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

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

Grist

Can Mamdani supercharge New York’s clean energy revolution? - New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani promised power to the people. Clean energy advocates want him to take that literally.
Slate

The Two Internet Villains Staging a Comeback - Fans have rejected their attempts to return. So why do they keep coming back?
Al Jazeera English

Israeli attack on refugee camp in Lebanon opens “very dangerous door” - “ This could open the door to some major escalation now, in the near future.”
Dissident Voice

Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza and Israeli Policy - According to its website, the mission of Al-Majd Europe, yet another odd charity organisation operating in the mash and rubble of Gaza, is “dedicated to ...
High Country News

‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural tourism’ - #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region. The post ‘Our mission is to change the world through eco-cultural touris...
Raw Story

'Ballroom bribery': Democrats hit Trump with bill for White House renovation - Democrats are hoping to introduce a bill that would bring transparency to Donald Trump's White House renovation project. The "Stop Ballroom Bribery Act"...
Earth 911

13 Green Tips That Can Save You Over $5,000 a Year - Simple shifts to greener versions of the products you already use can save you more... The post 13 Green Tips That Can Save You Over $5,000 a Year appear...
Common Dreams

We Go As We Please: What the Fuck Is Wrong With Y'all - The American Gestapo's brutish, racist, unholy crusade rampages on. They've now left Chicago - trailing tear gas, court losses, manifest lies, the wrath ...
Mediagazer

TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: *TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for l...
Rallblog

Good News! The Enemy Are Democrats! - Polls showed that voters were blaming Republicans, not Democrats, for the shutdown. Nevertheless, Democrats caved in completely to the Republicans. It wa...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘We shoot at the good guys’: the role-players who train US troops – in pictures - Photographer Claire Beckett captured the soldiers and civilians who dress up as Afghans and Iraqis in military bases across America. They play everything...
The Week

Americans traveling abroad face renewed criticism in the Trump era - Some of Trump’s behavior has Americans being questioned
Consortium News

Craig Murray: How Britain Can Lose Its UN Veto - The U.S. abuse of its veto power at the U.N. to continue the Gaza genocide has intensified interest in cracking open the structure of the Security Council....
Counterpunch

One Aircraft Carrier or Health Care Coverage for Tens of Thousands? - There’s an old protest sign I can’t stop thinking about. It read, “It will be a great day in America when our schools have all the money that they need a...
jobsanger

Trump's Shocking Corruption Continues Unabated -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3341: The McCulloch-Pitts Model - Episode: 3341 How Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts laid the foundation for current AI research. Today, the origin of artificial neural networks.
The Verge

Meross’ radar presence sensor ditches the cord and adds Matter-over-Thread support - Meross has announced a new version of its MS600 presence sensor that’s now battery-powered, so installation isn’t limited to places where you can camouflag...
World Socialist Web Site

Trump welcomes Saudi prince: Billionaire murderers meet at the White House - The visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman culminated in a lavish dinner in his honor with dozens of Wall Street executives and other billionaires.
Election Law Blog

“Dark money groups pour cash into fight over gerrymandered Missouri congressional map” - Missouri Independent reports: Voters across Missouri late last week received a text message urging them to take their names off petitions they may have “...
Informed Comment

Trump Pledges F-35s to Saudi Arabia in return for an unlikely $1 trillion in Investment, Angering Israel Lobbies - Like most things in Trumpworld these investment figures are pure fantasies, and it is disturbing that he is apparently making geopolitical policy
memeorandum

Texas governor declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization (Audrey McAvoy/Associated Press) - Audrey McAvoy / Associated Press: *Texas governor declares Muslim civil rights group a terrorist organization* — Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on T...
NPR's Health Shots

Can weed help you drink less? Scientists study how well 'California sober' works - It's trendy in some circles to replace drinking with consuming cannabis. But can it help people with a drinking problem cut back? Scientists set up a bar i...
Mediaite

Epstein Survivor Reveals She Voted for Trump – But Now Says ‘He Owes Us an Apology’ - Jena-Lisa Jones said she voted for President Donald Trump because she hoped he would release the government's files on deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Ep...
Axios

Pope Leo denounces "extremely disrespectful" treatment of immigrants in U.S. - Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday backed the U.S. Roman Catholic bishops' rare statement criticizing the Trump administration's immigration and mass deportation po...
Workers World

Reject Trump’s phony ‘peace plan!’ - [image: Reject Trump’s phony ‘peace plan!’] The United Nations Security Council approved Nov. 17 what the New York Times called “President Trump’s peace pl...
The Hill

Novo Nordisk lowering prices for weight loss, diabetes drugs for cash customers - Novo Nordisk announced on Monday that it is lowering costs for weight loss and diabetes drugs, weeks after it struck a deal with the Trump administration t...
Techdirt.

The UK ‘Sabzi’ Trademark Dispute Between Deli Owner And Book Publisher Ends - It was only a few weeks ago that we wrote about a trademark dispute in the UK between a deli shop owner and a book publisher over the use of the word “sabz...
Liberation News

Nashville doesn’t need Musk’s tunnel — We need real transit - Instead of investing in affordable, union-built, publicly accountable transit, city leaders are offering a tunnel that will serve tourists and speculative ...
Political Wire

Elon Musk Returns to White House as Tensions Thaw - “Elon Musk returned to the White House Tuesday in a sign that tensions between President Donald Trump and the world’s richest man have thawed since a fierc...
Brad Blog

Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Week? Month? Year? Life?): 'BradCast' 11/18/25 - Things are not going well for the President of the United States. As revealed by the mostly breaking news stories covered on today's BradCast, today may be...
Crooked Media

“Things Happen”: Trump Goes All in on MBS - The post “Things Happen”: Trump Goes All in on MBS appeared first on Crooked Media.
Courthouse News

Measles outbreak continues to expand across Arizona, Utah - With growing vaccine skepticism on the rise, two former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints towns are facing one of the largest meas...
Daily Cartoonist

A Conversation with New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen - Saran is concentrating her monthly Substack newsletter this year on The New Yorker and recently it involved interviewing Emma Allen the New Yorker cartoon ...
Ballot Access News

Quebec Bill for Proportional Representation in Provincial Parliament - A bill is being introduced in the Quebec Provisional Parliament for proportional representation. It is supported by the Conservative Party. See this story....
Scheerpost.com

‘We Lose Many Patients’: Inside Gaza’s Last Hospitals - “Hospitals have become targets for the Israeli occupation and the Israeli army. Many hospitals have been destroyed… Doctors, nurses, and medical teams have...
Portside

Labor Movement Cheers As House Members Force Vote To Restore Federal Workers’ Union Rights - Labor Movement Cheers As House Members Force Vote To Restore Federal Workers’ Union Rights Greg Tue, 11/18/2025 - 19:57
Antiwar.com

Vice President Vance Can Win the America First Youth by Prioritizing Gaza Peace - The second phase of President Trump’s fragile 20-point Gaza peace deal appears to have stalled. Implementation of the first phase of the peace plan was mo...
The Greanville Post

Laith Marouf: Hezbollah Reaches a New Level of Power - DW—The role of China and Russia emerges as a critical theme. While these countries often present themselves as counterweights to Western dominance, their a...
Independent Political Report

Green Party Reports 14 Candidates Winning 16 Races in November 2025 Elections - The Green Party of the United States has reported that at least 14 candidates formally associated with the organization won a combined 16 local and state...
Vox

Are the Epstein files coming out? - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
The NM Political Report

‘Corruption of the highest degree’: Heinrich, Leger Fernández start repeal of $500,000 payout provisions for senators - Two members of the New Mexico congressional delegation are taking the lead in repealing a provision of the recently passed government funding bill that a...
Reform Austin

Texas in the Spotlight: FEMA Review Panel Considers Major Relocation - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A federal review panel appointed by President Donald Trump is evaluating whether the Federal Em...
Deadline Politics

Senate Approves Bill To Compel Release Of Jeffrey Epstein Files In Unanimous Vote - UPDATED with Seante vote: The Senate moved quickly on the release of the files of Jeffrey Epstein, just hours after the House voted 427-1 to compel the Jus...
Wolf Street

Social Security Fiscal Year 2025: Trust Fund Balance, Income, Outgo, Deficit, and Interest Rates - The deficit doubled, as benefit payments spiked in part due to the expansion of Social Security, while income rose only slowly.
Eschaton

Surprise Twist - I thought there would be Senate shenanigans.
Daily Dot

“So unprofessional and tacky”: White House issues response after Trump tells reporter “quiet, piggy” for asking about Epstein files - [image: President Donald Trump telling Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey "Quiet, piggy" aboard Air Force One.] The White House has issued a response aft...
San Antonio Current

Politically powerful public safety unions make early endorsements in Bexar County judge race - Two of San Antonio area’s politically powerful public safety unions are making early endorsements in the race for Bexar County judge. On Monday, both th...
Black Agenda Report

Trinidad and Tobago in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism - Trinidad and Tobago in the crosshairs of U.S. imperialism bareditors Wed, 11/19/2025 - 03:43 Clau O'Brien Moscoso Erica Caines
Salon.com

“Give and take”: White House defends Trump calling reporter “piggy” on Air Force One - A White House official saw nothing wrong with the irate president insulting a pool reporter
Second Nexus

Treasury Secretary Ripped After Offering Bonkers Explanation For Why Beef Prices Are So High - When asked to explain anything, members of the administration of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump can be expected to present "alternative facts." S...
Capital & Main

After Years of Sparring, Gov. Shapiro Abandons Pennsylvania’s Landmark Climate Initiative - Environmentalists see decision as 'shocking reversal' on fighting global warming; fossil fuel industry claims it would have led to higher utility bills. ...
CultureMap Houston

New Houston music festival will showcase up-and-coming talent this weekend - Houston bar Axelrad and the School of Rock music education centers are teaming up for a night of tunes and activism called Radfest. The showcase takes plac...
OpEd News

Will governments make Big Tobacco pay and kick Big Polluters out from Treaty meets? - Please consider an important article around intergovernmental treaty meetings on climate and tobacco control (UNFCCC and WHO FCTC) where Big Polluters and ...
Futurism

Astronomer Explores Possibility of Launching Bad People Into Sun - Easy, right? The post Astronomer Explores Possibility of Launching Bad People Into Sun appeared first on Futurism.
See You In 2020

The class war’s next phase, MAGA’s role in this war, & how it shows Marxists must navigate rural America - I have chosen to emphasize the MAGA movement, and to use imagery which relates to that movement, because this is necessary for breaking Marxist discours...
The Daily Poster

BREAKING: The House Has Voted — But Can Trump Still Hide The Epstein Files? - Rep. Ro Khanna and journalist Julie K. Brown dissect the latest Jeffrey Epstein revelations and the bombshells yet to come.
Mondoweiss

Palestinians in Gaza reject UN Security Council approval of Trump’s plan: It’s a ‘new occupation’ - [image: A general view of the extensive destruction in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, on November 17, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Ima...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Further thoughts about "brilliant writing"... - *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2025* *...in the wake of the flood:* With apologies, connectivity was gone for a good part of the day. This interrupted our abilit...
Mother Jones

Trump Meets Business Partner In the Oval Office - Donald Trump has never been particularly critical of the Saudis, despite a human rights record that has brought harsh condemnations from his predecessors. ...
slacktivist

The kingdom of heaven is within - Free your mind and your ass will follow.
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
Popular Resistance

UN Security Council Gives US ‘Mandate’ Over Palestine - The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution that gives the world body’s imprimatur to Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, a territory he...
El Paso Matters

Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms - The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest of Preside...
San Antonio Report

Court order scrambles 2026 midterm for Texas candidates as filing was underway - Republicans and Democrats had already started lining up for San Antonio's redrawn 35th Congressional District, which may no longer exist. ------------------...
The Conversation

Why MAGA is obsessed with Epstein − and why the files are unlikely to dent loyalty to Trump - President Donald Trump’s base has supported him through countless controversies. But they split from him over the release of the Epstein files. Why does MA...
WhoWhatWhy

Cloudflare Outage Causes Big Platforms To Go Dark; Mystery Traffic Spike Eyed - [image: tech, internet, traffic spike, Cloudflare outage, large platforms affected] Cloudflare Outage Causes Some Big Platforms To Go Dark; Mystery Traffic...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections - Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-F...
Undernews

Age groups most representd in Congress - [image: Image] Via Right Pulse News
The Texas Signal

Texas Congressional Maps Blocked - The ruling, authored by Trump-appointed Judge Jeffrey Brown is a sharp rebuke for Texas Republicans in the state house and senate
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Trump’s Falklands Temptation - In 1982, the Falklands War rescued Margaret Thatcher from political collapse and turned her into a wartime icon. But the deeper lesson of that conflict is ...
Texas Standard

Texas appeals ruling that Trump-backed redistricting is racial gerrymandering - A federal court in El Paso ruled that the redistricting backed by Trump and Republicans to reshape the map for the 2026 midterms illegally minimized the vo...
Progressive.org

Trump’s Dangerous War on Drugs - Whenever we have waged a war against another country with the pretense of drugs, it has spilled over into the lives of Americans.
Duck of Minerva

Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern - On November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to end all U.S. assistance to Nigeria and — if he deemed it necessary — launch a military attack aga...
NORML

Police in These Eight States Made Over 100,000 Marijuana-Related Arrests in 2024 - [image: A hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in front of a person in hadncuffs][image: A hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in front of a per...
The Root

Why the Internet Isn’t Rocking With Pharrell Williams Anymore After He Made These Controversial Comments About Politics - Although Pharrell Williams is thriving in the fashion world, his controversial stance on politics and DEI just sparked massive backlash online. Read mor...
Bonddad

August factory orders rebounded from early summer lows - - *by New Deal democrat* As with yesterday, the good news is that important official economic data is being reported again. The bad news is that it ...
Angry Bear

August construction spending: strong nominal headline masks neutral real trend in the deep rear view mirror - – by New Deal democrat The good news is, with the end of the government shutdown, economic data reporting resumed this morning. The bad news is, we are ...
DeSmogBlog

Influential Labour Peer Maurice Glasman Addressed Pro-Reform Conspiracy Group’s Conference - High-profile Labour peer Lord Maurice Glasman was one of the keynote speakers at the annual conference of the Together Declaration, a conspiracy theory g...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #05: Staring Into the Epstein Files Abyss - Katherine Krueger joins us to root through latest doc dump on the political elites' favorite convicted child sex offender
Glasstire

Curanderismo Cultural: Maritza Bautista’s Celebration of Laredo & Transition to Marfa - In South Texas, curanderismo has long offered not only remedies but a framework for restoring harmony within communities — healing that is as social and ...
Rewire

Artificial Intelligence Told These Women To Divorce Their Abusive Husbands - Should we trust relationship advice that comes from AI? The post Artificial Intelligence Told These Women To Divorce Their Abusive Husbands appeared firs...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s new voting case will test its supposed nonpartisanship - Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note ...
Texas Observer

The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas - Gu was looking forward to his first semester as a master’s degree student in philosophy at the University of Houston in August. The 22-year-old, who aske...
Dorf on Law

Ascertainability at Birth is Not a Requirement for Suspect Classification Status - In January, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in *West Virginia v. B.P.J. *and *Little v. Hecox*. The cases present the question whether state la...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

It's Rotten All the Way Down: Epstein, Trump, and the Twilight of the Elites - What's being exposed is bigger than Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump. It's the failure of American institutions
Ian Welsh

Is China Going To Win The Humanoid Robot Race & End Capitalism As We Know It? - Elevated from Comments. Piece by KT Chong China is now entering the next phase of its economic-growth engine — humanoid robots. And just like with EVs, the...
First Draft

Pitching Pennies - Eliminating the one-cent coin raises more questions than you might think. Peer into the future and call it in the air.
Democracy Now!

Kumi Naidoo on U.S. Skipping COP30, Why Rich Nations Must Pay a Climate Debt, Gaza, Sudan & More - As *Democracy Now!* broadcasts from the COP30 U.N. climate summit, we speak with Kumi Naidoo, the longtime South African human rights and environmental jus...
Space City Weather

Houston likely to set record highs in November. Please clap. - In brief: There is a lot of uncertainty in the forecast, but we can be confident of unseasonable heat through Thursday, and then the likelihood of some sho...
ArcaMax

Panicked POTUS: The Flailing of a President - It's a pretty reliable rule of thumb that when President Donald Trump calls something a "hoax," it's true. He insists that the strong indication, which see...
Infidel753

Asking for help for this dog - Fellow blogger Johnny Profane at AutisticAF, whose posts I have sometimes linked here, is requesting donations for his dog's medical emergency. I'm sure a...
The Smirking Chimp

White House Mocked Over Complete Failure To Sell Trump’s Sham Marriage on Social Media -
Skeptophilia

The old gods - My M.A. is in historical linguistics, focusing particularly on northern European languages and how they interacted in (relatively) recent times. (While ...
Claytoonz

Surprise - 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 Pa...
Off The Kuff

CD18 runoff set for January 31 - Mark your calendars. Gov. Greg Abbott has set Jan. 31 as the date of the special election runoff for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, meaning the Housto...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
ProPublica

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation - The post The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation appeared first on ProPublica.
The Progressive Wing

11/17-21 News Roundup and Open Thread - Some mid-November news.
Alternet

Pro-Trump commentator says White House 'denying reality' of high prices - President Donald Trump's administration is not taking high prices seriously enough, according to one conservative commentator. In a Monday night post to ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Teachers allowed slurs and food to be hurled at gay student, alleges one of three lawsuits filed against Catholic high school' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Catholic Teachers Allowed Slurs and Food Hurled at Gay Student, New Lawsuit Alleges* - *And this is just one of three lawsuits against the school:* *...
Socialist Alternative

Building The Movement For Socialism In The Age Of Trump 2.0: Socialist Alternative Convention 2025 - Over a weekend in early November, more than 250 socialists gathered in Maryland for the 2025 Socialist Alternative Convention. Our members traveled far fro...
Church and State

Good reasons for feeling helpless? Any solutions? - I remain confident that Trump’s record has reached a new level of immorality that even the dullest among us, may vote correctly.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Environment Texas

Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to clean up plastic pellets across the state - Staff and coalition partners help stage four events in Dallas, San Antonio, and Galveston The post Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
Greg Palast

Lumberjack Trump - The US housing market is melting. Trump’s solution: 50-year mortgages instead of 30-year loans. As an economist, I can tell you 50 years or 30 years don’t ...
Sludge

Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls - Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: November 2025 - I’m later than usual with this link roundup. Not apologizing, just observing. Last month, on The Asexual Agenda, I published “From definitions to motivati...
Project Censored

News that Didn’t Make the News: Atrocities in Sudan and Regional New Abuse - We start this week off with news that didn’t make the news from Sudan. Researcher and analyst Mosaab Baba joins us to contextualize the recent atrocities...
The AltWorld

The Proximate Aspect with Pepe Escobar - Brazilian writer and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar’s interview on Al Mayadeen’s The Proximate Aspect dives straight into […] The post The Proximate A...
Crooked Timber

Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace - If you want to know more about how the current form of capitalism is undermining (a thick conception of) democracy, and what can be done about this, then y...
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
ExChristian.Net

God, The Ultimate Abusive Spouse - *By MTC ~ * The "relationship" Christians have with their deity and wish for others to seek as well, is claimed to be one of pure love, benevolence, and d...
The Grayzone

The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits - In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein....
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Edition - Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least...
Bracing Views

Nuclear Force “Recapitalization” - An Abomination of the English Language BILL ASTORE NOV 12, 2025 Just when you thought the assault on the English language couldn’t be more severe, I came a...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies - *Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies* *by* *Angela Valenzuel...
Alas, a Blog

Blame Immigrants! - As many people have written, one way powerful people and institutions stay in power is by scapegoating immigrants. Dick Dowdell sums it up well: When wages...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Reading the Pictures

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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...
Reveal

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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...
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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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...
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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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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

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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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...
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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Sunday, December 30, 2018

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