Brains and Eggs: Neocondom

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “We have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats… I got the highest vote in the history of Texas as you probably know. And we are entitled to […]
Mediaite

New Epstein Home Photos Unveiled, Including Cringe Woody Allen ‘Dracula’ Letter - New photos from late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan home were revealed on Tuesday, including a lengthy note from controversial filmmaker Woody A...
memeorandum

Donald Trump rules out Scott Bessent for Federal Reserve chair (Financial Times) - Financial Times: *Donald Trump rules out Scott Bessent for Federal Reserve chair* — President says US Treasury secretary took his name out of considera...
The Hill

The Democrats’ motion to subpoena the Epstein file has legal and historical basis - It was a rare example of a successful motion from a member of the minority party, one that is fortified by congressional rules and precedent.
Mediagazer

Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lionsgate, WBD, FilmRise, and more (Kelly Lawler/USA Today) - Kelly Lawler / USA Today: *Roku launches Howdy, an ad-free streaming service for $2.99 per month, initially only on Roku devices, with content from Lions...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pam Bondi seeks grand jury review of origins of Trump-Russia investigation - Investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election dogged Donald Trump throughout much of his first term The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, is...
The Verge

Google’s Pixel 10 Pro Fold might not go on sale until October - Google is set to take the wraps off the latest additions to the Pixel lineup in just a couple of weeks, but some devices might not be available at launch. ...
OpEd News

Prevention revolution and policy harmonisation are critical to end AIDS - Please consider the below article based on insights from 3 public health leaders (2 from key populations and communities). As per latest UNAIDS 2025 report...
Salon.com

Guess what’s back? Privatizing Social Security - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent spills the beans: Trump was lying all along
Al Jazeera English

At least four dead, dozens missing as flash floods hit north India village - The floods were caused by a cloudburst, which is common during the country's June-September monsoon season.
Undernews

Some national park workers not being paid - *NPR -* Some seasonal workers at Yosemite National Park reported working for as long as six weeks without pay during the spring and summer while park su...
Raw Story

'Everyone is terrified': Fired Trump strategist oversees reign of fear after reinstatement - A controversial longtime strategist and ally of President Donald Trump has quietly assumed what is effectively second-in-command power at the Department ...
First Draft

Truth and Consequences - In which the messenger gets the axe, 'cause if you want to run a respectable authoritarian regime, you can't let agencies just go around publicizing the tr...
Rewire

Doctors Left Idaho After Abortion Ban, Study Confirms - According to the study, Idaho lost more than one-third of its practicing obstetricians. The post Doctors Left Idaho After Abortion Ban, Study Confirms ap...
Eschaton

But We Made A Deal With President Deals - Do administrators know what they are doing and are actually just on board with what Trump is doing? Or are they stupid people who keep the wallet inspector...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Tuesday, August 5 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: The post The morning ...
Houston Public Media

Texas lawmakers revive plan to replace STAAR test - The proposal revives a failed effort from earlier this year and responds to years of legal fights over accountability.
NPR's Health Shots

Bangladesh needs the world's help to keep up its remarkable progress in health care - The prime minister fled. There's an interim government. Our writer urges global health groups, including WHO and UNICEF, to help preserve the nation's heal...
The Week

Why is the world so divided over plastics? - UN negotiations on first global plastic treaty are at stake, as fossil fuel companies, petrostates and plastic industry work to resist a legal cap on produ...
Axios

Trump doubles down, insists jobs data was rigged against him - President Trump on Tuesday repeated his claims that government jobs data was rigged, insisting — without evidence — the statistics were manipulated to ma...
Techdirt.

Trump FCC Abandons Efforts To Make U.S. Broadband Fast And Affordable - Section 706 of the Telecom Act requires the FCC to determine whether broadband is being deployed “on a reasonable and timely basis” to everyone. If the ans...
ArcaMax

Infrequently Asked Questions: Amid Misery in Gaza, Some Things Don't Compute -- Part 1 - That Gazans subsist in misery is indisputable, and Benjamin Netanyahu's apparent decision to dispute it is incomprehensible. It's dishonest, and it undermi...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump And Rupert Murdoch Reach Agreement To Delay Media Mogul’s Deposition In POTUS’ Defamation Lawsuit - Rupert Murdoch’s deposition in Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the media mogul and The Wall Street Journal likely will not be happeni...
Texas Observer

Veterans Who Work in Texas VA Health System: ‘The Dam’s Gonna Break’ - Manning the main switchboard for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System requires skills akin to a symphony conductor. Beginning in 2006, Marlon As...
Vox

The world just lost its health report card. Now what? - When President Donald Trump and Elon Musk fed the US Agency for International Development into the wood chipper earlier this year, one of the lesser-known ...
The NM Political Report

So close to Texas, New Mexico has been a redistricting refuge before—but not like this - [image: Dede Feldman] [image: Dede Feldman] Commentary Dede Feldman is a former NM State Senator representing Albuquerque’s North Valley. She served on ...
Election Law Blog

“Sequential Reporting of Vote Counts may Amplify False Perceptions of Election Fraud” - Interesting new study here. Abstract: In seven studies, we investigated how reporting partial vote counts influences perceptions of election legitimacy. ...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Just another melancholy Monday! - *TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2025* *Arriving one day late: *As we head off for our every-fourth-week medical Tuesday, we leave you with the melancholy pervading T...
San Antonio Report

In Memoriam: Mark Edmund Watson, Jr. - In Memoriam: Mark Edmund Watson, Jr., August 30, 1935 – July 28, 2025 ------------------------------ In Memoriam: Mark Edmund Watson, Jr. was first posted on...
Alternet

Economist Robert Reich: Trump destroying America’s 'credibility' - On Friday, August 1, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) delivered a disappointing jobs report. And President Donald Trump angrily responded by firi...
naked capitalism

Links 8/5/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

It’s Bigger Than Texas: Beware the Republican War on Fair Elections -
Skeptophilia

Backfire - One of the many things that baffles me about my fellow humans is how hard it is for people to say, "Well, I guess I was wrong, then." I mean, I'm sure I'...
The AltWorld

Le Japon se rapproche davantage de l’Occident collectif - Au début du mois, le Japon a franchi une nouvelle étape importante dans l’approfondissement de ses relations […] The post Le Japon se rapproche davantage...
Off The Kuff

UH Hobby Center polls CD18 - Make of this what you will. Approximately 100 days before the November 4, 2025 Texas Congressional District 18 special election, four candidates are effect...
WhoWhatWhy

The Real Sydney Sweeney Scandal Is How Fox News Is Manipulating Its Audience - [image: Fox News, Citi Field, Billboard] By manufacturing “controversies” to keep their audiences enraged instead of engaged, Fox News and right-wing influ...
The Daily Poster

Big Data Is Already Jacking Up Your Airline Fares - Despite Delta’s recent denials to lawmakers, the airline and its competitors already work with AI and data companies to increase your ticket costs.
Daily Dot

“You can’t even copy and paste anymore”: New program allows teachers to access a “writing report” that records every word you type - [image: chatgpt tool to expose cheating] A student warns that a new writing report software could be the "end of AI in college." Social media users share...
Slate

Help! I’m Still Haunted By What My Mom and Sister Did to Me on Our Vacation. - I can't trust them anymore.
Mother Jones

The Conservative Nature Lovers Trying to Nudge Trump in the Right Direction - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early July, the Bureau of Land Management...
ProPublica

The Trump Administration Is Promoting Its Anti-Trans Agenda Globally at the United Nations - by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. ...
Scheerpost.com

Trump and the Lemon Law of Voter Denial - This is not a partisan gripe. It’s a lament for a country in cognitive dissonance.
Courthouse News

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American Prospect

Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids - Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids.
Progressive Army

Comercio exterior: importaciones de bienes de capital alcanzan récord y exportaciones son las más altas en 11 años - Las compras crecieron 34% pero desde una base exigua. Y la colocación de manufacturas industriales fue la segunda más alta en 11 años Aunque muchos analist...
DeSmogBlog

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows - This work was supported by a grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism With international treaty negotiations aimed at addressing the plastic poll...
Grist

Here’s what to watch for at this month’s global plastics treaty talks - Delegates are meeting in Geneva for a sixth — and potentially final — round of negotiations.
Alas, a Blog

Trust Us, We’re Doctors - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Dylan Scott wrote an article on Vox entitled “The One Big Unanswered Question About Ozempic.” Ozempic seems to tak...
High Country News

How to become a bird - A Montana man finds kinship in living with pigeons. The post How to become a bird appeared first on High Country News.
Daily Cartoonist

Christian Daigle – RIP - Editorial cartoonist Christian Daigle (“Fleg”) has passed away. Christian Daigle (aka Fleg) 1963 – August 1, 2025 We first learned of Christian Daigle’s pa...
Earth 911

Electric Scooters: Dirty or Green Transportation? - If you visit a city these days, you are sure to see Lime, Bird, or... The post Electric Scooters: Dirty or Green Transportation? appeared first on Earth9...
Crooked Media

Texas Democrats Working Remote - The post Texas Democrats Working Remote appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Gaza’s Starvation, Israeli Lies and the Tail that Wags the Dog - Whenever Israel yields to international pressure and allows aid trucks into Gaza, it devises other methods to ensure the food is never delivered. On the ...
jobsanger

Trump Is Hurting The U.S.'s Image (While Helping China's) -
World Socialist Web Site

As war tensions rise, Australia’s ASIO spy chief ramps up “espionage” scare campaign - Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation Director-General Mike Burgess demanded an “all-of-nation” offensive to counter alleged plots by China, Ru...
Informed Comment

Christian Nationalism’s Plot on Civil Society: The Seven Mountains Mandate - Oakwood, Ga. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – A concerning story out of Georgia offers a window into the rise and possible demise of an all-encompa...
Popular Resistance

New Report: US Economic Wars Kill Over 560,000 People Every Year - The Lancet, a renowned medical journal, recently published a groundbreaking report on the number of people who die each year as a result of economic sanc...
Wolf Street

Construction Spending on Data Centers, Office Buildings, and Electric Power Installations - Boom, bust, and the adults in the room.
Brad Blog

All's Fair in Love, War and, Apparently, Partisan Gerrymandering: 'BradCast' 8/4/2025 - Today on The BradCast: Democratic state lawmakers from Texas are, right now, fighting for democracy for all of us, no matter where we live and which party ...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: How to Read the Durham Appendix - The method of those who built Russiagate’s tower of lies and disinformation grows clearer and the list of their names longer. By Patrick Lawrence Special t...
Progressive.org

Was the First Amendment a Mistake? - A new book questions the decision to frame free speech as an absolute
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Aug 6–12, 2025 - This Week in People’s History, Aug 6–12, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 08/04/2025 - 20:45
Futurism

OpenAI Admits ChatGPT Missed Signs of Delusions in Users Struggling With Mental Health - After months of providing the same copy-pasted response amid mounting reports of AI-induced psychosis, OpenAI has finally admitted that ChatGPT failed to...
Antiwar.com

Creating a Cover for Genocide - Originally appeared at TomDispatch. In July 2025, the Massachusetts legislature’s Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a bill to make it the 38th state t...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Colman Domingo, and Sarah McBride are among the Equality Forum's LGBT History Month honorees - There is a lot of nonsense going on which I will focus on later this week (especially the news that Hot Mess Nancy Mace will be running for SC governor...
Sludge

Senators Claim to Care About Starvation in Gaza, Then Vote for More Bombs - Senate Democrats who signed a letter calling for urgent delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza voted last week for the sale of offensive bombs to Israel’s mi...
Common Dreams

Donald Trump Creates More Roadblocks for Cheap, Reliable, Renewable Energy - Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior has effectively cut off federal land leases for renewable energy. The new rules require that leases can only be...
Claytoonz

Great Jeans - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Georgia Polls Members on Convention Keynote Speaker - The Libertarian Party of Georgia recently polled its social media followers on whom they’d like to see as the keynote speaker at its upcoming convention....
Reform Austin

Texas House issues arrest warrants for Democrats who left state to block congressional redistricting - The Texas House voted Monday afternoon to track down and arrest more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who were not present when the chamber gaveled in. After...
Workers World

IOF kidnaps, tortures Black labor leader for attempting to deliver aid to Gaza - [image: IOF kidnaps, tortures Black labor leader for attempting to deliver aid to Gaza] The Handala ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza was the latest a...
CultureMap Houston

Mexico City-inspired taqueria rolls into massive Fifth Ward development - A growing Houston taqueria chain is rolling into its third location. *La Calle Tacos* will open a new location in East River, the massive mixed-use develop...
San Antonio Current

Cityscrapes: CSL’s study on San Antonio’s Project Marvel mirrors rosy reports the consultant delivers for other cities - Cityscrapes is a column of opinion and analysis. The City of San Antonio has finally released an “economic impact analysis” for Project Marvel, its propos...
See You In 2020

The genocide’s perpetrators are pretending they’ve won, but the resistance has already doomed Zionism - “Salute the martyrs first,” Abu Manu, 2009 The media’s supposed awakening on Gaza from these last few months, where many commentators have suddenly star...
Texas Standard

Arrest warrants issued for Texas Democrats who fled the state to break quorum - Gov. Greg Abbott says the dozens of Democrats who fled the state to block a redraw of the state’s congressional maps could also be charged with bribery or ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Jokl: River Walk-type project planned for Downtown Brownsville - The Renaissance Park project will cost upwards of $500 million and be the biggest thing to happen to Downtown Brownsville for many years, says real estat...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: El Paso Matters’ leaders on what new Walmart shooting evidence reveals — and why it still matters - Because the case never went to trial, only now is some of the evidence that would have emerged in court being made public through open records requests. ...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “ChatGPT Puts Your Chats on Google” - The “DeProgram show” with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou brings you up-to-date at the start of a busy summer week in t...
Second Nexus

'Drag Race' Star Epically Calls Out JK Rowling's Transphobia Hypocrisy In Hilarious Takedown - Class was in session when *Drag Race* royalty Jinkx Monsoon joined Ziwe for a spicy sit-down, delivering a master class in shade—aimed squarely at none o...
Project Censored

Oppression as Policy: Israel, Sanctions, and the Global Cost of Control - In the first part of the program, Dr. Shir Hever joins us to discuss Israel’s disinformation economy, the zombie economy that is held together by nothing...
slacktivist

Innocence, identity, and blood libel (cont’d.) - Sexual predators like Jeffrey Epstein serve the same vital function as the kitten-burners and the Satanic baby-killers. They provide both absolution and li...
The Grayzone

US backed ethnic cleansing of Serbs, top diplomat secretly told Croat leader - The ethnic cleansing of hundreds of thousands of Serbs by a US-backed Croatian leader was premeditated, according to newly-uncovered files revealing the ...
Mondoweiss

Community members of slain Palestinian activist go on hunger strike demanding Israel release his body - [image: Awdah al-Hathaleen was executed by extremist Israeli settler Yinon Levy on camera in the village of Umm al-Khair, Masafer Yatta, South Hebron Hills...
Glasstire

Mercury Project Soars in San Antonio - Mercury Project, a small, artist-run venue and studio space in San Antonio, is enjoying a magic moment. The level of shows and events held there lately h...
Capital & Main

The Oil Wells Near the Denver Suburbs Worried Her. The Health Risk Alarmed Her Even More. - Recently retired Colorado scientist Lisa McKenzie chased the link between fracking and adverse birth outcomes, cancer and cardiovascular disease. The po...
The Root

Michelle Williams Admits She Was Moving…Differently During the Surprise Destiny’s Child Reunion For This Reason - Nearly two decades later, Williams is still traumatized from her unforgettable on-stage moment. Read more...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
Dissident Voice

Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror - Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then and since, that the d...
Angry Bear

Make China Great Again - Trump slapped a 50% tariff on Brazilian coffee. Guess that will show them! “China has approved 183 new Brazilian coffee companies to export products to t...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
NORML

DEA Seizes Over Five Million Cannabis Plants in 2024, Reports Nearly 6,000 Marijuana-Related Arrests - [image: handcuffs resting on marijuana leaves][image: handcuffs resting on marijuana leaves]"Considerable time and resources still remain prioritized tow...
Bonddad

“Recession watch” for economically weighted ISM indexes, and residential construction spending, continues - - *by New Deal democrat* Since Friday featured the very salient jobs report - and its immediate fallout - I delayed reporting on two other important...
Democracy Now!

Torture at CECOT: Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation - A new investigation reveals the months of physical and mental abuse Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration endured inside a Salvadoran prison....
The Conversation

The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone - A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press in lawsuits by public officials angry about how they’ve been covered. It’s being targeted by Presid...
Ian Welsh

Why China Is Going To Win The AI Race - When you look at AI, right now, it has one major use case that people are really willing to pay for: coding. That means Cursor and, to a lesser extent, Re...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE | DOCUMENTARY | Lone Star Three - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / August 4, 2025 Texas women won us the right to abortion then. It’s up to us to win it back now. The Lone Star Three is a...
Space City Weather

As Houston faces typical August weather, the Atlantic tropics start to heat up - In brief: Houston will see a decent chance of some showers and thunderstorms today, but beyond this we should remain hot and mostly sunny, as is often the ...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Dorf on Law

Will the Columbia and Brown Agreements Affect Student Body Diversity? - In addition to agreeing to fork over, respectively, $200 million and $50 million, Columbia University and Brown University made a number of other commitm...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 4 August 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] In 1948 almost all th...
Church and State

The Inquisition – one of the most appalling gifts to human tyranny - Along with its judges, the Inquisition had its armed retainers, extortionists, spies, and of course, torturers and executioners.
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...
The Texas Signal

House Democrats Leave State, Denying A Quorum - The Democrats left the state on Sunday afternoon and began arriving at various destinations across the country including Chicago, Boston, and Albany.
Unlimited Hangout

Grand Theft World - Grand Theft World.
Ballot Access News

Texas Democratic Party Legislators Leave Texas to Temporarily Halt Special Redistricting by Republicans - Here is the story from Bloomberg. … Continue reading →
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: juvenile woodpecker - [image: Juvenile woodpecker]
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Failure of the MAGA Fantasy Industrial Complex with Jared Yates Sexton - A conversation with myself and Wajahat Ali about MAGA, fascism, narratives, and the power of popular culture to radicalize and fight back
The Militant

‘No deportations! Amnesty is way to unify the working class!’ - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “Hundreds of workers here have already lost their jobs,” Lindsay Aime, co-founder of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, tol...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Passiflora Ornata with Spirals - Looking through my old photos, here’s one from 2014. It’s a variant on the Passiflora Ornata, of which I have an example here. The long points, instead o...
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
Lowering the Bar

Sea-Cucumber Abuser to Be “Moved Far From the Sea for a Long Period of Time” - [image: sea cucumber]Sea cucumbers would breathe a sigh of relief, if they had lungs.
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Mohammed and Rima - Can you help this family out?
MintPress News

The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding - From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA's secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Our SMU Issue Is Here - For the last several years, SMU has tried to position itself as Dallas’ school. And now, with Kevin Jennings leading the university’s best team in 40 yea...
Bracing Views

Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War - The Real Enemy of America BILL ASTORE AUG 01, 2025 The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 2 - *Matthew 5: Highly prized, but deeply flawed, Jesus-script * Christian clergy and theologians—drawn to their profession by devotion to Jesus—are committ...
The Progressive Wing

8.1-8.6 Open Threads - Hola amigos y amigas. 🙂 Well, it’s the first of August. Here in ECFL, that means we go into the peak of the hurricane season which now lasts well into No...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/01/2025 - 08:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was The Gaza Genocide Predicted By The Bible? - To many this may seem like an insane question, but a large number of people believe in it, even if there's nothing *mystical, prophetic, or no influence...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander - A proposed Republican gerrymander of Texas could allow them to gain five extra seats, although not all of these gains are guaranteed. The post Texas Repu...
Krebs on Security

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites - Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people wit...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes on Matriarchy - You don’t actually understand an idea until you know its history. That lesson is one that most people have been doing their level best not to learn in rece...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
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...
Texas Monthly

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Save Buffalo Bayou

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The Disorder Of Things

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Political Garbage Chute

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Free & Equal

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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, ...
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The Mind Unleashed

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Houston Press

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