Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Raw Story

Trump's FDA head fighting to retain power as infighting roils agency: report - Dr. Marty Makary is scrambling to hang onto his powers as the Food and Drug Administration commissioner as Health and Human Services head Robert F. Kenne...
Mediaite

Fox Host Decries ‘Violence We’re Seeing Is On the Left’ and Not the Right After Alina Habba Targeted - Fox News’ Rachel Campos-Duffy insisted on Saturday that political violence is a “leftist problem” and people need to stop saying it comes from “both side...
Undernews

Trump regime opens up millions of Arctic land to fossil fuel drilling - *RBReich* - The Trump regime just killed a rule protecting millions of acres of western Arctic lands from fossil fuel drilling. It’s yet another giveaway ...
Salon.com

Megyn Kelly minimizes Epstein’s abuse and faces backlash - Kelly said Epstein favored 15-year-olds, not children, sparking backlash from The Daily Show and survivor advocates
The Hill

The abundance agenda sounds like a political winner, but it isn't - The abundance mindset is a luxury that people actively in the throes of scarcity cannot, literally or figuratively, afford.
Slate

The Biggest Failure in a Century of Sneakers Is Now Complete. It’s Almost Unbelievable How We Got Here. - In 103 years, there’s never been a flameout quite like this.
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for November 10 - 14 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The trends of strong retail spending, a weak US$, and strength in comm...
Futurism

Akon Arrested After Cybertruck Mishap - Whoops! The post Akon Arrested After Cybertruck Mishap appeared first on Futurism.
Daily Dot

“I see dead people”: 20 unforgettable movie scenes that still give people chills - [image: movie scenes that still give people chills] Media is created to share a human connection, to elicit emotions and feelings in the viewer or reader...
Eschaton

Vance Glancing At His Watch - On one hand, if Trump bites it, everyone will hate Vance even more. On the other hand, Vance is an actual Nazi instead of just someone with some Nazi-adjac...
memeorandum

Complaint says Sens. Blackburn, Hagerty broke ethics rules voting for 'financial windfall' (Vivian Jones/The Tennessean) - Vivian Jones / The Tennessean: *Complaint says Sens. Blackburn, Hagerty broke ethics rules voting for ‘financial windfall’* … A complaint has been filed ...
Courthouse News

French exhibition highlights domestic industry amid push for strategic autonomy - From Saturday to Sunday, the Elysée Palace is hosting “The Great Exhibition of Made in France,” a showcase of French-made products across a vast range of s...
NPR's Health Shots

A stock of U.S.-bought birth control, meant for sub-Saharan Africa, goes bad in Belgium - Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives have been stored in Belgium since the U.S. froze foreign aid. A local official says some products were stored i...
ArcaMax

Shutdown Surrender Is Political Suicide for Democrats - Democrats think they run against Republicans. Republicans think they run against Democrats. When swing voters existed as a significant segment of the elect...
Grist

‘Everyone is exhausted’: First week of COP30 marked by frustration with slow progress - Experts say stifling bureaucratic procedures that are disconnected from the climate crisis have consistently stalled COP negotiations.
The Verge

Framework’s franken-laptop is back with big chip upgrades and familiar frustrations - Framework did it again. It promised modular, upgradeable, and user-repairable laptops where other manufacturers dare not venture or have outright failed. A...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: An Anti-Monopolist Takes Manhattan - Lina Khan joins forces with Zohran Mamdani, a “rent-a-bank” loophole gets plugged, a legendary river is unleashed, and data spies are compromised.
Al Jazeera English

DRC, Rwanda-backed M23 sign framework deal for peace after talks in Qatar - The agreement is not expected to immediately change things on the ground, but to move forward a larger peace process.
Scheerpost.com

‘Unlawful Coercion’: Trump Can’t Withhold Funds or Demand Payment From UC, Federal Judge Rules - By Mikhail Zinshteyn / CalMatters A California federal judge ruled today that Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would...
Vox

The US is still a magnet for top foreign students — for now - For most of the 20th century, the center of gravity in science was anywhere but the US. On the eve of World War II, the great laboratories were in Europe, ...
Axios

Retailers are locked in a Thanksgiving turkey price war - Retailers are locked in a Thanksgiving turkey price war, cutting into margins to hold onto cost-conscious consumers. *Why it matters:* Americans are feel...
Political Wire

For Your Weekend Listening - The latest episode of Trial Balloon is live for members. Was the government shutdown really worth it? Join now to continue reading. Members get exclusive a...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Mamdani’s appointment of Lina Khan a warning to private equity, experts say - Ex-FTC chair was among first to go after practice of folding local firms into larger ones leading to higher prices Experts say New York mayor-elect Zohra...
Socialist Alternative

Seven Of Nine Planetary Boundaries Flashing Red - A major new review conducted by the scientific laboratory at Germany’s The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, in collaboration with researchers...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Politics of Division - Pett lays it out: It’s not so much that people resent the wealthy. It’s that they resent the wealthy standing on their throats. They resent living paycheck...
Mediagazer

A look at Boston University's local news partnership, which provides local Boston news outlets with edited student-written articles they commission or approve (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab) - Sarah Scire / Nieman Lab: *A look at Boston University's local news partnership, which provides local Boston news outlets with edited student-written art...
naked capitalism

Links 11/15/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘This Is What Sent Him Over the Edge’: MTG Releases Texts She Sent Trump About Epstein -
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Dumps ‘Wacky’ MTG in Major MAGA Rift - [image: Marjorie Taylor Greene, People's Convention, 2024] Donald Trump on Friday night called out Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), formerly one of his ...
Skeptophilia

A handful of fragments - I've written here before about the tragedy of lost books -- and that prior to the invention of the printing press, the great likelihood is that most of t...
Crooked Media

James Talarico Wants to Fight with Love - The post James Talarico Wants to Fight with Love appeared first on Crooked Media.
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: Westfield Place - The local businesses and outdoor spaces have helped Isaac Martinez build routines and feel more at home in the Westfield Place community. -----------------...
Off The Kuff

Trump Justice Department joins lawsuit against California redistricting - I suppose this was inevitable. The Justice Department on Thursday sued to block new congressional district boundaries approved by California voters last we...
The Root

Klay Thompson Defends Girlfriend Megan Thee Stallion - The internet is calling NBA Star Klay Thompson a real man for defending his girlfriend, Megan Thee Stallion. Read more...
ProPublica

A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second - The post A Tale of Two Terms: How Powerful Figures Were Prosecuted in Trump’s First Term, Then Pardoned in His Second appeared first on ProPublica .
Infidel753

Link round-up for 15 November 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Please note -- my e-mail address has changed. For the new one, click on ...
Mother Jones

In a Mississippi Jail, Inmates Became Weapons - Chris Mack has been locked up in Mississippi’s Rankin County Jail on and off since he was a teenager. In a lawsuit, he detailed a jailhouse assault that le...
The Week

Massacre in the favela: Rio’s police take on the gangs - The ‘defence operation’ killed 132 suspected gang members, but could spark ‘more hatred and revenge’
jobsanger

Trump Is Scared Of What's In The Epstein Files -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1471: Jamestown and Suicide - Episode: 1471 Some thoughts about immigrants, depression, suicide & Jamestown. Today, a story about Jamestown and self-destruction.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Taking Flight - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

More than 1,000 artists and labels join international campaign to remove their music from Israel - No Music for Genocide and the response of large numbers of performers and musicians speak to the broad leftward shift currently under way.
Informed Comment

Why Jewish Squatter Violence in the West Bank is Skyrocketing - As with the Gaza atrocities, 1 in every 5 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in 2025 across the West Bank is a child
Liberation News

Victory of Katie Wilson for Seattle mayor another signal of political shift in the U.S. - A Wilson victory opens the door for progressives and working people to demand that she not only fight for the reforms she promised, but go beyond them.
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | November 14, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | November 14, 2025 barry Fri, 11/14/2025 - 22:49
Counterpunch

Strike While the Needle is Hot w/ Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block - On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block, authors of the new book, Strike While the...
Techdirt.

Nut Huggers Apparel Plans To Battle Back Against Bullshit Buc-ee’s Bullying - We’ve written about Buc-ee’s a couple of times recently, given the famed convenience store chain of the south’s aspirations to become the Monster Energy of...
Deadline Politics

More Trump Vs. BBC: POTUS Vows To Sue UK Broadcaster For Up To $5B, Despite Getting Requested Apology - If the BBC thought it had placated Donald Trump and threats of a billion dollar lawsuit with an apology over its misleading documentary edit, POTUS made it...
Ian Welsh

Your Late Friday Dose of Crap Economic News - Good heavens the economic bad news is piling up like a bad car wreck. In that case, let’s do some serious rubberknecking, folks, because there is a lot of ...
Alternet

'This is what sent him over the edge': MTG releases texts she sent Trump about Epstein - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is now responding to President Donald Trump's attacks on her and his push for her ouster in next year's Republican pr...
Workers World

Long March for Mumia! - [image: Long March for Mumia!] The following is based on a lightly edited post from Zayid Muhammad in support of the Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2025 March for Mumia: ...
See You In 2020

The struggle against the KKE is a struggle against stagnation & complacency within Marxism - To understand why myself and many other Marxists have decided to combat the KKE, one must consider the generational divide that’s coming to define our e...
Popular Resistance

Let The Sudanese People Walk Toward Peace - In early November, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the ‘horrifying crisis in Sudan, which is spiralling out of control’....
The Greanville Post

HE KNEW: Trump ROCKED by EXPLOSIVE Epstein Leaks - DD—Summary The transcript covers a detailed discussion and analysis of newly released emails and documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, obtained from his at...
Ballot Access News

Four Recent California Gubernatorial Polls All Show Chad Bianco, a Republican, in First Place - Newsweek has this description of four recent gubernatorial polls in California, all showing a Republican leading. Some of the story discusses the possibili...
Progressive.org

Talking ‘Bout a Revolution - Ken Burns’s new documentary chronicles 1776 and beyond, focusing on the roles played by enslaved people and Indigenous tribes.
Dissident Voice

The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire - The difference between people who supported the British Empire and people who support the US Empire is that those who supported the British Empire knew t...
San Antonio Current

31 San Antonio restaurants that have closed so far this year - [image: Good Time Charlie's has been a popular north-of-downtown gathering place for nearly five decades.] It's been a rough year for the San Antonio rest...
The AltWorld

U.S. business-as-usual as Trump bombs the poorest country on Earth - Warmongering Trump is shaping up the American capitalist business-as-usual to be even more criminal and out of […] The post U.S. business-as-usual as Tru...
Reform Austin

Texas A&M Restricts Race, Gender, and Syllabus Content - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas A&M University System’s board of regents on Thursday unanimously approved a new polic...
Election Law Blog

“Indiana redistricting push likely dead despite White House pressure” - Politico: President Donald Trump’s effort to force mid-decade redistricting suffered a major setback Friday, after Indiana’s GOP state Senate leader decl...
CultureMap Houston

Catching up with Houston's new British Consul-General and top UK designer - British *aesthetics and sensibilities* have recently been front-and-center in everything from sartorial choices to residential design. From *Cottagecore to...
Consortium News

US Inequality Is Way Past Revolution Time - New Report: The rich are richer than the Gilded Age and half of all U.S. children live in poverty, writes Lee Camp. By Lee Camp Lee Camp & Dangerous Ideas ...
Sludge

Fact Check: Musk Repeats Social Security Conspiracy on Joe Rogan Podcast - Musk recycled his claims of "massive fraud" in the Social Security program, this time saying it caused the recent government shutdown—and again, faced no f...
The NM Political Report

In Dem. primary for governor, former Las Cruces mayor talks pro-oil, anti-minimum wage agenda - Ken Miyashima is hoping to be the next governor, many of the voters he needs do not know which party’s nomination he is trying to capture. For Miyagishim...
Wolf Street

Government Sold $694 Billion of Treasuries this Week, Debt Hits $38.2 Trillion, Treasury Yields Rise Further, Shift to T-Bills Begins - Long-term Treasury yields under pressure, amid large auctions of notes and bonds, despite shift to T-bills.
The Militant

Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract - RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers...
Mondoweiss

Why normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia won’t happen now, regardless of what Trump wants - [image: President Donald Trump takes part in a U.S. - Saudi investment forum at the King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center, Tuesday, May 13, 2025,...
Church and State

‘Change is happening, it’s just painfully slow’ - “Climate is our biggest war” says Ana Toni, chief executive of COP30. Hopes are high. Expectations are low.
El Paso Matters

Here are the ‘I Voted’ stickers El Pasoans will get at the polls in 2026 election - The El Paso County Elections Department selected student artwork for its “I Voted” and “Future Voter” stickers, continuing a local tradition that celebr...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EPSTEIN IS THE MONSTER AND THE CREATOR EDITION. - *Robert Christgau told us about these guys.And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!* A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw somethi...
OpEd News

Conferences, talks, news and actions on day 769 - On this 769th day of the ongoing genocide/holocaust in Gaza, the situation remains dire. Since Trump touted a ceasefire dubbed a peace deal, Israeli occupa...
Texas Standard

New list serves up 100 of Houston’s best restaurants - The Houston Chronicle’s rankings features a wide price range and hearty helping of the diversity found among the city’s cuisine.
LareDOS

No more fat Generals and Admirals, No more Beardos! - Hegseth's comedic arrogance: In Vietnam he would have made a very ineffective platoon leader and kept in the rear
Second Nexus

Meghan Trainor Slams Backlash Over Her Weight Loss—And Reveals She 'Didn't Believe' Body-Positive Message In 'All About That Bass' - It may have been “all about that bass” in 2014, but in 2025, it’s apparently all about Meghan Trainor’s weight loss, or so the internet has decided. Onc...
Common Dreams

Citizens Groups and Experts Warn Federal Officials that Recent Trump Executive Orders Would Decimate Standards for Radiation Exposure - Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal offic...
SCOTUSblog

Justices evaluate limits of the compassionate-release statute - In Fernandez v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, argued on Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered what constitutes permissible grounds for...
Capital & Main

Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil Drilling Near Denver Suburbs? Residents Hope So. - Threatened northern leopard frogs found near site of what would be one of state's largest fossil fuel operations. The post Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil...
Independent Political Report

Mike Collier Announces Independent Bid for Texas Lt. Governor in 2026 - Mike Collier, a former two-time Democratic nominee for Texas lieutenant governor, has announced that he will seek the position again in 2026, this time m...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas A&M’s New Policy Is a Blueprint for Institutionalized Censorship — And a Warning for the Nation - * Friends,* *This is all so surreal. The Texas A&M University System decided yesterday to restrict any course that “advocates race or gender ideology, or...
Daily Howler

THE DISAPPEARED: What happens on the Gutfeld! program? - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025* *And why does it get disappeared?* A highly unusual thing takes place near the end of Amanda Hess's profile of the *Gutfeld**...
Angry Bear

The student loan shock - – by New Deal democrat Earlier this week, I wrote about 4 current shocks to the US economy (tariffs, medical insurance increases, SNAP payments, and AI ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Glasstire

Una invitación abierta a pensar, leer y escribir sobre arte de una manera crítica - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota de la editora: este artículo fue publicado originalmente en i...
Rewire

Immigrant Women More Exposed to Breast Cancer Risks At Work - Occupations predominated by immigrant women came with significant exposures to cancer-linked chemicals, a new study finds. The post Immigrant Women More...
Space City Weather

Autumn eludes Houston over the next several days with near record warmth early next week - In brief: Near record high temperatures will settle in over Houston, along with a burst of high humidity early next week. Our next front is penciled in for...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Democracy Now!

How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory - Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is less than two months away from taking office in New York City. Mamdani’s history-making campaign, grounded in community organ...
The Conversation

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress - The mayor-elect can use his popularity to protect New York’s capacity for self-government from outside interference, while reaffirming what his campaign pr...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Did Hitler Have a Micro Weenie?” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Battles over academic freedom and executive power today’s episode of “DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiri...
Texas Observer

At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance - On a stone slab by the cold waters of Austin’s Barton Springs, transgender Texans celebrate existence. Against the best efforts of the state, they’re sti...
Dorf on Law

The Unwarranted Freakout Over the Cert Petition Seeking Overturning of the Same-Sex Marriage Right - On Monday, the Supreme Court denied a *certiorari *petition by Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue licenses to same-sex couples. In...
High Country News

Can AI translate Native languages in times of disaster? - In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty. The post Can AI transl...
Brad Blog

Trump DOJ Takes Stand for Voting Whites in CA: 'BradCast' 11/13/2025 - Tying up a few loose ends as another insane week wraps up on The BradCast today. But with a few laughs along the way and a song to help us over the finish ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/14/2025 - 06:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Antiwar.com

Netanyahu Cabinet’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide - Recently, a classified report by a U.S. government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed “many hundreds” of potential violations o...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict - BY LAMAR HANKINS / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaus...
slacktivist

‘Political violence’ and Johnny and Nina - You can run on for a long time, run on for a long time, run on for a long time, but sooner or later ...
Discourse

We Need to Be Bullying Political Nepo Babies More - If we do it to Colin Hanks we should be doing it to Jack Schlossberg.
Krebs on Security

Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad - Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers im...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispanic and Asian Voters Shifted, and a Place Where Politics May Still be Local - Deeper analysis of the VA/NJ 2025 contests, as well as two House rating changes The post Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispani...
Earth 911

11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey - After the plates are cleared today, we bet you’ll have at least one thing left... The post 11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey appeared first on Earth9...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the 'HB & HM' archives - 'America owes drag queens a huge apology' - *E**ditor's note - Because of what we have learned on Wednesday with regards to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and what it MAY lead to in the future, ...
The Grayzone

White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show - Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates’ attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they cle...
ExChristian.Net

Former pastor gets maximum sentence after thousands of child pornography images found - *GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - * A former youth pastor in South Carolina has been sentenced to federal prison after appearing in court on Tue...
Texas Freedom Network

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

Immigration Policies Take A Toll On The Texas Economy - Almost a quarter of ICE arrests have occurred in Texas, inflicting widespread reverberations on the state's economy
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
DeSmogBlog

Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his ‘Passion’ for Science - Jason Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, has for years claimed that his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most a...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel - The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Changing Discourse, Our Unconscious Society, Neo-Nazism, and More - I answer subscriber questions and get into the topics you want to talk about
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Environment Texas

Forget Black Friday, join us for National Clothing Swap Day - Reduce unnecessary waste this holiday season by hosting your own clothing swap for National Clothing Swap Day. The post Forget Black Friday, join us for ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Project Censored

#1. ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal age...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
Bracing Views

Working Toward Peace - Imagine if Veterans Day Became Obsolete BILL ASTORE NOV 11, 2025 Today is Veterans Day, though of course November 11th was originally Armistice Day to mark...
NORML

Veterans Are Still Being Denied Medical Cannabis Access - [image: A closeup of a military uniform with a cannabis leaf patch on the sleeve representing marijuana and veterans issues][image: A closeup of a milita...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 11-16 News Roundup & OT - The fallout from the 8 caving Dem/Indy senators continues after the jump. Join us in the conversation!
Alas, a Blog

What Freedom Looks Like - Another collab between me and Nadine Scholtes. I have a big and overwhelming project with a deadline in just a bit over a month; I don’t expect to be parti...
Crooked Timber

Armistice Day - 114 years ago, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914, and has continued, in o...
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
Moron Majority

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

Vale’s Problematic Indonesia Track Record - As eyes turn to Brazil, host of this year’s COP30 climate conference, Brazilian mining giant Vale is trying to position … The post Vale’s Problematic In...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
WAWG Blog

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

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
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 ...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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