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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

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  • Dispatches from the Underclass
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  • LareDOS
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  • The Rag Blog
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  • Land Destroyer
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  • Idavox
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  • Dissident Voice
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  • Democracy Chronicles
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  • Second Nexus
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  • Screwston Antifascist Committee
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  • Moron Majority
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  • The Disorder Of Things
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  • Dandelion Salad
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  • Daily Dot
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  • Reform Austin
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  • Reveal
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  • ExChristian.Net
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  • Texas Monthly
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  • FrontBurner – D Magazine
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  • American Prospect
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  • Progressive Army
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  • Rio Grande Guardian
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  • GreenSource DFW
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  • Stinque
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  • Bud Kennedy
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  • Ring of Fire
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  • Southeast Texas Record
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  • Save Buffalo Bayou
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  • Texans For Public Justice
    New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
  • Political Garbage Chute
    Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
  • Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
    Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
  • Polygraph (global fact-check)
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  • 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
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  • Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center
    Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
  • New Progressive Alliance
    2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
  • Texas Watch
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  • BEYONDbones
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  • Border/Lines
    The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
  • Robert Reich
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  • Grits for Breakfast
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  • Right Wing Watch
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  • Dos Centavos
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  • Morning Consult
    Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
  • TXElects
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  • CT's short stories and novelettes
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  • The Intercept
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  • The Stars Hollow Gazette
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  • Shadowproof
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  • One People's Project
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  • 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
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  • FiveThirtyEight.com
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  • Tribune of the People
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  • Caitlin Johnstone
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  • So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)
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  • Lawfare
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  • In These Times
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  • News Junkie
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  • DBC Green
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  • Living Blue in Texas
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  • Eclectablog
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  • Echidne of the Snakes
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  • VICE
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  • Texas Moratorium Network
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  • BillMoyers.com
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  • Chicken Fried Politics
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  • The Contributor
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  • Liberal America
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  • Malady
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  • Freethought Now
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  • Houston Press
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    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."
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  • PBD - Progressive Blog Digest
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  • Latino Decisions
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  • TomDispatch
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  • Art Killing Apathy
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  • Defend our Movements
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  • Better Texas Blog
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  • Texas Rural Voices
    “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
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  • Austin 360
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  • Think 3 Institute
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  • IVN
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  • Modern Democracy
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  • The Metaphor Project
    Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
  • Truthout
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  • 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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