Brains and Eggs: No longer waiting to exhale

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

Raw Story

'People are hurting': Top Republican bucks Trump to admit economy woes - The head of the National Republican Congressional Committee confessed that the GOP is failing when it comes to the economy — but thinks it's more about m...
memeorandum

G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms (New York Times) - New York Times: *G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms* — The provision in the government funding bill could shield pesticide companies...
Liberation News

Western imperialists are the real drug traffickers, not Venezuela - It is an open secret that the United States government, and more importantly the big banks that it serves, are at the center of the largest drug traffickin...
San Antonio Current

U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas voted against releasing Epstein files - Just one Republican could have thwarted the GOP effort to squash the files. The post U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas voted against rele...
The Verge

NY could force TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram to roll out age verification - A New York law could require social media platforms to implement age verification. On Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James released the proposed...
The Daily Poster

Kamala Harris Thanks Her Corporate Overlords - The former vice president has emerged from hiding to praise some of the Biden Administration’s closest corporate allies.
Capital & Main

New Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Oilfield Orphans - A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is how. The post New Mexico’s Billion-Do...
The Hill

1-in-6 parents reject vaccine recommendations: poll - About one in six parents have skipped or delayed vaccinating their children against diseases other than COVID-19 or the flu, according to a new poll from T...
Alternet

'He acts like Fidel': Trump’s support with Latino voters is 'plummeting' - President Donald Trump's favorability with Latino voters is down 20 points, according to a new poll obtained Monday by Politico. The poll, conducted by l...
Second Nexus

Fox News Host Apologizes After His Suggestion That Homeless People Be Euthanized Sparks Outrage - *Fox and Friends* host Brian Kilmeade was criticized for suggesting that homeless people with mental health issues get "involuntary lethal injection" aft...
Daily Dot

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade offers a solution to the unhoused: “Just kill ’em” - [image: brian kilmeade homeless fox and friends unhoused comments] Fox News host Brian Kilmeade has been facing backlash after suggesting mentally ill ho...
Salon.com

Brits condemn Musk’s “dangerous” remarks to right-wing protesters - "You either fight back or you die," Musk told tens of thousands of right-wing protesters over the weekend
Axios

What could come after interest rate cuts this week - After nine months of standing pat, the Federal Reserve is set to offer some interest rate relief on Wednesday. The open question is what hints are on off...
Mediaite

‘Mind-Blown’: Nurse Who ‘Loved’ Charlie Kirk Alleges She Was Suspended For Calling Out Doctor Who Celebrating Killing - A nurse told Fox News she was "mind-blown" when she saw a doctor "celebrating" the murder of Charlie Kirk, which she said led to her being suspended The...
Mediagazer

Sources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a ~20% stake in The Economist Group, potentially raising between £200M and £400M (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Sources: Lynn Forester de Rothschild is exploring a sale of a ~20% stake in The Economist Group, potentially raising between £200M and £400M*...
The Week

Trump renews push to fire Cook before Fed meeting - The push to remove Cook has ‘quickly become the defining battle in Trump’s effort to take control of the Fed’
Futurism

Fixing Hallucinations Would Destroy ChatGPT, Expert Finds - In a paper published earlier this month, OpenAI researchers said they had found the reason why even the most powerful AI models are suffering from rampan...
Eschaton

The Yglesias/Jeffries/Barro/Schumer Wing Of The Democratic Party - The primary intra-caucus argument, right now, is whether to oppose Trump on ICE terrorizing the country or whether not to. The secondary one, with about ...
Texas Observer

The Health Penalty - The year Charles Sullivan finally started the treatment that helped manage his agonizing digestive disorder was also the year he was arrested for the cri...
Daily Howler

PRETENDERS: Over the weekend, the powers that be... - *MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2025* *...said the murder of Charlie Kirk tracks straight back to Obama:* Yesterday morning, the comment was made at 6:04 a.m. It ...
Idavox

“I Guess the ‘Freedom of Speech’ People Weren’t Happy About My Speech!” - At the time of this posting the the doxing website that was getting people harassed... The post “I Guess the ‘Freedom of Speech’ People Weren’t Happy Abo...
Courthouse News

UK leader decries violence after Musk urges nationalist rally to ‘fight back or die’ - Police counted dozens of injuries and arrests as over 100,000 joined one of Britain's largest far-right rallies, rife with anti-immigrant rhetoric.
MintPress News

Why The Media Obsesses Over Kirk While Israel Assassinates a Prime Minister - The press amplifies outrage over Charlie Kirk’s killing but erases Israel’s campaign of assassinations in Yemen, where a blockade has devastated Israel’s...
Bonddad

Employment growth is dead in the water; tomorrow we will find out about production and sales - - *by New Deal democrat* With no news today, let’s take a look at why two releases tomorrow are especially important. Let me begin with employment,...
Political Wire

Headline of the Day - “Charlie Kirk’s allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else” — Reuters, September 15, 2025.
Al Jazeera English

Who are the 57 members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation? - Representatives from the Arab and Muslim world have gathered in Doha to respond to Israel’s attack on Qatar.
Dissident Voice

Five Actions that Definitively Disqualify Trump for his Coveted Nobel Peace Prize - I am especially proud to be the first President in decades who has started no new wars. — Donald Trump, Farewell Address, 20 January 2021 I am the Peace ...
Claytoonz

Rex Babin Award - 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...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

USA’s Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker disqualified from world championships for ‘jostling’ - - American attempts to dart through gap in semi-final - Hocker won surprise gold at Paris 2024 USA’s Olympic 1500m champion Co...
Slate

Slate Crossword: Actor Nominated for Six Emmys, Who Won at Long Last for *The Pitt* (Eight Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Sept. 15, 2025.
Deadline Politics

Washington Post Columnist Karen Attiah Said She Was Fired Over Her Social Media Comments In Aftermath Of Killing Of Charlie Kirk - Karen Attiah, a columnist for The Washington Post who also served as global opinions editor, wrote that she was fired by the publication over her social me...
CultureMap Houston

40-year apartment boom fuels soaring demand for self storage in Houston - Apartment construction has been booming in Houston the last 40 years, fueling a surge in the number of self-storage facilities across the city, too.
Discourse

These Dead Palestinian Kids Missed the Memo on the U.S. Hating Political Violence - Does someone want to tell their families?
Undernews

Word - There is nowhere in the Bible where we are taught to honor evil and how you die does not redeem how you lived. You don’t become a hero in death when you ...
Election Law Blog

“Bracket Voting: Structuring ‘Final Four’ Elections like Familiar Sports Tournaments” - I’ve posted this new article on SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This essay, a contribution to the Ohio State Law Journal symposium on the important new book A...
naked capitalism

Despite Recent “Pin the Tail on the European Donkey” Moves, Trump Unlikely to Escape Accusation of Losing Ukraine War - Despite a possible tactical success versus Ukraine warmongers, Trump can't escape owning the war and going down as the President that lost it
Houston Public Media

Texas Rep. James Talarico ‘not taking instructions or orders’ from national Democratic Party in run for Senate - In an interview with Houston Public Media, Talarico called his party leaderless, explained why he’s embracing the state of “wilderness” the Democrats are i...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 222: “Hochul Finally Endorses Mamdani” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: So late that it no longer matters or helps, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul tries to heel the rift between progres...
Progressive Army

Inconvenientes operativos Impo TCA - Estimados socios, buen día TCA informa que se esta regularizando los cierres de guías en relación a los graves inconvenientes operativos que venían tenien...
Rewire

RFK Linking Tylenol To Autism Could Harm Pregnant People’s Health, Doctors Warn - Acetaminophen is one of the few drugs that pregnant people can safely use to relieve pain or fever—conditions that, if left untreated, can increase the r...
El Paso Matters

UTEP, EPCC and Texas Tech Health weigh impact of HSI grant cuts - Federal funding cuts to Minority-Serving Institutions leave UTEP, EPCC and Texas Tech Health El Paso unsure of program futures, raising concerns about r...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court, tariffs, and judicial consistency - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: What Are Little Girls Made Of? - Political cartoonists have been having a field day with the message Donald Trump allegedly submitted as part of a birthday book assembled for Jeffrey Epste...
Democracy Now!

Judith Butler: Jewish Prof. Among 160 Named in UC Berkeley "Antisemitism" Files Handed to Trump Admin - The University of California, Berkeley has provided Trump officials with the names of at least 160 students, faculty and staff in cases of alleged antisemi...
ArcaMax

Clarence Page: Is another era of political violence upon us? - In his life's work, Charlie Kirk, the rising star in conservative politics, did not give me, or millions of Americans like me in the political center or le...
The Conversation

Transgender policies struggle to balance fairness with inclusion in women’s college sports - Redefining sports eligibility around gender identity risks erasing the protections that have helped women’s college sports flourish, a scholar argues.
First Draft

Shut It Down - It's time for Congressional Democrats to stand firm against the MAGA march of folly.
Techdirt.

Trump GOP Redirected Essential Cybersecurity Funding To Give Rich Assholes More Tax Cuts - Long before the great TikTok moral panic of 2021 to 2024, you might recall that numerous members of Congress spent a solid decade freaking about another Ch...
Common Dreams

Movements Worldwide Draw the Line Against Genocide, Injustice, Fossil Fuels, and Call for Rights, Jobs, and Justice - Draw the Line is a global action (15-21 September) with widespread events taking place across the world peaking over the weekend of September 19–21, 2025...
Space City Weather

Sorry y’all, we have another week of monotonous, late summer weather (but it’s not that bad) - In brief: Houston’s sunny and warm, but not super hot weather will continue this week. As we get closer to the weekend we may see some slightly better rain...
Angry Bear

Privately Owned Public Utility and Its Impact . . . - Down where I now live in Arizona, we had waters issues. No shortage of water. Just issues with the quality of the water. There is a large abundance of wa...
Vox

Why 2025 has been a banner year for horror movies - Spooky season isn’t here quite yet, but you’d never know looking at the box office. The Conjuring: Last Rites, the latest installment about a (problematic)...
Mother Jones

Can We Feed 10 Billion People Without Destroying the Planet in the Process? - This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with the Chicago public radio station WBEZ. It is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk c...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: SePRO’s Mark Heilman On Phosphorus, Waterways, And Invasive Species - Listen now and read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: SePRO’s Mar...
WhoWhatWhy

Main Takeaway From Kirk Killing: Maybe It’s the Social Media Manipulation - [image: Memorial, Charlie Kirk, Orem, UT] Moments of national hysteria like the present require some sense of how we got here. Main Takeaway From Kirk Kil...
Dorf on Law

Play in the Joints - Earlier this year, I was honored to deliver the Dyson Distinguished Lecture at Pace University. My invitation arrived before the second Trump administrat...
The Root

Trump Made Heinous Accusations About Lisa Cook, Here’s Why That’ll Be a Problem For Him - After being accused by President Trump of mortgage fraud, new documents vindicate Fed member Lisa Cook. Read more...
The Smirking Chimp

America Is in Danger of Becoming Numb to Violence -
Skeptophilia

Nerds FTW - There's a stereotype that science nerds, and especially science fiction nerds, are hopeless in the romance department. I'd sort of accepted this without qu...
Crooked Media

How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality - The post How SCOTUS is Making Project 2025 a Reality appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

A pair of CD18 polls - I am just passing these along out of curiosity. Special election polling is very tricky since you just don’t know what the electorate will look like. These...
Scheerpost.com

Miller Says He and Trump Will Use Law Enforcement to ‘Dismantle’ the Left After Kirk Shooting - “Trump explicitly threatened to use the state to target anyone he and MAGA scapegoat for Kirk’s murder,” said New Republic writer Greg Sargeant.
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
San Antonio Report

As state hospital waitlists grow, Bexar County Jail fills the gap in mental health treatment - On any given day in the Bexar County Jail, over 100 inmates aren’t waiting for a lawyer or a court date. They’re waiting for a hospital bed. ---------------...
ProPublica

We Investigated How Oil Companies Take Millions From Mineral Owners. Now, Some Lawmakers Push for Change. - by Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Monitor This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. ...
NPR's Health Shots

Millions of Americans expected to lose health coverage over the next decade - In the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, 1 in 3 people already lack health insurance. That's expected to get worse as President Trump's spending cuts take ...
American Prospect

What Would a No Kings Budget Look Like? - Democrats are publicly conditioning a budget agreement on health care changes. But they also have powerful options to arrest the slide to authoritarianism.
Consortium News

Trump Trashes the US Constitution - The president of the United States is not taking the U.S. Constitution seriously, writes Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, as due process is the foundation of Am...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 15 September 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Dog vs home intruder. The right-wing activist-fr...
Grist

Republicans are using an arcane oversight rule to permanently dismantle federal land protections - Republican lawmakers want to use the Congressional Review Act to permanently erase federal land use plans in Alaska — and beyond.
Crooked Timber

The Peter Principle, and the unintended consequences of financial work motivation - You’ve probably heard of the “Peter principle”: that employees get promoted until they reach a job they are no longer good at. And in political philosophy,...
High Country News

Invasive fruit fly hits the Yakama Nation’s huckleberry fields - Students from Heritage University and Northwest Indian College were the first to document the presence of the spotted wing drosophila on the Yakama Nati...
Counterpunch

Stopping the Genocide Requires an Armed Protective Force - At this stage of the Gaza genocide, the Israelis’ ostensible goals are (a) to free the captives who remain in Gaza, all of whom are soldiers (that is, pr...
World Socialist Web Site

Pseudo-left “day of action” covers for Australian unions’ complicity in Gaza genocide - The event was not national, there was no action and the unions were largely absent.
jobsanger

Vaccines Don't Just Save Lives - They Also Save Money -
Informed Comment

Israel’s Netanyahu starves 1 in 5 Gaza Children - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reports that 19 of every 100 Palestinian children in Gaza are malnourished. That...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Bourbon Talk Political Q&A: September 14, 2025 - The first Bourbon Talk Political Q&A since November 2024.
Popular Resistance

Super Predators, Born Criminals, And The Black Misleadership Class - There is nothing more bipartisan in the United States than a racialized crime panic. Neither Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, nor Donald Trump makes a direct ...
OpEd News

Donald Trump Takes Action to Make America Pray Again - Donald Trump and his team of Christian theocrats in the White House have launched the America Prays Initiative. This program blatantly attacks separation o...
The Texas Signal

Checking In With Houston’s Viral Anti-Trump Sign Guy - The viral social media star known as "FunSignGuy" on TikTok has thousands of followers thanks to the signs he protests with in Northwest Houston
Antiwar.com

Albert Einstein, Palestine, and Israel Today - Albert Einstein is one of the most famous and influential scientists of all time. His theories and equations regarding time, energy, space, and gravity are...
The Greanville Post

Seinfeld Says Palestine Supporters WORSE Than The KKK / Students walk out - DD—The video transcript centers on the controversy surrounding comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s participation in various pro-Zionist activities and events, partic...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

delete - Grassroots Dissent! Tell the Supreme Court Racial Profiling is Unconstitutional. *“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – September 14, 2025 - by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy Process knowledge is crucial to economic development Henry Farrell, Sep 02, 2025 [Programmable Mutter, via Th...
The AltWorld

Putin’s Missile Response SHOCKS Trump, NATO & Ukraine Crumble - Trump has crossed Putin’s red line and it’s Ukraine that will pay the ultimate price says geopolitical […] The post Putin’s Missile Response SHOCKS Trump...
Ballot Access News

No Labels Party of Arizona May Change its Name to Arizona Independent Party - The No Labels Party of Arizona, which is ballot-qualified, is asking its members whether the party should change its name. Voting is still underway, but th...
Reform Austin

Lawmakers Fail to Ban THC for the Third Time - On September 3rd, Texas lawmakers wrapped the second special session and beyond the legislation they had to discuss, the Senate’s proposal to ban nearly ...
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'False Narrative' Toons - ...HELPFUL REMINDER... IN OTHER NEWS...DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS... ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always re...
Glasstire

Interview: Michael Slenske, Director of Inaugural Untitled Art Houston, Speaks About Houston as an Art Capital - This is the second new Texas art fair that has popped up this year. I covered Friends Fair in Austin this summer, and now I’m excited about Untitled Art’...
See You In 2020

The USA’s terror campaign against its own people, & the anarcho-Nazi ideology that it’s using for this - The U.S. ruling class is working to normalize the kinds of violent chaos that we’ve recently been seeing, and Ukraine’s fascist movement provides the mo...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City - [image: Zohran Mamdani seen on stage at a campaign event. (Photo: Zohran Mamdani campaign)]In taking a stance against Israels' genocide in Gaza and its Zio...
Bracing Views

The End Game for Gaza - Using Old Tools of War BILL ASTORE SEP 12, 2025 I’ve taught military history “from Plato to Nato,” as we used to joke, but my expertise focused on technolo...
Wolf Street

Money-Market Funds & CDs: Americans Grow their Huge Piles of Interest-Earning Cash Further despite Lower Yields - Household money-market funds surged, large CDs also surged. But small CDs are the hot money; they flee when yields drop.
TalkLeft

Bad Bunny and Open Thread - Bad Bunny, who is finishing up a two month residency in Puerto Rico where he sold out 30 shows, is about to embark on a world tour of Latin America, Eur...
The NM Political Report

Poll shows Haaland with a commanding lead in Dem race for gov - This column is a part of New Mexico Political Report‘s analysis and commentary series. New Mexico’s 32nd governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, still has anot...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk assassination proves how spiritually rotten Nancy Mace's soul is - Usually when I wrote a post about the exploits of someone who wants to eliminate our equality, some of y'all say "we're not surprised " when you read it. H...
Workers World

Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar - [image: Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar] The Islamic Resistance Movement–Hamas issued the following statement in response to Israel’s bombing ...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
Progressive.org

How State and Local Republicans Are Disenfranchising Voters to Stay in Power - In Miami and Texas, Republicans have recently fought to undermine the will of voters by disregarding term limits and redistricting procedures.
Church and State

Trump now pulls a TACO on Chicago! - This use of the crime issue to propel his authoritarian agenda certainly equates with all of his other standard approaches.
Texas Standard

Rising costs of insurance and utilities eating into property tax relief efforts - The U.S. Census Bureau offered a sobering report that follows efforts from Texas lawmakers to bring down the property tax burden.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy - Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
The Grayzone

Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals - A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence prov...
Independent Political Report

Vermont Progressive Party Holding Statewide Reorganization Meetings Throughout September - The Vermont Progressive Party is conducting a series of caucuses across the state this month as part of its 2025 reorganization process. According to a c...
NORML

California: Lawmakers Advance Legislation to Governor’s Desk Halting Tax Hike on Commercially Available Cannabis Products - [image: marijuana money][image: marijuana money]"California NORML is proud to have taken a leadership role sponsoring this bill. Cannabis is already heav...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
Portside

The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting - The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting jay Thu, 09/11/2025 - 22:10
Sludge

Blue Dog Democrats Vote for Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget - The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of self-described fiscal conservatives led by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), largely voted for the GOP-crafted bill p...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
slacktivist

What I learned from the murder of Jo Cox - In 2016, I briefly imagined that I understood how explicit fascism and political violence would affect public opinion. Then I quickly came to understand th...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Krebs on Security

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions - In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materializ...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Project Censored

The Great Nonprofit Purge - Through funding freezes, regulatory threats, and legal manipulation, the Trump administration is pressuring nonprofit organizations to fall in line—or fa...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

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Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

No longer waiting to exhale

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