Brains and Eggs: Spooo-ooky Toons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Masked Men, Revoked Visas, Vanishing Rights: A Stark Warning by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Masked Men, Revoked Visas, Vanishing Rights: A Stark Warning* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *On May 21, 2025, a fiery exchange between Rep. Pramila J...
memeorandum

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That 'Disparage' Americans. Here's What They Flagged. (New York Times) - New York Times: *Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here's What They Flagged.* — Descriptions and displays at scor...
Daily Dot

“A true historical landmark”: People are making tribute videos at the Target where a woman shoplifted for 7 hours - [image: target stealing for 7 hours] TikTokers are making video tributes to a woman who allegedly shoplifted at a Target for seven hours straight after f...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Once again.
Raw Story

Trump’s ‘feral cunning’ kicking in — because he knows he’s in danger: Ex-GOP strategist - Former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson couldn't help but notice that President Donald Trump is acting differently lately...
Al Jazeera English

Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of ‘treason’ over 2016 election claims - The president repeated unsubstantiated claims that investigations into Russian election interference were 'seditious'.
Mediagazer

Trump says he anticipates receiving $20M in ads and PSAs from Skydance, bringing the cost of the 60 Minutes settlement to $36M (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal) - Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal: *Trump says he anticipates receiving $20M in ads and PSAs from Skydance, bringing the cost of the 60 Minutes settlement ...
Houston Public Media

Ban or regulate THC in Texas? State lawmakers still can’t agree on what’s next - After an attempt to ban THC was vetoed by Gov. Greg Abbott last month, the Texas Senate has revived similar legislation in the state's current special sess...
Political Wire

Alina Habba Ousted as U.S. Attorney - “New Jersey’s federal judges declined Tuesday to appoint Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in the state, to continue serving in ...
Mother Jones

Did Christian Nationalist Leaders Prompt Mike Johnson’s Epstein Flip-Flop? - On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a departure from his previous calls for transparency, announced that he would not ask for a vote on whether the ...
Daily Howler

TUESDAY: Sommers says the magic word! - *TUESDAY, JULY 22, 2025* *Something we've been withholding:* Is it possible that President Trump is serious? Is it possible that he's serious about pur...
Second Nexus

Eagle-Eyed 'Severance' Fans Spot Striking Costume Similarities To 'The Office'—And People Are Shook - Are the characters from *Severance *getting fashion advice from *The Office* ? According to some social media sleuths, the costumes from the Apple TV ser...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Atlanta reporter detained by Ice ‘punished for his journalism’, rights groups say - Mario Guevera, who was arrested while covering a ‘No Kings’ protest, remains detained after charges dropped Mario Guevara, a Salvadoran journalist impris...
Mediaite

Trump Teases Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Reporter Boyfriend for Pitching Him on Her Bill - "How did you find that out?” Trump joked as others in the room made comments as well. “That's right. There's a leaker, there's a leaker,” The post Trump ...
NPR's Health Shots

People who have lost their voices are using AI technology to regain them - AI-generated speech can be heard in customer service and media. Now some patients who lost the ability to talk due to cancer or other disease are using AI ...
Common Dreams

Greenpeace Calls for Drastic Cut in Plastic Production as New Report Reveals Millions at Risk of Toxic Air Pollution Exposure - A new Greenpeace International report released today reveals that over 50 million people in 11 countries [1] are at risk of exposure to hazardous air pol...
Discourse

This Hunter Biden Fella Makes Some Good Points - Finally, a Biden with some smart ideas!
The Verge

Democrats are desperately trying to revive the click-to-cancel rule - Democratic lawmakers are taking multiple routes to try to revive the Federal Trade Commission's "click-to-cancel" rule after an appeals court blocked it on...
Courthouse News

Vermont engineer revives pay phones for free calls in areas with poor cell service - He plans to continue covering the costs associated with each phone, but noted that may change as the project scales.
The Hill

Pelosi hammers Johnson for blocking summer votes on Epstein files - Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Speaker Emerita, castigated Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday for adjourning the House early to avoid holding a vot...
Slate

Amazon’s Hit Summer Romance Boasts One of the Most Annoying Love Triangles of All Time - The Summer I Turned Pretty is just the latest offender in a long list of aggravating on-screen romantic rivalries.
Popular Resistance

8,000 Indiana Kroger Workers Vote Down Contract A Second Time - Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 700 members across Indiana voted on July 10 and 11 to reject a tentative agreement covering 8,000 Kroger retail ...
Deadline Politics

FCC Chair Wades Into Late-Night Saga: “The Left Is Acting Like They’re Losing A Loyal DNC Spokesperson” - Brendan Carr, chair of President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, is speaking out about CBS’ cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Co...
Progressive Army

IATA – MAILS CON DOMINIO FRAUDULENTO – - Estimados socios buenas tardes: Según nos informa IATA se están enviando mails desde este dominio: IATA Management “jerry@prairiegardensassistedliving.co...
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS Heart has officially logged 500 robot-assisted surgeries - STHS Heart celebrates 500th robotic surgery milestone. The robotic surgery program offers patients minimally invasive surgical options. The post STHS Hea...
The Week

Not just a number: how aging rates vary by country - Inequality is a key factor
OpEd News

No health without rights, says Shobha Shukla SDG-3 Lead Discussant at UN meet - Please consider the below article based on intervention made in UN HQ at intergovernmental meet to review SDG-3 (health and wellbeing) by Shobha Shukla, wh...
Salon.com

Ozzy Osbourne dies mere weeks after farewell concert - The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee was instrumental in the creation of heavy metal
San Antonio Current

The top tourist attractions for Texan is ... SeaWorld San Antonio? - SeaWorld San Antonio is the most searched for in-state attraction by Texans looking to get away, according to a new study by ticket-sales website SeatPick...
WhoWhatWhy

The Gabbard Hoax Is a Microcosm of Trumpism - [image: Tulsi Gabbard, sworn in, DNI] Anybody who makes the ridiculous claim that is a "hoax" to tell the American people that Russia tried to help Donald ...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Grist

The science behind the heat dome — ‘a mosh pit’ of molecules - A mass of dangerous heat and humidity is spreading across the US. What exactly is it?
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
CultureMap Houston

Texas bootmaker Tecovas and Chili's team up for new 'booth boots' - Houstonians could buy a lot of Southwestern Eggrolls and Crispy Chicken Crispers at Chili’s Grill & Bar for the price of a pair of Tecovas boots, but appar...
American Prospect

Trump Makes His Move at the NLRB - Today on TAP: His new nominees come from the management side or—worse—are suffused with management’s ethos.
slacktivist

John MacArthur, dead fundamentalist - "Evangelicals" and "fundamentalists" did not used to be the same thing.
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: Nuclear Missile Diplomacy - Europe and the United States have adopted a path of austerity and war. That is their promise to the world for the period ahead. By Vijay Prashad Tricontine...
ProPublica

The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs. - by Abe Streep ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing arou...
NORML

DEA Veteran Confirmed to Lead Agency - [image: DEA seal over a US flag with cannabis leaves][image: DEA seal over a US flag with cannabis leaves]Throughout his tenure at the DEA and in law enf...
Reform Austin

Labor Department Targets Major Rollback of Worker Protections Across Industries - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The U.S. Department of Labor has unveiled a sweeping proposal to repeal or revise more than 60 ...
El Paso Matters

First IDEA Public Schools graduating class in El Paso loses over half its students since eighth grade - IDEA, a public charter school network, enrolled 256 eighth-graders in El Paso four years ago – but only 124 were enrolled in the graduating class in May...
The AltWorld

Saving the humanitarian paradigm does not save Palestinians from Israeli colonialism - Earlier this month, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres outlined four options that the UN Relief and Works Agency for […] The post Saving the humanitar...
Futurism

Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of "Ethical AI" Startup Anthropic Saying It's Okay to Benefit Dictators - In the so-called "constitution" for its chatbot Claude, AI company Anthropic claims that it's committed to principles based on the Universal Declaration ...
Techdirt.

National Guard Troops Aren’t Thrilled About Being Part Of Trump’s Performative War On Protesters - Trump and his loyalists crave actual martial law. DHS head Kristi Noem has — out loud! — threatened to “liberate” Californians from the democracy they curr...
The Daily Poster

AIPAC-Funded Lawmakers Push For Millions In Spending On Genocide Tech - The latest military spending bill fulfills an AIPAC-curated wishlist and sets the stage for a defense industry feeding frenzy.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Names New State Leadership - The Libertarian Party of Michigan convened in Port Huron over the weekend for its annual state convention, where delegates selected new leadership and he...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Poison Gas - Before our current age of nuclear war anxiety, there was widespread concern about an earlier terrifying weapon of mass destruction: poison gas. I will desc...
Mondoweiss

How one Israeli company controls – and cuts off – Palestinians’ access to water in the West Bank - [image: Palestinians fill plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a water tank in the West Bank village of Um al-Khair south of Hebron, Aug...
San Antonio Report

To offset potential losses, San Antonio seeks Army job relocations from Alabama, Maryland - Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones gave Army leaders a list of missions that are "ripe for relocation" to make up for jobs moving out of San Antonio. ------------------...
The Greanville Post

6 months of the Trump administration: The stench of fascism and political crisis - PATRICK MARTIN—Trump only appears “strong” in comparison to the political eunuchs in the Democratic Party, whose cowardice enrages those who wish to fight ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 22, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Yet another heat dome broils much of the U.S., so hot ev...
Axios

Microsoft hack risk spreads as cybercriminals and nation-states pile in - A critical flaw in a major Microsoft document storage tool is hitting the organizations least able to defend themselves, security researchers and inciden...
Election Law Blog

“Miami postponed its 2025 elections. A judge says it’s illegal. Why did the city do it?” - Washington Post: A circuit court judge ruled Monday that a controversial decision by Miami commissioners in June to postpone the city’s November electio...
Sludge

While They’re Losing the Public, Democrats Are Winning on K Street - The DCCC raised record levels of lobbyist cash in the first half of the year, per new disclosure.
The NM Political Report

Sen. Luján secures nearly $190 Million for New Mexico public safety, military infrastructure - [image: U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media, delivered a Senate floor speech Wedn...
First Draft

Ryne Hancock: Yes, You’re Racist - Ryne is back.
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Dara O'Briain - These days it's sometimes comedians who feel most free to speak the truth. Irish comedian Dara O'Briain has plenty of truth to offer here.
Alternet

'A lot of money': Analysis details how Trump’s 'dumb ideas' will cost taxpayers a fortune - Columnist Bill Press tells the Hill he misses the days when Democrats and Republicans were party adversaries, but not enemies. Those were the days when a...
Vox

How Trump is making America hungrier - One of the most far-reaching cuts to federal programs in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is a provision that will largely shift the cost of ...
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Among the Tragically Missing… - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Amo...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
The Root

Hunter Biden Has All the Smoke for George Clooney, Other Dems Who Turned on Joe Biden - Hunter is regarded as somewhat of a problem child in the Democratic party, but when it comes to defending his dad, he won't hold back! Read more...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Guess the Dallas Maverick - Wrong answers only: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Fleming (@chrisflemingfleming) The post Guess the Dallas Maverick appeared first o...
Dissident Voice

Restauranting in DC - Finishing Andy Shalal’s autobiographical book A Seat at the Table (OR Books, 2025), I said to myself, “This fellow tells a great story.” I should have sa...
Dorf on Law

With the Income Tax Under Sustained Attack, Professor Rebecca Morrow's Insights Are Especially Welcome - Almost every year, I contribute an essay to the tax law sub-site of *Jotwell - The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)*, which is edited at the University o...
Bonddad

Updating transport and consumer spending since Tariff-palooza! - - *by New Deal democrat* New economic data will resume tomorrow. Since I haven’t updated the impact of Tariff-palooza! on transport and spending in ...
Angry Bear

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants. - Posted commentary by Daniel Becker on Facebook “For those of you who think your taxes are paying for the undocumented immigrant. Actually, they are payin...
Undernews

What the big bad bill will really cost - *NBC News - *President Donald Trump’s "big beautiful bill” will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade, according to a report f...
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Texas agriculture commissioner outlines aid for flood-hit rural communities - The Texas Department of Agriculture is deploying resources to help farmers and ranchers recover from the Hill Country floods.
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 185: “Los Angeles Times, R.I.P.” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Things get personal on today’s “The TMI Show” with hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan, diving into what looks lik...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court case that incited violence - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of ...
Rewire

Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increased After State Bans, Researchers Find - The *Dobbs* ruling "slowed people down, but it hasn’t decreased their determination to get that care." The post Travel Time, Costs for Abortions Increase...
Democracy Now!

"Life After": Film Exposes How Medicaid Cuts, Assisted Dying Laws May Bring Disabled to Early Graves - As the federal government begins to implement some $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts called for in President Trump’s budget bill passed by the Republican-led Co...
Glasstire

We Will Protest As Long As We Carry Breath: An Interview with Gregg Deal - “We will protest as long as we carry breath.” This powerful declaration closes artist Gregg Deal’s performance film The Last American Indian on Earth, e...
Democracy Chronicles

On The Basic Problem of US Democracy - We are a tired and busy population trying to understand the news and what’s happening our world through the prism of our own understanding and bespoken rea...
ArcaMax

Empire Falls: Trump Revs Up the Reign of Terror, and It's Working - "Fear is the tool of the tyrant," wrote suddenly former Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey to her colleagues after she was abruptly fired by Attorney Ge...
Space City Weather

Has it been a fairly mild summer in Houston? The answer may surprise you. - In brief: After Houston’s hottest summer day so far, more heat is likely to persist today through Thursday. A tropical disturbance (that will not develop) ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Things We Must Never Dare Say - It has come to this. There are differences. The Third Reich was specifically rounding up Jews, while the Trump administration continues to say it is only a...
Earth 911

7 Seemingly Harmless Household Habits Wrecking the Environment - You might think your daily home habits are harmless, but some quietly contribute to environmental... The post 7 Seemingly Harmless Household Habits Wreck...
The Smirking Chimp

So Much for Socialism -
DeSmogBlog

Extreme Weather Events are the New Frontline of Online Climate Denial – Report - Climate science deniers are flooding social media with false claims during extreme weather events, drowning out reliable information and putting lives at...
Skeptophilia

Weathering the storm - Something that really grinds my gears is how quick people can be to trumpet their own ignorance, seemingly with pride. I recall being in a school board b...
Off The Kuff

Start of the special session flooding roundup - Just a reminder of why we’re supposedly here, the non-THC reason. Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr Co...
Scheerpost.com

Pushing Military Spending and Neoliberal Austerity, French PM Emulates Trump - Both the left and the far right in France see the government budget plan as something of a class war budget.
High Country News

In Wyoming, forestry work is female - [image: Monica Elliot, crew lead of the Friends of the Bridger-Teton’s Forest Corps, chainsaws a downed tree.] In the wake of DOGE cuts, an all-female ‘Fo...
Crooked Timber

The Arguments for More (or Fewer) People - The New York Times recently published a letter from me responding to a guest essay (op-ed) by Michael Geruso and Dean Spears, with whom I’ve been engaging ...
Counterpunch

To Resist Injustice in Gaza and the Wider World - Egyptian-born Omar El Akkad had studied in the United States and been 10 years a journalist when, in the summer of 2021, he became an American citizen. C...
jobsanger

"Repeal" Should Be The Core Message For Democrats In 2026 -
World Socialist Web Site

After massacring Gaza aid seekers, Israel escalates bloodshed with assault on Deir al-Balah - Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that at least 130 Palestinians were killed Monday and over 1,000 wounded across Gaza, as Israeli troops assaulted the city ...
Informed Comment

25 Nations Toothlessly Demand Israel end Gaza War Now: Suffering of Civilians has Reached “New Depths” - The foreign ministers of 25 nations, including much of Europe along with Japan, Canada and Australia, have issued a Joint Statement demanding that the Isra...
Trivial Knot

Critical thinking as community value - Last month, I explored the idea that empiricism and critical thinking are (or should be) core values in social justice. On the other hand… how good of an i...
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Jul 23–29, 2025 - This Week in People’s History, Jul 23–29, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 07/21/2025 - 21:02
Debunking Christianity

This Blog Is Under Construction - There are a few things I want to change. Bear with me. Comment on anything interesting below. I value everyone's input.
Workers World

Activists protest New York Times editor for complicity in genocide of Palestinians - [image: Activists protest New York Times editor for complicity in genocide of Palestinians] By Penny Freedom New York City In the early evening of July 17,...
Claytoonz

Obama Treason - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Antiwar.com

NATO’s Proxy War against Russia Becomes Increasingly Reckless - The strategy that the United States and its European allies have adopted to use Ukraine as their military proxy in a war to weaken Russia has always involv...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Hot Mess Nancy Mace makes a fool of herself (again)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Nancy Mace tries another social media stunt and makes a fool of herself again. *Nancy Mace’s epic meme fail on the viral Coldplay cheating moment has the ...
The Conversation

Emil Bove’s appeals court nomination echoes earlier controversies, but with a key difference - Contested nominations to the federal courts often involve ideological concerns. But a scholar of the courts says the contentious nomination of a former law...
Environment Texas

Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beach closures and contaminated water before you swim - 5 essential steps to protect your family from unsafe water at Texas beaches this summer The post Is your favorite Texas beach safe? How to check for beac...
Progressive.org

Immigration Spying Has an Inglorious Past - Today's surveillance of immigrants in the United States has roots in nineteenth-century discriminatory policies.
Church and State

The Epstein Affair won’t ice Trump – his policy failures will: Trump’s support on issues weakening - For 10 years, the Teflon Don Trump has shrugged off scandal, fraud, felonies, cons, grift, sexual assault, and poor grammar.
Ian Welsh

The Serious Starvation Deaths Are About To Begin In Gaza - I’ll keep this one brief. Almost no food or water has gone into Gaza for months. What I’m seeing is that it’s hit the crisis point. I’d expect a few hundre...
Crooked Media

No Strings Attached - The post No Strings Attached appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earthworks

Labor Unions and Human Rights Defenders Demand Respect for Xinka People’s Right to Say “No” to Escobal Mine - 133 civil society organizations and Canadian coalitions are standing in solidarity with the Xinka People. The post Labor Unions and Human Rights Defender...
Ballot Access News

Canadian Electoral Reform Organization Causes 128 Candidates to File for House of Commons Special Election, as a Protest - Canada is holding a special election on August 18 to fill a vacancy in the House of Commons, in the Battle River-Crowfoot district in Alberta. Canadian bal...
The Progressive Wing

7/21-7/27 News Updates and Open Thread - Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month....
MintPress News

Scottish Zionism’s Inner Circle: The Caledonian Cousinhood That Bankrolls Occupation and Genocide - A century-old web of intermarried families has bankrolled Israel’s most powerful support network in Scotland. This is the untold story of the Caledonian ...
Capital & Main

On the Navajo Nation, the List of Mystery Wells Continues to Grow - Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up. The post On the Navaj...
Project Censored

Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance - In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’...
Wolf Street

Where Americans Spend their Trillions a Year on Goods and How that Changed Over Time - Where they spend has changed dramatically, with only two winners that gained share among the retailer categories. The rest lost share, some are getting wip...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Fix Targets Attacks on SharePoint Zero-Day - On Sunday, July 20, Microsoft Corp. issued an emergency security update for a vulnerability in SharePoint Server that is actively being exploited to compro...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer - As the July sun scorches Trump's fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina's daily blogging content about the Pork Rei...
See You In 2020

Zionism’s attack dogs are working to cancel Zohran, & the danger is that he’ll respond by giving up BDS - *This is from the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why The Pro-Palestine Movement Failed To Stop A Holocaust, & How I...
Liberation News

Pittsburgh Public Schools board vote starts mass school closure process - The Board votes puts 12 schools on the chopping block, while spending 22% of budget on charter schools.
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Goes On and On - Neocons and Weapons Makers Are Happy BILL ASTORE JUL 19, 2025 Roughly three and a half years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 202...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Convergence: Fascism as Capitalist Consolidation - Moments like Paramount's bribing of Trump and firing of Colbert reveal the true nature of our moment, and we cannot afford to look away.
alicublog

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION. - *I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.* I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* free...
The Militant

2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide - MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stock...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Texas Monthly

First Hit by a Tornado, Then by the Flood: “I Feel Like Our Family Is Cursed” - For a Central Texas family, two natural disasters nearly three decades apart have destroyed homes, taken loved ones, and turned life into a bad dream.
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Ecosophia

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Reading the Pictures

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Land Destroyer

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