Brains and Eggs: Who's Number One?

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After Anti-ICE Protests (Jasmine Laws/Newsweek) - Jasmine Laws / Newsweek: *Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After Anti-ICE Protests* — Minneapolis and its residents have been nominated for ...
Al Jazeera English

Israel suspends evacuation of patients via Rafah crossing: Red Crescent - The Rafah restrictions come as Israel kills at least 10 Palestinians, including two children, in attacks across Gaza.
Crooked Media

Epstein Files Reveal Depraved Global Network - The post Epstein Files Reveal Depraved Global Network appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Not Minnesota Nice - We are living through a moment of profound danger. Operation Metro Surge is barely two months old, and there is still no end in sight. Nowhere is safe. N...
Countercurrents

Khamenei in the Open, Trump on the Back Foot: Why War on Iran Is Slipping Out of Washington’s Grip - The fact that the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, appeared three times recently in open and public meetings—chatting with...
Rallblog

The Things They Carry - We’ve all seen those masked-up, militarized ICE goons charging through American city streets. Sure, we wonder about the future of democracy. But we also ...
Mediagazer

An interview with Disney's incoming CEO Josh D'Amaro and Bob Iger on the CEO transition, the company's future, including streaming and embracing AI (Mason Leib/ABC News) - Mason Leib / ABC News: *An interview with Disney's incoming CEO Josh D'Amaro and Bob Iger on the CEO transition, the company's future, including streamin...
San Antonio Report

District attorney race heats up as 8 Democratic candidates spar over experience, qualifications - Democratic candidates for Bexar County district attorney debated staffing shortages, backlogs, high-profile prosecutions and public trust in a fast-moving ...
jobsanger

Trump Is Telling Us He Will Steal The 2026 Election - Believe Him! -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2862: Randomness - Episode: 2862 Randomness out of Nothingness. Today, let’s talk about how to pick random numbers out of thin air.
World Socialist Web Site

Switzerland: Fire disaster in Crans-Montana claims 41st victim - The immediate causes of the disaster—the ignition of party sparklers in a basement bar, the flammable ceiling cladding, the lack of and overly narrow escap...
Informed Comment

Turning Point: Wind and Solar outstrip Fossil Fuels in Europe for First Time - It is another clear piece of proof that humanity can get to carbon neutral by 2050 if it wants to.
Mediaite

Rand Paul Pumps the Brakes on Trump’s Idea To ‘Nationalize’ Elections: ‘That’s Not What the Constitution Says’ - Sen. Rand Paul rejected President Donald Trump's suggestion that Republicans "nationalize" elections. The post Rand Paul Pumps the Brakes on Trump’s Idea...
Axios

The economy is the world's most important problem, but not America's - Data: Gallup; Note: Margin of error ranges between +/- 2.4 and 4.7 percentage points; Chart: Axios Visuals Americans say the country's biggest problem righ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

On a street in Minneapolis, two versions of masculinity clashed. One anchored in fear, the other in care | Alexander Hurst - Alex Pretti had courage and empathy. This, not Maga’s conception of male power, is what we must teach young men The first thing that grabbed me about the...
Wolf Street

PayPal Shares Plunged 86% from the 2021 Goofball High and Right into our Imploded Stocks - The sudden CEO switcheroo was just the latest spooky thing.
Workers World

ANTI-ICE SOLIDARITY SPREADS! - [image: ANTI-ICE SOLIDARITY SPREADS!] January 30 was a historic day, one in which many thousands of people in Minneapolis and across the U.S. answered the ...
Raw Story

Trump's favorite shadowy immigration force exposed by expert as 'wrong tool for the job' - President Donald Trump's administration deployed two highly secretive immigration forces to Minneapolis, according to a new report, and one expert argued...
The Hill

Nicki Minaj, Bessent team up in TikTok video promoting Trump Accounts - The Trump administration jumped in on a viral TikTok trend on Tuesday, posting a video of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dancing with rapper Nicki Minaj ...
Techdirt.

Kash Patel Creating Tension With Mexico Because He Can’t Shut The Fuck Up On Social Media - Kash Patel, FBI Director, is not very good at his job. There are plenty of examples to demonstrate that notion, from him apparently completely misunderstan...
Liberation News

STATEMENT –– Defend and Expand Protected Status for Haitians! - We know that legal victories like these are often temporary. Instead of targeting and criminalizing Haitians, we must defend TPS and win permanent legaliza...
Brad Blog

Losing Legally and Politically, Trump Threatens to 'Nationalize' Elections: 'BradCast' 2/3/2026 - You're going to get the most, by far, from today's BradCast, by listening to it. This briefest of summaries will not do it justice. Hopefully it suffices i...
Courthouse News

Stand-up comedians settle copyright infringement lawsuit against Pandora - A group of comedians settled their claims after a court-appointed special master last year recommended that Pandora should prevail on summary judgment.
Election Law Blog

In Echoes of 2016, Trump, Against the Evidence, Calls Out American Cities with Large Minority Populations as Places Rife with Voter Fraud - Trump today, via the WSJ: “Take a look at Detroit…take a look at Philadelphia, take a look at Atlanta,” Trump said, referring to the cities in presidenti...
Political Wire

Trump to Sit Down for Super Bowl Interview - “Donald Trump will sit down for an interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas, with a portion of it set to air as part of the network’s Super Bowl p...
The Verge

Adobe actually won’t discontinue Animate - Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate on March 1st. In an FAQ, the company now says that Animate will now be in maintenance mode and tha...
The AltWorld

Please Understand That Nothing Will Be Done About The Epstein Files - I need you to understand that nothing is going to be done about anything in the Epstein […] The post Please Understand That Nothing Will Be Done About Th...
Deadline Politics

Hollywood Guilds Raise Concerns With Senate Antitrust Subcommittee Over Warner Bros. Sale Amid Netflix Congressional Hearings - As Ted Sarandos endured hours of questioning from the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee about Netflix’s pending acquisition of Warner Bros., several ...
The Greanville Post

MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH W/LAITH MAROUF – EPSTEIN DOCS – ISRAEL IS ALREADY IN A REGIONAL WAR - GARLAND NIXON—The video features a conversation between Garland Nixon and Laith Marouf, centered on the recent revelations from the Epstein files and their...
El Paso Matters

After El Paso medical examiner ruled migrant’s death a homicide, ICE sent next body to Army hospital - ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility for the autopsy of a Nicaraguan man who died at Camp East Montana – and won’t r...
Salon.com

“Get on to something else”: Trump urges US to move on from Epstein files - Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Trump said the deposition of the Clintons was a "shame"
See You In 2020

NATO’s Satanic pedophile network, and how it’s tied in with the Democratic Party’s infrastructure - To defeat our pedocracy, we will need to investigate and expose the child trafficking networks that are most deeply embedded in the system. That were al...
Undernews

US Citizen Facing Denaturalization Over Rape Conviction - *Newsweek -* The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday that it is seeking to revoke the citizenship of Gurmeet Singh, a naturalized U.S. citizen,...
Alternet

Federal judge suggests he'll block Trump admin's attempt to punish Mark Kelly - After Sen. Mark Kelly (R-Ariz.) called on troops to remember their oath to disobey illegal orders, President Donald Trump's Department of Defense (DoD) m...
Portside

The New Era of Israeli Expansionism and the War Economy That Fuels It - The New Era of Israeli Expansionism and the War Economy That Fuels It Judy Tue, 02/03/2026 - 19:00
Claytoonz

Cool Runnings - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Antiwar.com

Inside Strum: How a Subscription Platform Funds Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade - One of the most persistent myths in Western political thought is the idea that the United States and its European allies are principled opponents of fascis...
Consortium News

Judge Dismisses Bid to End ‘Occupation’ of Minneapolis - Marjorie Cohn reports that twelve days before the execution of Alex Pretti by border patrol agents, plaintiffs asked the federal court to stop the deployme...
Alas, a Blog

Weight Loss Inc - Becky writes: Barry’s script said, “A fat person is handing a bundle of cash to someone standing in the entrance to a building that has a sign saying “WEIG...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s Ooh La La Korean BBQ locked out over allegations of unpaid rent - [image: Family-owned Ooh La La Korean BBQ appears to have permanently closed.] The family-owned and -operated spot in the North Park shopping center open...
Ballot Access News

South Dakota Bill to Move Petition Deadline for Candidates Running in Primaries - South Dakota State Representative Rebecca Reimer (R-Chamberlain) has introduced HB 1095. It would move the petition deadline for candidates running in a pr...
Vox

A victory for Haitian immigrants, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberly - The Duopoly War Dance - The Democrat/Republican Pillow Fight - Margaret Kimberly - The Duopoly War Dance - The Democrat/Republican Pillow Fight bareditors Wed, 02/04/2026 - 03:51 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Edito...
Popular Resistance

Minneapolis Is A City Of Heroes: Veterans Join Community Resistance - “Peace at Home, Peace Abroad” is the vision that has inspired Veterans For Peace for many years.We have watched as the racist violence we witnessed in US...
CultureMap Houston

11 deals for a romantic retreat around Texas this February - February is the month of love, so this Texas travel roundup is as full as a box of chocolates with hotel getaways and special deals for Valentine's, Galent...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Enabling Fascism, Arresting Epstein's Clients, and Fighting Together: Dispatches Mailbag - I answer subscriber questions and get into the deep weeds
Mother Jones

Federal Judge Calls Out the Racism of Trump Admin’s Plan to End TPS for Haitians - A federal judge issued a last-minute temporary stay on Monday to block the Trump administration’s attempt to remove temporary legal protections for up to 3...
Second Nexus

MCU Fans Concerned After Kat Dennings Reveals That Marvel Has 'Scanned' Her Likeness - When you hear that you’re getting a “body scan,” you probably assume it’s tied to a medical procedure—not that your entire physical likeness is being qui...
The Week

Film reviews: ‘Send Help’ and ‘Private Life’ - An office doormat is stranded alone with her awful boss and a frazzled therapist turns amateur murder investigator
Futurism

Reddit Mod Deleted Breathtaking Photo Taken by NASA Astronaut From Space Because It Was “Blurry” - "Dear mods, please show NASA how to take better pictures from space so you don’t have to delete them." The post Reddit Mod Deleted Breathtaking Photo Tak...
OpEd News

Communications for Outreach - An array of details to assimilate that aid effective communication, especially for outreach.
Socialist Alternative

Greenland: Oppose All Imperialist Expansion! - Emboldened by the aggressive US military operation in Venezuela, President Trump announced in January that there is “no going back” on his plans to “own” G...
Slate

For the First Time in Half a Century, We Won’t Have a Nuclear Treaty With Russia. Trump Is Totally Unprepared. - And there's a new dimension to the possible arms race scenarios ahead of us.
Daily Cartoonist

Nancy Beiman Named to Hall of Fame - Before Nancy Beiman found worldwide fame and fortune with her FurBabies comic strip she had a renowned brief (40 years) career in animation and as a teache...
Scheerpost.com

The new era of Israeli expansionism and the war economy that fuels it - By Ahmed Alqarout for Mondoweiss Israel has entered a new era of territorial expansionism and military aggression beyond the borders of historic Palestine....
Novara Media

Peter Mandelson to Face Criminal Investigation Over Jeffrey Epstein - Keir Starmer has given the Met Police a dossier relating to emails between Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein. Plus: Tony Blair’s appearance in the latest relea...
Progressive.org

How Street-Level Direct Action Is Challenging Trump’s Authoritarianism - Community-based rapid response networks and irreverent performers are disrupting ICE at the source.
Capital & Main

Amid the Violent Minnesota Raids, ICE Arrests Over 100 Refugees, Ships Many to Texas - Federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release those detained; lawsuit called the mass arrest "a Kafkaesque deprivation of liberty." The post ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Folly of Bombing Iran - Escalation advocates argue that bombing Iran could extract concessions, collapse the regime, or permanently secure Israel. History suggests otherwise. Stra...
First Draft

Malaka Of The Week: Howard Lutnick - The Commerce Secretary's SIR STORY.
Texas Standard

Texas set to open applications for new $1 billion school voucher program - Applications will close March 17, with funding notifications sent to families beginning in early April. The rollout follows a years-long battle at the Capi...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #13: Alex Pretti's Impact, New Cranks at CBS News, and Reminiscing About Fusion (w/Sam Grasso) - Producer Sam joins us to talk about the dramatic shift in anti-ICE sentiment.
The Daily Poster

Big Grocery’s Hidden Poverty Tax - Low-income neighborhoods face higher food inflation than rich ones, and new research suggests market consolidation is the culprit.
Texas Observer

How to Cause a Dysfunctional Government - Let’s begin with a definition, by example, of dysfunctional governing: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,...
The Root

NFL Star Russell Wilson Shuts Down Rumors After His Name Appears in Epstein Files - Russell Wilson responds after being name-dropped in the Epstein files. Read more...
Dissident Voice

A Man’s Worth - Author’s note: This piece is dedicated to the memory of Angie Tibbs, who was a dear friend and also my editor at DV for many years. Her light still shine...
NORML

Dark Money Is Fueling Prohibitionist Campaigns To Repeal Legalization - Out-of-state prohibitionist groups are using misleading tactics and are relying on dark money in their efforts to repeal voter-approved marijuana legaliz...
Bonddad

The State of Freight is Mainly Recessionary - - *by New Deal democrat* This morning we were supposed to get an actual, on-time JOLTS report for December. But with Pastor Mike Johnson having done...
Mondoweiss

Newly released Epstein files reveal further ties to Israel - [image: Photo released by House Democrats on the Congressional Oversight Committee on December 12, 2025, showing Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz. (Phot...
ProPublica

Mass. Governor Proposes Eliminating Statute of Limitations for Rape When DNA Evidence Exists - The post Mass. Governor Proposes Eliminating Statute of Limitations for Rape When DNA Evidence Exists appeared first on ProPublica.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Condemns ICE for Fourth Amendment Violations - The Libertarian National Committee has formally condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement for what it calls repeated violations of the Fourth Amendme...
Ian Welsh

American and Chinese Elites Both Achieved Their Goals - The period around 1980 was pivotal to the fate of nations. In the West Thatcher and Reagan came to power and finished the destruction of the post-world War...
SCOTUSblog

Why equal protection can’t be settled by biology and statistics - Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its st...
Rewire

‘Bad Guys Are Taking Mommies and Daddies’: ICE Upends Minneapolis Kids’ Lives - How to explain armed federal agents to a kid? In Minneapolis, parents must figure that out, while teachers face half-empty classrooms as students stay ho...
Glasstire

Letter from the Publisher: Early Sightings: Before They Were Big - For February, the second month of Glasstire’s anniversary celebration, we are looking at the art, artists, galleries, spaces, and institutions we’ve watc...
Crooked Timber

Occasional reason to be cheerful: Babies - Healthy babies, to be specific. Because worldwide, infant and child mortality has fallen greatly; and is still falling; and will almost certainly continue...
ArcaMax

Blitzkrieg: The Trump Assault Marches On - The term "blitzkrieg," German for "lightning war," is used to signify the swift deployment of concentrated military force to overwhelm a line of defense. I...
Democracy Now!

ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis - ProPublica has identified the two Border Patrol agents who shot Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis man killed January 24 while observing immigration enforcement ...
The Conversation

The Supreme Court may soon diminish Black political power, undoing generations of gains - The Supreme Court appears poised to abolish a key part of the Voting Rights Act. It may draw on a constitutional amendment that empowered African Americans.
Space City Weather

After another modest front, Houston should be warm for awhile - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the end of a very cold period of weather in Houston, which will now turn warmer into mid-February. I’m continuing to g...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Trappers - An oldie but goodie. Early colonial French Canada meets the modern corporate wasteland for a bit of class warfare. There's a tiny amount of obviously-fa...
Angry Bear

Automotive Manufacturing in Mexico - Since I worked in Mexico for about 26 weeks, I learned quite a bit about what was going on in automotive manufacturing. Some things to understand. The pa...
Earth 911

The Earth911 Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Guide - Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are found in many devices we use every day, like smartphones, laptops,... The post The Earth911 Lithium-Ion Battery Recycl...
Dorf on Law

Trump's Lawsuit Against the IRS is Absurd: Can Bondi Be Trusted To Defend Against It? - My latest *Verdict *column discusses the absurd lawsuit that Donald Trump, his two eldest sons, and the Trump Organization filed late last week against t...
The Smirking Chimp

Donald Trump vs. Donald Trump -
WhoWhatWhy

Wildfire Smoke Linked to 17,000 Strokes Annually in the United States - [image: Smoke plume, 2016 Rey Fire, California] A study of 25 million Medicare participants adds to a body of evidence suggesting that prolonged exposure t...
Skeptophilia

No humans allowed - A lot of the time, I'm hopeful about humanity, convinced that we have sufficient intelligence and compassion to figure out, and ultimately solve, the pro...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Staci Childs - We continue on in HD131, and the theme will be one of familiar names. Staci Childs is currently serving as the State Board of Education member in district ...
Grist

Japan’s unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining - Japan is spending five weeks mining the sea floor. It is a technological milestone — and a stress test for how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy de...
High Country News

Where giant kangaroo rats — and other critters — thrive - [image: Mostly nocturnal, giant kangaroo rats are a keystone species of the Carrizo Plain.] Thanks to concerted conservation, California’s Carrizo Plain i...
Church and State

ICE goons murder of Alex Pretti show us a true version of citizen heroism! - As we keep watching that huge crowd of protesters in Minneapolis, walking in 5° weather, one is absolutely feeling elevated by their courage.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Nancy Mace Is Not Okay' - Explosive expose points to 'erratic' and 'abusive' behavior of SC Congressional leader - Nancy Mace Extremely anti-trans (and very public about it) SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace is the subject of what many are calling an explosive expose in a *N...
Daily Howler

POSTPONEMENT: Subway succumbs to eight inches of snow! - *TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2026* *Also, goodbye Kennedy Center:* True story! Last Friday, we never made it to the medical mission. Making a long and frigid ...
The NM Political Report

Longtime Dem. Miyagishima switches to run for governor as independent - Former Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima announced Monday he is running for governor of New Mexico as an Independent candidate, pitching himself as a “re...
Common Dreams

D.C. Mobile Billboard Demands Trump Fire Kristi Noem - As President Trump and Congress return today to consider government funding, Common Cause is welcoming elected leaders back with a simple message on a mo...
Lowering the Bar

In Memory of “Death v. Graves” - You will be missed.
Earthworks

Trump Administration Investment in Mining Raises Questions About The Responsible Use of Taxpayer Money - Why do US taxpayers now own millions of shares in mining companies? Elected leaders want to know. The post Trump Administration Investment in Mining Rais...
Sludge

Crypto, AI, and AIPAC Set up to Smash Super PAC Spending Records - The groups are sitting on massive war chests for 2026 midterms, according to new disclosures.
The Progressive Wing

Feb 2-6 News Roundup & OT - Appears we will have six months more. Not surprised here. The 2026 Farmer’s Almanac predicted worst winter in 2025-6. Follow us below the jump.
The Texas Signal

The New Union Leader Turned Texas Senator-Elect - Democrat Taylor Rehmet, a 33-year-old Fort Worth Air Force veteran and Lockheed Martin union leader, defeated Republican Leigh Wambsganss of Southlake in t...
Project Censored

Déjà Vu News: Corporate Media Repeats Its Failures While Empire Marches On - First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with professor of communications Dr. Steve Macek to talk about Trumps war on epistemic institutions. Dr. Macek sha...
Krebs on Security

Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters - A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim f...
NPR's Health Shots

This global health leader praises Trump's aid plan — and gears up to beat malaria - Bill Steiger, who served in the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations, reflects on the past year's changes in the U.S. role — and on his new job a...
Idavox

Don Lemon and How Two Grifters Make Liars Out of Pam Bondi - They keep doing this. So we will be keep call them out every time they... The post Don Lemon and How Two Grifters Make Liars Out of Pam Bondi appeared fi...
The Grayzone

Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op - Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised ...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - * Kicking off Black History month with my latest House Negro Power Rankings. I am doing this because sometimes the damage from within, is much more det...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Practical Bookmark - Here’s a really old design of mine, back in 2013. I wanted a simple origami bookmark–no frills, just mark my page please. Some origami bookmarks stick ou...
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

From Women and Gender Studies to Faculty and Syllabus Surveillance at Texas A&M University, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Jan. 31, 2026 - From Women and Gender Studies to Faculty and Syllabus Surveillance at Texas A&M University*by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 31, 2026* *Texas A&M ...
Bracing Views

AI as a Runaway Bullet Train - Bursting Through the Guardrails BILL ASTORE JAN 30, 2026 The AI hype train is here and is speeding ahead like the fastest Japanese bullet train. It’s a “re...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IS IT FASH YET? EDITION. - *You better run.* Tubby and his mob have been busy, seizing voting records in Georgia (presumably to manipulate in furtherance of his years-long Stolen E...
Moron Majority

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Environment Texas

Is nuclear energy renewable? - Nuclear energy has produced electricity in America since 1958. But is nuclear energy clean, renewable energy? The post Is nuclear energy renewable? appea...
Dissent Magazine

A Crisis of Conflict Resolution, Not Conflict Studies - A response to “The Demise of Conflict Studies” from our winter issue, followed by a reply by the authors.
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
The Militant

31,000 Kaiser nurses strike over staffing in California, Hawaii - LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across Cal...
LareDOS

Lifelong learning has no limits: LC alum, aspiring writer, delivers commencement speech - Reposted from Tragaluz - A Borderland Journal of Arts and Culture
Duck of Minerva

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay Number 8 - *There is far too much mediocre, alarming Jesus-script in the gospels* ...
Seeing the Forest

Abolish ICE — Stop Dehumanizing People - If you give them an inch … And look, now they’re taking their mile. Crossing the border without authorization is a misdemeanor. It only became a crime at a...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Greg Palast

The real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, AtlantaYou are watching the theft of 2026 before your eyes - For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday’s-FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warr...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: A Couple of Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans Still Favored Overall - Despite facing what is likely to be a difficult national political environment this fall, Republicans remain favored to hold their Senate majority. The ...
DeSmogBlog

Top U.S. Oil Lobby API Targets Landmark EU Climate Law, Policy Document Shows - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. The U.S. oil lobby aims to bul...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
Ecosophia

Evil Makes You Stupid: A Case Study - Yes, as most of my readers are probably aware by now, I’ve relocated. It’s been a little less than two years now since my wife Sara died; it’s been a rough...
The Rag Blog

MARIANN GARNER-WIZARD / REMEMBRANCE / Robert “Bob” Pardun, beloved prairie radical - By Mariann Garner-Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 Robert Pardun was born June 30, 1941 and passed away January 16, 2026 after a long struggle with...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Buried Human Rights Reports Few Ever Heard Of! - Many of the biggest Human Rights groups in the world have been documenting atrocities by Israel against Palestinians for decades, possibly going back to...
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: A North-South Korea-like Divide… in Africa - With continued democracy and civic freedom, and now globalization and a start at international recognition, Somaliland's future is in the other direction: ...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Land Destroyer

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Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
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Two Party Opera

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Reading the Pictures

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nonsite.org

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Reveal

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Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Campaign for America's Future

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ExChristian.Net

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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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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...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

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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

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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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 -
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The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
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...
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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

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The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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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...
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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
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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

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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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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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...
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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...
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The Contributor

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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

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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

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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

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The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

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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Wednesday, January 04, 2006

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