Brains and Eggs: Sunday Auld Lang Syne Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Futurism

Entire US Airspace Shut Down Days After the FAA Rolled Out an AI Air Traffic Tool. Was It a Coincidence? - Top officials are investigating. The post Entire US Airspace Shut Down Days After the FAA Rolled Out an AI Air Traffic Tool. Was It a Coincidence? appear...
El Paso Matters

Flights halted at airports across US, including El Paso, due to air traffic control communications problems, FAA says - The Federal Aviation Administration order applies to departing flights while allowing those planes already in the air to land. It’s unclear if those wil...
Raw Story

Trump to meet Xi and Putin for first-ever summit over a deal he’s long sought: report - President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin next Thursday in China for talks expected to cent...
Al Jazeera English

Rescue efforts under way after tanker strikes river cruise boat in US - American Heritage paddleboat with 129 passengers on board is partially submerged on Mississippi River in New Orleans.
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific - India: Punjab health mission workers continue statewide strike; Bangladesh: Garment workers renew protests for higher minimum wage; Sri Lankan development ...
The Greanville Post

DIALOGUE WORKS DISPATCH: Amb. Chas Freeman: Iran Says It Destroyed U.S. Radar in Bahrain With Suicide Drones - DW—This video features an interview with Ambassador Chas Freeman discussing the escalating tensions in West Asia and the implications of the ongoing confli...
Political Wire

Trump Approval at 32% - A new The Economist/YouGov poll finds Donald Trump’s approval at 32%, while 63% disapprove. Trump Approval Approve 32% Disapprove 63% The Economist/You...
IVN

Are Outages from Microsoft and the FAA related? - A massive Microsoft outage Thursday disrupted communications globally, followed by an FAA ground stop Friday. While the timing raises questions, there is n...
Workers World

Iran condemns airstrikes on Yemen, calls for end to attacks and blockade - [image: Iran condemns airstrikes on Yemen, calls for end to attacks and blockade] The Tehran-based Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) published the follo...
Houston Public Media

‘Satisfactory Performer’: How a Serial Polluter Keeps Thriving in Texas - Despite years of environmental violations and workplace accidents, Formosa Plastics hasn’t been subjected to meaningful discipline. What more would it take?
Alternet

Stacey Abrams asked filmmaker to keep potentially explosive doc under wraps - If it were up to *Selma* director Ava DuVernay, her upcoming documentary *14th* would have been released a lot sooner than the global Netflix release on ...
ProPublica

Ethics Watchdog Urges Investigation Into Top Health Official, Alleging Conflict of Interest Over Hormone Therapy Policy - The post Ethics Watchdog Urges Investigation Into Top Health Official, Alleging Conflict of Interest Over Hormone Therapy Policy appeared first on ProPub...
Vox

Why the left and right are both cheering Jensen Huang’s downfall - Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s sudden downfall is in a sense shocking, considering his wealth, global fame, and role leading what was until recently the ...
Dorf on Law

Post-Stalinist Republicanism and the Urgent Need for Democrats to Be Bold - Six years ago today, it still seemed plausible that Donald Trump would soon get over his tantrum after losing his reelection bid and that he would in due...
Deadline Politics

Networks Scramble To Report On Reasons Behind “Extraordinary” Nationwide Ground Stop Of All U.S. Flights - UPDATED: Networks scrambled find the reasons behind on a highly unusual nationwide ground stop ordered by the FAA on Friday due to “extraordinary circumsta...
Mediaite

Son of Ex-CIA Director John Brennan Nabbed on Child Pornography Charges: Feds - The son of former CIA director John Brennan has been charged by federal authorities with transportation of child pornography, according to reports. The p...
slacktivist

LBCF: Dissipation - Hattie refuses to be merely a sexless and submissive helpmeet, so she is condemned as a slut. These are, in the world of Left Behind, binary options for wo...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New Orleans boat crash: tanker collides with river cruise ship carrying more than 130 people – latest updates - Rescue efforts under way as American Heritage takes on water; governor confirms incident in Mississippi River - Tanker collides with cruise sh...
Undernews

Some useful questions and answers about flying - *CLICK FOR STORY*
Axios

Mississippi River cruise ship struck by tanker in New Orleans - More than 129 people were onboard a Mississippi River cruise ship Friday when the Atlantic Asphalt tanker collided with it, according to a press release ...
Mother Jones

Industry Groups Touted Gas as a “Constitutional Right.” These Voters Weren’t Having It. - When Coloradans voted last week to reject an amendment that would have enshrined a right to natural gas in their state constitution, they also rebuffed a l...
The Verge

CMF’s milk carton-shaped Bluetooth speaker is down to a new low price - Bluetooth speakers are often boring boxes in plain colors, but not this one! As part of Nothing’s ongoing early Black Friday promo, you can grab its unique...
Brad Blog

Examining Trump’s Evidence-Free 2026 Claim of Midterm Election Fraud - There he goes again. Donald Trump, in a “Truth Social” post at 10:07 AM on Monday, November 9, claimed, without evidence, that the 2026 Midterm Elections w...
The Militant

Mass protest in Philadelphia confronts Jew hating thugs - PHILADELPHIA — In a victory against Jew-hatred, at least 1,000 Jews and their supporters turned out here Nov. 8 to support six restaurants owned by Jews wh...
The Week

Trump is threatening to investigate the investigators. Can he do that? - Congressional Democrats say they will do oversight despite White House threats
Eschaton

Afternoon - Busy with some things.
Courthouse News

EU leaders meet in Dublin to chart Europe’s AI future - Europe is eager to catch up with America and China in the artificial intelligence race. EU leaders say Europe has the technology, capital and talent to giv...
Novara Media

Global Institutions Reeling After Microsoft Outage - Global public and private reliance on Microsoft’s systems have been thrown into sharp relief as an outage affects economies and institutions the world over...
Grist

Indigenous leaders at COP31 say it’s past time to turn promises into action - As climate disasters mount, Indigenous advocates are pushing governments to follow through on commitments made at previous global climate summits.
San Antonio Current

Theatre Arts Department at San Antonio’s UIW presenting run of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler - Ibsen is widely considered the 'father of modern drama,' and the play is one of his best known. The post Theatre Arts Department at San Antonio’s UIW p...
Church and State

John’s Gospel Is the Worst of the Four - There is a consensus that John’s gospel was the last to be written, perhaps 70 or 80 years after the death of Jesus.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: MAHA Bites, Economic Growth Is a Dead End, New Politics, Old Politics, American Science on the Ropes But Still Productive - Part the First: MAHA in Action Leads to Fatal Inaction. Vitamin K was discovered nearly a hundred years ago as a compound necessary for efficient blood cl...
Common Dreams

Our Revolution Endorses Chris Van Hollen for Senate Majority Leader - Our Revolution, the nation’s largest grassroots progressive organization endorsed Sen. Chris Van Hollen for Senate majority leader and urged Senate Democ...
First Draft

Blue Bayou - Cheers to Roy Orbison and Joe Melson.
Slate

My Nephew Ruined My Parents’ Wedding Anniversary. Or So Everyone Thought. - This kid is trouble.
The Daily Poster

Can You Count Votes? - Test your knowledge of the midterms, Congress, and other issues that really matter.
Wolf Street

PPI Inflation Rages in the Revisions? Businesses Hit by 6.5% Inflation, Worst since 2022 - Upward revisions pushed prior month-to-month PPI readings off the chart.
Ballot Access News

Maryland Libertarian Party Will Submit Party Petition Soon - The Libertarian Party will submit its Maryland petition for party status in 2028 and 2030 soon, either this month or the first week of December.
Election Law Blog

Trump Administration Rewards Loyal Former EAC Commissioner Christy McCormick with Nomination as Ambassador to North Macedonia - Democracy Docket reports. The post Trump Administration Rewards Loyal Former EAC Commissioner Christy McCormick with Nomination as Ambassador to North Ma...
Sludge

Jeffries and Aguilar Top House Democrats in Corporate PAC Cash - The two leaders rank first and second among all House Democrats in corporate PAC fundraising as a record number of lawmakers are pledging to reject corpora...
Mediagazer

US journalism organizations, including ONA and OpenNews, are pausing conferences and cutting staff amid declining sponsor and funder dollars and soaring costs (Laura Hazard Owen/Nieman Lab) - Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: *US journalism organizations, including ONA and OpenNews, are pausing conferences and cutting staff amid declining sponso...
The Hill

Democratic Sen.-elect Flanagan backs Van Hollen over Schumer - Democratic Sen.-elect Peggy Flanagan of Minnesota announced Friday that she’s backing Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in his challenge to Sen. Chuck Schumer ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's social set goes wild for a $2.1 million night at the Zoo - After last year’s rain-soaked affair, the forecast for Houston Zoo’s annual black-tie gala was considerably brighter. Mother Nature apparently got the memo...
Angry Bear

The 3+ year equilibrium in the existing home market has broken – to the downside - – by New Deal democrat I’ll discuss this morning’s producer price index release later. First, though, let me catch up on yesterday’s report on existing ...
Daily Howler

AMERICANA: Are these the days of miracle, wonder? - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2026* *Republican voters choose Donalds:* "These are the days of miracle and wonder?" Paul Simon said it long ago. It was a key...
Consortium News

WATCH: Jen Robinson Wins Sydney Peace Prize - Julian Assange’s lawyer was awarded the Peace Prize at an event in Sydney on Thursday in recognition of “her unwavering commitment to international law, … ...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist and Albuquerque Paper Accused of Racism - While the Albuquerque Journal is celebrating 50 years of John Trevor cartoons (or here) it is also dealing with an accusation by the Indigenous Journalists...
Bonddad

October producer prices confirm pressures spreading to services upstream - - *by New Deal democrat* I don’t normally pay that much attention to producer prices. Back in the day, producer prices used to lead consumer prices ...
San Antonio Report

Centro looks to fill void left by NIOSA pause with Guayabera Fest in 2027 - The event dates coincide with the same days NIOSA would have been held in 2027 before it was paused by Conservation Society leaders in September. ----------...
NPR's Health Shots

How Sen. Chris Van Hollen plans to flex Democratic power on the foreign aid front - The Maryland Democrat, who's the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, just announced he's going to run for Majority Leader. He spok...
Texas Standard

It’s not us, it’s you: Why Collin County voters broke up with Ken Paxton - Collin County voters broke up with Ken Paxton after launching – and sustaining – his political career. How did we get here?
The Root

Rihanna’s 3-Year-Old Son Steals the Spotlight in His Adorable Magazine Cover Debut - Rihanna and A$AP Rocky's second-born son, Riot Rose, has fans losing their minds over how cute he is in his debut cover shoot for Arena Homme+. Read more...
Mondoweiss

Aid organizations in Gaza are pulling back, leaving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without food - [image: Palestinians carry food parcels distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Palestinians in Gaza are being routinely killed while attempting t...
SCOTUSblog

This term is not just short on blockbuster cases. It’s short on cases, period. - As the 2026-27 term got underway this fall, several commentators observed that it was shaping up to be a quiet term compared to the one before it. There ...
WhoWhatWhy

What Explains a Stephen Miller? - [image: Stephen Miller, reporters, White House, lawn] “Black hole, black hole — are your eyes as empty as they look?” (Josh Ritter, “Rattling Locks”) What...
Independent Political Report

Tennessee Libertarian Chair Sees Conservative Dissatisfaction as Opportunity to Grow Party - The chair of the Libertarian Party of Tennessee is encouraging dissatisfied Republicans to consider joining the Libertarian Party, arguing that the GOP c...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Political divide threatens Kurdish autonomy; US urges unity - Editor's note: this story was translated from the original VOA Kurdish article. Last week's withdrawal of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan from the Iraqi K...
Ian Welsh

The Resignation of NVidia’s Jensen Huang - As you may have heard, Jensen Huang has stepped down as CEO of NVidia (the most valuable company in the world) due to allegations he was sleeping with a Ch...
Socialist Alternative

AI Bubble About To Burst? No Tech Billionaire Bailouts! - The signs are starting to appear. OpenAI was forced to cut its fundraising target by $10 billion as it struggled to secure investor commitments. AI-specifi...
Democracy Now!

The Rule of Law Project: New Effort Launched to Probe Corruption & State Violence in U.S. - As Democrats prepare to take control of Congress in January, party leaders say they intend to hold Trump officials accountable with stepped-up hearings and...
Scheerpost.com

The Fight Over Democratic Party Leadership Mirrors The Wider Battle Over Israel - Michael Arria Mondoweiss “The issue is not me,” Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters after the Democrats won back the Senate. “I’ll be reelected as ...
The Conversation

Debate in New York City over city-run groceries is not just about food, but something bigger - Many shoppers don’t realize how much of a role the government already plays in grocery markets, because it’s usually not visible.
ArcaMax

What Colin Kaepernick Teaches Us About Staying Focused in a Blue Wave - Many white people have a hard time understanding that because a system works for them, that doesn't mean it works for everyone. And when they do understand...
Techdirt.

Trump’s Dodgy ‘Media Company’ Claims 205% Revenue Jump After Charging For Early Access To The President’s Brain Farts - The increasingly unpopular president’s ability to cash in on his position shows no sign of showing down. Earlier this year you might recall that Truth Soci...
Debunking Christianity

Healthy Ways to Escape from Religious Trauma - *Janice Selbie’s new book, The Guru Gene, is a crucial guide* Many years ago I knew a devout Catholic woman who was determined to get to heaven, so that...
Duck of Minerva

On the Virtues of Retrospective Book Reviews - I recently had the opportunity to review Michael A. Allen and Justin S. Vaughn’s edited volume, Poli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science through S...
Texas Observer

‘Satisfactory Performer’: How a Serial Polluter Keeps Thriving in Texas - This story was produced by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization based in Austin. POINT COMFORT, Texas — For more than four de...
Rallblog

Will Europe Derail Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas ...
Space City Weather

Houston’s delightful weather will give way to a bit of rain later this weekend - In brief: Houston may be turning the corner in terms of rainfall as winter approaches. Another storm system this weekend is likely to douse much of the are...
Rewire

How to Open Your Relationship: A Guide to Ethical Non-Monogamy - Boundaries help partners to enjoy romance and sexual pleasure with other people, writes sex columnist Vera Blossom. But don’t get too obsessed with rules.
The Smirking Chimp

The Daily Chimp for Friday, 13 November 2026 -
Off The Kuff

Some other views of how the election went - Here’s Derek Ryan‘s final report on the 2026 election. New Midterm Voters As mentioned in my report linked below, 2.7 million people who did not vote in ei...
Crooked Media

Will Dems Chuck Chuck? - The post Will Dems Chuck Chuck? appeared first on Crooked Media.
High Country News

Salton Sea communities push back on bill to fast-track development - The region’s residents already deal with toxic dust, but a permitting reform bill could exacerbate health impacts. The post Salton Sea communities push ...
The AltWorld

The Southern African Bi-Oceanic Railway Could Be A Game-Changer In The Sino-US New Cold War - All of Southern Africa will likely fall under the US’ “sphere of influence” and become the minerals […] The post The Southern African Bi-Oceanic Railway ...
Seeing the Forest

2028 Primaries Start Now For House, Senate and Presidency – Make Them Afraid - This post was first published at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people, because it belonged there. In th...
jobsanger

Incompetence And Betrayal -
Portside

Look Who Has a Southern Strategy - Look Who Has a Southern Strategy jay Fri, 11/13/2026 - 00:55
Informed Comment

Turkiye’s Erdogan at COP31 decries Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza, Calls for attendees to End Aid Blockade - He might have noted that of 2 million olive trees in Gaza before 2023, the Israelis destroyed at least 1.8 million of them.
Progressive.org

The Sex Worker Stories Hidden from U.S. History - Sex worker advocates team up with The New School for an interactive map project to highlight stories that have been erased.
Popular Resistance

Did Nvidia CEO Truly Have Affair With ‘Chinese Spy’? - US intelligence agencies claim CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia, one of the most powerful companies on Earth, had an affair with a Chinese spy. However, there ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report November 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Report November 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/13/2026 - 05:35 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Antiwar.com

How the US Brought War to Ukraine - Reprinted from World BEYOND War: If there is still someone out there who has persisted until now in the idea that Ukrainian history began in 2022, and tha...
memeorandum

Lutnick Fights for His Job as Trump Aides Blame Him for Nvidia Fallout (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Lutnick Fights for His Job as Trump Aides Blame Him for Nvidia Fallout* — The commerce secretary is under pressure due to his ina...
See You In 2020

Gen Z’s dystopian upbringing, and the mass rupture that will break us out of our stupor - The choice of the post-Covid generation is over whether to submit to the individualism that’s destroying our world, or become lions who fight alongside ...
The NM Political Report

Cumulus lays off more local radio staff after private equity buyout - [image: Illustration by The New Mexico News] By Pat Davis, The Paper. and The New Mexico News — New private equity owners of Cumulus Media initiated layof...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Election Has Changed. Will University Leaders Find Their Courage? by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Election Has Changed. Will University Leaders Find Their Courage?* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 12, 2026* Suzanne Nossel’s compelling Novem...
The Texas Signal

A Texas Author’s Exploration Of Colombian Violence - Adriana E. Ramirez's latest book, The Violence: My Family's Colombian War is a literary non-fiction account of the period in Colombia simply known as The V...
Glasstire

Fresh Arts Releases Results of Houston Artists Survey - Fresh Arts, a Houston nonprofit arts advocacy and resource organization, has released the results of its 2026 Greater Houston Artist Survey. The Fresh Ar...
Capital & Main

Democrats Have a Shot at Restoring Health Care - With some maneuvering, the new Congress could strike a deal with Trump to avert Medicaid cuts, the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies. The post ...
Greg Palast

Jim Crow ReloadedYou’ll need that 2% - Here’s the good news: They can’t steal all the votes all the time. It’s not about Musk’s space lasers but about ID requirements for folks who don’t have ca...
Bracing Views

Saving America - We Must Become Alert and Knowledgeable Citizens Again, Willing to Act Against Militarism and War BILL ASTORE NOV 11, 2026 Yesterday, I took part in a panel...
Earthworks

Community Leaders Speak Out Against BAAJA Permitting Bill - Earthworks asked leaders on the frontlines of mining, oil, and gas projects to share what BAAJA would mean for their communities. The post Community Lead...
The Progressive Wing

11/12 – 11/13 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, election updates, etc. in the comments.
Edinburg Politics

“It feels like a miracle what we have been able to accomplish for South Texas,” in the Texas Legislature, says Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, who predicts more successes beginning in 2027 - As part of the sweeping Democratic Party statewide victories on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, the Rio Grande Valley is likely to benefit even more from the Te...
Infidel753

What the Democrats should do - As of this writing, the Democrats will end up with at least 55 and probably 56 Senate seats, and about 260 House seats -- majorities bigger than almost an...
Environment Texas

Statement: Interior Department plans to sell off public lands - Strategic plan lays out goal of reducing acreage managed by federal government The post Statement: Interior Department plans to sell off public lands ap...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'2026 midterm fallout continues: Why GOP's $400 million anti-trans gambit failed with voters' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *As more fallout is felt from the Democratic Party's huge blue tsunami of victories last Tuesday, it's becoming clear that the reliance on anti-trans at...
Claytoonz

Gym’s Paper Trail - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 727 days until the presidential election. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Discourse

Chuck Schumer Must Go - ...but he probably won’t. Plus: Adam Jentleson’s pro-spanking agenda, “Talafreako,” and a Free Press doozy.
OpEd News

Toy tanks, small ball and dementia - Some news items not connected to the election for a change.
Krebs on Security

Who Runs the Ransomware Group Qilin? - The cybercrime group Qilin has emerged as the world's most active ransomware affiliate program, claiming at least 365 victim organizations in the past thre...
Liberation News

Final Ohio results disprove ‘spoiler’ nonsense about socialist Greg Levy - Levy’s support came from working-class communities of all types – all the places this political system has left out.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Soul in Judgment - As we proceed through Yeats’s A Vision, the intricacies of “The Completed Symbol” are past us now, the symbolic philosophy underlying the whole system is c...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The New Paradigm: The Post-Midterm Future is Taking Shape - We’re entering a new chapter of politics
Two Party Opera

Lost The South For a Generation - Read More
Land Destroyer

Why the US Can Never Match Chinese Shipbuilding - *October 17, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In a recent Business Insider article and accompanying video regarding the US’ $66 billion plan to “beat China...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: November 2026 - My link roundup skipped last month. In the last two months, the ace journal club talked about asexual literary theory, and sexual pain in Christian women....
Crooked Timber

Care ethics for people, consequentialism for governments, deontology for judges - (Disclaimer: as ought to be obvious, I’m not an academic philosopher and haven’t even read all that widely. But one way or another, everyone needs to think...
The Grayzone

NYPD silent on high profile antisemitic hate crime investigation, FOIA records reveal - One year since a strange hate crime marred the first hours of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new term, FOIA emails obtained by The Grayzone show the NYPD has...
MintPress News

Iran Strikes Back As The US Launches New Attacks In ‘Dramatic Escalation’ - The US carried out a wave of airstrikes against sites in southern Iran on Sunday, prompting a stern response from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (...
Democracy Chronicles

America Rejects Trumpism, What Can Democrats Do Now? - As a lifelong Southerner, seeing Georgia and Texas go blue, it’s what I’ve always thought, which is the South is in play.
NORML

Wisconsin: Lawmakers Announce Intentions to Advance Adult-Use Legalization - [image: green traffic light with cannabis sign][image: green traffic light with cannabis sign]"Wisconsin is among the nation’s leaders in marijuana posse...
Progressives Chat

Post-Election 2026: My Response - It is now one week following the 2026 United States midterm elections. The 2026 Democrats won majorities pickups to control the United States House of Re...
Media Lens

The Art Of Not Taking A View – ‘Pay Attention’ By Laura Kuenssberg - To be fair to Laura Kuenssberg, she admits that her new book, ‘Pay Attention’, is not ‘an academic tome’. (Kuenssberg, ‘Pay Attention’, Corsair, 2026, p.10...
Alas, a Blog

Secondhand Logic - With really inconvenient timing, my right shoulder went “screw you Deutsch, I’m outta here!” when I was just a few days away from finishing, and drawing be...
Project Censored

Independent News Then and Now - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with the publisher of The Progressive Magazine, Norman Stockwell. Stockwell is a v...
Unlimited Hangout

Creative Destruction: 9/11, Enron, and American Bitcoin - A lengthy investigation into the cross-section of players from the 9/11 insider trading scandal, the Enron accounting fraud and the Trump Family's Bitcoin ...
DeSmogBlog

How a French Oil Executive Is Working With the Trump Administration to ‘Kill’ Europe’s Methane Plan - A TotalEnergies executive is working with U.S. officials to delay the implementation of new European Union methane rules, raising questions over the comp...
Campaign for America's Future

Voters Pull Back the Curtain on Trump’s Lies - Midterm elections create a historic opportunity to offer people a vision for the future that welcomes them in, one they can help build. I am glad that vote...
Field Negro

Down Goes MAGA! - Well damn America, I guess you really are fed up with MAGA and their cult leader! I read this somewhere, so I can't take credit for it, but someone sai...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: I WAS BORN A WINNER EDITION. - *Two plus two is on my mind* Well -- that wasn’t *too* bad of a week, was is? I talked about the meaning of it in the first flush of victory at *Roy Ed...
Avedon's Sideshow

Election Digest - At current count, Dems picked up seven Senate seats for a total of 54, and we're still waiting to see if we get two more, which seems likely at the momen...
TalkLeft

Trump Double- Downs on Election Rejection: Promotes Stephen Miller - Donald Trump is either tone-deaf or truly hates America. He has promoted Stephen Miller to be his Chief of Staff , as the current holder of that position, ...
Web of Debt

Heads or Tails, Wall Street Wins: Saving Our Pensions From The Casino - “Most billionaires don’t park their money in making more businesses. They park their money in the stock market. That is not meaningfully investing in oppor...
Dissent Magazine

The Florida Project - What if the Democratic establishment had actually invested in Angie Nixon?
Lowering the Bar

Who’s to Blame for “Ballot Stacking”? I Guess Everybody - [image: image of the stacked Alaska ballot]It's ridiculous and deceptive—but sadly, some voters fall for it.
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Turned Blue. Now, the Real Work Begins. - A message from the Texas Freedom Network team It’s hard to put into words how we’re all feeling. But we’ll try. We knew this day would come, but it came ...
Salon.com

Goodbye from Salon - It has been an extraordinary privilege.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Mr. Bubble - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb Like many of us out here, I’d been watching the impending implosion of the AI “boom” (as they insist on calling...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2026 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in October 2026, including two fatal ones, one where an innocent bystander was killed in an argument between ot...
Idavox

The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost More Than $440 Million - Musk’s astronomical campaign contributions were no match for outraged voters across the US. Truthout Elon... The post The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost Mo...
Stinque

2026 Election Results - The post 2026 Election Results appeared first on Stinque.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Winner of the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The prize committee is pleased to announce that Maria Tanyag’s article, ‘Who cares for the carers? Patriarchal contradictions and the reinvention of the ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Conversation with an Election Expert: Breaking Down This Year’s Election Process - Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt has worked on elections for 25 years in the government, nonprofits, and academia. He addresses common voter quest...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Advertisement for The Rise of the New Normal Reich, including a Stupid Anti-Nazi Disclaimer for the German Authorities - Here we go again. The second edition of The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021), published by Tucker Carlson Books, ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway - Jeff Schapiro on Virginia's 2026 elections The post Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway appeared first on Sabato...
LareDOS

Avowed racist Bo French running for Texas Railroad Commissioner - His xenophobic sentiments evidence a lack of character
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Texas Monthly

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

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
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 ...
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...
The Mind Unleashed

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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...
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 ...
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:
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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....
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 ...

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Sunday, December 30, 2018

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