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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

NPR's Health Shots

A new proposal for organ donation sparks concern - Should patients who choose euthanasia be able to die by having their vital organs removed for donation? The ethical concerns are substantial.
Mediaite

JUST IN: Trump Drops More Bombs On Iran to Try and Secure the Strait of Hormuz - President Donald Trump on Wednesday launched a new wave of attacks on Iranian forces in an effort to secure the Strait of Hormuz. The post JUST IN: Trump...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston (July 8, 2026) - Today: We discuss the fatal ICE shooting that occurred in Houston with Alejandra Salinas, Sylvia Garcia, and Abbie Kamin, learn about the Houston Public Li...
Church and State

Trump is a cornered dangerous, wild beast - Watching Trump get by his vast missteps and illegal behavior one is tempted to think that he is falling into some sort of senility.
San Antonio Report

Woman accused of stealing ambulance while medics treated patient in downtown San Antonio - San Antonio police arrested a woman accused of stealing an ambulance while two paramedics treated a patient in the back. ------------------------------ Wom...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Futurism

If You Thought SpaceX Stock Was Doing Badly Before, Now It’s Really Tanking - It just hit a record low. The post If You Thought SpaceX Stock Was Doing Badly Before, Now It’s Really Tanking appeared first on Futurism.
Alternet

Trump foe obliterates DOJ's reflecting pool vandalism charges - Olympian David Hearn will appear in court on Thursday morning alongside one of President Donald Trump's biggest legal foes: Norm Eisen. One of the co-fo...
Mediagazer

DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block video ads by default, particularly those on YouTube, based on uBlockOrigin's filter lists (Anna Washenko/Engadget) - Anna Washenko / Engadget: *DuckDuckGo updates its browser for iOS, Windows, and macOS to block video ads by default, particularly those on YouTube, based...
memeorandum

US judge throws out Trump's $3.8bn defamation lawsuit against Washington Post (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian) - Richard Luscombe / The Guardian: *US judge throws out Trump's $3.8bn defamation lawsuit against Washington Post* — Suit stemmed from 2023 Post article ...
The Week

The revived Presidential Fitness Test has doctors giving conflicting diagnoses - The test has been reinstated after being canceled in 2013
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘He did not deserve to die’: family of man fatally shot by ICE agent speaks out - Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by agent in Texas while on his way to work, and family found out from news reports The family of a Mexican immigrant wh...
Al Jazeera English

Spanish football legend Alexia Putellas joins London City Lionesses - Women's Super League club lands the two-time Ballon d'Or winner after her exit from Barcelona following a 14-year career.
Mother Jones

Trump Strikes Iran and Threatens War Crimes—Again - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the US would continue strikes on Iran for a second night, and—if it had to—seize much of the country’s oil and t...
Techdirt.

Mexico Passed Speech Laws To Protect The Powerless. The Powerful Used Them To Silence Critics. - For over a decade, a particular argument keeps resurfacing from well-meaning progressives: the rise of authoritarianism around the globe is a good reason t...
Democracy Chronicles

An Inspiring Africa-Middle East Story: Somaliland - Despite limited recognition, Somaliland is forging bold alliances and leveraging its strategic position in the Horn of Africa defy isolation.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: The Machine Gets Its Man in Maine - Graham Platner has suspended his campaign following a Politico article featuring "credible" accusations of sexual assault against him. Not everyone finds t...
El Paso Matters

WIC eases check-in appointments through remote access, launches new EBT cards - The El Paso WIC program serves up to 26,000 people in a given year. The post WIC eases check-in appointments through remote access, launches new EBT car...
Salon.com

Chilled, bacony summer noodles to soothe the heat wave blues - Tomato, soy, bacon and crisp greens turn rice noodles into a cool, savory summer lunch
Ballot Access News

Veterans for All Voters Asks to Intervene in Texas Republican Party Closed Primary Lawsuit - On July 8, an organization called Veterans for All Voters asked to intervene in the lawsuit Hunt v State of Texas, n.d., 2:25cv-200. This is the lawsuit fi...
The Hill

Scott Jennings tears apart Graham Platner's former defenders: what changed? - Now that Graham Platner is in serious jeopardy, having paused his campaign following credible accusations that he had sexually assaulted a former girlfrien...
Election Law Blog

“What If Trump Seizes the Ballots?” - From Checks & Balances, a substack and podcast of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute: “Gregg Nunziata talks with Richard Bernstein, former law cle...
Wolf Street

QT plus Rate Hikes: ECB Sheds €149 billion of QE Assets in Q2, -52% since mid-2022, Marks Gold Down by €160 Billion - The Fed’s anti-QT faction needs to take a look: The ECB has shed €3.70 trillion ($4.22 trillion) of its QE assets, nearly double the Fed’s QT, and nothing ...
Capital & Main

Section 8 Promises Renters They Can Live Where They Choose. It Mostly Fails to Deliver. - Two-thirds of L.A. County voucher holders live in “low-resource” areas, a Capital & Main analysis finds. Santa Monica is a rare exception. The post Secti...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Screwed Blue And Tattooed - 14.3 x 12 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb As I post this, we’re still waiting to hear if the Nazi tattoo-wearing, woman-harassing, domestic violence-...
Rallblog

Q&A | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live 12 noon Eastern: Have a question for Ted and/or co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of “DeProgram” for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any to...
Vox

MAGA has a new villain: Amy Coney Barrett - A new Economist/YouGov poll is a rich text for political observers of the Supreme Court. The Court is unpopular (only 36 percent of American adults approve...
Undernews

Voting - *Alternet America - *The Trump DOJ announced Tuesday it will send federal election monitors to 15 jurisdictions across six states during the 2026 primary...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel, Concluded - The last six posts in this sequence have set out all but one of the twenty-eight phases of the Great Wheel, the grand mandala of Yeats’s system. The remain...
Daily Howler

LONG ENDURE: Technologies threaten our cool reflection! - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026* *So Rosen wisely says: *No one's assessments are unassailable, perfect. But in our view, the inanity never stops at one of our ...
Dissent Magazine

The Uses and Abuses of the “Worst of the Worst” - While the “worst of the worst” was already part of the lexicon of immigration enforcement before Donald Trump, his administration has routinely wielded i...
Scheerpost.com

Francesca Albanese: “The World Is Not Sleeping—It Is Looking Away” - In When the World Sleeps: Stories, Words, and Wounds of Palestine, the UN Special Rapporteur speaks with Chris Hedges about Gaza, international law, media ...
Independent Political Report

Independents Running for Rhode Island Governor in “Do-Or-Die” Race to Collect Signatures - *This article was originally published by Rhode Island Current on July 8, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views express...
Mondoweiss

Israel is murdering Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. The U.S. media is covering up the crime. - [image: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya appears via video at an Israeli Supreme Court hearing on June 10. (Photo via Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI))]Gaza ...
Consortium News

AS’AD AbuKHALIL: The View From Lebanon - Like in Gaza, Israel pursues genocidal policies hoping to finish off Shiite civilian society and thinking mass killing and destruction would drive a wedge ...
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: What a Catholic Church schism could mean for Texas parishioners - The Vatican has formally declared the Society of Saint Pius X to be in schism following years of tension over church authority and recent unauthorized bish...
The Progressive Wing

7/8 News Roundup and Open Thread - The turmoil continues in Maine. Big debate last night in Michigan.
Discourse

Graham Platner Is Why You Should Never Stan a Politician - Plus: Mitch McConnell, Trump jinxing the U.S. soccer team, and a recap of Taylor and Travis' MSG wedding
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Plan To Deface Federal Property - [image: Mount Rushmore, angry presidents] Donald Trump has been talking a lot about vandals ruining the Reflecting Pool. But the real destruction of one of...
First Draft

The X-Communication Files - The Pope and The Dopes 3: This Time He Means It.
Texas Observer

One State Under Whose God? - If Texas is, as its pledge of allegiance states, “one state under God,” this begs a question. What God? Whose God? For many Texans, it’s undoubtedly the ...
Liberation News

The roots of Trumpism extend throughout the history of the United States - A closer examination shows that the U.S. political and social system organically produces the far right ideology that animates the far-right sector of the ...
Democracy Now!

"Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan's War": Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Atrocities - A new investigation has uncovered how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports a secret network of military training camps for the paramilitary Rapid Suppor...
Angry Bear

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world . . . - It has over 265 million active players. I did not play soccer. My sons and daughter did. I did get a “D” license and went on to referee classes. The Socc...
Krebs on Security

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup - A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspir...
Novara Media

Israel Kills Organiser of Gaza World Cup Screenings Right Before Egypt Game - Israel killed a senior leader of a group organising World Cup screenings in Gaza shortly before Egypt’s match against Argentina on Tuesday – in an attack t...
Space City Weather

Hit-or-miss rain chances continue across the Houston region—what is causing them? - In brief: In today’s post we talk about the sea breeze, and how it will continue to drive the development of scattered showers this week during the afterno...
ArcaMax

The Pursuit of Happiness, Spiked - WASHINGTON -- The Trump whirling dervish has come and gone to Turkey -- to demand NATO hand over Greenland! -- leaving a city exhausted by his wild Fourth ...
Earth 911

Renewable Energy Grows Despite Political Pushback - Despite strong criticism, renewable energy is doing well and even thriving when the Trump Administration... The post Renewable Energy Grows Despite Polit...
Dorf on Law

We are All Constitutional Pluralists Now: Just ask Justice Brett Kavanaugh - Twenty-eight years ago, I wrote an article summarizing a pair of essays written in 1900 by Arthur Machen, Jr., in the Harvard Law Review. Machen was the ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Pause in the Unfunny - Opening with one political cartoon, largely because I disagree. Trump’s clodhopper interference in the World Cup didn’t destroy the integrity of soccer. It...
The Root

Law Roach Pulled Off an Amazing Feat to Get Zendaya’s Viral Schiaparelli Gown From the Runway to the Red Carpet - One of Zendaya's looks for 'The Odyssey' premiere is all people are talking about! And you wouldn't believe the legendary story behind it1 Read more...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Resurrects Oldest GOP Scare Tactic Over Democratic Socialist Wins -
Off The Kuff

Ken Paxton, voting scofflaw - Absolutely brilliant. Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public...
Grist

El Niño is here, and it’s already scrambling fisheries throughout the Pacific - From India to Peru to California, the powerful weather phenomenon is creating winners and losers across the fishing industry.
High Country News

Apparitional - A poem by Joan Kane. The post Apparitional appeared first on High Country News.
Crooked Media

She Said ‘I Do!’ - The post She Said ‘I Do!’ appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

Hypocritical condemnation from US Pacific allies over Chinese missile test - All of those governments criticising the Chinese ballistic missile launch are deeply involved with US war planning against China through basing arrangement...
jobsanger

No Longer Sustainable? -
Counterpunch

Is Stephen Miller Still Helping the Trumpster Write This Drivel? - The post Is Stephen Miller Still Helping the Trumpster Write This Drivel? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Informed Comment

Hormuz: China Oil Demand Tapped out, Heavy Truck EVs Rise - If the country stops needing to use diesel for trucks, that is game over for petroleum
Brad Blog

The Trump Crime Family’s Staggering Second-Term Crime Spree Comes into View: ‘BradCast’ 7/7/2026 - The unprecedented corrupt self-enrichment of this President has never been in question, particularly during his second term. But, as we detail on today’s B...
Popular Resistance

Monsters Playing Victims - Whether Israelis will ever comprehend the irreparable damage inflicted upon their country’s reputation by their U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, is a moot p...
See You In 2020

“Humanitarian” terror ops, our revolutionary retreat, & the next opening for a blow against the empire - The imperial hegemon’s regime change strategy for the new cold war era is proving more effective than many had anticipated. In Venezuela, Washington has...
Raw Story

Tiffany Haddish roasts Trump's Great American Fair - The guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, comedian and actor Tiffany Haddish, skewered President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair by contrasting his ...
Political Wire

Perhaps the Nazi Tattoo Was a Clue - Mike Nelson: “The question remains: Why was this horrific allegation the threshold when Platner had so obviously transgressed so many times before? Perhaps...
Antiwar.com

The Resilience Paradox: How Military Strikes Are Bolstering Iran’s Cohesion - Wars are seldom judged fairly in the immediate aftermath. Generals and analysts often focus on tallies of destroyed sites, intercepted projectiles, and tac...
Claytoonz

Cognitive Dissonance Skippy - 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...
Axios

U.S. strikes Iran after attacks on vessels in Strait of Hormuz - The U.S. military said it conducted airstrikes against Iranian military targets in the area of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday in retaliation for renewed ...
Portside

Wisconsin ICE Surge Brings Trauma and Broken Trust to Milwaukee - Wisconsin ICE Surge Brings Trauma and Broken Trust to Milwaukee Kurt Stand Tue, 07/07/2026 - 19:26
Progressive.org

Fighting the Forces of Greed and Destruction - In April, Senate Republicans withdrew a moratorium on mining in the Boundary Waters. Minnesotans are fighting back.
Courthouse News

Ninth Circuit asked to shut down California offshore oil drilling operation - Environmental groups say the pipeline, which was restarted in March, is still badly corroded, and could burst again if the courts don't shut it down.
CultureMap Houston

Alamo Drafthouse kicks off film distribution with Butthole Surfers doc - The Austin-based movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is doing something about the great films that premiere at festivals and never make it to the g...
slacktivist

A national emergency - How many? Too many. How often? Too often.
Eschaton

Seems Bad - I have no larger point here. On Tuesday, a safety manager reported that a steel beam was compromised on the 21st floor, according to Buildings Department...
The Daily Poster

Democrats’ Middle Lane Is Collapsing - As Abdul El-Sayed surges, Mallory McMorrow drops out, and Haley Stevens digs in, Michigan is revealing a national realignment inside Democratic politics.
Sludge

Chemical Lobbyist-Packed EPA Boosts PFAS Pesticides - The EPA has approved new PFAS pesticides for nationwide use after its pesticide office adopted industry-friendly language excluding certain fluorinated che...
ProPublica

Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law. - The post Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law. appeared first on ProPublica.
Project Censored

Colonial Distortion of Palestine’s History - This week on the program, a special full show with Palestinian author, historian, and academic Dr. Ramzy Baroud about his latest book Before the Flood: A...
The Greanville Post

Garland Nixon Dispatch: AT 250 YEARS – THE US IS A DILAPIDATED MILITARIZED STATE AIMED AT INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL OPPOSITION - GN—Inevitability of Global Power Shifts: Attempts to “contain” rising powers like China are likened to futile efforts to restrain natural forces—trees brea...
Bonddad

Scenes from the June jobs report: a weak but improving economy - - *by New Deal democrat* There’s no important new economic news today, so let’s take a somewhat deeper dive into last Thursday’s employment report f...
Greg Palast

Platner: Face Down in the Oyster Pond - Heather Cox Richardson had it right about Graham Platner. What the hell were Democrats doing running this guy for the United States Senate? We have a Presi...
Glasstire

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum to Open Satellite Location in Amarillo in 2027 - The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum (PPHM) has found a temporary location in downtown Amarillo for public display of artworks in its collection. The ...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s disturbing approach to federal spending - Last week, the Supreme Court finished handing down its opinions in argued cases this term. In light of its decisions on birthright citizenship and the ad...
Ian Welsh

Unintended Consequences: Germany Sick Leave Edition - So, Merz has announced that German workers will need a note from a doctor day one of calling in sick, and they must get that note in person: phone calls ar...
Duck of Minerva

Before you say it: the World Cup probably won’t increase US soft power - Like everyone else, I’m enjoying the World Cup. I’m not a fan of soccer/football, and honestly haven’t been watching the game. But I love how excited other...
NORML

Survey: Healthcare Professionals Overwhelmingly Agree That Cannabis Has “Legitimate Therapeutic Uses” - [image: doctor cannabis][image: doctor cannabis]"Most participants were supportive of legal access to medical cannabis, open to using it in their own pra...
Infidel753

Some problems I don't have - My Saturday link round-ups usually include a few "PSA"-type links warning people about various problems, often related to computers or other such devices,...
Common Dreams

All the Feelings: Nothing Is Fixed In Its Place - Hoo boy. Many of us slogged through a July 4 more vigil - "act of purposeful wakefulness" - than celebration as hostages of a dark timeline wherein histo...
The AltWorld

Today In Dystopia - Today in dystopia Americans are becoming increasingly outraged by the ubiquitousness of Flock’s AI-assisted surveillance cameras throughout US cities. […...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Launches Largest Ever Midterm Electoral Program - We are spending millions across nine states to educate voters on critical races and ballot measures affecting abortion, LGBTQ rights, voting, fair courts, ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Pentagon giving away record amount of erection pills while banning gender-affirming care' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *The Pentagon is doling out erection pills in record numbers while banning gender-affirming care *- *Hypocrisy to the highest levels, but such is the T...
Workers World

Joyce Kanowitz, rest in power! - [image: Joyce Kanowitz, rest in power!] Brooklyn, New York Joyce Diana Leach Kanowitz, a longtime, beloved member of Workers World Party (WWP), died from ...
Texas Environmental News

MKMP-656 Konatsu Kashiwagi สาวน้อยที่อ่อนไหวต่อเรื่องเพศถูกกระตุ้นอารมณ์จนถึงจุดสุดยอด -
San Antonio Current

White supremacist group from Texas marched on Washington, D.C., during July Fourth holiday - Hundreds of masked members of the Texas-based white supremacist group Patriot Front marched in formation through Washington, D.C., on Independence Day, ...
The Verge

Hoto’s PixelDrive screwdriver is down to $60, matching its best price - If your Prime Day purchases included a new desk, TV stand, bookshelf, or other furniture you still haven’t assembled, Hoto’s PixelDrive cordless screwdrive...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"America’s entrepreneurial boom begins long before venture capital," by Anthony Hernandez, Ph.D. - *Friends, Dr. Anthony Hernandez’ just-published piece in Fortune, “America’s Entrepreneurial Boom Begins Long Before Venture Capital,” makes a p...
Alas, a Blog

What Will Future Archeologists Say? - Thanks to R. E. Ryan for his wonderful sci-fi art on this one! I originally posted this on Patreon in 2024, but apparently I spaced out on posting it on Al...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico town, detention center face water shortage - [image: Town of Estancia] This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy...
Rewire

States May Exclude Trans Kids from Sports: Supreme Court - Plus, how Illinois is protecting abortion patients and abortion pill restrictions go into effect in trio of states. The post States May Exclude Trans Ki...
Two Party Opera

So What Do We Do With the Next 250 Years? - Read More
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
OpEd News

Letter from Tehran, censored news, and path to peace - "Yesterday, I attended the massive, multi-million-person funeral procession for Iran's leader and his family with my daughters and two of my grandchildren....
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 325: Jul. 5, 2026 - Oops! The Pear machine done broke!
Field Negro

"What was old is new again". - As I sat watching these masked men march in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this experiment in democracy called America, I coul...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Palais des Papes, Avignon - [image: Avignon]
Debunking Christianity

David Hume's "Of Miracles" Succeeds Despite Bayes' Theorem - Earlier I was waiting on some late fireworks. While I waited I worked on a paper in my head, titled: David Hume's "Of Miracles" Succeeds Despite Bayes' T...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump, In America 250 Speech, Salutes Veterans And Astronauts — And Attacks Communism - UPDATE: After the delayed start, Donald Trump spoke for about 40 minutes Saturday at the Salute to America celebration on the National Mall in Washington, ...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Trivial Knot

Designing a “balanced” strategy game - I’m going to talk about game balance specifically in the context of a video game that I made. You can play this game for free in browser, or pay for an exp...
Bracing Views

Declaring America’s Independence From the Tyranny of Militarism and War - Beware the Termites of War BILL ASTORE JUL 03, 2026 In July 1776, courageous colonists came together to declare their independence from the perceived tyra...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2026 - Walmart had at least twelve more shootings in June 2026, with five of them fatal, and the police chased and caught a thirteenth shooter two days after a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WATERING THE TREE OF LIBERTY EDITION. - I guess you’ve heard that, on top of his destruction of the Reflecting Pool (which he says is in great shape) and the debacle of the Great American State...
Idavox

How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Nazi Show Promoter Mad After Having to Take Their Canceled Festival Down the Road - Vengeance is our sayeth the Antifa! “I started having problems once President Obama was elected,”... The post How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Naz...
Black Agenda Report

“The Farce of You Lie”: Gerald Horne Discusses the Founding of the United States - “The Farce of You Lie”: Gerald Horne Discusses the Founding of the United States bareditors Fri, 07/03/2026 - 23:26 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Edito...
The Militant

Ohio nurses rally in fight to win a union at children’s hospital - COLUMBUS, Ohio — Some 100 nurses and their supporters rallied outside Nationwide Children’s Hospital here June 24 to build support for their fight to win u...
IVN

Millions of Americans Declare Their Independence on America's 250th Birthday - As America celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, millions of independent voters are raising their voices to declare that the ...
Socialist Alternative

Prairieland Convictions: A Warning To The Movement & A Call To Action - In the last two weeks, a federal court in Texas sentenced nine anti-ICE protesters to incredibly draconian sentences, ranging from 30 to 100 years. This wa...
LareDOS

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension sets informational public meeting regarding New World Screwworm July 8 - Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at LC’s Yeary Library
The Conversation

How health insurers get a free pass to deny coverage from a 52-year-old law meant to protect worker pensions - A little-known law called ERISA bars millions of patients from suing for damages when health insurers wrongly deny claims.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Presidential Approval on the Path to the Midterm: The Pattern is That There is No Pattern - There is not a consistent pattern for postwar presidential approval from July 1 to the midterm, and in recent years a president’s approval hasn’t changed...
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Texas Signal

TPS And Texas: By The Numbers - TPS holders in Texas generated $4.3 billion in state GDP in 2023. Their work is concentrated where Texas is already short of labor.
Environment Texas

RELEASE: Online gallery celebrates 250 years of ‘America the beautiful’ - From state parks to private gardens, more than 250 photos show success in preserving natural spaces. The post RELEASE: Online gallery celebrates 250 year...
Texas Monthly

Meet Our Newest Landmark - The Rabbit Ears aren’t technically in Texas. Let’s adopt them anyway.
Unlimited Hangout

The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1 - Part I of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world’s most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and represe...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Approves Bible in classroom, Flawed Social Studies Standards - Let’s be blunt. Texas public schools are now Ground Zero in the Christian nationalist war on religious freedom in America. From the Bible in the classroo...
Earthworks

“We Have to Do Whatever We Can” - Indigenous land and water defenders strategized to defend the Guatemalan people. Here's how. The post “We Have to Do Whatever We Can” appeared first on E...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 4: THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS - As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that...
Seeing the Forest

Imagine - This post was first published at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. Imagine a government run to do g...
Lowering the Bar

Nicholas Rossi Finally Extradited From Earth - It took a lot longer to get him out of Scotland.
The Grayzone

Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys - Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which...
MintPress News

Hezbollah Hunts Down Hind Rajab’s Killers & Crushes Israeli Offensive - More than two years after six-year-old Hind Rajab was killed alongside her rescuers in Gaza, Hezbollah is systematically targeting commanders linked to t...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Media Lens

Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy - On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. ...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg Cable Network earns 2026 Silver Telly Award for holiday video “The City of Edinburg Catches the Grinch,” reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - Christmas 2025 memories came flashing back in May 2026 when South Texans learned that the Edinburg Cable Network was named a 2026 Silver Telly Winner by th...
Progressives Chat

Mamdani. Platner. El–Sayed. - In the Democratic Party, three men have been greeted with opposition. From Democrats. But also from the supposed mainstream. One of these men, beginning...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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Stinque

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Free & Equal

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DeSmogBlog

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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nonsite.org

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The Mind Unleashed

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

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Dandelion Salad

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Daily Dot

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Reform Austin

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Reveal

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ExChristian.Net

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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 ...
Progressive Army

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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...
ROAR Magazine

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GreenSource DFW

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Nina Illingworth

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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...
Eater Houston

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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

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Texans For Public Justice

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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
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

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BEYONDbones

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Robert Reich

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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

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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...
Shadowproof

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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
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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

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Caitlin Johnstone

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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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 ...
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Living Blue in Texas

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Chicken Fried Politics

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Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

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Washington Babylon

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

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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

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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

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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Latino Decisions

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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

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Defend our Movements

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Texas Rural Voices

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PERRspectives

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Austin 360

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Think 3 Institute

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Modern Democracy

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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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