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

memeorandum

Bill and Hillary Clinton make eleventh-hour midterm moves as party's old guard faces new reality (Fox News) - Fox News: *Bill and Hillary Clinton make eleventh-hour midterm moves as party's old guard faces new reality* — The Clintons are back on the midterm cam...
Political Wire

Fired FBI Employees Who Worked on Trump Case Sue - “Nine former FBI employees sued the bureau on Thursday, saying they were unlawfully terminated merely for working on former special counsel Jack Smith’s in...
Election Law Blog

Supreme Court Asks California to Respond in John Eastman Disbarment Case - See the docket, with reflects a flood of right-leaning briefs supporting cert. As I wrote when California waived its response: “My guess is that two or ...
Futurism

Meta Glasses Said to Be Recording Even When They’re in Sleep Mode - "Can't trust anyone these days." The post Meta Glasses Said to Be Recording Even When They’re in Sleep Mode appeared first on Futurism.
Al Jazeera English

Ahead of US midterms, voters are frustrated with Trump, want change: Poll - Widespread voter disillusionment and pocketbook anxieties set a volatile stage for the GOP weeks before election night.
Raw Story

'Sort of a pyramid scheme': Trump's new hire sheepishly explains decade-long gap in resume - White House press secretary Katie Zacharia spent part of a decade-long gap in her résumé selling nutrition shakes for a fitness company that claims to ha...
San Antonio Current

Outspent and unknown, Democrat Vikki Goodwin gives Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick his toughest race yet - The race for Texas’ powerful second-in-command role pits a third-term GOP kingmaker against a state lawmaker who is riding the political tailwind felt b...
The Week

The UN warns about ‘mind reading’ technology - Neurotechnology creates ‘profound human rights challenges,’ the United Nation’s secretary-general said
The Verge

Volvo will use Nvidia’s tech for hands-free, point-to-point driving - Volvo plans to launch hands-free, point-to-point driving by 2030, powered by Nvidia's latest AI technology. The Chinese-owned, Swedish-designed automaker s...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico AG finds ‘substantial share’ of Project Jupiter public comments raise concerns - [image: A rendering of Project Jupiter with a public comment in which an Albuquerque resident writes that prior comments in favor of the development made u...
Mondoweiss

Inside the fight to stop Israel-bound weapons at the East Coast’s biggest port - At Port Newark-Elizabeth, activists are escalating their tactics to stop weapons shipments to Israel. Mondoweiss reports from the port’s front lines.
Project Censored

The Freedom and Restraints of Reporting on China in the US - Reflecting on RFA, VOA, and publications geared toward younger Chinese-speaking communities
Scheerpost.com

Federal Raid Of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Home Sparks Outcry Over Political Intimidation - Alexandra Martinez Prism Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., residence on Oct. 12, drawing condemnation from civil rights advocates...
Undernews

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ArcaMax

Guilfoyle Never Mastered the Art of the Shakedown - About three weeks before Republicans expect an electoral beating, Donald Trump had to get rid of Kimberly Guilfoyle, his ambassador to Greece. He simply ha...
Wolf Street

Businesses Slammed by 6.3% PPI Inflation, Worst since 2022, Much Worse than Consumer-Facing Inflation - Driven by spiking costs of energy and services.
Techdirt.

Eleventh Circuit Says Cliffhangers Are ‘Features,’ Not Speech, As It Greenlights Florida’s Social Media Age Gate - Apparently we’re in an era where the courts just decide to ignore precedents they don’t like. And that leads us to ridiculous results like yesterday’s ruli...
Capital & Main

Life Along a Threatened River - Three people share stories of living on the Pecos River as it flows through the oilfields of the Permian Basin. The post Life Along a Threatened River ap...
Consortium News

Iranian Negotiator Insists US Keep the Deal - The Iranian Parliament speaker essentially asked the U.S. to fulfill its obligations under the agreement the two nations signed back in June, Dave DeCamp r...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Hegseth church allies backed plan for ‘public’ execution of Fort Hood shooter - Leader of CREC church – whose pastors have advocated death penalty – says he ‘prefers public executions to private’ Donald Trump announced Thursday he wa...
IVN

POLL: Stop Talking About Donald Trump - Plus: Gerrymandering backfires and veterans file voting rights lawsuit in NY.
Novara Media

Brazil Abolishes Six-Day Workweek Ahead of Presidential Run-Off - Brazil’s senate has approved a constitutional amendment ending the country’s six-day workweek, delivering a key pledge by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Sil...
Mediaite

‘The Market Doesn’t Like This’: Fox Host Breaks Down Bad Inflation Numbers and Trump Advisor Admits ‘You’re Absolutely Right’ - Kevin Hassett admitted Fox Business' Stuart Varney was "absolutely correct" about the latest inflation numbers being "disappointing" overall. The post ‘T...
Mother Jones

Trump Calls Off Execution Livestream - President Donald Trump said Thursday morning that the government will no longer livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. The firing squad killing, sc...
Deadline Politics

Comcast Gave $7.5 Million To Help Fund Donald Trump’s White House Ballroom, New Report Reveals - Comcast gave $7.5 million to help Donald Trump fund a new White House ballroom, but the donation was well below that of an array of other contributions fro...
Axios

America's wits' end election approaches - Data: AP-NORC; Chart: Avery Lotz/Axios A quartet of polls out this week carry a stark message: Americans feel disgruntled, dizzy and down on the man in the...
Daily Howler

HAPPINESS: "Hello, sunshine," the songwriter said! - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2026* *A brilliant comedian's duty: **Shine on me, sunshine? Walk with me, world? * That was the start to a pop music hit which...
Dissent Magazine

What’s at Stake in the Ilhan Omar Case - Trump’s investigation of Omar strikes at elementary assumptions of a free and republican government: that political opposition is legitimate, that the ex...
Texas Observer

Despite Surge in Prison Overdoses, State Agency Requests No New Treatment Funding - From 2020 to 2025, the number of confirmed overdose deaths in Texas prisons rose from just four to at least 131. Despite this surge in fatalities, howeve...
Texas Standard

Property tax cuts aren’t supposed to affect Texas schools. Districts say it doesn’t always work - Texas officials say nearly 1.5 million homeowners now pay zero school property taxes. The state is supposed to hold districts “harmless,” but some say ther...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Announces Two More Congressional Endorsements in Arizona and Texas - The Forward Party has announced two more endorsements ahead of November, backing Democratic U.S. House candidates Dani Sterbinsky in Arizona and Caitlin ...
Eschaton

On The Trump Train - Working out for every eager participant in the Trump agenda. Oct 14 (Reuters) - Oil giant Saudi Aramco's (2223.SE), opens new tab headquarters in Dhahran s...
The Hill

Omar phone seized, relatives subpoenaed: AP source - Federal authorities seized Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-Minn.) phone and issued subpoenas to some of her relatives as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. Th...
Glasstire

Laughing You’ll Never Hear: The Art Guys’ Time Capsule Reveal at the University of Houston - The Art Guys are hard to put into words. Describing their projects — performances, drawings, ideas — can often feel perfunctory, flattening the real magi...
Slate

*The Great British Bake Off *Is Supposed to Be an Escape. One Nagging Complaint Is Ruining It This Year. - Nigella Lawson is the best thing to happen to The Great British Bake Off in a good while.
SCOTUSblog

The Tribal Supreme Court Project - The Native American Rights Fund recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Tribal Supreme Court Project, an initiative designed to establish an infr...
naked capitalism

Americans Who Go to Church and Trust Science Are Also More Likely to Believe in Ghosts and Curses, New Research Shows - Who'd have thunk it? You can believe in science and rationality and also believe in ghosts.
The Root

15 Black Folklore Stories to Know for Spooky Season - If you’re Black, someone in your family has told you a folktale that left you with chills. In honor of spooky season, we're recounting some of our Black ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The War We Must Never Let Happen: The New World War and the Fall of American Empire - We’re sitting on a tinderbox unlike any before and we have choices
Ian Welsh

A Billionaire Has A Psychotic Religious Break With Reality - Billionaires are powerful. Peter Thiel isn’t the richest billionaire in the world, but he is an American billionaire who runs the most important intelligen...
Bonddad

Retail sales continue this year’s positive trend, suggest jobs market likely to improve as well - * - by New Deal democrat* As per usual, real retail sales is one of my favorite economic indicators, because it says so much about the health of the ...
Daily Cartoonist

Tony DePaul Out, Alex Segura In As The Phantom Writer - Tony DePaul has informed readers of his Nickels of the Man blog that he has been dismissed as the writer of The Phantom after more than a quarter century o...
WhoWhatWhy

Zelenskyy Says Strikes on Russian Refineries Will Resume - [image: Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, NATO Summit] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy did not hold back (much) in an interview with the ‘Financia...
El Paso Matters

Mexican judge closes the case against immigration chief Francisco Garduño over 2023 Juarez fire - A Mexican judge has closed the case against Francisco Garduño, former head of the country's immigration agency, related to the 2023 fire at a Ciudad Juá...
The Conversation

Why the GOP’s voter fraud messaging may backfire - GOP allegations that voter fraud is rampant in the US may drive more Democrats – and fewer Republicans – to the polls in November.
Rewire

Nobody Told Me Menopause Would Feel Like This (Podcast) - Black women reach menopause earlier, deal with symptoms longer, and are less likely to get treated. But hey, at least there’s TikTok.
Rallblog

Will the US and Ukraine Break Up? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime Zelensky says Ukraine will resume Russian refinery strikes, defying Trump. Kyiv’s...
NORML

The Next Attack on Legalization Targets Voters - [image: An illustration of hands placing marijuana votes into a ballot box containing a wastebasket representing ignoring the election results][image: An...
Vox

The surprisingly hopeful quest to fix concrete - No, Rome was not built in a day, but it was built at breathtaking speed, its temples, amphitheaters, and aqueducts rising with the help of a magical blend ...
Space City Weather

In which I make a bold (and possibly wrong) prediction about Houston’s weather - In brief: In today’s post I make a bold prediction about Houston’s weather for the rest of the year. Also, temperatures continue to trend downward for the ...
Mediagazer

The Guardian says it increased programmatic ad revenue by 21% in one year and cut unsold inventory by ~54% YoY in Q1, after launching Curation at Scale in 2025 (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette) - Alice Brooker / Press Gazette: *The Guardian says it increased programmatic ad revenue by 21% in one year and cut unsold inventory by ~54% YoY in Q1, aft...
Houston Public Media

Astros’ next manager (Oct. 15, 2026) - On Thursday's show: We consider who might be a good fit to manage the Astros now that they're parting ways with Joe Espada. And we reflect on the history o...
Grist

A new report just busted another myth about heat pumps - Don't worry: There is there plenty of room on the grid for these electrical wonders — and they'll save ratepayers tons of cash.
Alternet

The behind-the-scenes strategy Trump is using to silence his loudest critics - When we think of strongman dictatorships we often imagine tanks in the streets, but those usually come in the later stages of repression (think Tienanmen...
Salon.com

Democrats have discovered the key to midterm victory - The party is successfully linking kitchen table issues to Donald Trump's corruption
The Smirking Chimp

Ex-GOP Leader: Republicans Are ‘Freaking Out’ As the Party Fails Them -
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A Judge Tonya Jones - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. I ran a series of these for candidates in contes...
San Antonio Report

Early voting starts Monday in Texas. Here’s how to vote in the midterm election. - Early voting for the midterm elections starts on Monday, Oct. 19, in Texas, giving voters a few weeks to cast their ballots ahead of Election Day on Nov. 3...
ProPublica

Trump Says the Border Is Secure. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Keeps Declaring an Emergency. - The post Trump Says the Border Is Secure. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Keeps Declaring an Emergency. appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Media

Hegseth’s Bloodthirsty Pentagon - The post Hegseth’s Bloodthirsty Pentagon appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

The election -- a warning from an independent - As the election approaches, it's being greeted by an exuberant festival of unhatched-chicken-counting among Democrats. Posts breathlessly celebrate polls...
High Country News

Will Coloradans choose the ‘right to hunt’? - Colorado’s vote next month on whether to amend the state Constitution by codifying the right to hunt and fish has intensified debate among hunters, cons...
Workers World

PDF of October 15 issue - [image: PDF of October 15 issue] Download the PDF WW Commentary: Stop the public execution of Nidal Malik Hasan! Editorial: Student rebellions reflect no f...
jobsanger

Social Security COLA Is 3.6% For 2027 (Minus The Rise In A Medicare Premium) -
Common Dreams

Make It Shitty, Vengeful, Inept and Untrue - The devastation goes on apace at the teeny toxic hands of the clowns and hacks in power (maybe not much longer?). Topping the abuses: An assault by Homel...
World Socialist Web Site

New Zealand university and polytechnic staff vote to strike - The first ever vote for unified national strike action by university and polytechnic staff is an expression of rising anger over worsening austerity hittin...
Courthouse News

Arizona attorney general threatens lawsuit over south Phoenix data center - As Arizona faces a loss of nearly one third of its Colorado River water supply, an analysis of data centers across the state estimates water demand could s...
Portside

Exit Strategy - Exit Strategy Geoffrey Thu, 10/15/2026 - 00:20
Informed Comment

Amid Hormuz Oil Crisis, EVs saved world $20 bn. on Fuel Costs, but not Trump’s America - How ironic that Vietnam is now running circles around the hidebound, oil-polluted, hyper-capitalist US in greening its transportation industry.
Brad Blog

Trump Admin Weaponizing Against Public, Tribal Lands in U.S. West, and Voters in CA: ‘BradCast’ 10/14/2026 - We’ve got a tightly packed BradCast for you today. Impossible to adequately summarize. Read the below for a few of the details. But, really? Give it a list...
Popular Resistance

It’s Been 70 Years: Why Does The US Still Control South Korea’s military? - Over seventy years ago, the US took control of South Korea's military. To this day, it still controls it. Why? This confounds every notion of state s...
Claytoonz

Blond Cabbage - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 20 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate via...
The Greanville Post

Einar Tangen: Japan’s Economic Crisis & Why the U.S. Is Next - GD—In this discussion, Einar Tangen, a senior fellow at the Taihe Institute and CIGI, analyzes the deteriorating state of the US-Japan partnership and the ...
Antiwar.com

A Culture of Death - “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) A go...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Unhinged man says he loses sleep over the thought of trans men using the public restroom next to his three-year-old daughter - This Trumper gave us one of the most explosive anger-management crash outs I’ve seen https://t.co/0w2cXgUOsG — Isaiah Martin (@isaiahrmartin) October 13, ...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 15 things to do in Houston this weekend - Saturday is the 16th International Independent Home Video Day, and local video store Lost & Found Media (located inside Misfit Toys) will be celebrating wi...
Socialist Alternative

Brazil Elections—Flavio Bolsonaro Leads After First Round - The election results of October 4 represent a serious setback and an extremely grave threat to the working class and the Brazilian people, with repercussio...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Shortlist for the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce t...
Discourse

Is James Talarico Winning or Is Ken Paxton Just Losing? (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: Trump talking about Jon Husted’s ass, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s firing, and the Kelly Clarkson animatronic bird scandal
Progressive.org

The Democrats Who Didn’t Have Our Backs - Instead of leaning into the progressivism gaining traction across the country, the Democratic establishment is choosing to attack the left.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Hispanic Heritage Month Recognition from the Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (TADOHE) - *My heartfelt thanks to the Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (TADOHE) and its President, Dr. Shawntal Brown, for this incredib...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Journalist Michael Nacke Rejects Criminal Cases Against Him as Unlawful - The criminal case stemmed from a video published on the journalist’s YouTube channel on May 7, 2024. Prosecutors alleged that the video contained calls for...
OpEd News

A National Emergency: Protect Your Vote - "A National Emergency: Protect Your Vote" was the theme of the October 12 (Indigenous People's Day) weekly zoom meeting of the Solartopic Grassroots Protec...
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Environment Texas

Energy efficiency is our secret weapon - Amid Iran oil shocks, there’s wisdom in efficient energy use The post Energy efficiency is our secret weapon appeared first on Environment Texas.
MintPress News

Yemen’s Resistance Thwarts Greater Israel Plot for Red Sea Dominance - Al- Hodeidah- Yemen – Having failed to defeat Yemen’s Armed Forces and lift their Red Sea blockade in support of Gaza, Tel Aviv began establishing a foot...
The Grayzone

US corporate media portrays violent Nicaraguan coup plotter as ‘political prisoner’ - US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s governme...
Angry Bear

September CPI shows widespread movement *away* from Fed target, post-pandemic low in real nonsupervisory payroll growth - – by New Deal democrat After two benign months due to a temporary decline in energy prices this summer, the higher trend in inflation returned. And that...
Ballot Access News

Massachusetts Top-Two Initiative Debated in Haverhill - On October 13, a debate was held in Haverhill, Massachusetts, over Question Three, the top-two initiative. See this detailed news story. … Continue reading →
The Daily Poster

Midterm Madness: Is Kalshi Betting On Bonta? - Earlier this year, the California attorney general said he was still in touch with his former chief of staff-turned lobbyist, who now leads Kalshi’s public...
Church and State

The GOP’s finger-pointing has begun - “If we don’t win the midterms, they’re going to blame me,” President Donald Trump mused at a Tennessee rally this past Saturday.
Sludge

Senate’s Top Data Center Investor Backs Environmental Rollbacks to Power the Industry - Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse holds millions in data center stocks while helping negotiate a bill that would limit states’ water-quality reviews and restrict cou...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 3 - Last month’s passage through the deep places of Yeats’s A Vision focused on the most abstruse and difficult part of the entire system, the relation between...
The AltWorld

Iran Changes Hormuz Tactics to Keep Oil Prices High - Iran Changes Hormuz Tactics to Keep Oil Prices High The post Iran Changes Hormuz Tactics to Keep Oil Prices High appeared first on TheAltWorld.
The Texas Signal

H1-B Visas Halted for Texas Teachers - Over the summer, Governor Abbott called for a law that would bar H-1B visa holders from working in Texas public schools
Krebs on Security

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering - The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for pa...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
First Draft

GOP DEI: Katie Zacharia - The new Press Secretary has an IQ problem, an EQ problem, and a QAnon problem. Oh, and she lied about being an attorney.
Democracy Now!

"Propaganda Show": IDF Raids Palestinian NGOs in the West Bank Ahead of Israeli Elections - Israeli forces have raided what they say are the offices of several Palestinian NGOs in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials say a child was injur...
Debunking Christianity

Assessing Michael Licona's Minimal Facts Approach to the Gospels - Let's comment on Michael Licona's minimal facts approach to the Gospels. He and others deliberately ignore the nativity stories when considering the tru...
The Progressive Wing

10/14-15 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
Dorf on Law

Harm SCOTUS Could Do Versus Harm It's Likely to Do - My latest *Verdict *column previews the current Supreme Court Term. Yes, I'm aware that the Term is underway, so this is a preview of the cases yet to be...
NPR's Health Shots

These workers help train robots who could one day steal their jobs - Factory workers in India are being asked to wear GoPro cameras to record the way they do their jobs. The ultimate goal is to train robots to take over. Wil...
Two Party Opera

Electricity in the White House - Read More
See You In 2020

Zohran’s Zionist unmasking, & the next turn the pro-Palestine movement must take - Zohran’s continued effort to lead his core base into liberal Zionism is part of a much bigger trend: “pro-Palestine” politics that wants to actively tak...
slacktivist

‘A hermeneutical Pandora’s box’ - White evangelicalism has its own hermeneutic -- its own peculiar way of reading and interpreting the Bible. White evangelicalism IS this hermeneutic.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Congressman Questioned Reports of Deadly Conditions at an ICE Detention Center. Then Two More People Died. - Nearly 60 people have died in detention, as calls against medical neglect, inedible food, and unsanitary conditions continue. Congress must establish stand...
Trivial Knot

California 2026 election - In contrast to the clown show of politics, actually filling out a ballot is very tedious. I believe in filling out the entire ballot, but I also believe in...
Liberation News

How the French student revolt reveals the broader social crisis in Europe - The protests are broadening beyond education into a referendum on “Macronisme” and the entire constitutional structure of the Fifth Republic.
Duck of Minerva

The Tao of the One: Trust, Rapprochement, and the Turning Wheel - Political scientists have a name for why only Nixon could open relations with Mao’s China, or why only a Likud hardliner like Begin could make peace with E...
Alas, a Blog

Adorable AI Puppies - Another collaboration with Nadine Scholtes! (Nadine and I have done an AI-themed cartoon once before). I’m in my fifties, and therefore suspect myself anyt...
LareDOS

When everything looks like a nail, odds are you are using the hammer for the wrong job - Every new tool is sold with the dazzling promise of abundance enjoyed in leisure
Bracing Views

Thou Shalt Not Kill - A Commandment with So Many Exceptions BILL ASTORE 23 HOURS AGO “Thou shalt not kill” is a commandment with many exceptions. Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon w...
Crooked Timber

Adrian Grey-Turner, 1955-1986 - (This is an updated version of something I posted 20 years ago, on the 20th anniversary, and 10 years ago, on the 30th anniversary, of my friend’s death) A...
Idavox

Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s 1981 racist voter intimidation campaign is a cautionary tale ahead of 2026 midterms - Thugs organized by the RNC actually kept a number of Black and Hispanics from voting.... The post Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s 1981 racist voter int...
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: INTERNATIONAL SCUMBAGGERY AFOOT EDITION. - *Can you dig it?* Hey, remember when the bad guys were the lunatics who performed executions in front of cameras and broadcast it to the world? Well, gue...
The Militant

Solidarity with BP oil workers, locked out for over 6 months! - WHITING, Ind. — The 800 oil refinery workers locked out by BP in March, after they overwhelmingly rejected the company’s “last, best, and final” offer, hav...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/09/2026 - 05:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Lowering the Bar

Court Holds AI-Generated “Victim Statement” Not Reliable - [image: still from Chris Pelkey video]Like almost everything else AI generates.
Earthworks

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Is Left Behind in the Rush to Mine the Seafloor - The International Seabed Authority is writing policies to govern mining in the deep sea. Those policies cut right to some of the biggest questions that d...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Try to Avoid a Crossover District Shutout; Four House Rating Changes - Even in wave midterm years, the presidential party has retained a few "crossover" seats. Will Republicans this year? The post Republicans Try to Avoid a ...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Breakfast with Tucker - So I did the Tucker Carlson Show. That’s right, I flew back to the USA (again), rented a car, drove up to Tucker’s place in Maine, had breakfast with Tucke...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

White House Halloween Card - 9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issu...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Field Negro

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
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 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...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
The Mind Unleashed

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
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

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

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

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

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

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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