Brains and Eggs: More 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

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

Daily Dot

“I thought it was a joke”: Man baffles date with $3 Venmo request for half the fries - [image: Left: Text reading "This morning, I woke up to a Venmo request for $3.25 with the note “half the fries.” At first I thought it was a joke, but no...
Salon.com

The “sexy selfie” rebellion: Reclaiming what slut-shaming tried to take - An expert on slut-shaming explains how young women are owning their sexuality in the attention economy
Raw Story

'You're a charlatan!' Dem senator fires back at RFK Jr. in heated exchange at hearing - Sen Maria Cantwell (D-WA) fired back at Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday after being interrupted by the Trump appointee...
Independent Political Report

Former LNC Chair Jim Turney Retains Altamonte Springs City Commission Seat - Libertarian Jim Turney will retain his seat on the Altamonte Springs City Commission in Florida after no other candidate filed to run. The city confirmed...
Axios

Trump puts onus on Europe to pressure Putin in Ukraine conference call - President Trump told European leaders held a virtual meeting on Thursday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders to ...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio's La Cantera Resort & Spa to rebrand under Hilton flag - One of San Antonio’s premier resort destinations is rejoining an international hotel group after years of operating as an independent brand. On Oct. 2, th...
Mediaite

JUST IN: District of Columbia Sues Trump Administration Over National Guard Deployment - The District of Columbia filed suit against Donald Trump's administration over his deployment of National Guard troops to D.C. as part of a crime crackdo...
memeorandum

Mr. President, don't undermine our cities' progress on crime (The Hill) - The Hill: *Mr. President, don't undermine our cities' progress on crime* — Two weeks ago, President Trump made the unprecedented decision to deploy the...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - They shouldn't do it, but it would be a little bit funny, at least. Driving the news: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Wednesday called Trump's Operation Warp ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Senate Democrats demand health secretary RFK Jr resign as key hearing begins - Democrats urge Robert F Kennedy Jr to resign before testifying on health costs, vaccine policy and CDC turmoil - US politics live – latest upd...
Al Jazeera English

Venezuela has the world’s most oil: Why doesn’t it earn more from exports? - Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves, more than five times more than the United States.
Undernews

Polls - *G**avin Newsom *is slightly more popular than Donald Trump, new polls have shown. According to two polls, the California governor is more favored than t...
Dissident Voice

Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine - Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies have come out with the expanded and revised second edition of their book War in Ukraine. Defying logic, the subtitle is...
Mediagazer

Former Polygon employees launch worker-owned video game website Rogue; Valnet laid off Polygon staff in May after buying the outlet from Vox (Rogue) - Rogue: *Former Polygon employees launch worker-owned video game website Rogue; Valnet laid off Polygon staff in May after buying the outlet from Vox* — ...
The Verge

Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy - A federal jury in California has ordered Google to pay $425 million for violating user privacy by collecting the data of millions of people even after they...
Project Censored

Dignity Over Detention: How Immigrant Communities Are Reclaiming Media on Their Own Terms - By Elizabeth Insuasti In an age of relentless misinformation, immigrant communities in the United States are not just resisting—they are rebuilding. Whil...
Daily Howler

THE DEAD: What might a modern "paralysis" look like? - *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2025* *Plus, his strangest behavior yet:* Way back in 1914, James Joyce's collection of fifteen stories began with thoughts of "p...
Election Law Blog

“In Texas, a Senate Race Turns Brutal Before It’s Even Declared; Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging ‘legal war’ against Beto O’Rourke, a possible Democratic rival, threatening jail and an investigation that could bankrupt his organization.” - NYT: For the past month, two Texas political titans — the attorney general Ken Paxton and the former congressman Beto O’Rourke — have been locked in an ...
Second Nexus

MAGA Florida Surgeon General Likens Vaccine Mandates To 'Slavery' In Unhinged Speech - In remarks announcing that Florida will work to eliminate all vaccine mandates, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the state's Surgeon General, claimed that every mandat...
Bonddad

Economically weighted ISM headline and new orders indexes back into weak expansion - - *by New Deal democrat* The regional Fed August indexes, including both manufacturing and general business activity, rebounded sharply, telegraphin...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court win set up Salvadoran’s fight to remain in U.S. - Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal ...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Joshua Frank, Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel's War in Gaza? - A week after the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, a large explosion incinerated a parking lot near the busy Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing mo...
The Hill

Watch: Jeffries gives remarks as lawmakers look to avert shutdown - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak Thursday morning as lawmakers race to avert a government shutdown. Jeffries and Senate Minority L...
Courthouse News

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Deadline Politics

SiriusXM To Air Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s Podcast, Live Specials - Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is bringing his podcast to SiriusXM, with distribution on its podcast network and its Progress channel. Beshear has been hos...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Back Door to Authoritarian Rule to Put Our Fragile Democracy in Chains: Article V and the Far Right’s Constitutional Play - *The Back Door to Authoritarian Rule to Put Our Fragile Democracy in Chains: Article V and the Far Right’s Constitutional Play* *by* *Angela Valenzuela,...
The Week

The Great Art Fraud: a 'riveting' tale of a disgraced art dealer - BBC2 documentary explores extraordinary story of 'class-A grifter' charged with fraud
Political Wire

Judges Criticize Supreme Court’s Handling of Trump - “Federal judges are frustrated with the Supreme Court for increasingly overturning lower court rulings involving the Trump administration with little or no...
Slate

The Long-Awaited Follow-Up to *The Office* Is Finally Here—but There’s a Problem - It has to do with how everyone looks.
ArcaMax

Blue America Starts to Separate from Red America - It started quietly enough. MAGA Republicans put lunatic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services. He's forced top sci...
El Paso Matters

‘I love racing’: Enthusiast to build speedway in Fabens under incentive agreement with El Paso County - The $17 million paved speedway in Fabens – the first of its kind in the El Paso region – is moving ahead, promising racing, entertainment and economic o...
Houston Public Media

Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a Texas prison. Here’s what life is like there - Maxwell's placement in a minimum-security facility has drawn pushback from Jeffrey Epstein abuse survivors.
Daily Cartoonist

Real America Comic Strip News - Featuring Beetle Bailey, Peanuts, Hogan’s Alley, Nemo, Comics Revue, Extra Ordinary Comics, MazeToons, Popeye, and I Hate Fairyland with corresponding cart...
Futurism

China's Electric Car Industry Is in Deep Trouble - China's electric vehicle industry is, by most accounts, far superior to ours in the United States: the cars are cheaper, the consumers more primed to pur...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 215: “Not So Funicular!” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: A chilling Lisbon streetcar crash claims 17 lives, rocking Portugal’s capital. Hosts Ted Rall and Robby West ...
First Draft

Ashli Babbittry 3.0 - Sinclair Lewis meets Donald Trump.
American Prospect

Squad Hopeful in L.A. Has Lived Through ICE Terror Before - Justice Democrats today endorsed Angela Gonzales-Torres, who is challenging incumbent Jimmy Gomez for his seat in California’s 34th District.
The Conversation

How Frank Rizzo, a high school dropout, became Philadelphia’s toughest cop and a harbinger of MAGA politics - Understanding Rizzo’s career and political popularity can help explain the appeal of President Trump’s identity-based populism today.
Rewire

This Zine Is Creating Black Queer Community—In New York, Atlanta, And Beyond - The Living Lesbian Archive uses homespun magazine-making to create and maintain a record of its people, a community history has often overlooked. The pos...
Democracy Now!

"Uniting for Peace": How U.N. Could Override U.S. Veto, Send Peacekeepers to Gaza, Block Arms & More - The Trump administration is facing growing criticism for suspending visas for Palestinian passport holders, including for Palestinian officials set to atte...
Glasstire

2025 Fall Preview: Six Texas Art Exhibitions to See this Year - Brandon Zech and Jessica Fuentes discuss their most anticipated fall exhibitions in Texas, including a major survey of a groundbreaking British figurativ...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s Decision to Ban Journalists from Conference Branded ‘Shocking’ by Press Freedom Watchdog - A leading press freedom group has accused Reform UK of drawing from the “authoritarian playbook” by blocking media outlets from attending its annual conf...
Techdirt.

Trump’s Long Con Using Dish Network Collapses, Just As We Predicted Five Years Ago - I generally try not to engage in “I told you so,” but I told you so. The Trump administration’s long-percolating plan to use Dish Network as flimsy cover f...
Space City Weather

Houston likely to face showers this weekend as another front sags into the area - In brief: The region will heat up today and Friday, with moderately drier air in place. A combination of factors, including a slow-moving front, will bring...
Common Dreams

Revolving Door Project Releases Report on Abundance Ecosystem Ahead of 2025 Abundance Conference - Ahead of the 2025 Abundance Conference taking place in Washington, the Revolving Door Project announced the release of a report on the abundance ecosyste...
Progressive Army

COMUNICADO TCA – NUEVO PORTAL IMPO – “INCONVENIENTES OPERATIVOS” - Estimados socios, buen día: Según lo comunicado ayer sobre lo acodado con TCA en la reunión que la AAACI mantuvo con ese organismo, les hacemos llegar el...
Alternet

'His strategy is unmissable': How Trump is weaponizing speculation about his health - President Donald Trump has never been shy about promoting far-right conspiracy theories, but during Labor Day Weekend 2025, Trump himself became the subj...
Vox

Why kids are all posing like this in pictures - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. My kids were posing for a pictur...
Infidel753

The victims speak - There are not many true heroes in politics these days, but they do exist. Congressmen Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna have been leading a campaign to force t...
ProPublica

The Federal Farm Policy Trap: Why Some Farmers Are Stuck Raising Crops That No Longer Thrive - by Molly Parker, Capitol News Illinois, Julia Rendleman for ProPublica and Lylee Gibbs, Saluki Local Reporting Lab This article was produced for ProPubl...
naked capitalism

Links 9/4/2025 -
NPR's Health Shots

California, Oregon and Washington plan to join forces to preserve vaccine acce - The Democratic governors of three Western states — California, Oregon and Washington — say they will form a new public health partnership to preserve acces...
Skeptophilia

The silent battle - Today, from the "Who Could Have Predicted This Besides Everybody?" department, we have: a study by psychologist David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College *...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Long Weekend of Humiliation -
The Root

Florida’s Black Surgeon General Shamelessly Compares Vaccines to Slavery - Florida's Black surgeon general vows to end vaccine mandates in the state, and he made a deeply offensive comparison while doing so. Read more...
Crooked Media

JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right’s War on America - The post JD Vance and the Post-Liberal Right’s War on America appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

There’s more than one way to make voting harder - This is such a bad idea. After years of using a touchscreen machine to mark their ballots, voters in at least three Texas counties will be asked instead to...
Mother Jones

Has Trump Ended Staten Island’s Wind Power Dreams? - For over a decade, New York has worked to bring wind power jobs to Staten Island as part of an ambitious plan to establish the state as the biggest hub of ...
San Antonio Report

Southwest will keep fighting City of San Antonio after losing airport lawsuit - Southwest Airlines lost its year-long lawsuit to get the City of San Antonio to reconsider its gate assignments for a new $1.4 billion San Antonio Internat...
Scheerpost.com

Experts Say Trump Administration’s Deadly Boat Attack Amounts to Extrajudicial Killings - “Trump is claiming the right to conduct extra-judicial assassinations,” a civil rights attorney posted on X.
Consortium News

Chris Hedges: Gaza & Fake War Reporting - The barrage of Israeli lies amplified and given credibility by the Western press violates a fundamental tenet of journalism, the duty to transmit the truth...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Iowa, and Maine - Virginia to Likely Democratic, while Iowa and Maine move from Likely to Leans The post The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Io...
Grist

Waterlogged and contaminated: In rural Florida, locals suspect a mining company is to blame for their flooding troubles - Residents are trying to connect the dots between hurricanes, high radium levels, and a mineral mining giant next door.
High Country News

The messy reality of feeding Alaska - After Trump threatened Canada, a writer discovers the uncertainty of the state's food supply chain. The post The messy reality of feeding Alaska appeare...
The Daily Poster

Comrade Trump Seizes The Means Of Production - The American government now has a 10 percent stake in computer company Intel — is Trump turning into a socialist?
Counterpunch

Trump and the Post-American World - Donald Trump’s blatant campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize has a new claim for his resume—his “diplomacy” is contributing to a new world order. Unfortunate...
jobsanger

Supreme Court Has One Rule - Trump Always Wins -
Workers World

PDF of September 4 issue - [image: PDF of September 4 issue] Download the PDF Global Flotilla sets sail for Gaza Genoa dockworkers promise support Editorial: Why the West’s rulers av...
Portside

Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say - Trump Team’s Contentious Climate Report ‘Makes a Mockery of Science’, Experts Say Mark Brody Thu, 09/04/2025 - 00:16
Informed Comment

“But come with old Khayyam and leave the Lot,” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:9 - As with stanza 1:8, the next quatrain in Edward FitzGerald’s 1859 translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the fleeting character of political ...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Receives Sixteen Amici Curiae Briefs Asking Court to Strike Down Limit on Party Spending - Sixteen amici curiae briefs have been filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in National Republican Senatorial Committee v FEC, 24-621, on the side of striking do...
World Socialist Web Site

Border Gestapo seize immigrant firefighters battling blaze in Washington state - Trump's police-state measures will not stop with immigrants, but will be extended to suppress all forms of working class opposition to the capitalist system.
Ian Welsh

Follow Up On My China Post - Someone asked me to back up my claim that since 1976 China has lifted more humans out of poverty than all of nations combined in the entirety of human hist...
Brad Blog

Trump's 'Cook'ed-Up Mortgage Fraud Claims: 'BradCast' 9/3/2025 - On today's BradCast: With authoritarianism now having descended upon these United States, the full-throated pushback against it, at least by some, continue...
Popular Resistance

UK Police Raids Home Of Palestine Action Supporters - Counterterrorism police in the UK arrested five members of Defend Our Juries (DOJ) in dawn raids on 2 September, just hours before the group was due to a...
Antiwar.com

Researching the Roots of War - I have spent the bulk of my career — on and off since the late Carter Administration — following the money that drives war and repression. What I have fina...
Reform Austin

Trump’s September Is Filled With Tough Deadlines - As September unfolds, President Donald Trump faces important affairs, domestic and abroad. Some of the matters he has to face include negotiations with t...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend, as with every weekend, it’s all about going outside and touching grass.
The Grayzone

UK funded radio show to sway Nigerian voters, leaked docs show - Amid the US refusal to provide military support to Nigeria in its fight against Boko Haram in 2014, then-President Jonathan Goodluck turned to Russia and...
Claytoonz

Deep Dish Homicide - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico DOJ challenge to Trump funding freezes helps New Mexico AmeriCorps recover $2 million for local programs - [image: New Mexico will receive $2 million for AmeriCorps, initially withheld by the Trump administration. (AmeriCorps)] [image: New Mexico will receive $...
Angry Bear

Florida bids to be the next Wuhan - Florida is set to drop all state vaccine mandates. Look for Florida EDs to fill up with children suffering from preventable diseases. Of course, the civi...
Wolf Street

ON RRPs Drop to Near-Zero $17.9 Billion, Liquidity Flow into Markets Over, while TGA Refilling Drains Liquidity from Markets - Liquidity now begins to drain out of the markets for the first time since the debt ceiling.
Church and State

Brazil with its trial of Bolsonaro offers the US a lesson to follow! - Donald Trump’s presidency, with its single-minded pursuit of American advantage, may signal its demise.
WhoWhatWhy

No Hoax: Epstein Survivors and Massie Heap Pressure on Trump - [image: Good Trouble Protest, Anti Trump, Epstein Files, DC] Congress is back... and so is an issue that Donald Trump and GOP leaders had hoped would go aw...
Mondoweiss

Amid ‘unprecedented’ rise in respiratory disease in Gaza, famine is making routine infections life-threatening - [image: Palestinian children suffering from malnutrition receive medical care at Nasser Hospital, May 5, 2025. (Photo: Doaa el-Baz /APA Images)]Local autho...
Capital & Main

Before the U.S. Steel Explosion, a Legacy of Cost-Cutting and Broken Promises - Canceled upgrades, insufficient maintenance and political lobbying preceded deadly explosion at Pennsylvania’s aging steel plant. The post Before the U....
Sludge

Johnson and GOP Delegation Visit West Bank as Israeli Annexation Plans Loom - The Speaker and his Republican colleagues met with Israeli settlers as momentum builds for an Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Ecosophia

Situationism: A Voice From The Fringes - There’s much to be learned from studying movements that thought they were the wave of the future, and weren’t. To begin with, there’s a distinctive tone of...
Texas Observer

🎶It’s His Party and He’ll…🎶 - Every time Texas Democrats have a bad election (read: every two years), blame reasonably finds its way to a person whose title suggests quite a lot of cu...
NORML

Nebraska: State-Appointed Commission Approves New Rules Undermining Medical Cannabis Access - [image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves][image: Nebraska license plate over a background of marijuana leaves]The passage of ...
Texas Standard

What to expect at the voting booth as Texas officials respond to Trump’s executive order - After ban on barcodes, three counties are getting rid of the touchscreen machines they’ve long used and having voters mark their ballots by hand.
Greg Palast

Thom Hartmann on the Hidden History of NeoliberalismHow Reagan gutted America through a corporate coup d’etat - The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann has torn back the curtain on the corporate lock-up of America which, in Trump 2.0, is reaching its arm...
Dorf on Law

The Authoritarians Who Don't Trust Authority - The rhetoric of the revolt against vaccine and mask mandates during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic was strongly libertarian, even to the point that ...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear Classic: U.K. Environmental Leader Tony Juniper on Rainforest Awareness & Restoration - Tony Juniper spent a lifetime traveling the world’s rainforests and raising awareness about environmental threats.... The post Sustainability In Your Ear...
See You In 2020

Where the anti-imperialist movement’s unified strength exists, & the urgent need to build on this strength - It’s critical that we take example from the liberation struggles of the Global South, and a major recent lesson from these struggles is the importance o...
The Texas Signal

The Whimsy And Rage Of Poet KB Brookins - That crevasse between what’s whimsical and what is so real it hurts is where poet KB Brookins shines the brightest
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the archives - Video: Children are more knowledgeable about gay marriage than some adults - Since marriage equality, or gay marriage if you will, is in the news again, I thought it would be a good time to reach into the archives and re-educa...
The AltWorld

The futility of resolutions without action - The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is the latest to speak up about the genocide in […] The post The futility of resolutions withou...
Progressive.org

Our Liberation Is Connected - I have photographed a number of protests and rallies this year in Chicago. It’s clear to me that we will all work together to ensure that trans folks and i...
slacktivist

Just not right - The words "justice" and "righteousness" could not be allowed to remain similar in meaning by people wanting to regard themselves as righteous while avoidin...
Discourse

Oh Boy, Bari Weiss' ScamU is 'Being Honest about Inequality' - Surprise: They're huge fans!
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Bracing Views

The Seven Habits of a Highly Defective Country - And what to do about it BILL ASTORE SEP 02, 2025 Welcome back, everyone. I hope you enjoyed Labor Day Weekend. It’s grim times in America. Perhaps grimmest...
Krebs on Security

The Ongoing Fallout from a Breach at AI Chatbot Maker Salesloft - The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interacti...
Alas, a Blog

You Only Think You Liked It! - My new cartoon collection, Why Must They Shove It In My Face?, is out! It’s about 200 pages of cartoony goodness, featuring 100 cartoons, plus text pieces ...
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Crooked Timber

The crash of 2026: a fiction - Looking at the facts, there’s no reasonable conclusion except that US democracy is done for. But rather than face facts, I’m turning to fiction. So, here’s...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Third Trump Term? A Tipping Point?: Dispatches Mailbag - It's time to answer more reader questions and get into the issues of the time.
Trivial Knot

Hating the artist, hating the art - (Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it’s not a creator you’ve heard of, and not one that I mention anywhere in...
Liberation News

Americans with Disabilities Act, a product of militant struggle, turns 35 - In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the ADA being signed into law, we share an excerpt from the book "Disability and Empire: Class, U.S. Imperialis...
The Progressive Wing

8/29 – 9/4 News Roundup & OT - News, Views, and Music…after the jimp.
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas clean air programs - Cuts would eliminate programs that will help residents breathe easier The post STATEMENT: Council member Roth proposes eliminating funding for Dallas cle...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
MintPress News

From Revolution to Revival: Russell Brand Embraces Trump and Israel - The former "revolutionary" now blesses GOP rallies, praises J.D. Vance, and defends Israel while his past allies recoil. The post From Revolution to Revi...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 4 - *Matthew 7: A good start, then cult severity and bragging*It might be a good idea to compile a list of the *Top Ten Bible Texts that Christians Ignore*—...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism - Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book *The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer*.
Earthworks

Testimony to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the agency’s proposed rescission of its 2009 Endangerment Finding - Hello, my name is Lauren Pagel, and I am the Policy Director at Earthworks. We work with communities impacted by … The post Testimony to the U.S. Enviro...
The Rag Blog

PAUL BUHLE / RADICAL COMICS / Anti-facism, partisan comics - By Paul Buhle / Special to The Rag Blog / August 28, 2025 The understandable fear of an American-style fascism will remind European readers and comics fans...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
TalkLeft

Melania and Jared: They're Back - Vanity Fair's editorial staff is considering a protest walk-out if Melania Trump is put on the magazine's cover. Get ready for a deluge of mainstream me...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Texas Freedom Network

New Texas Laws Taking Effect September 1, 2025 and What They Mean for You - Texas is Texas. As Texans, we invite our neighbors to enjoy our barbecue, take pictures in the bluebonnets, and help each other out when the goin’ gets t...
Lowering the Bar

DUI Lawyer Promises to Swoop in Riding Mighty Eagle - [image: long-haired lawyer riding animated eagle]Maybe not literally, but still.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How the First Couple’s Consigliere Went From Modeling Mogul to Special Envoy - Unlimited Hangout investigates how Paolo Zampolli became a recent Trump appointee despite his past of servicing corrupt, predatory and globalist ambition...
Idavox

Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Serving a Warrant, Ends Up Playing Dead - Had to happen sooner or later… HOUSTON, TX – Two individuals wearing masks, body armor... The post Masked Idiots Tried to Play Like They Were Cops Servin...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Militant

Air Canada flight attendants defy gov’t, win new contract - MONTREAL — After striking for three days in defiance of a federal government back-to-work order, 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada began returning to ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Socialist Alternative

The ‘Luigi Mangioni Effect’—Heroism or Dead End? - On December 4, 2024, the words “Deny, Defend, Depose” spiked in Google searches, as millions of people watched the video footage of UnitedHealthcare CEO Br...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A QUICK ONE WHILE I'M AWAY EDITION. - *Keepin' the energy up.* Still on vacation (take heart, *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* readers, I rejoin you on Monday!), but thought I’d look in. I see t...
Duck of Minerva

Who wants AI in the classroom? - I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is...
nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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Campaign for America's Future

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
Nina Illingworth

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The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
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...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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

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Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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