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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

The Guardian (U.S. news)

Maga media stars back Trump on Venezuela … mostly: ‘It doesn’t make any sense’ - Maga media used to hate US foreign intervention – now some are cheering it on “I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars,” Donald Trump said ...
NPR's Health Shots

Abortion remains legal in Wyoming after state's Supreme Court throws out bans - On Tuesday, Wyoming's Supreme Court threw out two laws that aimed to ban most abortion procedures in the Cowboy state.
Axios

Anthropic's Claude Code in the spotlight - Anthropic is quietly winning favor with engineers and hobbyists with its tools designed to simplify and automate coding. *Why it matters: *Everyone is ta...
memeorandum

Lawmakers seek to limit DHS power to shuffle cash in funding bill (Jennifer Scholtes/Politico) - Jennifer Scholtes / Politico: *Lawmakers seek to limit DHS power to shuffle cash in funding bill* — Top appropriators on Capitol Hill are seeking to ti...
naked capitalism

Two Decades of Chinese Industrial Subsidies - A profile of China's subsidies and how they have changed over time. Counter-intuitively, agriculture is the most important recipient.
Grist

Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks - Public Health Watch chronicles a fossil-fuel infrastructure boom that could worsen air pollution in some areas and exacerbate climate change.
Raw Story

'Long shot to plausible': Veteran polling analyst says one Dem candidate changes huge race - A Democratic Party candidate weighing up a run for the Senate could be a "plausible" winner in a particular seat, a veteran pollster has suggested. Nate...
Al Jazeera English

Bangladesh to ‘work with ICC’ on T20 World Cup security concerns in India - BCB refutes reports saying ICC had issued an ultimatum over Bangladesh's refusal to play its World Cup games in India.
The Verge

It turns out I’ve been using my Hue lights all wrong - Color-changing lights are a lot of fun, but it can be hard to figure out how to best use them in your home. Most smart lighting companies offer pre-designe...
Dissident Voice

The US Justice Department, Fake Cartels, and Maduro - The Trump administration is increasingly resembling a government previously abominated by the current US president as entangling, bumbling, and prone to ...
Crooked Media

Where Will Trump Invade Next? - The post Where Will Trump Invade Next? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

Gobsmacking Fabulists 'R Us - On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that almost toppled democracy (more quickly than now), the hacks and crackpots in power concocted a deranged, revis...
Mediagazer

NBCU partners with RPA and Newton Research to connect buy-side and sell-side agentic AI, automating real-time cross-platform video ad deals starting in Q1 2026 (Wayne Friedman/MediaPost) - Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: *NBCU partners with RPA and Newton Research to connect buy-side and sell-side agentic AI, automating real-time cross-platform ...
Rallblog

American Resistance - Whatever you think of the current administration, it is astonishing that so many Americans who hate the president and the government are willing to sit p...
Countercurrents

Rising to the Challenge of the Sociopolitical-Environmental-Economic Polycrisis - Ways to Forge a Path and Meet the Moment “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do ...
The Week

11 hotels opening in 2026 that will move you to reconnect with nature - Find peace on the beaches of Mexico and on a remote Estonian island
Counterpunch

Trump and Pump: Another Oil Quagmire - Kleptocracy, crony capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, carbon politics or Kissinger-style politics. Call it what you wish. But the Trump semi coup in V...
World Socialist Web Site

Zelensky names military spy chief to lead Office of President - Budanov was trained by the CIA, maintains ties to the Trump administration and is known for his particular close ties to Ukrainian neo-fascists.
jobsanger

The World Doesn't Work That Way -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2566: Champagne - Episode: 2566 Taking Champagne to the Masses. Today, we pop the cork.
Informed Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel Rally against Military Conscription, with one Killed after they attack Bus - An Israeli police statement blamed the demonstrators, saying that they had disturbed the peace, closed off streets, damaged buses
Mediaite

Former Ambassador Can’t Believe Trump’s Greenland Plan: ‘I Can’t Stress Enough How Completely Insane This Idea Is’ - Michael McFaul harshly criticized President Donald Trump over the latter's plan to annex Greenland. The post Former Ambassador Can’t Believe Trump’s Gree...
Trivial Knot

Experience with AI coding - In the past year, myself and many other people who program for a living started using AI coding assistance. I’m just going to plainly discuss my experience...
Wolf Street

Ugly Charts of US Auto Sales, 2025: Stellantis, Nissan Flirt with Catastrophe. GM, Ford, Honda Sales Rise but far below Peaks. Toyota & Hyundai-Kia Set Records - New-vehicle sales in 2025 rise barely above 1986: Four decades of structural stagnation, plunges, and partial recoveries.
WhoWhatWhy

The Breathtaking Cowardice of the GOP Is on Full Display on January 6 - [image: Donald Trump, supporters, January 6] While the White House used the anniversary of the January 6 attack on Congress to try to rewrite history, the ...
The Hill

Jeffries is taking Trump's threats against Greenland ‘seriously’ - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that he is taking President Trump’s threats about taking over Greenland “seriously.” “Everythin...
See You In 2020

Popular struggle is what gives a fighting chance to Venezuela, and to the entire global working class - No nation will tolerate interference in its internal affairs and infringement upon its honour. Not only the socialist countries but also the newly indep...
Techdirt.

RFK Jr., CDC Alter Childhood Vaccine Schedule To Mimic Denmark’s - The Trump administration’s war on vaccines continues, it seems. We’ve already written extensively about all the bullshit RFK Jr. is pulling when it comes t...
Workers World

No to U.S. intervention in Iran and elsewhere - [image: No to U.S. intervention in Iran and elsewhere] If there was ever one iota of doubt that Donald Trump is all about regime change against any governm...
Brad Blog

Jack Smith's Testimony on Trump's Jan. 6 Crimes and DOJ Weaponization: 'BradCast' 1/6/2026 - It's five years to the day since January 6, 2021, when the then President of the United States got away with one of the most audacious crimes ever attempte...
Daily Cartoonist

The Adventurous Decades are Long Gone - On a comics page long ago in a newspaper world far away from today’s practice adventure lived. At times during the 1930s, ’40s, and into the ’50s adventure...
Claytoonz

Crappy MAGAts - 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...
Courthouse News

Adidas hits resistance in court over three-stripe trademark fight - Adidas sued a sports memorabilia company over soccer jerseys it says infringe its three-stripe trademark.
Popular Resistance

America The Rogue State - The ruling class of the United States, severed from a fact-based universe and blinded by idiocy, greed and hubris, has immolated the internal mechanisms ...
Portside

Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign - Why the Solar Panel Is the 21st-Century Peace Sign Judy Tue, 01/06/2026 - 20:32
Consortium News

White House Can’t Make Venezuela Attack Legal - Marjorie Cohn rebuts the efforts by the Trump administration — including the president’s claim that the U.S. owns Venezuela’s oil — to justify its illegal ...
Political Wire

A Strongman’s View of the World - “Stephen Miller has spent the bulk of his White House career furthering hard-right domestic policies that have resulted in mass deportations, family separa...
Salon.com

“Meant to confuse”: Public health advocates slam RFK Jr.’s vaccine schedule changes - Numerous vaccines were removed from the childhood immunization schedule in a historic move led by RFK Jr.
Progressive.org

The Case of Free Speech v. Trump - The courts, American institutions, and the public can still reject the lawlessness of the Trump Administration.
The Daily Poster

They Lobbied, Venezuela Burned. - Before Trump’s invasion of Venezuela, oil giants, global creditors, and cryptocurrency firms lobbied on sanctions and access to the resource-rich nation.
Antiwar.com

U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan Risk Accelerating China’s Timeline for Unification - President Donald Trump’s administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $11 billion that cover eight items, inc...
Deadline Politics

White House Debuts January 6th Revisionist History Website As Democrats Mark 5th Anniversary Attack On Capitol - The White House tried to revise the history of January 6th, debuting a website with false claims to blame Capitol Police for fomenting the attack on the Ca...
The Greanville Post

Elina Xenophontos explains: Why has Trump abandoned regime change in Venezuela? - PG—Why has Trump abandoned regime change in Venezuela? For my money, few observers have explained this important point better than Elina Xenophontos, a dis...
El Paso Matters

Canutillo ISD board postpones superintendent finalist Josue Borrego contract vote - The meeting was canceled as some residents and board members raised concerns about the selection of a finalist who is not from the El Paso region. The ...
Election Law Blog

“White House re-litigates Jan. 6 with webpage claiming ‘insurrection’ was a Democratic fabrication” - Disgusting: The White House marked the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot by releasing an official webpage that accuses former Vice President Mike Penc...
Reform Austin

Texas Lawmakers Split Over U.S. Capture of Venezuelan President Maduro - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas politicians are voicing strong reactions after U.S. forces executed a military operation ...
Ballot Access News

Cleveland Plain Dealer Reports on Libertarian Party of Ohio candidates for 2026 - The Libertarian Party is the only minor party currently recognized by the State of Ohio and, accordingly, must nominate its 2026 General Election candidate...
Environment Texas

These companies could have a big impact on protecting bees - To protect bees, we need to get bee-killing pesticides off store shelves. That’s why we’re encouraging three major companies to lead the way. The post Th...
Slate

Conservatives Have Built a Self-Destruct Button Into Many of Their Abortion Bans - That Wyoming’s abortion exceptions were weird and incoherent shouldn’t be a great surprise.
San Antonio Current

Families of women killed in 18-wheeler crash sue San Antonio’s H-E-B for $1 million-plus - The families of four Texas women are seeking more than $1 million in damages in a wrongful death lawsuit filed late last month against San Antonio-based...
Mother Jones

Punching Above Our Weight - It’s tough sometimes, when you’re a modestly sized, nonprofit newsroom, to look at the big dogs in journalism—the New York Times or CNN, with their thousan...
Vox

Trump’s January 6 victory lap - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Scheerpost.com

From Blue Books to Chatbots - By Nolan Higdon Substack “Many professors cite the rising impact of AI and the speech of some prominent politicians as reasons to inoculate students agains...
CultureMap Houston

Soccer-obsessed Houston sports bar flies into new home in Montrose - An enduring Montrose sports bar is making a big move this fall. The *Phoenix on Westheimer* will move from its current location to a new home at 1643 Richm...
San Antonio Report

Pearl CEO steps down, company begins search for new leader - [image: Pearl CEO Mesha Millsap at the popular retail mixed-use development on Monday March 20, 2023.]Pearl will begin searching for a new CEO after Mesha ...
Futurism

New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets on Polymarket - The founding fathers must have overlooked that one. The post New Law Would Prevent Trump Officials From Invading a Country and Profiting by Placing Bets ...
Daily Dot

“A real one”: Hero neighbor tries to kick down the door after gamer repeatedly yells “help!” - [image: Side by side ring camera screenshots of a young man in a black shirt running towards a door as if to kick it down.] A gamer recently took an ARC ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Second Nexus

'Will & Grace' Actor Brutally Drags Trump's Venezuela Takeover With Mock Regime Change In His Own Neighborhood - As the world now knows, on the morning of Saturday, January, 3, 2026, under the direction of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump and his Secretary of ...
Church and State

Trump has now crossed the red line which demands his indictment ASAP - The prospect of encouraging the oil companies to go in there before the government is stabilized is highly problematical.
Black Agenda Report

U.S. Aggression Against Venezuela - U.S. Aggression Against Venezuela bareditors Wed, 01/07/2026 - 02:46 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Larry Johnson
Ian Welsh

How To Defeat The US Militarily As A Weaker Power - Willingness to fight and to absorb damage is the most important thing. The Yemenis lost leaders, civilians and port facilities. They just kept going until ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico fills gap after Congress lets ACA tax credits expire - [image: New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State speech to kick off the 2025 Legislature in Santa Fe. The state is using $17.3...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Lays Out 2026 Strategy, Including Ballot Access Focus and New National Initiative - The Constitution Party has published a list of priorities for the new year, including plans to expand state ballot access and establish new state committ...
Alternet

Kansas GOP senator rejects Trump’s plot to invade Greenland - President Donald Trump has sparked global outrage after suggesting once again that the United States military could invade the island of Greenland and ma...
NORML

Maryland: Howard County Firefighters No Longer Face Sanctions for Off-Hours Use of Medical Cannabis - [image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis][image: a stethoscope and marijuana leaf representing medical cannabis]NORML worked...
SCOTUSblog

Maduro’s arrest places these Supreme Court rulings in the spotlight - As former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro prepares to fight drug, weapon, and narco-terrorism charges in the United States after being arrested in Ca...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Scribe gives voice to a gloomy thought! - *TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2026* *Charlie Pierce gets it right: *The president continues to rant and yell about how the 2020 election was stolen. Or at least, ...
First Draft

Remember January 6, 2021 - Never forget.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

With Walz Exiting but Klobuchar Potentially Entering, Minnesota’s Gubernatorial Race Remains Likely Democratic - With Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) dropping his bid for a third term, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is reportedly taking a serious look at running for governor. For n...
slacktivist

Epiphany (One of us) - Every year here, on January 6, we talk about Jesus, Job, and Jodie Foster.
Undernews

Number of shootings at schools - World of Statistics Number of shootings at schools within the United States: 2000: 31 .2005: 52 .2010: 15 .2015: 41 .2020: 116 .2025: 233
The Root

‘Sinners’ Cast: Where Are They Now - If you still want to keep up Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Osaka and more post-'Sinners,' keep an eye out for their slate of new projects! Read more...
Capital & Main

In a Time of Extreme Peril, Burmese Journalists Tell Stories From the Shadows - American foreign policy complicates an already difficult situation for those reporting on the civil war in Myanmar. The post In a Time of Extreme Peril, ...
Texas Standard

Crockett, Talarico duel for chance to break Democratic losing streak in Texas race for U.S. Senate - U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Dallas and Austin state Rep. James Talarico are the two leading candidates in the Democratic primary for the Senate seat held...
Mondoweiss

The last Columbia student protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity - [image: Leqaa Kordia]Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Co...
Bonddad

Real wages and consumer spending have been crucial positives; here is the most updated look - - *New Deal democrat* We are still suffering the aftereffects of the government shutdown, with no data today, but a helping of mainly stale government ...
Glasstire

Letter from the Publisher: Celebrating Glasstire’s 25th Anniversary - Welcome to Glasstire’s 25th anniversary! Way back in 2001, when the internet was nascent and many people didn’t know how to get online, Rainey Knudson fo...
Dorf on Law

The Trumpian Version of the Monroe Doctrine is Simply Might Makes Right - When President James Monroe articulated what came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine, the United States lacked the kind of naval power that would have be...
Rewire

BDSM: A Beginner’s Guide to Consensual Erotic Violence - How to get kinky in 2026. The post BDSM: A Beginner’s Guide to Consensual Erotic Violence appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Democracy Now!

Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear - Ventures launched by the Trump family since Donald Trump’s reelection have generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the Trump family....
The Conversation

2026 begins with an increasingly autocratic United States rising on the global stage - The US attack on Venezuela highlights a shifting American foreign policy that dismisses a rules-based global order and focuses on economic interests and mi...
Texas Observer

Midterm Memo: The C-Team. Maybe B-. - Much like how a sailor, lost and withering at sea, at least gets the chance to see the world, Texas’ ailing Democrats will get the chance this year to re...
Space City Weather

Houston faces a few more anomalously warm days before January feels like January again - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the potential for setting daily high temperature records this week ahead of a front on Friday. There also will be some...
Angry Bear

December ISM manufacturing report: continued contraction, continued stagflation, poor employment - – by New Deal democrat We are still suffering the data aftereffects of the government shutdown. Normally we begin each month with reports on both constr...
ArcaMax

Going to Extremes: As Our Domestic Cancer Spreads, America Flails - Five years to the week since the extremism-fueled, extremist-led Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and with plentiful documentation of the metastas...
Earth 911

Oops, We Did It Again: 2025 Second Hottest Year On Record - Yes, we resorted to a Britney Spears reference, but this isn’t cute anymore. The World... The post Oops, We Did It Again: 2025 Second Hottest Year On Rec...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Mental Decline Has Him ‘Paranoid’ About Losing Power: Psychologist -
Skeptophilia

All that glitters - If you own anything made of gold, take a look at it now. I'm looking at my wedding ring, made of three narrow interlocked gold bands. It's a little scratc...
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Judge Jim Kovach - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help ...
ProPublica

Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative. - The post Her Parenting Time Was Restricted After a Positive Drug Test. By Federal Standards, It Would’ve Been Negative. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

An age-old monument faces modern threats - [image: The erroding terraces of Smoky Mountain in the southeast reaches of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.] Scientists say Grand Stai...
The Grayzone

Behind the DOJ’s politicized indictment of Maduro: a CIA-created ‘network’ and coerced star witness - The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony fro...
Idavox

U.S. Kidnaps Venezuelan President: Imperialism Without the Mask - No, this is not liberation. It’s kidnapping. It’s an illegal attack on a sovereign nation... The post U.S. Kidnaps Venezuelan President: Imperialism With...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Former New York Times editor claims that paper's anti-trans slant was deliberate and came from management - Some of us suspected the following. It looks like we were right. I guess that can be seen as *some* comfort. From THEM: Former *New York Times* editor ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Duck of Minerva

Trump, US foreign policy and Venezuela: Aberration or Honesty? - In my international relations classes, I encourage my students to not just express their (mostly negative) views of Trump’s foreign policy. I also ask them...
Bracing Views

Gangster Capitalism - The Donroe Doctrine of Regional Dominance, Obedience, and Theft BILL ASTORE JAN 04, 2026 There are at least 30 trillion reasons why the Trump administratio...
Dissent Magazine

The Trump Doctrine - For years, Venezuelans have been trapped between two rogue states, with many reduced to hoping that one could solve the problem of the other. But it is t...
Project Censored

Ghosts in the Machine: Israel’s Military Myths and the Private Equity State - In the first part of the program we welcome back Dr. Shir Hever to talk about what’s really going on behind the media veil of an infallible Israel. Dr. H...
The Progressive Wing

1/5-12 News Roundup and Open Thread - More on Venezuela and other stuff,
Discourse

The Word For This Is 'Coup' - Call what Donald Trump just did in Venezuela by its proper name.
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 5 January 2026 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] "Bad" sources meaning "factually wrong", *not* "ideologic...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Why Aren't Professors Braver? Fear and Self-Censorship in Academe, by Paul Bloom, Chronicle of Higher Education - * Friends:* *I'm finally getting around to reading this piece that is listed by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of its most widely read articles...
The Militant

Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! - SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT Statement Issued January 3, 2026 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party The Socialis...
The AltWorld

14 Points on Trump Kidnap of Venezuelan President Maduro on the Sixth Anniversary of the Trump Assassination of Haj Qassem Soleimani - I have tried to collate some of the main talking points on the recent criminal events in […] The post 14 Points on Trump Kidnap of Venezuelan President M...
Land Destroyer

New Year Starts, Same Old US Proxy War Continues - *January 3, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While the United States government poses as “pursuing peace” with Russia regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine,...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Windmill Hill - [image: Windmill Hill]
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
Democracy Chronicles

The Capture of Venezuela’s President and the Crisis of Democratic Norms - Even when a leader is accused of serious crimes, international law does not permit a foreign power to act as police, prosecutor, and jailer simultaneously.
Greg Palast

When Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM - It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s New War For Regime Change—Hands Off Venezuela! - Read in Spanish below For mass struggle against imperialist plunder, bullying and war Trump has begun a new US imperialist war for regime change in Latin A...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier On Why There Is No Free-Will - Edouard Tahmizian had an interesting discussion with Richard Carrier about the metaphysical impossibility of libertarian free will. Our actions are aimed a...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Krebs on Security

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network - The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been explo...
TalkLeft

Happy New Year and Open Thread - Happy New Year to all! Photos of the celebrations around the world are pretty awesome. Still, the world is not a happy place today. America has watched ...
Liberation News

RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine crusade puts millions of lives at risk - Making America healthy means fighting for a system that values people more than the profit.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living in the Storm: Preparing for 2026 and the Battles to Come - We're in the thick of a pivotal moment in our lives and history. It's time to take a breath and look at where we're heading.
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - With all the jigging and *cooning *in America of late, I find myself having to once again call out the sellouts and slave catchers among us. I have ...
Sludge

House Dems Gave Millions in ‘Dark Money’ to AIPAC-Linked 314 Action - 314 Action is one of the groups that AIPAC diverted its PAC money through in 2024.
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Accuses St. Vincent of Negligent Stage-Diving - The artist allegedly "had to be removed from him by security guards," a detail that is never explained.
The Texas Signal

How Wiess Park Changed Into A Houston Outdoor Art Garden - Thanks to some recent investments from the Houston Parks Board, Wiess Park is now also an open-air sculpture garden for seven Texas artists
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THROW THAT YEAR IN THE GARBAGE CAN EDITION. - *[no caption]* This Friday I’m not going long (nor early, neither!) with ‘Round-the-Horn, because I’m on vacation. Yes, both this and *Roy Edroso Breaks...
DeSmogBlog

How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next - There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
LareDOS

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Southeast Texas Record

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Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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Liberal America

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Houston Press

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Thursday, August 17, 2006

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