Brains and Eggs: Have a very happy Thanksgiving

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

Futurism

Waymo CEO Says Society Is Ready for One of Its Cars to Kill Someone - Waymo CEO: "You know, we don’t say 'whether.' We say 'when.'" The post Waymo CEO Says Society Is Ready for One of Its Cars to Kill Someone appeared first...
Mediaite

Trump Claims Toyota Promised $10B Investment in US — But Automaker Says Not So Fast - President Donald Trump proclaimed on Tuesday that Toyota has pledged to invest $10 billion in the U.S., but the Japanese automaker is pumping the brakes....
Eschaton

America's Most Ridiculous Human - Bari Weiss
Salon.com

“Risks are too high”: Maryland’s top Democrat shoots down party’s redistricting push - The decision breaks with the Democrats' national plan to counter Republican electoral maps
The Greanville Post

And the Chinese Five-Year caravan strolls on - P. ESCOBAR—“While the traditional system was not immune to change, the goal of these changes was to maintain the status quo, preventing ‘revolutionary’ cha...
The Hill

'Window shopping' opens for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans - The rates, pricing and other data for 2026 Affordable Care Act insurance plans were publicly posted on the federal Healthcare.gov marketplace on Wednesday,...
Raw Story

Want to know what Trump has in store next? He just blurted it out - He’s now saying it out loud — blurring the line between his so-called “war” on alleged foreign drug smugglers and his war on the “enemy within” the Unite...
Capital & Main

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like it.’ Aggressive ICE Raids Led One Man to Ask: Should I Self-Deport? - Trump’s immigration crackdown is leading some longtime residents to flee the country. They leave behind fractured communities and grieving loved ones. T...
CultureMap Houston

Growing Houston street-style taqueria rolls into Montrose this week - Proceed carefully on lower Westheimer this weekend. A line of taco lover may cause a bit of a traffic jam.
Daily Dot

“If it even just crosses your mind for one second”: Justin Bieber shared his definition of cheating, and not everyone agrees with it - [image: justin bieber streaming definition twitch] Justin Bieber is stirring up debate after giving his own definition of cheating during a recent Twitch...
memeorandum

You Don't, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump's Hands (Brian Beutler/Off Message) - Brian Beutler / Off Message: *You Don't, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump's Hands* — He has a terrible poker face, and keeps tel...
Wolf Street

Home Sales Have Not Improved at All Despite the Lowest Mortgage Rates in a Year - Pending home sales and applications for mortgages to purchase a home are near historic lows, and lower mortgage rates have not stimulated demand.
Courthouse News

Nvidia tops $5 trillion in total value as Wall Street waits for a Fed announcement - Nvidia was the strongest single force lifting the S&P 500 after rallying 2.7%.
The Verge

A massive Microsoft Azure outage is taking down Xbox and 365 - Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage just one week after issues with AWS took out swaths of the internet. The ...
Independent Political Report

U.S. Greens Debate Motion to Label Israeli Defense Forces a Terrorist Organization - The National Committee of the Green Party of the United States is debating a motion to declare the Israeli Defense Forces a terrorist organization, citin...
The Daily Poster

The Emperor's New Drones - In an unusual move, lawmakers are sending billions in funding for defense technology companies through the reconciliation budget.
Techdirt.

Trump Continues To Attack Biden For All The Stuff Trump Officials Did While Trump Was Still President - If there was anyone with any spine, honesty, or morality in the Trump administration, these astounding gaffes would have been headed off. But there’s no on...
The Week

Senate votes to kill Trump’s Brazil tariff - Five Senate Republicans joined the Democrats in rebuking Trump’s import tax
Al Jazeera English

RSF fighters film execution in el-Fasher hospital massacre - Fighters with Sudan's Rapid Support Forces recorded themselves conducting an execution in el-Fasher's Saudi Hospital.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Search under way in California after jail accidentally releases murder suspect - After staff realized suspect had been freed, officers began search and confirmed he was ‘no longer in the area’ A manhunt is underway in California after...
Houston Public Media

Homeless living center coming to Houston’s East Downtown after city council vote - The city plans to spend $16 million to purchase a facility that can provide shelter for the homeless as well as other services and resources.
Mediagazer

Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties (Sara Fischer/Axios) - Sara Fischer / Axios: *Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across ...
Consortium News

US Arms Firm Secures UK Ban on Palestine Protests - Court documents reveal aerospace firm Moog has obtained an injunction against protesters in Britain and even consulted the police about Declassified UK, Jo...
Slate

My Boyfriend Thinks He’s Really Skilled at This One Move in Bed. I Have Bad News. - He's gotten a lot of compliments on it, too.
SCOTUSblog

Court to consider protection of military contractors from certain suits - Updated on Oct. 29 at 12:36 p.m. Next Monday’s argument in Hencely v Fluor Corporation asks the justices to consider the extent to which military contrac...
Progressive.org

In Defense of Home and Community Based Services - Medicaid-funded HCBS programs are extremely vulnerable to political whims. That's true now more than ever.
Political Wire

Inside Trump’s Global Crypto Cash Machine - President Trump’s family raked in more than $800 million from sales of crypto assets in the first half of 2025 alone, a Reuters examination found, on top o...
The Grayzone

Leaks expose collapse of EU/US-backed Belarusian ‘opposition’ - Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was hailed by Western governments and media as the savior and rightful leader of Belarus. But leaked emails reveal her increasin...
Axios

Congressional staff warned of first missed paycheck as shutdown enters second month - U.S. House staffers were warned by congressional administrators Wednesday that their October paychecks will not be sent out if the government remains shu...
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: Justin Earl Grant at Sabine Street Studios, Houston - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
Ballot Access News

Hawaii Green Party Petition Succeeds - The Hawaii Elections Office has determined that the Green Party petition to get back on the ballot has enough valid signatures.
Undernews

Senate votes against Brazilian tariffs - *Republicans against Trump * - The Senate voted 52–48 to overturn Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazil. Five Republicans joined Democrats in supporting t...
Dissident Voice

Fascism Is Imperialism Turned Homeward - Admiral Alvin Halsey resigned his post as the Pentagon’s Southern Commander after a fraught meeting with Pete Hegseth involving the US military’s unconst...
Election Law Blog

“Top Maryland Democrat torpedoes state’s redistricting push” - Politico reports. The post “Top Maryland Democrat torpedoes state’s redistricting push” appeared first on Election Law Blog.
Bonddad

October Regional Feds’ summary of the goods producing economy: growth, but with strong inflation and almost nonexistent job growth - * - by New Deal democrat* With the shutdown of almost all economic statistics from the federal government, one of the most important remaining source...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university, by UT-Professor Lisa L. Moore, Ph.D. - * Friends,* *I’ve been part of the University of Texas at Austin over two decades, and like Dr. Lisa L. Moore, I have watched with heartbreak as the inst...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio restaurants Isidore, Nicosi and Mixtli win stars at Texas Michelin awards - [image: Award winners gather on stage at Tuesday's Michelin Guide ceremony in Houston.] The number of Alamo City restaurants with coveted Michelin star d...
Texas Observer

Bail Crackdown on Ballot Ignores Mental Health Crisis, Advocates Say - Paul Barrows spends his nights half expecting a late-night call from his son, who is prone to manic late-night walks that leave him lost and disoriented....
Daily Howler

DISORDER(S): The No Kings marchers were mentally ill! - *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025* *Diagnosis by clowns:* It would be hard to exceed the dumbness of what Emily Compagno said. It's as we noted yesterday. Sp...
NPR's Health Shots

Teens who use weed before age 15 have more trouble later, a study finds - Young teens who use cannabis are more likely to be frequent users than people who start later, according to a study in *JAMA Network Open. *They are also m...
Grist

Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet - Recent climatic developments "mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth," but it's not too late for radical action.
Second Nexus

Don Jr. Called Out By His Former Mistress After He Tried To Slam Chelsea Clinton Over Ballroom Comments - Donald Trump Jr. was called out on social media by his former mistress, Danity Kane singer Aubrey O’Day, after he referenced former President Bill Clinto...
Mother Jones

How Dangerous Is It Really to Work for ICE? - The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that it needs to send the military into American cities because of the unique danger faced by federal agent...
Common Dreams

New Data Shows Just Four Global North Countries Responsible for Derailing Oil and Gas Phase-out Progress since Paris Agreement - *Just four Global North countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Norway, are overwhelmingly responsible for blocking global progress on phasi...
naked capitalism

The Diminishing Returns of ‘Victory’: Empire in the Age of Climate Tipping Points - All the US energy poured into imperial submission accelerates the gains of humanity’s greatest threat.
Discourse

We Have to Talk About Donald Trump's Brain - Something's not right up there.
First Draft

Patrick In Charge - Stop putting Republicans in charge.
Rewire

‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Education Compact Puts Queer Students at Risk - The heavy-handed document promises federal funding in exchange for ideological compliance. The post ‘Students Are Terrified’: How Trump’s Higher Educatio...
El Paso Matters

El Paso events: Halloween fun mixes with Día de los Muertos, Winefest - El Paso’s weekend lineup blends Halloween events with Día de los Muertos celebrations, concerts and festivals, from citywide carnivals to the El Paso Wi...
ArcaMax

Believe Me When I Tell You - Believe me when I tell you Washington is going through stages of grief at the sudden demolition of the White House East Wing. The wreckage looks like a cri...
Democracy Now!

"Coexistence, My Ass!": Israeli Comic Noam Shuster Eliassi Uses Humor to Oppose Occupation & Genocide - *Coexistence, My Ass!* is a new documentary opening Wednesday in New York highlighting Noam Shuster Eliassi, an Israeli comedian and peace activist. Shuste...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Says It’s “Pretty Clear” He’s Not Allowed To Run For A Third Term - Donald Trump gave a more definitive statement dismissing another run for president in 2028, something that is barred by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitut...
The Conversation

Trump’s anti-Venezuela actions lack strategy, justifiable targets and legal authorization - President Trump OK’d a naval buildup in the Caribbean, strikes on boats in international waters and covert operations in Venezuela. A military analyst can’...
Texas Standard

Immigrants with degrees often struggle to find jobs. Adult education programs are trying to help - Program providers across Texas help immigrant professionals make connections and translate international credentials to find work.
Vox

There’s a bigger story in the OpenAI for-profit news - Big news for the pursuit of artificial general intelligence — or AI that’s of human-level intelligence across the board. OpenAI, which describes its missio...
Dorf on Law

Trump's Not-So-Cute Means of Becoming President-for-Life - As if we don't have more immediate problems, on Monday a reporter asked President Trump whether he was considering running for Vice President in 2028 so as...
Space City Weather

Is fall finally here? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind - In brief: In today’s update we discuss the ‘why’ behind today’s strong winds, and how cold it will get tonight. We also take a look at our sunny conditions...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Virginia Elections: Plenty of Late Drama, Although Not at the Top of the Ticket - The biggest factor in the Virginia gubernatorial race may simply be that Donald Trump won the presidency last year, meaning that Republicans would be in ...
slacktivist

Recent reads (10.29.25) - Tales of murder and mystery, Nephilim conspiracies, and the importance of asking questions like "Why is the water brown?"
The NM Political Report

NM open government group sues Department of Public Safety for public records delays, denials - [image: NM DPS Secretary Jason Bowie (l)] [image: NM DPS Secretary Jason Bowie (l)] By Patrick Lohman, Source NM — The New Mexico Foundation for Open Go...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: All Hallows Humpday - We’ll start with my annual Grinchy reminder that it was Linus, not Charlie Brown, who cut all those eyeholes into his sheet. This was Halloween, 1956, when...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Just Announced His Police State -
DeSmogBlog

Timeline: How the Tories Copied Reform’s Anti-Climate Policies - Four years after Boris Johnson’s Conservative government hosted the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, the party has ditched its environmental credentials ...
The Root

Ex-NFL Player’s Quest to Find His Biological Father Leads to a Jaw-Dropping Discovery - One Ohio man got the shock of his life when he learned the biological father he thought he never knew was a lot closer than he thought. Read more...
Skeptophilia

C'mon, you wanna live forever? - This morning I was casting about for topics for *Skeptophilia* and happened upon one that kind of made my brain explode. Part of this was I came across ...
Off The Kuff

Paxton sues over alleged Tylenol-autism link - Welp. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Johnson and Johnson, accusing the pharmaceutical company of failing to warn consumers about the risk of ta...
San Antonio Report

Could San Antonio ‘become the film capital of Texas’? Some think so. - City Council is considering raising the local rebate to 10% to be on par with Houston. Incentives can be stacked on a statewide rebate. --------------------...
Scheerpost.com

‘The Stuff of Nightmares’: Jamaica Braces for Catastrophic Landfall as Hurricane Melissa Horrifies Experts - “Unimaginable violence is hiding in the very small and compact eyewall of Melissa,” said one hurricane specialist.
ProPublica

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. - The post Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Proposed Wyoming oil and gas leases overlap wildlife corridors - [image: Wyoming pronghorn in front of gas field] BLM lease sales planned for next summer land along migration paths. Public comments accepted through Nov....
Crooked Media

Trump Dances Across Asia - The post Trump Dances Across Asia appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

You Have the Right Not To Know Anything - President Trump has launched numerous airstrikes against boats in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing dozens of Venezuelans and Colombian...
Counterpunch

France in Crisis: an Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise - In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current parliamentary r...
World Socialist Web Site

New Zealand union bureaucrats peddle the lie: Australia—a land of “milk and honey” - The claims of the NZ union leaders that things are much better for workers on the other side of the Tasman Sea is an exercise in misinformation, aimed at d...
jobsanger

Rural Voters Should Understand Trump Doesn't Care About Them -
Informed Comment

The Rise and Coming Fall of Trumpian Fascism - Hamburg, NY (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – There are so many reasons to be pessimistic about actions taken by the Trump administration. The way i...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace's backtrack on gay marriage support proves that she is a political opportunist with the integrity of a dead slug - *How it went:* *Nancy Mace in 2021:* In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Mace explained that while she’s voting against the Equalit...
TalkLeft

Hurricane Melissa Redirects towards Cuba - Hurricane Melissa is one for the history books. Melissa is leaving Jamaica and headed to Cuba. As if Cuba doesn't have enough problems right now, 900,00...
Alternet

Republican points out one big problem with MTG's criticism of GOP healthcare 'plan' - The core issue behind the ongoing government shutdown — expiring Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits — has led to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) si...
Brad Blog

Monster Storm, Endless Wars, Gamed Elections: 'BradCast' 10/28/2025 - We've got a lot of news from all over the world, and no small amount of explainers to go with it on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this...
Workers World

Hamas leader in Gaza speaks on current status of agreement - [image: Hamas leader in Gaza speaks on current status of agreement] The Resistance News Network posted the following interview for Al Jazeera by Hamas lead...
Krebs on Security

Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies - Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a...
Popular Resistance

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - Israel’s genocide is being powered by Microsoft. From creating a massive digital dragnet, aiding in the production of A.I.-generated kill lists, hiring h...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
Antiwar.com

Peace in Gaza Depends on Palestinians’ Right to Remain – and Return - Amid some extremely cautious optimism for peace following a tenuous and incomplete ceasefire in Gaza, any hope for Gaza’s future depends significantly on a...
Portside

Gaza ‘Scholasticide’: We Mourn Our Universities as One Mourns an Old Friend - Gaza ‘Scholasticide’: We Mourn Our Universities as One Mourns an Old Friend Judy Tue, 10/28/2025 - 19:41
OpEd News

A tour of my brain - The tour will last about 30 minutes. / Everybody please stay together. / Heads up. There will be places where it will be easy to get distracted.
Reform Austin

Fifth Circuit Reopens Case Over West Texas A&M Drag Show Ban - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will review whether West Texas A&M University can prohibit d...
Socialist Alternative

“No Kings” Put Trump on Notice—Now We Need to Escalate! - More than 7 million people flooded the streets on October 18 for the “No Kings” protests to fight back against Trump in what was the biggest day of protest...
Church and State

Our Ethnicity Mix May Save Us! - Trump sees no problem with spending $300 million for a ballroom in the East Wing of the White House so he can entertain his billionaire friends.
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: Excellent News from the Horn of Africa - There are rumors about in the diplomatic sphere and in the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa, that Trump might just be about to recognise Somaliland.
Mondoweiss

Palestinian women share how Israeli forces used them as human shields in Gaza and the West Bank - [image: Israeli army straps injured Palestinian man to the front of a military vehicle and uses him as a human shield, Jenin, June 22, 2024. (Photo: Social...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A War Against the People: Fascism will Steal Everything From Us - 42 million Americans will lose food assistance this week. This is a crime against the people.
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 ...
Black Agenda Report

'Leave us alone': Scholar Jemima Pierre on ending Haiti’s foreign occupation - 'Leave us alone': Scholar Jemima Pierre on ending Haiti’s foreign occupation bareditors Wed, 10/29/2025 - 00:00 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Angry Bear

Repeat home sales show continued deflation (Case Shiller) vs. stabilization (FHFA) (update with current graphs) - – by New Deal democrat Despite the government shutdown, the FHFA did publish its repeat home sales index this morning. And since the S&P Case Shiller in...
Environment Texas

A forever problem: Texas stalls while PFAS pollution grows - Despite bipartisan support, state leaders have failed to adopt meaningful protections against PFAS—leaving communities and ecosystems exposed to lasting ...
WhoWhatWhy

Why You Shouldn’t Use Your Browser’s Password Manager - [image: tech, security, browsers, passwords, management, data safety] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our re...
NORML

We Have the Opportunity To Take Down a Major Plank of Marijuana Prohibition - [image: marijuana, handcuffs, and a gavel on an American flag][image: marijuana, handcuffs, and a gavel on an American flag]The stakes couldn’t be higher...
Ian Welsh

Near The End of Our Fundraiser, About $2,200 to go - Every year we do a fundraiser. This pays to keep the site and me running, and the site wouldn’t be viable without it. If you read the blog readily, I proba...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Give Your Business An October Efficiency Check - For businesses with outdoor spaces, fall often means ramping up maintenance. However, more mowing and... The post Guest Idea: Give Your Business An Octob...
See You In 2020

Let the countryside die, turn the cities into prisons: the elite’s plan for depopulation & social control - The technocrats are engineering a lose-lose situation for us, and it’s when we understand the extent of the crisis we’re facing that we can find the pat...
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
The AltWorld

You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You’re Twelve - The ultimate expression of “everyone is twelve now” theory is in the mainstream worldview promoted by western pundits and […] The post You Believe The Ma...
The Texas Signal

Houston’s Menil Celebrates 100 Years Of Rauschenberg - Menil Collection in Houston is hosting a collection of fabric pieces in celebration of Robert Rauschenberg's 100th birthday this year
Sludge

Lobbying Hits Record Highs Under Trump - Lobbyists in Trump’s fundraising circle are surging in a record-breaking year for influence spending, as companies like Pfizer cut deals with the White House.
Duck of Minerva

6+1 Questions About “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy” - Miray Philips. 2025. “The Social Construction of Christian Persecution through Quantification in International Religious Freedom Advocacy.” Sociology of Re...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
MintPress News

Hi-Tech Holocaust: How Microsoft Aids The Gaza Genocide - From storing Palestinian data to fueling A.I. kill lists, Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become a key weapon in Israel’s Gaza war. The post Hi-Tech Holocaus...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
The Progressive Wing

10/27-Nov2 News roundup& OT - 9 days until the NYC Mayor’s race. More in the comments blow.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas bunting - [image: Pe?zenas]
Trivial Knot

2025 California Special Election position - California has a special election this year, and I’m following my routine of discussing my choices, with the intent of normalizing the voting process. It ...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 25 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. *Note*: There will be no image round-up post this coming week. o o o o o These cat...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Liberation News

‘We’re not giving up our freedom — not without a fight’: In memory of Black trans revolutionary Miss Major - Miss Major was a revolutionary, a visionary, a mother, and a mentor to generations of LGBTQ people who dream of a better world.
Lowering the Bar

Was That Scuba Burglary a Successful Aquatic Escape? - It remains to be seen ... but maybe.
The Militant

SWP forum: ‘There is no peace in Gaza’ - SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — “There is no peace in Gaza today,” Socialist Workers Party National Committee member Norton Sandler told a well-attended Militant Lab...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
LareDOS

Opening reception for Carlos Rosales-Silva’s Bloom exhibition opens Oct. 24 at TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts - Exhibit open to the public
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Debunking Christianity

One of the Most Dangerous Cults in the World - *The Catholic church thrives on make-believe and* *authoritarianism * Okay, I admit it: I was raised in a small town in rural Indiana, which had three ...
Project Censored

The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0 - This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Globalize Intifada - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb C’mon, folks. It says what it says, right there in the Declaration, second paragraph: “throw off”. Yeah, that...
Unlimited Hangout

The Chris Hedges Report - The Chris Hedges Report.
Idavox

Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign Trail into Proud Parade of White Supremacist Allies and Neo-Fascist Cheerleaders - Democratic nominee for New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has been been in the lead over... The post Why GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Turned His Campaign ...
Ecosophia

October 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Bracing Views

Defending the National Guard - The Guard Shouldn’t Be Used in Undeclared Foreign Wars. Nor Should It Be Subject to the Whims of a Vainglorious and Unstable President BILL ASTORE OCT 21, ...
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 ...
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
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...
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...
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*.
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...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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...
Claytoonz

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Brains and Eggs

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Have a very happy Thanksgiving

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