Brains and Eggs: LiveEarth concerts all day

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

naked capitalism

Links 3/20/2026 -
memeorandum

Arrested Nashville journalist released from ICE custody on bond (Evan Mealins/The Tennessean) - Evan Mealins / The Tennessean: *Arrested Nashville journalist released from ICE custody on bond* — Estefany Rodriguez, a Nashville Noticias journalist ...
Novara Media

Israel Is Imprisoning More Children Without Charge Than Ever Before - Israel is detaining children without charge in record numbers, a rights group has said, subjecting them to hellish conditions that include beatings, the de...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: Cleaning out the pasture spring! - *FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2026* *Bundy, Koresh to follow:* As it happens, we're going out to clean the pasture spring, or something very much like it. We may ...
Rallblog

F&#k You! And Pay Me $200 Billion | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Al Jazeera English

Iran developing a ‘vetting system’ for Strait of Hormuz transit: Report - Lloyd's List reports that ships could be allowed to pass through 'safe corridor' once they are approved by IRGC.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Los Angeles man blinded by officer’s projectile at anti-ICE protest, claim says - Jesus Javier Gomez Islas, 23, says in filing against LAPD he has permanently lost vision in one eye due to unjustified munition fired at his face A 23-y...
The Hill

Trump's push to abolish the Education Department reaches student loan portfolio - One year after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the shuttering of the Education Department, the agency has taken its biggest step yet ...
Vox

Here’s how Iran could become a “forever war” - The Trump administration’s end goals for the war in Iran, never particularly well-defined to begin with, appear to be narrowing. While President Donald Tr...
ProPublica

DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator - The post DOGE Goes Nuclear: How Trump Invited Silicon Valley Into America’s Nuclear Power Regulator appeared first on ProPublica.
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Crusade: Christian Nationalism and the Making of a Holy War -
Scheerpost.com

Searching for Solace in a Nuclearized World - The Nightmare of Fukushima 15 Years Later By Joshua Frank Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Mi...
Axios

Trump mulls risky Kharg Island takeover to force Iran to open strait - The Trump administration is considering plans to occupy or blockade Iran's Kharg Island to pressure Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, four sources wit...
Raw Story

Trump just planted the seed of his destruction - There may have been no more honest action in this administration than when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted the Pentagon was predicated on war, to...
NPR's Health Shots

10 tried-and-true methods to stay off your phone, according to our readers - We asked our audience to share the creative ways they limit their own phone use. They range from the practical (keep your phone in another room) to the cre...
Grist

On Thin Ice - The growing allure — and danger — of glacier tourism.
High Country News

Congress contemplates sweeping investigation of Native boarding schools - What the Truth and Healing Commission Bill would — and would not — do. The post Congress contemplates sweeping investigation of Native boarding schools ...
The Week

The week’s best photos - A crowded carriage, a cuddly cub, and more
Crooked Media

The Worst Way to Spend $200 Billion - The post The Worst Way to Spend $200 Billion appeared first on Crooked Media .
Countercurrents

Germany Withdraws Legal Support for Israel in ICJ Gaza Genocide Case - Berlin (QNN)- Germany will not intervene on Israel’s behalf in the case against it at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, where it is ac...
ArcaMax

Prairie Fire - There are about 420 people in Arthur County, Nebraska, out in the western part of the state, spread out over 715,152 square miles. The county seat, and the...
Counterpunch

Trump’s Crusade: Christian Nationalism and the Making of a Holy War - Israel and the United States are now at war with Iran, a conflict framed by both leaders through a stark and self-serving moral binary. In the words of B...
Houston Public Media

University of Houston routs Idaho to open NCAA Tournament after losing in last year’s championship game - The Cougars, the second seed in the South Region, will play No. 10 seed Texas A&M in the second round on Saturday.
jobsanger

Trump Must Accept Blame For The Current Poor Economy -
CultureMap Houston

Lainey Wilson brings rock ‘n roll swagger to sold-out RodeoHouston concert - Despite being one of the weirdest and most talked-about rodeo seasons in recent memory — marked by county government sideshows and *barenaked carnival crow...
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: Stretch Mason Gets The Chair - Meow from Perry Mason.
Courthouse News

Trial begins for Maui doctor accused of trying to murder wife - Prosecutors claim Gerhardt Konig beat his wife with a rock during a hike and even later admitted on a phone call with his son that he tried to kill her.
Mediaite

Boebert Comes Out Swinging Against Trump Admin. Request for Iran War Money: ‘I’m Not Doing That’ - Rep. Lauren Boebert said she will not support any supplemental funding bill to pay for the Iran war, no matter what the price tag is. The post Boebert C...
Informed Comment

Apocalypse Now: The Great Battle of the Gas Fields and Looming World Hunger - all it the "Netanyahu tax" that we'll all be paying in our electricity, grocery, electronics and consumer spending, possibly for years to come
Portside

Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois - Special-Interest Super PACs Underperform in Illinois jay Fri, 03/20/2026 - 00:01
Common Dreams

Clown Shoes 'R Us - Living in not just the bleakest but dumbest timeline, we must now witness the "off the charts clownfuckery" that is the spectacle of quivering, grown-ass...
Techdirt.

Greater Than Zero: The Anti-AI Pushback On Gaming Preservation Efforts Makes No Sense - There is an old axiom you will have heard of before: don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If we wanted to boil this down to a math equation, it ...
Mediagazer

The ProPublica Guild, representing ~150 employees, voted 92% in favor of a strike authorization after negotiating for over two years for its first contract (Alyssa Ray/The Wrap) - Alyssa Ray / The Wrap: *The ProPublica Guild, representing ~150 employees, voted 92% in favor of a strike authorization after negotiating for over two ye...
Slate

ICE Appears in *The Pitt*’s Latest Episode. It’s One of the Most Powerful Statements of the Entire Series. - The show evokes the chaos and brutality we’ve witnessed from ICE agents across the country.
The Greanville Post

Cheap Iranian drones destroying billions: The Radical Asymmetry of Modern Warfare (P1) - KW—Iranian drones cost less than $50,000 to build and launch. Yet they are taking down multi-billion-dollar fixed assets all across the Persian Gulf. Just ...
Political Wire

Trump Narrates the War on Truth Social - Wall Street Journal: “Twenty days into the war, the commander in chief has used his favorite platform—Truth Social—to cajole allies, berate adversaries, re...
Brad Blog

New World Democracy Report Warns U.S. Facing 'Unprecedented Autocratization' Under Trump: 'BradCast' 3/19/2026 - Today on The BradCast: You're not the only one worried about the U.S. devolving quickly into an autocracy under Trump's attempted dictatorial rule. So are ...
See You In 2020

The dangers the social democrats pose: normalizing Israel, & weaponizing Palestine against China - This month, the website of Illinois “progressive” Democratic candidate Kat Abughazaleh revealed many things about where socdems stand on foreign policy....
Workers World

DPRK: Workers’ Party of Korea holds Ninth Congress - [image: DPRK: Workers’ Party of Korea holds Ninth Congress] The Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) convened its Ninth Party Congress on Feb. 19 in Pyongyang, th...
Claytoonz

Giggity Hegseth - 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...
Daily Cartoonist

Is It 264 or Just 1 Newspaper Cutting Editorial Cartoons? - It is through a letter writer to the Bend (Oregon) Bulletin (or here) that we learn the paper has discontinued publishing editorial cartoons: I was disappo...
World Socialist Web Site

New Zealand police given power to “move on” homeless people - The criminalisation of homeless people must serve as a warning to the entire working class of the repressive measures that will be used against any opposit...
Krebs on Security

Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind Huge DDoS Attacks - The U.S. Justice Department joined authorities in Canada and Germany in dismantling the online infrastructure behind four highly disruptive botnets that co...
The Verge

Valve’s huge SteamOS 3.8 update adds long-awaited features — and supports Steam Machine - Valve has just released SteamOS 3.8.0 in preview, and it's a doozy. Not only is it the first release to support the upcoming Steam Machine living room gami...
Progressive.org

Eid Between Memory and Survival - In years past, the sights, smells, and sounds of Eid preparations were enchanting. The genocide in Gaza changed all of that.
Wolf Street

Prices of New Single-Family Homes Drop Further, Inventory of Completed New Homes for Sale Highest since 2009 - Hoping for lower mortgage rates that may not come.
Antiwar.com

Iran War Is Putting Israel First - Reagan Carney, a really fine young man with whom we go to church, told me a few days ago that the University of Tennessee Young Republicans had a board on ...
Consortium News

WATCH: Fighting America’s War - The Australian PM says a surveillance plane sent to the Gulf is purely defensive but the plane is part of U.S. combat operations. Sen. David Shoebridge and...
Popular Resistance

I Resigned In Opposition To The US War On Iraq 23 Years Ago - Twenty-three years after I resigned on March 19, 2003, the Trump administration is in the third week of its attack on Iran, led into the war by Israel. T...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/20/2026 - 05:03 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Deadline Politics

Nexstar Says It Has Closed Merger With Tegna After Greenlight From FCC And Justice Department - UPDATED with California AG comment: Nexstar said Thursday that it had closed its acquisition of Tegna following approvals from the FCC and the Justice Depa...
San Antonio Report

Long-delayed Brackenridge Park rehab plan gets moving with city panel OK - The Historic and Design Review Commission gave city staff the green light for its request to begin work on the contentious bond project. -------------------...
Eschaton

Thursday Evening - Get your evening on.
San Antonio Current

147 measles cases reported in Texas so far this year, most of them in federal detention centers - [image: A single vaccine can protect against measles, mumps and rubella.] The state health department reports that 99 of the cases originated in a contrac...
Mondoweiss

This Lebanese village resisted two Israeli commando drops last week. Here’s why Israel is targeting it. - [image: Aftermath of the Israeli commando operation in Nabi Chit, Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, March 7, 2026. (Photo: Screenshot from AP Youtube Channcel)]As Isr...
slacktivist

When it comes it’s so, so disappointing and - Laurence Olivier did not "star" in As You Like It. He played Orlando. (Still catching up on old links and tabs.)
Salon.com

ABC cancels “Bachelorette” over Taylor Frankie Paul controversy - The network pulled the upcoming season after video of a fight between lead Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex surfaced
Church and State

Trump is now straitened out! - After bashing our NATO allies and many others with stupid comments, Trump is finally getting what he so richly deserves.
Election Law Blog

“Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Jeffrey Kanter disqualified from Ohio ballot” - Cleveland.com: Libertarian U.S. Senate hopeful Jeffrey Kanter will not appear on Ohio’s May 5 primary ballot, as Secretary of State Frank LaRose upheld a...
Independent Political Report

New “Free State Party” Organization Launches in New Hampshire - A new organization calling itself the Free State Party has launched in New Hampshire, presenting itself as a private network for “free staters” who hold ...
Mother Jones

Mr. Rogers and the Fight for Public Media - On the anniversary of Fred Rogers birthday, we take a trip to Mr. Rogers’ real life neighborhood in this special episode that celebrates the life and work ...
The Conversation

Who are Iran’s new leaders? A look at 6 the US placed a bounty on – 2 of whom are already dead - Several people on the list are deeply embedded in Iran’s political, intelligence and security architecture.
Futurism

A Grim Truth Is Emerging in Employers’ AI Experiments - "Those are foundational problems no one has solved in LLM technology. And you want to tell me that's not going to manifest in code quality problems?" The...
Ian Welsh

The Credit Cycle: Phase Two Accelerating - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Here are today’s Phase Two developments. Many are ominous. Things not looky so goody. The smartest guys in the room, i.e., Goldman Sac...
Dissent Magazine

Trump’s War - The fact that the war in Iran has proven so shocking to both Trump’s base and the broader commentariat reflects how distorted the popular view of Trump a...
The AltWorld

Iran moves to Total War against the death cult - Structural paralysis. Meticulously programmed. Inexorable. Already in effect. Attacking Iran’s South Pars gas field – the largest […] The post Iran moves...
SCOTUSblog

Birthright citizenship: why the text, history, and structure of a landmark 1952 statute doom Trump’s executive order - Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso leaders approve city’s first climate action plan. What happens now? - El Paso approved its first climate action plan, targeting heat, dust, air quality and future data center policy as officials turn from planning to imple...
Dorf on Law

Oh Good Gravy! College Presidents Are Now Directly Firing Professors - I drafted this column's headline more than six months ago, but I never actually wrote the column to go with it. Although the content of today's column c...
Angry Bear

Running Out of Funding . . . - As reported at Common Dreams by Jake Johnson, “The Pentagon reportedly wants Congress to approve more than $200 billion in supplemental funding for US Pr...
The Root

Kamala Harris Claps Back at Nicki Minaj, and the Barbz Respond - Former Vice President Kamala Harris is letting it be known she's not here for Nicki Minaj's alleged spread of misinformation. Now, the Barbz are respondi...
Socialist Alternative

How To Organize A Student Walkout For May 1 - Read our accompanying article on why students are walking out on May 1! 1. Why Are You Fighting? You will need clear demands, so your action’s goal is clea...
Capital & Main

More States Are Taxing the Ultra-Rich — Washington Is the Latest - As inequality grows, states are stepping up where the federal government hasn’t. "It’s a movement," says Patriotic Millionaire's Chuck Collins. The post ...
The Daily Poster

Make Accounting Gimmicks Great Again - Trump’s tax code rewards firms for loading up with debt.
The NM Political Report

Oops! Candidate for Gov forgot to file paperwork to make the ballot. Now what? - Republican voters may have one less candidate to choose from on their June primary ballot after one candidate failed to show up to file paperwork confir...
Undernews

National debt -
Dissident Voice

When Opposition Calls for “Free” and “Fair” Elections to Guarantee “Democracy” in Venezuela, What Do They Mean? - Since Hugo Chavez came to power in 1999, the US has attacked the Bolivarian Revolution in multiple ways, including through propaganda that categorize it ...
NORML

Ohio: Provisions Take Effect Rolling Back Voter-Approved Marijuana Legalization Law - [image: handcuffs sit atop a pile of cannabis leaves][image: handcuffs sit atop a pile of cannabis leaves]"At the end of the day, lawmakers desire to rol...
Bonddad

A detailed look at interpreting expansionary and pre-recession layoff and unemployment signals - - *by New Deal democrat* This week, in addition to my usual look at jobless claims, especially in view of my post earlier this week breaking down th...
Bracing Views

Joe Kent’s Principled Resignation - And Tulsi Gabbard’s Problematic Response BILL ASTORE MAR 18, 2026 Joe Kent’s principled resignation letter, in which he calls out the influence of Israel a...
Glasstire

Top Five: March 19, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Angelica Raquel: Mystic Threads McNay Art Museum (San A...
Rewire

Some Endometriosis Patients Are Changing Their Diets to Manage Symptoms - Endometriosis is underresearched and underdiagnosed. Providers and patients alike are trying a more holistic approach—but does it work? The post Some End...
Democracy Now!

From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration - Democrats on the House Oversight Committee walked out of a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files with Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd B...
Texas Standard

A Texas reckoning over César Chávez’s legacy after abuse allegations - The late civil rights icon is facing allegations of sexually abusing women and girls tied to the farmworker movement. The fallout is already reshaping how ...
The Progressive Wing

3/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - The defining issue of our time is inequality. Never before have so few owned so much and wielded so much power. We are living in an oligarchy. That must...
WhoWhatWhy

In Public Rift With Allies, Trump Rips Israel for Attacking Iranian Gas Field - [image: South Pars Oil Field, Iran] In order to limit the rise of oil prices, the US has refrained from attacking Iran's energy sector. Israel, on the othe...
Alternet

Major MAGA ally issues huge warning about Trump’s spiraling economy - E.J. Antoni — chief economist at the Heritage Foundation, a major contributor to Project 2025, a Fox News pundit, and President Donald Trump's initial no...
Space City Weather

I hope you like sunshine, because there is going to be a lot of it - In brief: In today’s post we discuss high pressure and sinking air, which is the reason why Houston is likely to see wall-to-wall sunshine for the next wee...
Texas Observer

We Have the Power to End Family Detention in Texas—and We Must - In February, San Antonio pastor Dianne Garcia led a multi-day, 90-mile peace walk across South Texas in solidarity with children and families detained by...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Six Gubernatorial Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans May Still Come Out Ahead - Republicans have had an edge in overall gubernatorial control since the 2010 election, and they still have a clear path to maintaining that advantage. ...
Greg Palast

Hormuz BluesBush should show Trump how you seize another nation’s oil - In one of my most elaborate undercover ops for BBC Newsnight, I got my hands on the secret plans for the invasion. Nope, not Trump's attack on Iran. It was...
Skeptophilia

Whistling words - I've long been fascinated by the phenomenon of *priming*, where our interpretation of a sensory stimulus is altered by what we expected to see or hear. ...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Laura Gallier - We are now one day into early voting for the special election in Houston City Council District C, and we have two candidate interviews to go. Today we have...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- highways in the sky - There is a great beauty in visions like this. Think of the skill and precision it takes to keep all of this traffic flowing safely and in proper order, d...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

MAGA Christian Nationalist pastor: We are going to impose our (morality) on America. If you don't like it, I'm sorry - Why do white conservative evangelicals support Donald Trump even though he is the antithesis of everything they claim to oppose? Because he gives them po...
Ballot Access News

Hawaii Bill Making it Easier to Stay on Ballot Advances - On March 17, the Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee passed HB 1716. The bill had already passed the House. It says that a party that has been ballot-qualifi...
LareDOS

Poets and writers invited to River Pierce - Poetry Under the Sundial in San Ygnacio
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. The "war" in Iran continues. Israel is picking off Iranian leaders, one by one. Iran...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Centering Survivors, Not Symbols: Dolores Huerta and the Meaning of This Moment, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Centering Survivors, Not Symbols: Dolores Huerta and the Meaning of This Moment* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 18, 2026* *There are moments ...
Seeing the Forest

Iran Failure Shows What The ‘Deep State’ Was FOR - Understanding things like the Strait of Hormuz and guiding policymakers on how to work with countries like Iran is what the Deep State was about. The Strai...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living in the Rubble: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
The Grayzone

IDF threatens ‘elimination’ for Russian leaders who ‘wish Israel ill’ - Israel’s veiled threat to Moscow came just after Russian media warned traffic cameras in Moscow were vulnerable to the same exploits that Israel reported...
Liberation News

Counting the horrific waste of the U.S. war machine - This is waste at an unimaginable scale, burning human lives and money away at a rate of millions of dollars per second.
Sludge

AIPAC Splits in Illinois Races After $20M in Spending - AIPAC-tied groups poured millions into yesterday’s Illinois Democratic primaries, much of it from undisclosed sources. Here’s how it turned out.
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of Détournement - It’s been a while since we last talked about Situationism, that giddy fusion of radical politics and performance art that seized the imaginations of a cert...
Earth 911

Convenience Comes at the Environment’s Expense - I must admit, I still get excited when an online order arrives at my doorstep,... The post Convenience Comes at the Environment’s Expense appeared first ...
Crooked Timber

Habermas, democratic discourse, and class - Jürgen Habermas has died, at the age of 96, and traditional and social media are full of obituaries and memories. For outsiders, it is maybe hard to gauge ...
The Texas Signal

Houston’s Quirkiest Museums To Visit Over Spring Break - For many Texas families, Spring Break is the perfect opportunity to explore some museums off the beaten path. And these sure beat exhausting beach trips an...
DeSmogBlog

‘You Can’t Live Without Us’: How Big Oil Pivoted from Climate-friendly Messaging to Normalise Dependence on Fossil Fuels - Four of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies have spent the last four years systematically shifting away from climate-friendly advertising to push a...
MintPress News

Top US Counterterror Chief Joe Kent Resigns Over Iran War, Blames Israel Lobby Pressure - Joe Kent resigned as head of the National Counterterrorism Center over Iran war. He said Iran poses "no imminent threat" and claimed the war began due to...
Idavox

Nine Prairieland Defendants Found Guilty in First ‘Antifa’ Test Case - “What happens here sets the tone for what’s to come. We are here and we... The post Nine Prairieland Defendants Found Guilty in First ‘Antifa’ Test Case ...
Trivial Knot

Review: Revenge of the Phantom Press - Revenge of the Phantom Press is a novel by FTBlogger William Brinkmann. It is the sequel to The Rift, which I previously reviewed, although it may be read ...
Alas, a Blog

The Business Genius - Yes, this comic was inspired by evil non-genius Elon Musk. No one better epitomizes money cosplaying as competence. As Richard Carrier wrote: He fell ass-b...
Environment Texas

Texas Nature & Energy Project - How Texas can build large renewable energy projects the right way The post Texas Nature & Energy Project appeared first on Environment Texas.
Project Censored

Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade - In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analy...
Debunking Christianity

My Debate Notes: "God Probably Doesn't Exist Given the Existence of Horrendous Suffering, by John W. Loftus - Get this huge book!! I had mentioned this debate yesterday. Here is my planned opening statement: My focus is on heinous, hideous, horrific levels of ho...
Field Negro

Operation Epstein. - Happy Sunday field hands. Imagine being such an evil and contemptible human being that you would literally start a war with another country* (one with...
alicublog

ROY’S 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS (FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY) - OK cats and kitties it’s OSCAR DAY! Feel the excitement! I've been making Oscar predictions for years, peppered with what I used to call “sucker bets” ...
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Discourse

SPECIAL EDITION: Oscars Pod 2026! (w/Katherine Krueger & Caitlin Schneider) - Our most anticipated pod of the year is here!!!
The Militant

Get all US bombers, troops, warships out of the Mideast! - Washington’s actions make clear that its massive use of air and naval power against Iran has nothing to do with aiding the peoples of that country nor defe...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Prepares Slide Deck of Lawyer’s Mistakes - [image: a fail stamp]This is a relatively clear sign that your performance left something to be desired.
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How Andrew Farkas and an Emirati Sultan Helped Epstein Build a Smuggler’s Paradise - A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure E...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health Transplant Institute one of the more advanced hospital services in Texas providing comprehensive adult kidney transplants, report Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - The DHR Health Transplant Institute, opened in Edinburg in 2017, remains a highly-regarded, specialized center in Texas and is the only CMS and UNOS-certif...
Two Party Opera

Fireside Chats - Read More
Campaign for America's Future

Lo que hacemos nos dice quiénes somos - Asaltos a nuestros derechos civíles han inspirado a una nación a levantarse de los banquillos. Ahora hay millones de personas que exigen que nos tratemos c...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut - From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to e...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
Democracy Chronicles

The Sigh of the Religious: Marx, Suffering and the Politics of Belief - Religion persists not solely as a symptom of those who fail to confront reason, but because society itself inhabits social conditions that make transcenden...
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REVIEW / Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2026 Clyde W. Barrow, a professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is the autho...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
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...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Saturday, July 07, 2007

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