Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies (Non-Immigration edition)

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Trump to decide whether US will strike Iran ‘within two weeks’ - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Trump is waiting due to a 'substantial chance of negotiations'.
Crooked Timber

Are pro-natalists living on the same planet ? - Pro-natalism (the idea that people, or rather, women, should have more babies than they choose to do at present) has become an established orthodoxy,[1]. T...
Mediagazer

The LA Press Club, CWA, and others sue the DHS, alleging it used excessive force and violated journalists' First Amendment rights during the LA protests (ACLU of Southern California) - ACLU of Southern California: *The LA Press Club, CWA, and others sue the DHS, alleging it used excessive force and violated journalists' First Amendment ...
Mediaite

CNN Anchor Dismisses Trump’s Two Week Iran Deadline: ‘Verbal Crutch’ That He ‘Often Doesn’t Mean’ - CNN anchor Brianna Keilar chalked up President Donald Trump's two week deadline for Iran to a "verbal crutch" he often deploys without following through....
memeorandum

Virginia man pleads guilty to shooting Latino men he thought were illegal immigrants (Ryan Nadeau/The Hill) - Ryan Nadeau / The Hill: *Virginia man pleads guilty to shooting Latino men he thought were illegal immigrants* — CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) - A Virgin...
The Verge

Adobe launches a new ‘computational photography’ camera app for iPhones - Adobe has a new computational photography camera app for iPhones – and one of its creators, Marc Levoy, helped make the impressive computational photograph...
The Hill

Border czar vows 'worksite enforcement' at 'farms and hotels' after Trump remarks - President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Thursday Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would resume “worksite enforcement” operations to ensure em...
Eschaton

Major Battle - It's hard to explain how Stephen Fry fits in The Discourse in British culture. He's one of those actors that gets to cosplay as a public intellectual, in p...
Environment Texas

Pollinator Week webinar helps states save the bees - Roadside pollinator habitat benefits bees and monarch butterflies. The post Pollinator Week webinar helps states save the bees appeared first on Environm...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"Are We Heading Toward War? A Growing Fear We Must Name," by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Are We Heading Toward War? A Growing Fear We Must Name* *by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* I write today with a heavy heart and a growing sense of dread. It...
Daily Dot

“Now I know to specify”: Homeowners leave “free” items in front yard. It backfires - [image: Several items like books, plates, ceramic mugs, etc. sit on a table in someone's lawn.] *These homeowners* are sharing *a warning* to others afte...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Is the sitting president "out of his mind?" - *THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2025* *A reader asked Philip Bump: *So now we're left with President Trump being the person who has to make a major, fateful decision...
Raw Story

'Unprecedented': Top House Dem goes off on DHS's 'latest lie' - Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MO) fired back at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's new policy requiring lawmakers to give at least 72 hours' notice befo...
Courthouse News

Law to protect kids online faces 1A hurdle - JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi has been enjoined from enforcing parts of a sweeping law aimed at protecting minors from social media content that may promote...
Mondoweiss

House Dems push to ‘Block the Bombs’ amid Israel’s widening war - [image: Aftermath of the bombing of a school-turned-shelter in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, April 4, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]As Isr...
Reform Austin

Audit: Texas Jail Oversight System Has Major Reporting Flaws - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas agency that is responsible for overseeing county jails did not consistently investiga...
CultureMap Houston

Houston’s chicest support kids’ health at farm fashion show - On a picture-perfect spring afternoon, Houston’s haute families traded their city stilettos for stylish wedges and sun hats at *Hope Farms*, where fashion ...
World Socialist Web Site

Starmer government doubles down on austerity to fund war spending - NATO is demanding that member states commit to at least 3.5 percent of GDP on “pure” military spending, and 5 percent including necessary infrastructure pr...
OpEd News

Reasons Galore for Attacking Iran! - Can't keep track of all the reasons Israel has started a war with Iran? Here's the list, and it's long.
Axios

Trump to decide on Iran action within two weeks, White House says - President Trump will make a decision "within two weeks" on whether to join Israel's war against Iran to eliminate its nuclear program, White House press ...
Consortium News

The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Journalists & Their Shadows’ - “Loyal to the orthodoxies imposed by employers” — Patrick Lawrence discusses the deterioration of journalism, the concern of his latest book. By Chris Hedg...
First Draft

Up, Up, And, Uh No - Elon fails again.
naked capitalism

Nihilism is at the Core of the Israel-Iran Conflict — Not Nuclear Weapons - Nihilism, understood as the absence of a transcendental purpose, lies at the heart of the conflict that Israel initiated against Iran
Grist

Science says plastic bag bans really do work - A new study finds that outlawing or taxing plastic bags reduces beach litter.
Political Wire

Record Debt Limit Increase Would Break GOP Precedent - “For years, Republicans have warned about the government’s reliance on borrowed money to pay its bills. That stance has often led to standoffs over raising...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Outrage as DHS moves to restrict lawmaker visits to detention centers - Election officials told to give 72 hours’ notice before visiting immigration facilities, with some sites completely off limits The US Department of Homel...
Houston Public Media

Texas bills on religion in public schools await Gov. Abbott’s signature as Sunday deadline looms - Senate Bill 10 would require the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms. SB 11 would allow for periods of prayer or Bible reading ...
WhoWhatWhy

Good News About New York City’s Beech Leaf Disease Battle - [image: science, nature, NYC trees, beech leaf disease battle, ingenuity] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by ou...
Salon.com

This ad hits a nerve because it's true - A dramatic ICE detention ad goes viral, echoing real cases of American citizens wrongfully held
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - June 19, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Pacific hurricane season off to an unusually early and f...
Rio Grande Guardian

Boys & Girls Club of McAllen CEO voices concerns over proposed federal budget cuts - Dalinda Gonzalez-Alcantar said her group has always had good relations with federally elected officials. She said she hopes they will do the right thing....
Election Law Blog

New Article on Native American Voting Rights - Pascal Sabino (Bolts) has published an extensive and in-depth profile of challenges facing Native groups in North Dakota and elsewhere as they seek fair ...
Slate

Help! My 55-Year-Old Boyfriend Asked for a Very Odd Change to Our Relationship. I Don’t Think I Should Trust Him. - Am I just deluding myself?
Futurism

Scientists Scanned the Brains of Hardcore Gooners and Found Something Ominous - Watching a bunch of porn has some major side effects — and no, we're not just talking about stained bedsheets. In a new study published in the journal Fr...
SCOTUSblog

RLUIPA personal liability and Bivens on the brink - The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is avai...
Angry Bear

The Big Beautiful Bill will kill American hospitals - It’s bad enough that Republicans believe poor Americans should be allowed to die without health care. But if you ever need a hospital, whether or not you...
Liberation News

Texas: A battleground against white supremacy - Juneteenth was not the end of Black struggle in Texas but it did however, mark a new beginning.
Undernews

Donald Trump - *ABC News - *American taxpayers will not be paying for the ongoing appeal of President Donald Trump's $83 million defamation case, a federal appeals co...
Socialist Alternative

War On Iran Escalates As Trump Moves Towards Intervention - After 5 days of war, Netanyahu and Trump both ordered the entire population of Tehran to evacuate, stressing Israel’s military superiority and “control of ...
Bonddad

Why hasn’t the housing downturn caused a recession yet? A detailed look - * - by New Deal democrat* As promised yesterday, today let me take an extended look at the important leading sector of housing. I want to walk throug...
The Week

Stereophonic: an 'extraordinary, electrifying odyssey' - David Adjmi's Broadway hit about a 1970s rock band struggling to record their second album comes to the West End
Alternet

'Flirting with the apocalypse': How Trump’s policy about-face has 'deep roots in Christian theology' - While President Donald Trump may not involve much religion in his personal life, global political analyst Tristan Sturm says he may be following the ferv...
The Greanville Post

American Tide Turning: Youth Reject Israel as Public Support for Iran and Middle East Strengthens - GEORGE HAZIM—The unfiltered realm of social media, especially platforms like X, is where a new narrative is emerging. And it’s shaking the foundations of a...
Capital & Main

Uncertain Harvest: Agriculture’s Season of Gloom - While Trump considers expelling undocumented farm workers, California’s economy hangs in the balance. The post Uncertain Harvest: Agriculture’s Season of...
El Paso Matters

In our latest podcast, we talk Jake Fette, the NIL – and who we think are among the city’s best football players ever - In a time when high school football stars are navigating endorsement deals before even stepping on a college campus, Del Valle’s Jake Fette is proving t...
Crooked Media

U-turn after U-turn: who is the real Keir Starmer? - The post U-turn after U-turn: who is the real Keir Starmer? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Dissident Voice

Does China have an Internationalist Foreign Policy? - A number of observant commentators have raised questions about Peoples’ China’s Belt and Road Initiative and more broadly, the foreign policy of the PRC....
jobsanger

An Important Holiday For All Americans -
San Antonio Current

San Antonio rock outfit Street Lamp looks to bring its energetic sound to a bigger stage - San Antonio rock quartet Street Lamp have unfurled a sound that, while firmly anchored in punk and funk, evokes elements of Tool, Jane’s Addiction, Red Ho...
Texas Standard

The Army is moving quickly to bring back the original names of bases named for Confederates - The Trump administration is skirting a federal law by finding new namesakes for the bases with the same last names as Confederate soldiers.
San Antonio Report

City panel approves plans for new luxury shopping center near Pearl - A historic house standing in the way of development plans will be relocated a block away, while another has already been demolished. -----------------------...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Anti-Trans Update and Reprise - This will be my third and final rerun for the week, but, as with the other two, it comes with a preface based on current events. On February 11, I publis...
ArcaMax

The Truth of American Slavery Is in My DNA - With a last name like Feldkamp, I fully expected my DNA results from 23andMe to confirm what I thought I already knew. My ancestry is predominantly German....
Glasstire

Top Five: June 19, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Un Dique: Iteraciones Del Espacio Interrumpido Rubin Ce...
Earthworks

Ammonia 101: What is Blue Ammonia and Why You Should Care - Author: anaïs peterson The oil and gas industry is constantly shifting and creating new ways to justify its existence and … The post Ammonia 101: What i...
The Root

Whoopi Goldberg’s Comments On “The View” About Iran Sparked Online Outrage - A heated on-air exchange turned into an online debate comparing the Iranian regime to the Black American experience. Read more...
Progressive.org

Missed Opportunity on Iran - An agreement signed a decade ago could have prevented today’s war, had Trump not pulled out of it in his first term.
Democracy Now!

"Another Wasted Life": Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired New Song - “Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video...
The Conversation

Metro Detroit is growing – but its suburbs are telling a more complicated story - The outer ring of suburbs is attracting more new residents − and they are richer and better educated.
Workers World

PDF of June 19 print issue - [image: PDF of June 19 print issue] Download the PDF Stop U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran! ICE detention center uprising Layoffs on the rise Organize the Sou...
Space City Weather

With our forecast largely unchanged, allow me to ruminate on surviving summer in Houston - In brief: Houston’s forecast remains largely the same: highs in the low 90s with a few, sporadic showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon through the...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Laughing While We Still Can - I’m going to take the risk of Dear Leader making up his mind in the next 24 hours and let the political cartoonists catch up a bit. Meanwhile, Doonesbury r...
Vox

He’s the godfather of AI. Now, he has a bold new plan to keep us safe from it. - The science fiction author Isaac Asimov once came up with a set of laws that we humans should program into our robots. In addition to a first, second, and ...
DeSmogBlog

Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting - Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a “quid pro quo” in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits, De...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 19 June 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For my post on the No Kings rallies, click here. F...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Has Become an Easy Mark — and So Has America -
NPR's Health Shots

Photos: How torn pictures and trusted herbs create healing in Colombia - tk
Bud Kennedy

Were the Minnesota killings ‘spiritual warfare’? Dallas school tied to extremism | Opinion - The trail of violent religious extremism has led to Texas again, raising questions about a small Dallas school for missionaries. Christ For The Nations Ins...
Skeptophilia

Hero worship - Sometimes I get questioned on my decision to quote (or even mention in a non-negative light) individuals who are not good human beings. It's a complex issu...
Off The Kuff

Yes, make the Mayor report on cancelled projects - I support this plan. As Houston City Council prepares to vote on a whopping $16.7 billion plan for city projects over the next five years, one council memb...
Scheerpost.com

Report: Trump Privately Approved Plans To Attack Iran But Has Withheld Final Order - Iran has made clear it will hit US bases in the region if the US attacks.
American Prospect

Republicans Threaten a Hospital Apocalypse - Experts warn of potentially hundreds of hospital closures, which would degrade the entire medical system.
Earth 911

Sustainable Alternative Lawns - The suburban lawn is a potent symbol of the American dream, and many people can’t... The post Sustainable Alternative Lawns appeared first on Earth911.
Counterpunch

The Tragedy of Political Violence: It Works - The cold truth is this: political violence works. The assassination and attempted assassination of two Minnesota state legislators remind us again that v...
Portside

Warnings of ‘Untold Harm’ After US Supreme Court Rules Against Trans Youth - Warnings of ‘Untold Harm’ After US Supreme Court Rules Against Trans Youth Mark Brody Thu, 06/19/2025 - 01:50
Informed Comment

Iran’s Grand Strategy – Vali Nasr - Book Review: Vali Nasr, “Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History”, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2025). Munich (Special to Informed Comment; F...
Antiwar.com

Trump, War, and the Constitution - Has the United States become what President Donald Trump recently condemned? Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it choose...
The Grayzone

US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels - Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special...
Techdirt.

Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’ - Back in May, we talked about a change that Nintendo made to its EULA that essentially amounted to “We’ll brick your console if we don’t like how you use it...
Popular Resistance

Mohammad Marandi: This War Was Supposed To Break Iran - The Israeli attack on Iran continues. Since Friday, IDF jets and missiles have hit sites across the country, carrying out targeted assassinations of key ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“Iron” Dome - Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people weeping for lost an...
The Daily Poster

Is Trump’s Energy Czar Lying About His Solar Past? - Energy Secretary Chris Wright submitted a resume to Congress with what appears to be false information about working in solar energy. He’s repeated the cla...
Claytoonz

Warrantless Goons - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Deadline Politics

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen Arrives In Tehran; First Western Journalist To Enter Country Since Start Of Latest Conflict With Israel, Network Says - CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen filed his first report on Wednesday after arriving in Tehran, reporting on hearing anti-aircraft gunfire as well as the sounds of p...
The Texas Signal

Texas Democrats Strategize A Path Forward - Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger appeared with several North Texas elected officials to discuss the future of the Democratic Party
Mother Jones

FDA Approves “Breakthrough” HIV Drug - On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a highly effective, injectable drug to help prevent the transmission of HIV, according to its manuf...
Rallblog

DeProgram: “TrumpTempted by the Neocons” - LIVE 5 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: In an uncertain world in an uncertain time, you can count on the “DePtogram show with political cartoonist Ted...
Second Nexus

VA Doctors Can Now Refuse To Treat Veterans Who Are Democrats Or Unmarried Thanks To Trump Order - Per an executive order from President Donald Trump, the Department of Veterans Affairs has introduced revised guidelines for VA hospitals nationwide, rem...
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Common Dreams

Statement on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report - The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report: “This report shows that ...
Church and State

Does the Existence of Atheists Prove There is a God? - Why do theists keep asking already answered questions? I don’t really know and I’m not sure they do, either.
Sludge

‘Unprecedented’ Tax Credit in GOP Megabill Would Fuel School Privatization - A tax credit proposal buried in the Big Beautiful Bill would allow school voucher fund donors to lower their taxes beyond the cost of their donations.
The AltWorld

Will Israel Attack the US Navy Again? - Will Israel Attack the US Navy Again? The post Will Israel Attack the US Navy Again? appeared first on TheAltWorld .
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Appoints Members to New Financial Standards Committee - The Libertarian National Committee has appointed Adrian F Malagon and Kathy Yeniscavich to its new Financial Standards Committee, which was established a...
Wolf Street

Fed Sees Hotter Inflation for Longer, Higher Unemployment, Slower Growth, “Dot Plot” Shifts More Hawkish but still Sees 2 Cuts in 2025. QT Continues - “Uncertainties” rule. Wait-and-see amid inflation fears and slowing growth.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Need a General Strike: The Check-In With Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The way to stop war and authoritarianism is to say enough is enough
Rewire

For Black Women in Texas, Juneteenth’s Promise of Freedom Remains Unrealized - State control over reproduction in Texas didn't end with slavery in 1865. Today’s draconian abortion laws and bounty hunts keep Black women in reproducti...
Ian Welsh

The Real Reason For French Collapse At The Outset Of WWII - [image: The Real Reason For French Collapse At The Outset Of WWII] I doubt one in ten of you know the importance of the Battle of the Marne? Quite simple,...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virginia’s Wild Democratic Statewide Primaries - Recapping the wild Democratic statewide Virginia primaries and looking ahead to the fall The post Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virgini...
Ballot Access News

Arkansas Libertarian Party Petition Got a Boost at “No Kings” Rally - The Arkansas Libertarian Party is currently circulating its petition to regain its party status. It needs 10,000 valid signatures. On Saturday, June 14, ...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Snakes, Mammoths, and Explosions - The post Strangest State: Snakes, Mammoths, and Explosions appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Ecosophia

A Brief Guide to Status Panic - Yes, I know I said I was going to return to the theme of climate change as soon as I got back from my working trip to England. Regular readers will know th...
Discourse

Abolishing ICE Is the Least We Can Do - And it needs to be a red line in our politics once again.
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
ProPublica

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs - by Katherine Dailey and Jessie Nguyen, Medill Investigative Lab We are still reporting. *If you are a current or former FDA employee or someone in the i...
High Country News

Trump quits deal with Northwest tribes to restore salmon - [image: An aerial view of the lower granite dam on the Snake River.] The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks th...
See You In 2020

The pro-resistance stance on Palestine has been vindicated, & this must translate into support for Iran - The developments we’ve seen since October 7 have provided us all with tremendous lessons in what it means to wage a liberation struggle. In which pract...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump Administration hit with two major court losses in attacks against trans community and DEI' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Judge blocks Trump anti-trans passport policy* - *The trans community gets a major win in court against the Trump Administration.* *Judge deems Trump'...
Trivial Knot

How I Made an EP - I have finally released a new EP titled Unrelenting Introspection. You can listen for free on Bandcamp. It’s only 14 minutes long. It’s xenharmonic dark a...
slacktivist

Killing in the name of (again. still.) - Rudolph, Hill, Roeder, Boelter. Recalling the political violence that forced me to understand that none of my mentors believed what they were saying.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Jose Antonio Vargas on What We Get Wrong About Immigration Reform - This Mother’s Day was the first one that Jose Antonio Vargas celebrated with his mother in person in 32 years. It was also the first one his grandmother,...
Black Agenda Report

US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire - US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire bareditors Wed, 06/18/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Garland Nixon
Lowering the Bar

Drunken Mule-Rider Accused of Assault With Deadly Raccoon - [image: raccoon sticking out his tongue]Even in Kentucky the assault charge isn't going to stick.
NORML

Study: Daily Cannabis Consumers Exhibit Few Changes in Simulated Driving Performance Compared To Controls - [image: marijuana driving simulation][image: marijuana driving simulation]Daily consumers demonstrated improvements in SDLP (standard deviation in lateral...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
The Progressive Wing

6.17-20 Open Threads - Hello you all. 🙂 Well, expect the worse and hope for the best. Looks like Israel is picking a fight with Iran. Endless stupid war. Will it ever stop? The ...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Project Censored

Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space - Today on the program in the first segment: Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny as ...
Bracing Views

Demonizing the Opposition - The Abyss Beckons BILL ASTORE JUN 15, 2025 Demonizing the opposition is a conduit to murderous crimes. There is no excuse for it. I remember hearing Judge ...
Texas Freedom Network

Reimagining Justice: What We Learned at Texas Rising’s First Houston Criminal Justice Summit - During Texas Rising Houston’s Criminal Justice Summit, students and leaders came together to ask: What would it take to build a justice system that actua...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Media Lens

The ‘Selfie Yacht’ – Greta Thunberg And The Merchants Of Smear - If there’s one thing the ‘impartial’, ‘independent’ ‘free press’ can’t stand, it’s someone – citizens, journalists, politicians, celebrities, anyone – prot...
Progressives Chat

Latest Developments… - *Over the last few days:* *• Israel struck Iran and Iran struck Israel.* Naturally, there are tweets on X weighing in. And there are defenders of Israel ...
Idavox

NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, Suprise! - Sigh … Atlantic Nationalist Club it’s trying something stupid again. The fact that we know... The post NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, ...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: The Pork Reich Eyes an Army - As the Trumpenreich tries to occupy LA, the Pentagon is considering a proposal to give the Gestapo a standing army to prosecute the regime's fascist agen...
Debunking Christianity

New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil - Inside the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" will be the first ever full chapter on "The Emotional Problem of Evil."
LareDOS

City investigates taste, odor in municipal water supply - Public assured it is safe to drink: “an aesthetic issue, not a health hazard”
Dissent Magazine

Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles - The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be ne...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IF THE JACKBOOT FITS, WEAR IT EDITION. - *I mean.* Used to worry on Friday the 13th but we’re not feeling too lucky anyhow; every week it seems Tubby’s mob pushes a little harder against the fo...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Edinburg Politics

Seven UTRGV professors release book detailing the history of Valley politics: Politics of the Rio Grande Valley: An Insider’s Perspective to Regional Politics - Scholars from around the world are fascinated with the Rio Grande Valley, a region whose political beliefs often are covered by newscasts and newspapers, b...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
The NM Political Report

80 years after Trinity, Tularosa Basin continues fight for compensation - Tina Cordova has spent about two decades fighting to bring government compensation to the generations of people in the Tularosa Basin who have suffered t...
Eater Houston

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

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

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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Equality Texas

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The Mind Unleashed

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The Contributor

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epic.org

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Houston Press

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Splinter

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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Sunday Funnies (Non-Immigration edition)

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