Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

Courthouse News

Xi urges South Korea’s Lee to make ‘right choices’ in turbulent world - Hours before the leaders were due to meet, Pyongyang declared it had launched two hypersonic missiles and that its nuclear forces were ready for "actual war."
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US foes and allies denounce Trump’s ‘crime of aggression’ in Venezuela at UN meeting - US ambassador defends attack as ‘law enforcement’ action against an ‘illegitimate’ leader, not an act of war The US has faced widespread condemnation for...
Raw Story

Psychologist explains Trump fury over reports questioning his health - A prominent psychologist says President Donald Trump’s furious reactions to stories about his physical and cognitive decline stem from a deep fear of app...
Deadline Politics

Board Votes To Dissolve Corporation For Public Broadcasting After Loss Of Federal Funding - The board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve the organization after Donald Trump’s successful effort last year to roll back feder...
Axios

Sen. Amy Klobuchar seriously considers run for Minnesota governor - U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar is weighing a run for Minnesota governor, sources tell Axios. *Why it matters: *The four-term senator — one of the state's highe...
Mediagazer

CPB board votes to dissolve the 58-year-old organization following the rescission of all federal funding by Congress at the behest of President Trump (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink) - Cameron Coats / Radio Ink: *CPB board votes to dissolve the 58-year-old organization following the rescission of all federal funding by Congress at the b...
The Hill

Maduro represented by Julian Assange's attorney Barry Pollack - Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has brought on an attorney who negotiated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s release. Attorney Barry Pollack wi...
Eschaton

The Center Of Attention - Trump is bored of tariffs and has discovered that he can get the same praise and attention by killing people. The press corps mostly loves exciting mili...
Slate

Help! I Thought I Knew an Important Part of My Family’s History. Turns Out, I’ve Been Living a Lie. - I'm a mess.
Mediaite

CNN’s Elie Honig Describes Prison Maduro Is Being Held in as a ‘Hellhole’ - CNN's Elie Honig described the prison Nicolás Maduro is being held in as a "hellhole" after the erstwhile Venezuelan dictator appeared in court on Monday...
Futurism

Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier” - Cowardly. The post Elon Musk After His Grok AI Did Disgusting Things to Literal Children: “Way Funnier” appeared first on Futurism.
The Verge

LG’s CLOiD robot can load the washer for you, slowly - LG's CLOiD robot took the stage at CES 2026 on Monday, offering our first look at the bot in action. During LG's keynote, the company showed how CLOiD can ...
Reform Austin

Texas’ Bold Age Verification Law Faces Major Setback - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A federal court ruling has stalled Texas’ effort to impose age verification and parental consen...
Political Wire

The Fuck-Around-and-Find-Out Presidency - Missy Ryan and Ashley Parker: “World leaders could be forgiven for not understanding the simplicity of the Trump Doctrine, especially those who assume that...
Daily Dot

“It only has to make sense to me”: The 365 buttons meme, explained - [image: 365 buttons] A generation of people online just realized it’s possible to have a thought and keep it to themselves. Enter “365 buttons,” the cry...
Scheerpost.com

Rubio Says “Not a War” as Trump Threatens Half the Hemisphere - By Joshua Scheer Welcome to another day in the empire we might as well call 1984. Marco Rubio, who only yesterday said the U.S. didn’t need congressional a...
Undernews

Why We Fall for Narcissistic Leaders, Starting in Grade School - *The story: New York Times*
Second Nexus

Anti-Vaxxer Surgeon Gets Epic History Lesson After Pointing Out That We Got Rid Of Bubonic Plague Without Vaccines - Developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, the polio vaccine led to a massive decrease in cases in the United States, to the point where the iron lung was phased out f...
memeorandum

Trump's 'American Dominance' May Leave Us With Nothing (Anne Applebaum/The Atlantic) - Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic: *Trump's ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing* — The president's moves in Venezuela foretell a new global syst...
Duck of Minerva

Is Peer Review Broken? Should Reviewers Be Paid? - My New Year’s resolution for 2026 is to somehow make peace with reviewing for journals. Something is amiss, at least for me, but perhaps it reveals a large...
The Week

What is China doing in Latin America? - Beijing offers itself as an alternative to U.S. dominance
Mondoweiss

The West Bank settlements Israel evacuated in 2005 are back - [image: Israeli settlers return to the illegal Israeli outpost of Homesh, December 23, 2021. (Photo: Wajed Nobani/APA Images)]Israel has begun rebuilding t...
Techdirt.

Trump’s Fake Drug War: Pardons Honduran President Convicted Of 400 Tons, Illegally Invades & Arrests Venezuela’s President Over Weaker Charges - If you needed proof that Trump’s “war on drugs” is pure theatrical bullshit designed to justify geopolitical adventurism and the transactional nature of ho...
San Antonio Current

Study: Three San Antonio High School’s rank among top 150 in nation - Even so, all three ranked campuses are charter or magnet schools that require a lottery or application process for admission. The post Study: Three San...
The Daily Poster

Venezuelan Regime Change, Sponsored By Big Oil - The U.S. government is set to partner with the fossil fuel industry to take over Venezuela’s crude oil reserves.
Common Dreams

Oxfam condemns the violation of international law in Venezuela and warns of its impact on peace, democracy and human rights - Oxfam categorically rejects the recent US military intervention in Venezuelan territory, which constitutes a violation of international law and an unacce...
NPR's Health Shots

Wegovy obesity pill now available at pharmacies - Drugmaker Novo Nordisk said the prescription medicine can be found at a range of pharmacies, including CVS and Costco, as well as some telehealth providers.
CultureMap Houston

Barbara Bush Foundation completes family upgrades at 40 Houston libraries - The late former First Lady Barbara Bush was renowned for her work on improving childhood literacy. Her foundation recently announced that it has completed ...
Alternet

Supreme Court could 'change everything' for campaigns this year: analysis - The Supreme Court seems poised to "change everything" for political campaign finance laws with a ruling expected this year, according to a new analysis f...
Election Law Blog

Richard Re’s Essay, “Has the Supreme Court Helped Save Democracy?”, at NYU’s Democracy Project - Richard M. Re is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the author of this year’s Supreme Court Foreword in the Harvard Law Review. An excerpt from h...
Al Jazeera English

Israel bombs Lebanon saying it targeted Hezbollah and Hamas - Dozens of families fled a targeted village after an Israeli warning was issued with drone activity in the area.
Environment Texas

Plastic Pellet Free Waters for Texas - Texans deserve waters free from microplastics. Let’s hold manufacturers to the same standards we hold ourselves to and stop spilling pellets in our water...
Vox

Donald Trump was never a dove - In 2023, then-Senator JD Vance endorsed President Donald Trump’s presidential bid for one big reason: Trump’s commitment to peace. “He has my support in 20...
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...
Capital & Main

Capturing America’s Racial Zeitgeist, One Week at a Time - David G. Brown, political cartoonist for the *Los Angeles Sentinel*, the city’s oldest Black newspaper, reflects on the art of racial dissent. An exhibit...
Independent Political Report

National Political Parties Respond to U.S. Military Action in Venezuela - A major escalation in U.S.–Venezuela relations unfolded this weekend following U.S. military action in the country and the detention of Venezuelan Presid...
Texas Standard

In the mountains of Far West Texas, a new public park starts to take shape - The Chinati Mountains State Natural Area encompasses 39,000 acres of pristine Chihuahuan Desert landscape. Marfa Public Radio recently got a sneak peek of ...
Dissident Voice

The EU’s Extralegal Sanctions Regime - EU Sanctions against the block’s own citizens and residents are a horrible development toward a totalitarian future. Their extralegal nature is what give...
Bonddad

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 ...
The Progressive Wing

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

In defense of jarred garlic - Embrace the shortcuts that let you feed yourself well — without shame or snobbery
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our January/February 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, Call me biased, but I do believe you’re holding a damn good magazine in your hands right now. Michelle Pitcher continues her ascen...
Daily Howler

NEVER DISGUISED: "There he went again" again! - *MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2026* *"Dangerous," one governor said:* Late Saturday afternoon, "there he went again." In fact, "there he went again" *again!* Ther...
WhoWhatWhy

Isn’t Trump’s Obvious Mental Illness a National Emergency? - [image: Donald Trump, announces, Washington, DC, will host, 2027 NFL Draft] Also: AI counterattacks, coincidence theorists, and our mission in 2026. Isn’t...
SCOTUSblog

The most unorthodox dissent - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On Aug. 3, 1973, a single Supre...
naked capitalism

EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live, Eliciting Threats from China and Perhaps Soon, the US - China and India are unhappy about a new EU carbon tax on exports like steel. The US is expected to join the chorus. Will they retaliate?
Glasstire

Review: “Black Water, Green Fruit,” Natasha Bowdoin & Sarah Welch at Basket Books & Art, Houston - A high-pitched hum buzzes, the sound tightens, shakes a little, like a top about to fall, the sound stabilizes, regaining its balance, and then stops. Si...
Discourse

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

Illegal, Incoherent & Idiotic - MAGA'S Caracas caper.
El Paso Matters

Vaccines, Tylenol, viruses: 5 facts about El Paso’s current flu season - El Paso saw an increase in respiratory illnesses spread over the holidays as the city distributed fewer vaccines last year. The post Vaccines, Tylenol, ...
The Conversation

Voters shrug off scandals, paying a price in lost trust - Scandals don’t have the resonance they used to. Both parties could do more to police offenders within their own ranks.
Rewire

Sleep Problems and Depression Can Be a Vicious Cycle, Especially During pregnancy—Here’s Why It’s Important To Get Help - "Healthy sleep is a necessity for improving your mental health during pregnancy and at all times of life." The post Sleep Problems and Depression Can Be ...
Democracy Now!

Trump "Just Wants Oil," Not Democracy: What's Next in Trump's War on Venezuela? - *Democracy Now!* discusses the attack on Venezuela with two Venezuelan American scholars: Alejandro Velasco, an associate history professor at New York Uni...
Space City Weather

Houston probably will set more record highs this week. So, like, is winter over? - In brief: In this morning’s post we dig into our region’s very warm start to winter, which will continue this week. We probably will set more record highs....
Rallblog

Grand Theft Oil | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Live at 9 AM Eastern time, then streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media eve...
Houston Public Media

Venezuelan impact on oil and gas (Jan. 5, 2026) - On Monday's show: In light of the U.S. takeover of Venezuela, we consider how Houston's oil and gas industry could be affected.
Angry Bear

New Deal democrat’s Weekly Indicators for December 29 2025 – January 2 2026 - – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. As 2025 ended, all of the important trends seemed to intensify. The US$ is dow...
Consortium News

Did Venezuela VP Hand Over Maduro in Deal With the US? - Reports in the Miami Herald and The Daily Telegraph in London suggest Vice President Delcy Rodríguez betrayed President Nicolas Maduro to rule Venezuela in...
The Root

Black Internet Responds to Megan Thee Stallion Opening Her Own Popeyes in Miami Beach - Megan Thee Stallion expands her brand beyond music, diversifying her entrepreneurial and business portfolio with a Popeyes franchise in Miami Beach. Rea...
Earth 911

35 Years Worth Of Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Earth911 - Earth911 turns 35 in 2026. We invited Trey Granger, who worked at Earth911 from 2007... The post 35 Years Worth Of Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know Abou...
Dorf on Law

Semiquincentennial Reflections on Original Sin and Inevitability - [Note to readers: I am of course aware of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela, capture of Maduro, and suggestions that further military operat...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The View From Abroad - Belgian cartoonist Descheemaeker has been busy and his page at Cartoon Movement is worth visiting to see his commentaries on the invasion of Venezuela. I p...
Skeptophilia

Notes on a supercluster - Today I'm going to focus on outer space, because if I don't I'll be forced to deal with events down here on Earth, and it's a little early to start drink...
The Smirking Chimp

The Quagmire of Trump’s Venezuela -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Terry Virts - It’s January of an even-numbered year, and that means we are off and running for primaries. Believe it or not, we are six weeks (and one day, thanks to Pre...
San Antonio Report

SAISD considers closing West Side school citing low enrollment, poor academic performance - SAISD may close Carvajal Elementary School. The district is holding a community input meeting before making a decision. ------------------------------ SAIS...
Countercurrents

Student Leader Ram Singh Jakhar Never Apologized to the Britishers in Jail - In the countless chapters of the freedom struggle, there is one name that emerges as a symbol of courage, sacrifice, and unwavering patriotism- Student Lea...
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...
ProPublica

Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases - The post Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The biggest climate migration problem may be that there’s not enough of it - In his new book, Julian Hattem explores how migration can be a climate solution — not just for those who are able to move, but for their home communities a...
High Country News

Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology. The post Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics appeared first on High C...
Crooked Media

Can America Pull Back From the Brink of Autocracy? - The post Can America Pull Back From the Brink of Autocracy? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Stop Slandering Me, Mr. Trump - I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing ...
jobsanger

The Worst Is Not Over -
Liberation News

Declaración del PSL: ¡No a la guerra contra Venezuela – rechazamos el secuestro de Nicolás Maduro! - La administración Trump ha cometido un acto de agresión sin precedentes con su asalto a Venezuela para secuestrar al jefe de Estado del país a punta de pis...
World Socialist Web Site

Mass protests erupt in Iran over mounting economic distress - Large protests against mounting economic distress have occurred in many parts of Iran over the past week, and have continued in the face of increasing stat...
Informed Comment

“A Blind Understanding:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:33 - No one has peeked behind the veil of fate. / No one’s discovered destiny’s secret
Portside

Sunday Science: After Legal Deal, NIH To Review Grant Proposals Frozen, Denied, or Withdrawn Because of Trump Directives - Sunday Science: After Legal Deal, NIH To Review Grant Proposals Frozen, Denied, or Withdrawn Because of Trump Directives Ira Sun, 01/04/2026 - 22:27
Claytoonz

Ghost Of Invasions Past - 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...
The Greanville Post

Diaspora Gusanos celebrate the (momentary) imperialist victory over Bolivarian revolution - Venezuelans living in VARIOUS COUNTRIES gathered to celebrate news that U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The operation marks a his...
Popular Resistance

The US Attacks Venezuela And Seizes Its President - A little after 2am, Venezuela time, on 3 January 2026, in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the United States began an attack on seve...
Antiwar.com

‘We’re Going To Run the Country:’ Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela - I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the coun...
Mother Jones

Even Republicans Are Challenging Trump’s Claim That His Venezuela Campaign Is About Drugs - Even some Republican lawmakers criticized the Trump administration’s assertion that it is engaging in a military campaign in Venezuela to block fentanyl tr...
slacktivist

Bad for the brain, worse for the heart - I cannot keep up. I can barely keep up reading the posts of others who are trying, bravely, to keep up, but they can't keep up either.
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...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 04, 2026 - by Tony Wikrent Trump DHS Post Calling for ‘100 Million Deportations’ Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens Stephen Prager, January 02, 2026 [Commo...
See You In 2020

Big tech’s agenda of AI pandemonium, & the breakthrough that will come from defeating it - When John Martin created his 1841 painting Pandemonium, pictured above, he was reacting to the hell that capital had created through the industrial revo...
Ballot Access News

New York Governor Signs Bill Making it Easier for Parties to Expel Members - New York law has long permitted political parties to expel members believed not to be in sympathy with the party’s principles. But the law always required...
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,...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Peace President' Toons - And now...just a few of the toons we had otherwise planned/hoped to run today before Trump decided to change the narrative on Friday night... (In related n...
The AltWorld

The Hidden Signal: How One Answer Could Ignite the Middle East - The Hidden Signal: How One Answer Could Ignite the Middle East The post The Hidden Signal: How One Answer Could Ignite the Middle East appeared first on ...
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...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Free pleating - I made this a couple months ago in an origami workshop with Goran Konjevod. The subject of the workshop was how to pleat paper without pre-creasing. It’s...
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.
Wolf Street

“Locked-in” Homeowners Nevertheless Pay Off Below-4% Mortgages: their Share Drops to Lowest since Q4 2020 - Slowly unwinding a phenomenon that wrecked the housing market.
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...
Workers World

¡Condenemos el bombardeo estadounidense contra Venezuela! ¡Liberen al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a Cilia Flores YA! - [image: ¡Condenemos el bombardeo estadounidense contra Venezuela! ¡Liberen al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a Cilia Flores YA!] La agresión estadounidense co...
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...
Bracing Views

Venezuela Attacks U.S. - President Trump and First Lady Captured; Will Face Trial and Justice in Venezuela BILL ASTORE JAN 03, 2026 Sometimes, imagining an opposite scenario can br...
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...
ArcaMax

Democrats, Don't Claim a Mandate - There is, at this writing, a better-than-even chance that Democrats will recapture the House of Representatives. They also have a shot at the Senate. If ei...
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 ...
Progressive.org

Uncharted Waters - Recovered from decades of industrial waste dumping, one river in the nation’s capital is again threatened—this time by federal budget cuts.
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...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

BURN!!! CA Gov Gavin Newsom shuts down Libs of TikTok's anti-LGBTQ rant with one sentence - Happy New Year and welcome to 2026!! Hopefully this year will be the year that we work harder on changing the madness November 2024 brought us. And I thi...
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 ...
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 *...
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE CHANGE / Climate Change Review 2025 - Occidental Chemicals CO2 air capture unit in the Permian Basin about to begin operations. The Science of the Effects of Warming By Bruce Melton / The Rag B...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Current Gaza War Is a Repeat Of Previous Atrocities - As I pointed out in previous articles, Israel has been committing atrocities, which traditional media rarely ever remind us of, assuming the report on them...
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 ...
Idavox

Brigitte Bardot, ROT IN HELL! - We end the year the same way we began it: the death of a French... The post Brigitte Bardot, ROT IN HELL! appeared first on Idavox.
The Grayzone

As Israel bans aid orgs in Gaza, notorious mercenary firm seeks “Targeter” - Are Israel and the Trump admin planning to revive the dystopian Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme that spawned famine and death under cover of humanita...
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...
Church and State

Trump’s REIGN now fading but will his corruption ever be punished? - Trump’s deteriorating metal condition implies that we have a man entering dementia, which of course will continue to be hidden by his staff.
Dissent Magazine

*Dissent* in 2025 - Our most read articles this year.
NORML

Federally Funded Survey: Teen Marijuana Use Continues Historic Decline - [image: group of teens having fun walking down the street][image: group of teens having fun walking down the street]"Sensational claims that adult-use le...
The NM Political Report

What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor - “To move to a world in which so much operates off of power, off of money, off of favors and relationships that circle around power — to see it up close i...
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.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
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...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
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

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
Green Pages News

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

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
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...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

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

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

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

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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