Brains and Eggs: Photos from the Courthouse Tour

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

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

JD Vance defends GOP leaders caught making Holocaust jokes, voicing gay slurs, and calling Black people monkeys - Recently, a group chat of leaders of Young Republican groups across the country was leaked to *Politico *magazine, and it is a doozy: The messages publi...
Eschaton

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Axios

"A dark day": Pentagon confiscates badges of Defense reporters - Nearly every Pentagon reporter from almost every major media outlet in America turned in their press badges Thursday, after refusing to endorse the Defen...
The Greanville Post

INTERVIEW: If we lose Gaza we lose the world - G. GALLOWAY—Tadhg Hickey, an Irish comedian, actor, and writer, has emerged as a prominent international voice advocating for the Palestinian cause. Recent...
Courthouse News

Accidentally shot bystander: Not murder - BOSTON — The Massachusetts Court of Appeals found a defendant not guilty of murder after he accidentally shot and killed an innocent bystander while defend...
Raw Story

'Solid no': MAGA senator breaks with JD Vance over racist Young Republican chat - Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) broke with Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday over whether a racist group chat leaked to Politico should be considered acc...
The Hill

Emanuel: Trump grabbed 'hand grenade' from Democrats on shutdown - Rahm Emanuel, former U.S. ambassador to Japan and Chicago mayor, said President Trump grabbed a “hand grenade” when it comes to the current government shut...
The Daily Poster

The War Profiteers of Palo Alto - After pushing sensationalized claims of foreign threats, Silicon Valley’s military startups are set to score billions in funding for drones and A.I.-powere...
Deadline Politics

Gavin Newsom Seeks Congressional Probe Of GOP “I Love Hitler” Texts; Slams VP Vance’s “Kids Do Stupid Things” Response, Says DOJ “Cannot Be Trusted” - The Governor of California is daring the GOP controlled Congress to open an investigation into “the vile and offensive text messages” recently revealed fro...
memeorandum

Sen. Jim Justice Threw His Bulldog a Birthday Party In The Middle of the Government Shutdown (NOTUS) - NOTUS: *Sen. Jim Justice Threw His Bulldog a Birthday Party In The Middle of the Government Shutdown* — The government has been shut down for more than ...
San Antonio Report

Bexar Elections says voter registration backlog has been resolved - All applications received by the registration deadline have been processed and can cast a ballot in the Nov. 4 election. ------------------------------ Bexa...
The Verge

Google’s AI video generator is getting better editing and more audio - Google is making videos created with the AI filmmaking tool Flow even more realistic — and harder to identify as AI-generated at first glance. The company ...
Rallblog

Hamas’ Stunning Victory - TED RALL HAMAS’S STUNNING VICTORY RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025 Hamas’s victory over Israel will go down in history as one of the most stunning up...
Houston Public Media

Supreme Court decision could impact Voting Rights Act lawsuit against Houston school district - More than four years after Spring Branch ISD was sued over how its trustees are elected, the lawsuit hinges on a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court case that ...
Mediaite

Trump Says US Is In a Trade War With China Already: No Waiting ‘Til November - President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the USA is already in a trade war with China, weeks ahead of a planned meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping...
Mediagazer

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News) - Chris Roush / Talking Biz News: *WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, af...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump confirms that he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela - Move by US marks sharp escalation in efforts to pressure Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro’s regime Donald Trump confirmed reports on Wednesday that he...
Vox

How Trump is paying the troops - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Daily Dot

“They should do this everywhere”: There’s only one Dunkin’ location in the country that decorates for Halloween, and the reason why actually makes sense - [image: dunkin donuts salem location decorated for halloween] A Dunkin' Donuts customer visited the Salem, Mass., location to scope out the donut chain's...
Mother Jones

Republican Justices Appear Poised to Destroy What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act - The Supreme Court, with its six-to-three Republican-appointed majority, appears ready to kneecap what remains of the Voting Rights Act’s protections for mi...
slacktivist

A ‘Hardcore’ theological crisis - Paul Schrader's 1979 film Hardcore may be both the most Calvinist and the most anti-Calvinist movie I've ever seen. A real-life remake is happening in the ...
Slate

What Happens If Trump Gives the Military an Unlawful Order? - A military that either cannot or will not advise its members that they have an obligation to understand the law is a military in crisis.
Al Jazeera English

Canada threatens Stellantis with legal action over moving production to US - Stellantis announced a $13bn investment in the US, which will see Jeep Compass production move from Canada to the US.
Futurism

International Polling Shows Fear of AI Across the World - It's not just the US. The post International Polling Shows Fear of AI Across the World appeared first on Futurism.
San Antonio Current

Esperanza’s Museo del Westside to hold grand opening this Saturday - [image: Ruben’s Ice House served as a beloved watering hole and community gathering place until its 1987 closure.] The museum is focused on preserving thi...
NPR's Health Shots

Don't panic, but there might be lead in your protein powder - NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with investigative reporter Paris Martineau about a new Consumer Reports analysis that shows protein powders can contain toxic ...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Posts the Oral Argument Transcript of Louisiana Districting Case - On October 15, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Louisiana v Callais, 24-109, the case over the federal Voting Rights Act and Louisiana’s U.S. House district bo...
El Paso Matters

Upgraded water meters coming to every El Paso neighborhood - Part of El Paso Water’s commitment to improved service and future-ready infrastructure. The post Upgraded water meters coming to every El Paso neighbor...
MintPress News

Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal - Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover cem...
Political Wire

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy Dinner - “More than three dozen organizations and individuals, including companies with business before the federal government, are expected to attend a dinner with...
Techdirt.

New York City Sues Instagram Rather Than Teach Kids Filters Aren’t Real - When a school district sues social media companies claiming they can’t educate kids because Instagram filters exist, that district is announcing to the wor...
Alternet

'What a prosecutor does': Expert blasts CNN analyst’s claim Trump prosecutor 'rushed' charges - Although former U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith kept a low profile during the first eight months of Donald Trump's second pre...
Independent Political Report

Vermont Progressive Party Condemns State Sen. Samuel Douglass Over Leaked Young Republicans Chat - The Vermont Progressive Party has condemned what it described as “hateful, racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic” messages shared in a private Telegram c...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
Election Law Blog

Read the Transcript in Today’s Oral Argument in the Louisiana v. Callais Voting Rights Case Before the Supreme Court - You can find it here. The post Read the Transcript in Today’s Oral Argument in the Louisiana v. Callais Voting Rights Case Before the Supreme Court appea...
Discourse

It's All PR From Here On Out - A new tech "magazine" promises a conflict-free approach to prestige press.
Salon.com

“This is going to cost us”: Smith blasts Trump attacks on public servants in rare interview - The former special counsel issued a dire warning while speaking in London
The Week

‘Are we just going to stand in passive witness to the degradation of our democracy?’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
WhoWhatWhy

After Gaza Hostage Release, What’s Next for Donald Trump and the Middle East? - [image: sign, Tel Aviv, Cyrus The Great Is Alive] Does Trump get that there’s more to peace than a deal? After Gaza Hostage Release, What’s Next for Donald...
Second Nexus

People Are Calling Out Exactly Why The Inflatable Frog Protesters In Portland Are So Effective - How do you counter a false narrative from someone as powerful as the President of the United States? Some protesters in Portland, Oregon, may have figure...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Playbook Behind the “University Wars”—And Why It Fails on Purpose, by Angela Valenzuela - *The Playbook Behind the “University Wars”—And Why It Fails on Purpose* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Oct. 15, 2025* ILLUSTRATION BY GABRIELLA TRUJI...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Wolf Street

Home Buyers’ Strike Drags on Relentlessly, Despite Lower Mortgage Rates - So mortgage rates are not the problem; those exploded prices are.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Staying Sane During Insane Times: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The battle is every single day
CultureMap Houston

Meow Wolf Houston unveils limited-time immersive exhibit - There's a new show coming to Meow Wolf, the artsy immersive exhibit in Houston: Called *Phenomenomaly*, it's a full-scale performance in which spectators i...
Texas Standard

Where Texas birders can spot sandhill cranes – and possibly whooping cranes – this winter - Both birds make their way to Texas as part of a winter migration, but only one of the species is endangered.
NORML

FBI: Marijuana Possession Arrests Comprised Over 20% of All Drug-Related Arrests in 2024 - [image: a police officer handcuffs a man's arms behind his back while another officer in the background uses her radio][image: a police officer handcuffs...
Angry Bear

Health Care Lies by Republicans - Fifth term Virginia’s 8th District U.S. Representative representing Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, and parts of Fairfax County, Don Beyer talks hea...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: What happens when empires fall apart? - *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025* *The center, failing to hold: *Can the Democratic Party survive—regain some measure of control? Everything is possible, o...
American Prospect

Trump’s Tariff Tantrums - Will the Supreme Court restrain an unconstitutional power grab?
World Socialist Web Site

Corbyn’s “Your Party” reboot at The World Transformed: Europe’s pseudo-left politicians display their bankruptcy - Not one of the assembled speakers even mentioned events in the United States, where President Donald Trump is erecting a presidential dictatorship based on...
Bracing Views

Meet the New Centrist Democratic Party - Same as the Old Centrist Democratic Party BILL ASTORE OCT 11, 2025 Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) is a rising star in the Democratic Party. In July sh...
Undernews

Donald Trump - [image: Image] *NY Times - *Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice secured indictments of Donald J. Trump, said it was “ludicrous” to suggest he was mo...
OpEd News

Finland Reels from Anti-Russian Sanctions: Economic Downturn and the Path to Recovery - Finland faces a severe economic crisis due to EU anti-Russian sanctions triggered by the Ukraine conflict. The halt in trade with Russia, a key partner, ha...
Popular Resistance

Warfare For Venezuela And Welfare For Argentina - Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents ...
Progressive.org

The March Toward Martial Law - As Donald Trump descends the country into fascism, Democratic leaders are leaving the people to fight for themselves.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Debunking Christianity

A Second Visit to the Cahan’s - A Second Visit to the Cahan’s: *Figure 1:* The Cahan’s Meeting House’s unused Presbyterian pulpit. My fellow Ulsterman, Ignorant Amos, thought this pictur...
The Conversation

When government websites become campaign tools: Blaming the shutdown on Democrats has legal and political risks - When websites and email systems become partisan platforms, the line blurs between state and party, diluting public trust in the idea of impartial governance.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, and Eric Trump Trio of the Week - A Trump Trio stood out in news coverage of the administration this week: Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, and Eric Trump.
First Draft

The I Love Hitler Club - They're all insult comedians now; make that baby insult comedians. That's why Adrastos calls them the Hitler Youth.
Consortium News

Craig Murray: A Warning from Lebanon - We know from Lebanon that in Gaza, the Israelis will break any agreement and the American “guarantors” will support their continued violence as “counter-te...
Mondoweiss

The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal - [image: Allam al-Ra'i, 47, released by Israel from Ofer Prison, arrives in Ramallah as part of the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, O...
Scheerpost.com

Zohran Mamdani Speech at NYC Rally - “For too long, we have tried not to lose. Now, it is time that we win.”
SCOTUSblog

Justices debate whether restitution imposed on convicts is criminal, civil, or perhaps a little of both - Tuesday’s argument in Ellingburg v. United States turned on whether the ex post facto clause of the Constitution applies to the Mandatory Victims Restitu...
The Root

The Story of an American-Born Black Man Arrested by ICE in Chicago Will Piss You Off… - Despite being a U.S. citizen, a Black man in Chicago said he was detained and taken to an ICE facility with inhumane conditions. Read more...
Socialist Alternative

Federally Employed Letter Carriers Fight for the Right to Strike - Rob Darakjian, NALC Branch 2902, Los Angeles (in personal capacity) Letter carriers working for the USPS are at a crossroads. In our most recent contract n...
Dissident Voice

The Ancient History of Socialism in North America - Monday was Indigenous People’s Day, when much of the United States celebrates a murdering, enslaving, profiteering, imperialist Italian sailor mercenary ...
Capital & Main

Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union - With unionization dropping under Trump, experts say “premajority” campaigns can help workers score wins. The post Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve J...
Ecosophia

The No-Ego Ego Trip: An Interlude - Every year or two I field an earnest message from someone who’s just discovered that the human ego is the cause of all the world’s problems. The sender’s i...
Texas Observer

A Night at the Screamo Bookstore - On another night, Alienated Majesty Books near the University of Texas at Austin campus might host a conversation with a novelist or a poetry open mic. B...
Glasstire

Review: “O’ Powa O’ Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell” at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio - O’ Powa O’ Meng means “I came here, I got here, I’m still going” in the Tewa language, spoken by Pueblo nations in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley. Jody F...
Common Dreams

Advocacy Orgs Launch Ad Campaign to Defend Healthcare in Face of Shutdown - This week, a coalition of public interest organizations: Public Citizen, Indivisible, MoveOn, Fair Share America, People for the American Way, American F...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! Books Falling Like Autumn Tree Leaves - Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for October 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though orderi...
Ian Welsh

EU Leaders Determined To Win “Most Supine Slave Award”: Nexperia Edition - A couple days ago I discussed the Dutch taking over Nexperia, a Chinese owned by Dutch domiciled company making commodity semiconductors. The company becam...
Rewire

How RICO Could Be Weaponized Against Abortion Providers and Funds - “It’s about punishing the infrastructure of abortion access,” one lawyer said of the emerging legal strategies to criminalize abortion care networks. The...
Democracy Now!

Lindsey Boylan, Ex-Cuomo Aide Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment, on Why She Supports Mamdani - There are just weeks to go before the November 4 New York City mayoral election, a virtual rematch of the Democratic primary from earlier this year, when d...
Space City Weather

Houston likely to see some rain showers later this week, but they will provide scant relief - In brief: Today’s post provides some more information on the region’s burgeoning drought, and why scattered showers to end this week are unlikely to bring ...
ArcaMax

Dark Donald, Bright Diane - A man and woman, each 79, are in the news this week: President Donald Trump and movie star Diane Keaton. Could they be more different? They are the dark an...
Seeing the Forest

American Media Asymmetry - There are things the American public just can’t be told. Here are a few examples. Universal healthcare, like Medicare-for-All, would dramatically reduce Am...
The Smirking Chimp

Thanks to Trump and the Supreme Court, We’re Facing a Legal Emergency -
Dorf on Law

What are the "Essential Functions" of the Supreme Court? - Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in *Bowe v. United States*. In my *Verdict *column previewing the case, I highlighted the case's potentia...
Skeptophilia

The ladder of credibility - When I taught Critical Thinking in high school, one of the principles I harped on was "check your sources." The difficulty is, I don't just mean "see whe...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Christian Menefee - Our next candidate for CD18 is another familiar name and the first person to formally announce their candidacy for this seat. Christian Menefee has been el...
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
ProPublica

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help. - by Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up ...
Grist

How Vermont lost track of millions in FEMA flood recovery funds - As the federal government pushes more disaster recovery responsibilities onto states, they are “sitting ducks” for contractors.
High Country News

Loopy lagomorphs, warning off wolves, the best of Buddys and diminutive dinosaurs - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Loopy lagomorphs, warning off wolves, the best of Buddys and diminutive dinosaurs appeared first on ...
Crooked Media

Breaking Down Trump’s Gaza Deal - The post Breaking Down Trump’s Gaza Deal appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

How the IMF and US Helped Loot and Entrap Argentina with Debt - Milei took office in December 2023, and Argentina has been in deep recession since then. The recession has been caused by extreme fiscal austerity which ...
jobsanger

Our Representatives Are Being Paid For Doing Nothing -
Informed Comment

Terror from the Skies in the Middle East: Israel and the Ghost of Bomber Harris - Here is my essay for this week’s Tomdispatch.com . Check out the great Tom Engelhardt’s introduction at that site, where he reminds us of the eerie similar...
Brad Blog

Pro-Democracy Group Vows to Block Missouri's GOP U.S. House Gerrymander from Taking Effect: 'BradCast' 10/14/2025 - On today's BradCast: The War in Gaza may be in the middle of a very fragile ceasefire, but the Wars both For and Against Democracy in America continue apac...
Workers World

Palestinian Resistance scores historic victory - [image: Palestinian Resistance scores historic victory] Workers World Party salutes the anti-imperialist tenacity, resolve and determination of the Palesti...
Antiwar.com

Gaza: The Peace of the Genocide Alliance - With the silence of the guns, hope grows that Israel’s genocide in Gaza may have come to an end. Hostages and prisoners from both sides have already been e...
Reform Austin

Texas GOP Censures Five Lawmakers, Drops Ballot Ban Threat - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas Republican Party’s governing board voted Saturday to censure five GOP state lawmakers...
Portside

With No Pay Raises in Sight, NC Teachers Group Votes To Join National Union - With No Pay Raises in Sight, NC Teachers Group Votes To Join National Union Greg Tue, 10/14/2025 - 19:51
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition - Microsoft today released software updates to plug a whopping 172 security holes in its Windows operating systems, including at least three vulnerabilities ...
The Texas Signal

A Complicated Trajectory For DACA In Texas - How DACA looks in the future will be decided soon in a Texas courthouse, and the consequences for many Texans could be huge
The NM Political Report

Heinrich touts proposal to protect govt workers during shutdown, Vasquez backs one-year extension of health insurance tax credits - [image: Martin Heinrich and Gabe Vasquez] [image: Martin Heinrich and Gabe Vasquez] The federal shutdown is entering a third week and there is little pro...
Church and State

Put Trump‘s day of triumph in Gaza in perspective - Trump's constant efforts to dismantle our democracy will continue and he will stop at nothing to install his authoritarian regime.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Senate Rating Change: Maine Moves from Leans Republican to Toss-up - We are moving the Maine Senate race from Leans Republican to Toss-up, which means we now have four Senate Toss-ups: Republican-held Maine and North Carol...
Bonddad

More on stock market indexes’ advance-decline lines: the healthy and the sick - - *by New Deal democrat* I am currently on vacation, and as the shutdown continues with no end in sight, the only sources of economic data are from ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 14 October 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Halloween video post, click here.] Ma...
Earth 911

Trick or Eco-Treat: Halloween Candy Quandary - With Halloween approaching, many of our readers want to avoid contributing to the problem of... The post Trick or Eco-Treat: Halloween Candy Quandary app...
Trivial Knot

Deconversion Narrativization - It’s said that the world is made of stories. But, if that were true, why is translating a personal experience into a story so lossy? Invariably, you must c...
See You In 2020

Russia’s anti-fascist fight, Palestine’s resistance, & how the KKE works to hinder both of them - *One of the biggest problems in today’s socialist politics is crude economism, as advanced by Greece’s KKE and its affiliated orgs. This is the problem ...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
The AltWorld

Clash of Civilization: East vs. West - On this episode of TheRedPillDiaries we will be visited by the founder and host of The New […] The post Clash of Civilization: East vs. West appeared fir...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
Sludge

Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide - With $26.7 billion in approved Israel arms sales since October 7, 2023, Boeing stands out as a top beneficiary of the Gaza war.
DeSmogBlog

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist - As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new en...
Project Censored

US Military Power, Media Messaging, and Grassroots Strategies - In the first part of the program, cohost Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show US marine veteran Matthew Hoh to talk about the realities vs. the st...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
The Progressive Wing

10/13-10/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - The shutdown continues…more news, videos, and of course, your comments after the jump.
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Glenn Beck Podcast - The Glenn Beck Podcast.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTIFA VS. PRO-FA EDITION. - *Just nice.* According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organiz...
WAWG Blog

Authoritarian Capitalism and Authoritarian Fascism - These examples show that authoritarian capitalism can coexist with a relatively modest ideological veneer, whereas authoritarian fascism embeds a deep, o...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Earthworks

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
The Militant

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
Crooked Timber

Delighted to be proved wrong - A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice mi...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
Progressive Army

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Texans For Public Justice

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Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Photos from the Courthouse Tour

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