zirin.
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Translation is as translation does! - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2026* *Endless approaches to fury: *The latest bizarre MAGA meltdown, this time involving the reflecting pool? Reflections on the f...
Al Jazeera English

DOJ sends monitors to Michigan poll sites as lawmakers warn of partisan aim - While FBI poll monitoring not new, US lawmakers raise alarm amid Trump's years-long claims of election fraud.
Futurism

Startup Unveils Underwater Living Chamber for Human Dwellers - "It's been over 40 years since we've had an undersea habitat built for humans and launched." The post Startup Unveils Underwater Living Chamber for Human...
Consortium News

Israel ‘Destroying Crucial Evidence of Genocide’ in Gaza - The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says Israeli forces, by moving millions of tons of rubble that belong to Palestinians, are apparently violating...
Ballot Access News

Last Remaining New Jersey County Agrees to Settle 2024 Lawsuit Over Primary Ballot Format - On August 4, the New Jersey lawsuit over primary election ballot format came to an end. Kim v Hanlon, 3:24cv-1098. The lawsuit had been filed in 2024 to ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Zero-Latency War - For centuries, military innovation has pursued the objective of reducing the time between observation and action. But what happens when decision latency be...
Daily Cartoonist

Tel Aviv Political Cartoon Exhibit Damaged - Hannah Brown for The Jerusalem Post reports Exhibition of Ultra-Orthodox Military Draft Cartoons Vandalized: An exhibition of political cartoons about the ...
Brad Blog

‘Green News Report’ – August 4, 2026 - Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!…(Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Damage mounts from disastrous fires in Spokane, W...
World Socialist Web Site

Rescue of 173 migrants narrowly averts mass Channel deaths, as Burnham pledges “relentless” efforts to “stop the boats” - A report titled *How ‘stopping the boats’ kills* show that deaths rose steeply after a previous major UK-France deal designed to "stop the boats".
Trivial Knot

The modal ontological argument - The king of all useless arguments Arguments for the existence of God are, generally agreed, not very compelling, and irrelevant to any real political argum...
Raw Story

Trump snaps at reporter for addressing Jeannine Pirro's future at the White House - President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Monday and criticized U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she dismissed a felony vandalism case against Oly...
Common Dreams

Senate Judiciary Republicans Advance Blanche Nomination, Co-Signing His Scandalous Record at DOJ - Today, Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to advance Todd Blanche’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney General to the full Senat...
Texas Observer

University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed - The sexual assault of children. The catcalling and income discrimination your sister faces. The struggles your granddad has connecting emotionally. These...
Alternet

White House agenda in meltdown as Trump drifts 'further from reality' - On Tuesday, a conservative journalist offered a stark assessment of President Donald Trump’s recent behavior, writing that the Commander in Chief has “dr...
Novara Media

EU Moves to Share Data With Israel That ‘Could Be Used to Kill Palestinians’ - The EU is pushing ahead with a controversial data-sharing agreement with Israel despite warnings that it could enable the targeting and killing of Palestin...
The Root

Debate Ignites Over Fundraiser for Friends of Nolan Wells - A $200k fundraiser for Nolan Wells’ friends is sparking sharp debate over sympathy and accountability in the case. Read more...
NORML

Analysis: Adoption of Medical Cannabis Access Laws Associated With Increased Workplace Productivity, Innovation - [image: A chart indicating increasing cannabis sales][image: A chart indicating increasing cannabis sales]"From job creation to tax revenue to improved i...
Dissent Magazine

Who Owns American History? - Under the second Trump administration, the fight over history has become a fight over democracy. Who deserves to be trusted with the country’s memory?
Ian Welsh

America Almost Out Of Long Range Strike Munitions - Why did Trump call off his big attacks? Why did the US stop attacking suddenly? he U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-rang...
Vox

What’s the difference between fashionably late and straight-up rude? We asked three experts. - There are two kinds of people in this world: those who find it acceptable to be a little tardy and those who consider it an affront to all that is decent. ...
Scheerpost.com

Don Corleone Trump - Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos Chris Hedges ScheerPost I visited...
Undernews

Meanwhile.... - *Maine Morning Star - *The Trump administration’s demand for states to provide Social Security numbers, immigration status, and other private information...
El Paso Matters

El Paso is aging twice as fast as the nation. Here’s how it will reshape our community. - El Paso County is aging significantly faster than the nation as births decline, immigration slows and younger adults continue to leave in search of econ...
Democracy Now!

Johanna Fernández Dies at 55: Leading Scholar on the Young Lords & Latinx Freedom Movement - We look at the life and legacy of Dominican American historian, activist and prison abolitionist Dr. Johanna Fernández, who died on July 30 after a long ba...
Angry Bear

Quote of the day - It’s not just that people don’t want data centers in their backyards or regions. We basically know why they don’t want them. They’ll bogart all the elect...
The Progressive Wing

8/4 News Roundup and Open Thread - Election Day in Michigan (and Missouri)
Rallblog

Jeanine Pirro in Trouble with Trump over Reflecting Pool Cases | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Rewire

Max Miller, Graham Platner, and the Bipartisan Allure of Toxic Men: Opinion - Democrats don’t need to copy the Republican playbook to win back young, male voters. The left has been winning elections with its own brand of joyful, resp...
Mother Jones

Oh Look, Another Far-Right Extremist at the Pentagon - I’ve written before about how US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ties to an ascendant Christian nationalist movement. Specifically, he attends a church i...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Inside Man — Confirming Blanche Would Be a Perversion of Justice - [image: Trump, Blanche, DOJ, “Just Us”] By confirming Todd Blanche, Senate Republicans would ensure that justice turns a blind eye to Donald Trump. Trump’...
NPR's Health Shots

They're a world leader in using drones for healthcare. But drones can't do it all - Drones carrying medical supplies constantly crisscross the skies of Rwanda. The Trump administration is giving a major grant to the effort — and at the sam...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

The US government’s mislabelled map of Africa at a global Aids conference shows again a failure to understand the continent | Kenneth Ngure - This crude lack of thought is influencing crucial budget decisions on HIV programmes, which were cut by 25% worldwide in 2025 At the end of July, thousan...
Dorf on Law

When Constitutional Amendments Change Background Assumptions: 22nd Amendment Edition - As I noted here on the blog last week, I'll be spending the day tomorrow with lawyers, a judge, a journalist, and several other law professors discussing...
Mediagazer

Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.8B, Premium Subscribers up 9% YoY to 300M, MAUs up 12% YoY to 777M, below 778M guidance, and a €545M net income (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Spotify reports Q2 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.8B, Premium Subscribers up 9% YoY to 300M, MAUs up 12% YoY to 777M, below 778M guid...
The Smirking Chimp

Mitch McConnell Is Never Coming Back to the Senate -
Crooked Media

How Trumpism Might Survive the Fall of Trump (w/ Eugene Daniels and Symone Sanders) - The post How Trumpism Might Survive the Fall of Trump (w/ Eugene Daniels and Symone Sanders) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Axios

Reliably red Ohio suddenly a red-hot mess for GOP - Ohio, the red state that helped fuel President Trump's political comeback — and launched his presumed heir, JD Vance, onto the national stage — has becom...
The Daily Poster

THE KINGMAKERS, Ep. 6: Obama's Kill List - The president who promised restraint quietly unleashes a new weapon of executive power.
High Country News

Federal plan makes steep Colorado River water cuts to Arizona, California and Nevada - The Bureau of Reclamation’s final environmental review leaves the door open for states to reach an agreement on how to share the water — and for legal b...
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...
Crooked Timber

If you can’t be bothered writing it, I can’t be bothered reading it. - The producerist vision of AI seems to assume an endlessly expanding market for reading. And reading. Well. It is rather more than a market. Warning: this p...
Portside

The Blue Collar Brigade Has the Right Messengers - The Blue Collar Brigade Has the Right Messengers Mark Brody Tue, 08/04/2026 - 02:56
Counterpunch

The Most Shocking Climate News of 2026 - The UK Green Party’s former leader Caroline Lucas recently nailed the Labor Party for “burying the most explosive report” of the year by UK military and ...
memeorandum

White House directly involved in Blanche order rescinding 'anti-weaponization' fund (CNN) - CNN: *White House directly involved in Blanche order rescinding ‘anti-weaponization’ fund* — The White House was directly involved in acting Attorney ...
jobsanger

The Answer -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3395: X-Ray’s First Year - Episode: 3395 Century Magazine reveals how scientists were viewing the new X-Rays in the year after their discovery. Today, X-Rays one year old.
Mediaite

Trump DOJ Drops Charges Against Three More Defendants Accused of Reflecting Pool Vandalism — But One Lost His Job - President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has dropped the charges against three other defendants accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflect...
Informed Comment

Holocaust Denial = Genocide Denial - Though Israel has been important to Jewish identity since its creation, Israel no longer represents the Jewish people as a whole
Techdirt.

Sony Gives Its Disc-Loving Customers A Giant Middle Finger - Just a few weeks ago, Sony announced that it would stop producing games on physical media starting in 2028 and a very loud portion of Sony’s customers lost...
Wolf Street

AI Data Center Construction Spending Goes Exponential (But in Business, Exponential Curves Can’t Last) - Corporate guidance for capital expenditures keeps getting ratcheted higher and involves massive sums, largely focused on AI infrastructure.
Popular Resistance

Ukraine Demonstrates It Is A Mercenary For Western Imperialism - It has been nearly four and a half years since the Russian intervention into Ukraine instigated by the United States and other Western nations. Ukraine, ...
Antiwar.com

Call Off the Iran War. Just Walk Away! - After several days of increasing threats against Iran, including social media posts like “FINISH THE JOB!” and “Take the oil. No mercy!,” President Trump h...
The Verge

The studio behind Pokémon struggles to find its voice in Beast of Reincarnation - You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adventures with a machinelike precision. B...
Deadline Politics

Stefano Pozzebon Named CNN International Correspondent Based In Rome - CNN has named Stefano Pozzebon as an international correspondent based in the network’s Rome bureau. Pozzebon previously was a contributor for CNN in Bogot...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'WA state ballot initiative could require genital exams for girls to play sports' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure* - *Are we moving into the phase where anti-trans legislation could harm a...
Sludge

AIPAC Tops $100 Million in Election Spending for Second Straight Cycle - The pro-Israel group's PAC and super PAC have poured $104.3 million into the midterms, including more than $30.6 million in Michigan's Democratic Senate pr...
Claytoonz

Bigots and Basketball - 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...
San Antonio Report

Data center approvals in Texas halted until audits completed, Gov. Greg Abbott says - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and ERCOT to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid. ---...
SCOTUSblog

States challenging executive order on mail-in voting ask justices to leave in place limits on its implementation - Lawyers for a group of 23 states and the District of Columbia on Monday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place an order by a federal court i...
The NM Political Report

AG Torrez escalates fight with DOJ over unseized fentanyl shipments - [image: New Mexico's overdose crisis just got a new villain, according to the governor: the federal agency that's supposed to be fighting it.] By Kevin He...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Joe Rogan begs Texas not to turn blue - Last week, podcaster Joe Rogan — a 2020 transplant from LA to Austin — begged voters not to turn Texas blue this November. “The liberals that want to tu...
Workers World

Iran: Harassment of commercial shipping shows U.S. is still pursuing confrontation. - [image: Iran: Harassment of commercial shipping shows U.S. is still pursuing confrontation.] The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA – Tehran) published the...
Slate

The Ariana Grande News Leaves Us With Two Unsavory Options - The audience has two unsavory options.
Election Law Blog

“A Democracy Funder’s Confession: We May Be Making Things Worse” - Rachel Pritzker has this piece at the Council of Philanthropy: Over the past 10 years, American philanthropy has mobilized to defend the nation’s democra...
Glasstire

Nominations for Texas State Artists Accepted Through October 15 - The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is seeking nominations for 2027-2028 Texas State Artists. Every two years, the TCA selects State Artists in sever...
The Week

All you need to know about everything that matters -
Texas Standard

Gov. Greg Abbott pauses new data centers until energy, water usage audit is completed - New data centers won’t be able to join the Texas power grid until state regulators complete a review of their energy and water usage, under a new directive...
Church and State

Women having fewer children may save all life on earth - The major birth control method now being offered worldwide is women making choices to have fewer children.
ArcaMax

The stink of Musk - Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. Mu...
slacktivist

The usual suspects - Some recent links, including: Reinventing the YMCA, my hometown in the news, and "Prime Suspect" as a 1990s costume drama.
Political Wire

These Senate Primaries Offer a Sneak Peek at 2028 - “This month’s Democratic primaries in Michigan and Minnesota are already shaping up to be major battles about the party’s future, with voters heading to th...
LareDOS

Marcos E. González: he’s pulling more than your focus - This is not a novel for the easily offended or for the politically correct
Speak Freely (ACLU)

One Year After President Trump Deployed National Guard Troops to Washington, D.C., Statehood is More Important Than Ever - Hundreds of thousands of Washington residents oppose the Trump administration’s continued deployment of the National Guard. The only way to make sure this ...
OpEd News

Can What the Israeli Nationalist Government is doing to the Palestinians be Defined as "Genocide"? - This column briefly considers the question of whether what the present Israeli Nationalist government is doing the Palestinians still living in the territo...
The Greanville Post

Alastair Crooke: Trump in a Box of His Own Making - AN—This video features Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewing analyst Alastair Crooke on August 3, 2026, regarding current tensions between the United States...
See You In 2020

America is coming apart. When it comes back together, this will look like Haiti’s revolution. - Above: Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, the face of Haiti’s mass revolutionary movement. The extent to which the United States is becoming lumpenized will ma...
Mondoweiss

Michigan voters appear to swing toward Abdul El-Sayed on eve of crucial Senate primary. Will it be enough to beat AIPAC’s millions? - [image: Abdul El-Sayed with supporters (Photo: Abdul for Senate)]Michigan polls show Abdul El-Sayed leading Haley Stevens in the latest battle between the ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Rot We Refuse to Name: Montgomery, Alabama, and the Living Legacy of Racial Terror, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., August 3, 2026 - *The Rot We Refuse to Name: Montgomery, Alabama, and the Living Legacy of Racial Terror* *by* *Angela Valenzuela* *August 3, 2026* *Legacy Museum link...
Bracing Views

Extractive Capitalism - Gusher Up, Trickle Down, Leads Me to a Sinking Feeling BILL ASTORE AUG 02, 2026 Extractive capitalism is the economic model for the United States. We’ve be...
IVN

America’s Closed Primary System Runs on Fake Party Membership - Closed primaries do not protect party purity—they force independent voters to register with parties they do not believe in just to have a meaningful voice.
Bonddad

August starts with a great ISM manufacturing report, but a dismal construction spending one - * - by New Deal democrat* As per usual, we start out the month with the ISM manufacturing report (for July) and the construction report (for June). T...
The Texas Signal

The Candidates Running Against Corruption - For many of the Democratic challengers in Texas, combating corruption is taking center stage in their campaigns.
Independent Political Report

Nebraska Examiner Asks Supporters What Draws Them to Independent Senate Candidate Dan Osborn - *This article was originally published by Nebraska Examiner* *on July 31, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed ...
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 ...
Space City Weather

How bad is August weather in Houston? ‘Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world’ - In brief: In today’s post we look at how bad August really is in Houston, and fall back on a little post-war poetry for assistance. With regard to the fore...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Building Solar Panel Recycling Capacity with SPR’s Brett Henderson - Glass makes up 62% to 70% of a solar panel’s weight, and as much as... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Building Solar Panel Recycling Capacity with ...
Two Party Opera

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Off The Kuff

A brief note on “non-citizen” voters - I’m just going to leave this here. Election officials across the state should immediately reinstate some voters who were incorrectly flagged as potential n...
The Grayzone

US DOJ relying on anonymous Israeli intel agent to convict US resident of Oct 7 participation - US prosecutors are accusing a legal permanent resident of Louisiana of participating in the October 7 attacks in Israel. Yet their case relies almost ent...
ProPublica

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount - The post FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Is the recycling symbol free speech? A judge just ruled it could be. - The ruling pauses California's effort to limit the recycling symbol to products that are actually recycled, setting up a new First Amendment fight over env...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 3 August 2026 - If an image is hard to see or read, right-click and open the link in a new tab for the full-size version. [For the link round-up, click here.] ...
The Hill

California Democratic Party backs billionaire tax despite internal opposition - The California Democratic (CADEM) Party on Sunday announced that it backs a ballot measure to charge the state’s 200 billionaires with a one-time, five-per...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag Livestream - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Debunking Christianity

We Already Use Bayes' Formula - Via John Earman. I guarantee you that everyone uses Bayes' formula whenever considering new information. We ask ourselves implicitly and/or explicitly wha...
Socialist Alternative

Support Left Independent Candidates—Build An Alternative To The Two Corporate Parties - The US midterm election is fast approaching and the Trump administration is plunging deeper into crisis. Trump’s second term has been devastating for worki...
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...
First Draft

The Breaking Point (1950) - A 1950 film noir based on a novel by Ernest Hemingway. Starring John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez, and Wallace Ford. Directed ...
Liberation News

Study, fast, train, fight: The roots of Black August - “Black August” is honored every year to commemorate the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to call for the release of political pris...
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...
Idavox

‘Quite startling’: Hate crimes spike since mass shooting attack against Islamic Center - Muslims, Jews and the LGBTQ+ community have been the biggest targets. Times of San Diego... The post ‘Quite startling’: Hate crimes spike since mass shoo...
Lowering the Bar

Former Employee Sues Comcast Over Alleged Pie-in-the-Face Policy - [image: alleged evidence, picture of whiteboard]The highest-ranking salesperson for the month allegedly got to hit the lowest-ranking one.
Capital & Main

Your Elected Officials Might Have Side Hustles. Here’s How to Find Out. - Pennsylvania governor candidate Stacy Garrity makes money from fracking. We know from financial disclosures that are required in most states. Here’s how ...
The AltWorld

Pawns of the Desert: Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Game - Pawns of the Desert: Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Game The post Pawns of the Desert: Saudi Arabia’s Dangerous Game appeared first on TheAltWorld.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" 21st CENTURY EDITION - *Oooh, this is a* nice* version.* Another week of mayhem and mendacity in the books, and the thing that bugged me most was the show trial of Anthony Fauci...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! End oil blockade, war threats - July 26 meetings celebrate the victory of the Cuban Revolution NEW YORK — On July 25 some 80 people attended a celebration here of the 73rd anniversary of ...
MintPress News

How Lockheed Martin, Raytheon & BAE Systems are propagandizing children to support war through STEM - The most infamous arms companies manufacturing the very bombs for the United States and Israel to use in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran are partnering up...
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...
The Conversation

58 years of attacks on the media by powerful leaders trying to deflect criticism, from Nixon to Trump - American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What does...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report July 31, 2026 - Black Agenda Report July 31, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/31/2026 - 04:30 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Environment Texas

Changes to the Endangered Species Act threaten vulnerable wildlife - A reinterpretation of the word “harm” may push some species to—or over—the brink of extinction The post Changes to the Endangered Species Act threaten vu...
Duck of Minerva

Divided Government and Multilateral Assistance - In January of 2025, the Republican party gained “the trifecta,” controlling the Presidency and the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Since then, co...
Krebs on Security

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick - Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time f...
Greg Palast

Trump bombed…the audienceHe killed it at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner - I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the W...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Thirteen House Rating Changes Toward Democrats as Seat-by-Seat Assessment Better Aligns with Our November Expectations - We’re revamping our House ratings this week, which has the effect of bringing the number of seats at least leaning to each party to rough parity after re...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2026 - Censored Press News We’ve been researching and writing State of the Free Press 2027, to be published by The Censored Press in December. The 2027 yearbook...
Discourse

Ascending to the Big Mar-A-Lago in the Sky (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Odyssey talk, choice moments from Lindsey Graham's funeral, checking in on Mitch McConnell, and exciting (derogatory) developments at 60 Minutes
Seeing the Forest

Free Speech - Here’s a free speech question. Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his “Libtards” and “Econazis” were part of an organized, strategic effort...
Ecosophia

A Tome of Forbidden Technologies - Once again we’re near the end of a month with five Wednesdays, and as regular readers of this blog know well, that means that readers got to nominate and v...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Would You "Press a Button" For Genocide, Or Anything else? - This, of course, sounds like an absurd question, but it was less than two years ago that Eytan Weinstein, the co-host of "Two Nice Jewish Boys" Podcast ...
Texas Environmental News

IDJS-064 Maki -
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb (Full title: “Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall With Off-Ramp Bouquet”) There’s something stiffening out there ri...
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 ...
Texas Monthly

They Came to Protest ICE. On the Live Stream, Their Chants Were Drowned Out by a ‘Friday Night Lights’ Theme Song Knockoff. - In the aftermath of the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston City Council found a novel way to silence those who showed up to demonstrate.
Earthworks

Victory! Louisiana Residents Defeat Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project - Residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have defeated plans for what could have been the largest carbon sequestration and storage project … The post Vic...
Democracy Chronicles

Statesmen, Not Escalation - As global tensions rise, the world needs diplomatic leadership, not political brinkmanship that risks widening conflict.
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

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature - So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is act...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Equality Texas

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The Socialist

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Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
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...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
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

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
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

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
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

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
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

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why “Revolver” still matters: The 50th anniversary of a Beatles masterpiece - The band's 1966 album was so eclectic it seems on the verge of exploding

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