Brains and Eggs: Late 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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

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...
Political Wire

Trump Could Profit From Airport Name Change - “As the Florida Legislature ramps up efforts to rename the Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump, a recent trademark filing has som...
See You In 2020

The tech nerds shoved Gen Z to the margins. Now they’re trying to prevent an uprising from the left-behinds. - This message is intended for a particular demographic, that being the ones within Gen Z who’ve been “left behind” in life by our productive mode. It’s o...
Mediaite

14-Year-Old Podcaster Knowa De Baraso Interviews Kamala Harris About Trump’s Racist Video, Nicki Minaj, and What’s Next for Her - Fourteen-year-old podcaster Knowa De Baraso interviewed former Vice President Kamala Harris on the latest episode of his podcast, Now You Know with Knowa...
Scheerpost.com

Sun, Sand… and Sabotage: Washington’s Dirty Cuba Games Exposed - Posted by Joshua Scheer While U.S. officials publicly thump their chests about “freedom” and “democracy” in Cuba, the real work of empire continues in the ...
Axios

Trump meets with top Iran advisers as war threat grows - President Trump convened his top advisers on Wednesday for a meeting on the crisis with Iran, two U.S. officials tell Axios. - Trump was briefed on t...
Al Jazeera English

Trump says UK’s Starmer making ‘a big mistake’ with Chagos Islands deal - The US president warned the military base on Diego Garcia may be needed to respond to possible attack from Iran.
Raw Story

'Absolutely sickening': Analyst gobsmacked as Karoline Leavitt exposes Trump plot - A Democratic analyst was gobsmacked on Wednesday after President Donald Trump's press secretary made an "absolutely sickening" revelation during her brie...
The Hill

NIH director Bhattacharya to temporarily serve as CDC director - Director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya will serve as interim director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) follo...
memeorandum

Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth (Joseph Goldstein/New York Times) - Joseph Goldstein / New York Times: *Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth* — NYU Langone Health cited the “current regulatory...
Courthouse News

Trump-appointed judge pokes hole in ICE arrest protocol - A federal judge scoffed at an ICE policy allowing warrantless arrests for those "likely to escape," noting that under the government's interpretation, he c...
The Verge

Social media on trial: tech giants face lawsuits over addiction, safety, and mental health - A set of bellwether cases alleging that social media platforms harmed teens’ safety and mental health is going to trial this year, putting executives like ...
Second Nexus

'Sesame Street' Shares Sweet Throwback Clip Of Late Rev. Jesse Jackson Empowering Kids With 'I Am Somebody' Chant - Reverend Jesse Jackson’s iconic “I Am Somebody” declaration once again resonated with audiences of all ages when *Sesame Street* revisited a 1972 episode...
OpEd News

El Super Bowl 60: Bravo! - Bad Bunny provided an entertaining history lesson. In Spanish.
Futurism

SpaceX Angling for Military Contract to Produce Drone Swarms - After years of opposing them, Musk is looking to develop killer drones. The post SpaceX Angling for Military Contract to Produce Drone Swarms appeared fi...
Independent Political Report

Green Party Considering Impeachment Campaign Targeting Brett Kavanaugh - The Green National Committee is considering whether to launch a national petition drive urging Congress to impeach U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavan...
Popular Resistance

Palestine Action: Aggravated Burglary Charges Dropped - Eighteen defendants allegedly involved in a Palestine Action raid on an Israeli-owned arms factory in the UK will no longer face charges of aggravated bu...
San Antonio Current

Curmudgeon Lite: SNL and Joe Dirt star David Spade returning to San Antonio’s Majestic Theatre - [image: David Spade appears at a Comedy Central press event in West Hollywood.] The comic and actor is bringing his latest standup tour to SA on Friday, ...
Houston Public Media

NRG Energy to expand power plant complex in northeast Harris County - The company plans to build another natural gas facility that will power about 110,000 homes once it is completed.
Crooked Media

AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba - The post AOC on the World Stage, Trump Starves Cuba appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s immigration siege is rattling hospitality industry, workers say - Unite Here, the US’s largest hospitality workers’ union, says ICE crackdown is harming tourism and costing jobs Donald Trump’s immigration policies are h...
The Week

How the FCC’s ‘equal time’ rule works - The law is at the heart of the Colbert-CBS conflict
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: It's the sheer inanity, Stupid! - *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2026* *The Five cavort and clown: *Before we discuss The Five let's start with a simple question of analytical competence. It in...
Mediagazer

Q&A with Synthesia co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, regulation, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times) - Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: *Q&A with Synthesia co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hi...
Techdirt.

Judge Highlights Government Fuckery In Ruling Over Migrant Detainees’ Due Process Rights - The ICE surge in Minneapolis, Minnesota was instigated by a far-right click bait artist and encouraged by the president’s portrayal of Somali immigrants as...
CultureMap Houston

Garden Oaks restaurant reboots as family friendly bar and grill - A new, family friendly bar and grill has opened in Garden Oaks. *Jax on the Tracks* is the latest concept from Gr8 Plate Hospitality.
Salon.com

“Unrepentant bigot”: Democrats push for censure of Fine following anti-Muslim comments - Freshman Rep. Randy Fine was condemned by top Democrats for his anti-Muslim posts
Novara Media

Reform Reveals Plan to Put Kids in Poverty - Reform’s push to put children into poverty. Plus: Is “build, baby, build” making progress?, Big Tech’s arms race, and China flaunts dominance in humanoid r...
Eschaton

Install Your Own Malware - This is a specific example, but I'd be shocked if all the standard Spicy Clippy implementations aren't vacuuming up all kinds of information that is suppos...
San Antonio Report

Palo Alto College commemorates 40 years with time capsule reveal - Current and future students attended a time capsule ceremony meant to look both at the South Side's past and future as the college turns 40 years. --------...
Counterpunch

- The post appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Common Dreams

Despite Relentless Attacks, Nearly Half a Million Workers Unionized in 2025 - New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows union representation grew by 463,000 in 2025, bringing the total number of workers r...
Wolf Street

Orders for Durable Goods at US Manufacturers Jump 7.8% in 2025 to Record on AI Infrastructure & Civilian Aircraft - Machinery, fabricated metals, electrical equipment, motor vehicles, and nondefense aircraft all hit records.
Ballot Access News

Law Professor John J. Martin Article Says Congress has no Authority to Set Voter Qualifications - Law Professor John J. Martin of Quinnipiac University has this essay, pointing out that Congress has no authority to set voter qualifications, even in fede...
Consortium News

Jeffrey Sachs to UN: No US War on Iran - The current threat of an attack by the U.S. did not begin with any failure by Iran to negotiate. On the contrary, it began with the United States’ repudiat...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Paramount Still Reaching for WBD as CBS Misplays Colbert-Talarico Interview - The Larry and David Ellison media empire is still in the hunt to acquire WBD even as their CBS triggered the Streisand effect with some clumsy censorship.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Empire is Teetering: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
The Conversation

How Jesse Jackson set the stage for Bernie Sanders and today’s progressives - The coalitions that Jackson built during his presidential campaigns created enduring infrastructure for later progressives, particularly in Vermont.
El Paso Matters

‘We’re entering the windy season:’ What to expect after El Paso’s historic dust storms of 2025 - A wet January could help suppress sources of dust around El Paso. The post ‘We’re entering the windy season:’ What to expect after El Paso’s historic du...
Undernews

States with highest and lowest property taxes -
Election Law Blog

“Republicans are eyeing major election changes. Trump’s mail voting crackdown isn’t one of them.” - Politico: President Donald Trump is pushing Congress to end mail voting as Americans have come to know it. So far, Republican lawmakers aren’t heeding hi...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court updates recusals process - The Supreme Court on Tuesday revealed that it has put new software in place to “assist in identifying potential conflicts” of interest for the justices. ...
Mother Jones

Colbert Takes CBS to Task, Again - Late Show host Stephen Colbert once again gave his audience the inside scoop on Tuesday amid the ongoing clash involving him, network executives, and a can...
Deadline Politics

FCC Chairman Confirms “Enforcement Action” Underway Against ABC’s ‘The View’, Calls Stephen Colbert-James Talarico Incident A “Hoax” - FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said that the agency “has an enforcement action underway on ABC’s The View after the show featured James Talarico, a Democratic c...
The Daily Poster

Palantir’s Double-Dipping Screws U.S. Taxpayers Twice - Last year, Palantir paid $0 in federal income taxes and took home hundreds of millions in taxpayer-funded government contracts.
The Greanville Post

European States Make Laughable Claim About Alexei Navalny’s Death - DL—On February 14, during the Munich Security Conference, the governments of the U.K., Germany, France, Sweden and the Netherlands issued a joint statement...
Slate

My Boyfriend Holds Me to a Standard in Bed That I Set Many Years Ago. I Wish He Would Just Forget. - I'm not the same person!
Vox

The FCC (probably) didn’t censor Stephen Colbert - For the 12 of us who woke up Tuesday morning wondering what we had missed on Monday’s late-night shows, CBS greeted us with a concerning development. Overn...
Sludge

Sen. Mark Warner, Palantir Critic, Took $37k From the Company’s CEO - Alexander Karp, the CEO of ICE surveillance contractor Palantir, donated in September to Warner's joint fundraising committee, leadership PAC, and the Virg...
The Root

Exclusive: Bakari Sellers Reflects on the Passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson - CNN political contributor Bakari Sellers shared his thoughts on the passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson exclusively with The Root. Read more...
Daily Cartoonist

Editoonist Walt Handelsman on Retirement and The Future - Editor & Publisher reporter and cartoonist Rob Tornoe interviewed Walt Handelsman, who recently retired after forty-five years as a salaried editorial cart...
Bonddad

Industrial production surged in January, further evidence of an AI data center led rebound - * - by New Deal democrat* Industrial production is much less central to the US economic picture than it was before the “China shock,” but it remains ...
Capital & Main

Effort to Fast-Track Semiconductor Manufacturing Faces Community Pushback - Lawsuit over Micron’s massive Syracuse project raises concerns about toxic risks and alleges a rushed environmental review. The post Effort to Fast-Track...
Ecosophia

The Laws of Co-Creation - Last December’s contest over what theme would get discussed in the fifth Wednesday post, as I’ve noted here more than once already, was unusually lively ev...
Dissident Voice

On Marriage - Marriage is the cornerstone of a healthy society, and children are the conduit to the future. Introduction For the first time in modern American history,...
The Texas Signal

The Race For Lieutenant Governor - The race to defeat Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is an uphill climb in a state where the conservative incumbent is a household name and Democrats haven’t...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Socialist Alternative

KEEP HOPE ALIVE—Jesse Jackson & Black Freedom - This article was produced as part of the work of Socialist Alternative’s Black Caucus. Follow us on Instagram for more analysis on the fight for racial jus...
Liberation News

Worst sewage leak in U.S. history threatens already strained Potomac watershed - Hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage have poured into the Potomac River for weeks, showing how improperly maintaining aging infrastructure poses a...
Glasstire

Book Review: “Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph Over Tragedy” - Why don’t more people know about the artist Alice Baber? In the mid-20th century she was an active member of the abstract art scenes of New York City and...
WhoWhatWhy

Donald Trump — the Most Pathetic Loser - [image: Donald Trump, Campaign, Sign] As Donald Trump remains consumed by his 2020 election loss, it is important to push back every time he promotes his B...
Unlimited Hangout

Robert Kadlec: The Man Behind Trump’s Biowarfare Policy - Robert Kadlec, a veteran of biowarfare with longstanding connections to the National Security State and corrupt government contractors as well as controv...
ArcaMax

The Poet and the President -- Dedicated to the Late Rev. Jesse Jackson - In early 1862, Union generals, soldiers and even the commander in chief of the Civil War were literally at a loss. Morale ran low. Engaged as we are now in...
First Draft

The State Of Dollar Store Gilead - The WV legislature is halfway through its annual session.
Democracy Now!

Meet Analilia Mejía, Who Won NJ Congressional Primary After Speaking Out Against ICE & Genocide in Gaza - In a surprise victory, progressive candidate Analilia Mejía won the Democratic primary to fill the House seat left vacant by New Jersey Governor Mikie Sher...
Rallblog

Jordan Is Next | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

Expect humid, warm, foggy and at times misty weather until Saturday night - In brief: A warm and muggy air mass will dominate our region into the weekend before a front drops down from the northwest and sweeps it into the Gulf. Som...
Ian Welsh

A Story of Iran from 2006 That Deserves To Be Retold - ~by Sean Paul Kelley This narrative originally appeared in the San Antonio Express News on 3/17/2007, which is no longer online. Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport...
Dorf on Law

What I Plan to Tell the US Civil Rights Commission About Antisemitism on Campus and the Government Response Thus Far - Tomorrow I will testify at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's briefing on Antisemitism on America's College and University Campuses: Current Conditions an...
Debunking Christianity

"Christian Nationalism—The Danger That It Poses to Our Democracy" by John W. Loftus - The following link will take you to Google Slides for my presentation on this topic. It was sponsored by CFI Indiana this past Saturday. LINK. Let me know ...
Mondoweiss

Palestinian resistance and the trap of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ - [image: Al-Qassam Brigade team members oversee rubble removal in search of bodies of deceased Israeli captives, Baghdad Street, Shuja'iyya, November 3, 202...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s “Mission Accomplished” Moment Gives Democrats an Opening -
Skeptophilia

The D. C. of D. C. - A loyal reader of *Skeptophilia* commented that the last few posts have been pretty grim, and maybe I should write about something more uplifting, like kit...
Off The Kuff

2026 primary early voting Day One: And we’re off - At long last, we are voting for the 2026 primaries. I will do my thing with the numbers as we go. Let’s recap where we are and what we’re doing. Here are t...
NPR's Health Shots

This form of mental exercise may cut dementia risk for decades - A study finds that people who did one specific form of brain training in the 1990s were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next 20 years.
ProPublica

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment - The post Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment appeared first on ProPublica.
Countercurrents

Masar Badil in São Paulo: Defiance, Organizing, and Critical Reflection - The upcoming Masar Badil conference in São Paulo (March 28–31, 2026) stands as a deliberate and audacious escalation in the Palestinian diaspora’s politica...
Grist

What’s behind your eye-popping power bill? We broke it down, region by region. - The culprit depends on where you live — but it’s probably not data centers (yet).
High Country News

‘Rural areas are very powerful — and often underestimated’ - #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region. The post ‘Rural areas are very powerful — and often underestimated’ app...
jobsanger

The Greatest Rejection Of Presidential Economic Performance Since Herbert Hoover -
World Socialist Web Site

ICE targets Detroit - ICE activity is escalating sharply across the Detroit metropolitan area, marking a new stage in the Trump administration’s nationwide rampage against democ...
Informed Comment

With its Togg EV, Turkiye emerges as 4th Biggest European Electric Car Market - 44% of the new car market in Turkiye is now battery electric or plug-in hybrid! That is more than California
Brad Blog

'SAVE America Act' Designed to Save GOP, Disenfranchise Voters, Undermine Democracy: 'BradCast' 2/17/2026 - Today on The BradCast: The critical 2026 midterm elections are now officially underway, with early voting having begun in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texa...
Alternet

Jewish conservatives 'gobsmacked' as MAGA faces 'reckoning' over antisemitism - Despite Carrie Prejean Boller getting booted from President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, Religion News reporter Mark Silk says, in a piec...
Claytoonz

Jesse Jackson - 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...
Portside

Kaiser Strike Hits Fourth Week As 31,000 Workers Demand Higher Pay and Better Staffing - Kaiser Strike Hits Fourth Week As 31,000 Workers Demand Higher Pay and Better Staffing Greg Tue, 02/17/2026 - 21:01
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump administration sued over removing Stonewall Pride flag' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Trump administration sued over removing Stonewall Pride flag *- *As well it should. Such mean-spirited garbage. * * Here is the backstory* - *Trump adm...
The NM Political Report

Records show Gary King, Deb Haaland used Epstein-linked jet during 2014 campaign - In the final days of their 2014 campaign for governor and lieutenant governor, Gary King and Deb Haaland announced that their campaign would return more...
Antiwar.com

Senator Tom Cotton’s Ode to US Nuclear Weapons - Hawkish Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) has never been a big fan of arms control agreements. His new op-ed in the Wall Street Journal confirms that his attitude...
Texas Standard

Judge declares mistrial in Prairieland ICE shooting trial over lawyer’s ‘politically charged’ shirt - The shirt, which appeared to show civil rights protestors, led Judge Mark Pittman to halt jury selection.
Church and State

The most GOP conspicuous loss? Integrity! - What I miss finding in the avalanche of Trump and GOP’s misbehaviours is the total absence of truth-telling on any issue they treat.
Angry Bear

Short and medium term inflation, interest rates, and the overstretched consumer - The deluge of data resumes tomorrow with housing permits and starts, industrial production, and durable goods orders. In the meantime, let me make a few ...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
NORML

Federal Survey Data: Cannabis Use by Young People Continues Decades-Long Decline - [image: Marijuana and Youth Use][image: Marijuana and Youth Use]"These findings ought to reassure lawmakers that cannabis access can be legally regulated...
Texas Observer

The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas - On a warm Saturday afternoon in February, a small group of 10 people walked through a metal gate, propped open with a black trash can, and into a beige, ...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #15: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Olympics Scandals, and Complaints Dept (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Caitlin is back for another wacky and wild ride
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2026 - Censored Press News Project Censored’s fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention. Sheal...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Heritage Foundation Drove Trump’s 2025 Higher-Ed Agenda. What’s Its Plan for 2026? By Rick Seltzer | The Chronicle of Higher Education | Feb. 13, 2026 - *Friends,* *In a revealing interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education, reporter Rick Seltzer probes the next phase of the Heritage Foundation’s high...
Rewire

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Revealed About Abortion Access—Research - A recent peer-reviewed study focusing on Latina women in North Carolina found that people were still able to get abortion care, despite pre-*Dobbs v. Jac...
The Progressive Wing

2/17-18 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, etc. in the comments.
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Islam - I have watched several of this man's videos. He is a Nigerian, currently living in London. Most of his videos deal with the problems of black Africa, bu...
Earth 911

Trump Administration Dismantles Federal Climate Regulations - On February 12, 2026, the Trump administration officially repealed the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment... The post Trump Administrati...
Workers World

Bigoted gov’t takes pride flag down at Stonewall Park; mass protest raises it back up - [image: Bigoted gov’t takes pride flag down at Stonewall Park; mass protest raises it back up] New York City In the wee hours of the morning on Feb. 10, hi...
The AltWorld

Nobody Voted For This America… So How Did It Happen? - Nobody Voted For This America… So How Did It Happen? The post Nobody Voted For This America… So How Did It Happen? appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Progressive.org

The Trump Center for Performative Narcissism - I’m mourning what the Kennedy Center was, and what it is becoming.
Bracing Views

America Hasn’t Paid Attention to Ike’s Warning - A Huge Military-Industrial Complex Threatens Our Rights, Our Liberties, Our Democracy BILL ASTORE FEB 12, 2026 Hello Everyone: here’s an interview I did wi...
The Grayzone

Keir Starmer-tied think tank paid PR firm to target The Grayzone - A shadowy think tank run by British PM Keir Starmer’s top strategist has been exposed for paying a PR firm to spy on journalists including me and the out...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
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...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Mayor Omar Ochoa pay tribute to David Chavana, the “runner, icon, and the heart behind the Valley’s largest race, the Edinburg All-America City David Chavana 10K Run/Walk” - Graciela Moreno Chavana on Tuesday, February 3, 2026 was presented a framed House of Representatives Memorial Resolution – along with a Texas State Flag fl...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BIG FASH AND SMALL VICTORIES EDITION. - *Eatin' up suckers as if I was Pac-Man.* Even though they lie like they breathe and are still fucking shit up in Minneapolis, the administration’s announ...
DeSmogBlog

Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal - In a massive blow to the handful of scientists and academics who still dispute widely-accepted climate science, the Trump administration discarded a sign...
The Militant

SWP call to action: US hands off Cuba! End Washington’s economic blockade! - A Call to Action by the Socialist Workers Party The following statement was released February 7, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist ...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
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...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/13/2026 - 06:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher - [image: patent illustration of person launcher]Looks fun! I'll go second.
Dissent Magazine

Philanthropy for Radicals - The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and t...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got That Swing: The Outlook for Electoral Accountability in 2026 - Midterm elections often act as a brake on presidential power, but extreme partisan polarization calls into question whether the 2026 midterm will serve i...
LareDOS

Ice melts. - Eventually.
Environment Texas

A little good news: Study shows declining PFAS levels in Great Lakes fish - When manufacturers stopped using some ‘forever chemicals’, the concentration of those chemicals in fish dropped faster than expected. The post A little g...
Krebs on Security

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P - For the past week, the massive "Internet of Things" (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting the The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentral...
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 ...
Earthworks

News to Know: We Caught #MethanePollution From 🛰️ Space. Here’s Why It Matters - Read the Financial Times story here: Big US gas producers are methane super emitters, environmental groups’ data shows. For 10 … The post News to Know: ...
Land Destroyer

US Consolidates Control Over Proxies Amid War on Multipolarism - *February 2, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Behind the political theater that is the “US-European split,” exists an aggressive campaign of US consolidation...
Alas, a Blog

The Obsession - This cartoon is by me and frequent collaborator Nadine Scholtes. In December 2025, Representative Sarah McBride – who is herself trans – commented about he...
MintPress News

The US Military Aided Mass Child Rape in Afghanistan. Now Its Soldiers Are Committing This Crime At Fort Bragg - There is an epidemic of child sex crimes in and around Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Since 2021, and the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, dozens of el...
Democracy Chronicles

State of Power: Marx, Democracy, and the ICE Crisis in Minneapolis - In the early weeks of 2026, the streets of Minneapolis became unexpectedly dark. What began as an immigration enforcement regime has morphed into a nationa...
Seeing the Forest

Crypto Crash – The Serious Money Is Betting Trump Will Fail - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy The crypto crash means the “serious money people” are betting that Tr...
Idavox

Chip Berlet (1949-2026) - When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one... The post Chip Berlet (1949-2026) appeared first on Idavox.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
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...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
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. —...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
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...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
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...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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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Sunday, October 28, 2007

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