Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies (first edition)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Vox

Obsessing about being a good person can backfire. There’s a better way. - Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the ide...
naked capitalism

Links 9/14/2025 -
Political Wire

Unity Is Not Trump’s Mission - Peter Baker: “Mr. Trump has long made clear that coming together is not the mission of his presidency. In an era of deep polarization in American society, ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Alternative Facts, Outsourced Thinking - I was hoping to do another day of humor while we wait for a few facts to emerge, but we don’t seem to be waiting for facts, so here we are. One Sunday stri...
Mediagazer

A look at the networks, studios, executives, and libraries of Paramount and WBD amid merger talk, and similarities with Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox (Deadline) - Deadline: *A look at the networks, studios, executives, and libraries of Paramount and WBD amid merger talk, and similarities with Disney's acquisition o...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘He’s way better than Mayweather’: Crawford hailed by Canelo after signature win - - Crawford says Vegas victory proves his all-time greatness - Nebraska star defies doubters after historic triumph After scali...
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: What Unites Us -
Al Jazeera English

Leaders gather for Arab-Islamic summit in Qatar after Israel’s Doha attack - Qatar seeks a collective response to Israel, which has attacked several other countries as it pummels Gaza.
memeorandum

On Trump's hand, it's not just the bruise. It's the (apparent) coverup. (Maura Judkis/Washington Post) - Maura Judkis / Washington Post: *On Trump's hand, it's not just the bruise. It's the (apparent) coverup.* — A makeup artist who worked on the 2024 ‘Th...
Off The Kuff

A brief note about another poll - From Texas Public Opinion Research: Hey y’all, welcome back! In today’s TPOR installment, we’re diving into the findings from our latest poll on the 2026 S...
Salon.com

Why your favorite Etsy treasures could soon cost more — or go away entirely - Women who turned to Etsy to build small businesses face the prospect of closing or downsizing because of tariffs
The Hill

Redistricting: Here are the states likely to come next after Missouri - Missouri Republicans advanced a new set of congressional lines this month that look to add one pickup opportunity for them in the House ahead of 2026, maki...
Daily Dot

“I would refuse to pay the bill”: Customer says they were charged a “quiet time” fee at a restaurant - [image: quiet time surcharge on restaurant bill] A Redditor claimed they were charged a new kind of fee while dining at a nearly empty restaurant. The ch...
Scheerpost.com

Bob’s Newswire: September 11, 2025 - *In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to p...
Eschaton

Morning - Sunday funday.
Mother Jones

The Data Center Building Boom Is Running Into Local Resistance - This story was originally published by the High Country News in partnership with the Puente News Collaborative and is reproduced here as part of the Climat...
San Antonio Report

Northside ISD’s police force struggles with state’s armed guard mandate 2 years later - Northside ISD added 20 school officer positions after the school shooting in Uvalde. They still haven't been able to fill them. ---------------------------...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Sept. 14, 2025 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Raw Story

The suspect is not the stuff of rabid MAGA dreams. Thank God for that - This cannot be what President Donald Trump had in mind. Authorities made an arrest in connection with the heinous assassination of conservative activist ...
Counterpunch

Stunning New Film Exposes “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” - Activists tend to see the climate crisis and US militarism as two separate issues. However, the hard-hitting documentary Earth’s Greatest Enemy persuasiv...
See You In 2020

The USA’s terror campaign against its own people, & the anarcho-Nazi ideology that it’s using for this - The U.S. ruling class is working to normalize the kinds of violent chaos that we’ve recently been seeing, and Ukraine’s fascist movement provides the mo...
The Week

Air strikes in the Caribbean: Trump’s murky narco-war - Drug cartels ‘don’t follow Marquess of Queensberry Rules’, but US military air strikes on speedboats rely on strained interpretation of ‘invasion’
jobsanger

Members Of Both Parties Have A More Negative View Of The Other Than In The Past -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1439: A Capital Ship on an Ocean Trip - Episode: 1439 A capital ship on an ocean trip: a reflection on battleships. Today, let’s talk about battleships.
Informed Comment

Scientists Prove Justinian’s Plague, which Continued through the Rise of Islam, was Caused by Y. Pestis - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place (541–750 CE) in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neigh...
The Root

Draya Michele and Boyfriend Jalen Green Have a Heated Blowout in the Street During NYFW — and It Was Almost Even Worse - Draya Michele and Jalen Green late night shouting match was caught on camera and has created some online chatter. Read more...
Mediaite

Oregon Football Coach Mourns Death of Fan Charlie Kirk: ‘That Sort of Evil Should Never Exist In Our Country’ - Oregon head coach Dan Lanning mourned the death of Ducks fan Charlie Kirk just days after the conservative activist was murdered. The post Oregon Footbal...
The Verge

Liam Hemsworth is Geralt in the first Witcher season 4 trailer - It’s been a few years since Netflix confirmed that Liam Hemsworth would be taking over as Geralt of Rivia in the live-action Witcher series. And while we c...
Popular Resistance

Troops Out Of Our Cities! ICE Out Of Our Communities! - There is a historical and social context that must ground our understanding of the policy formations emanating from the Trump administration. And what is...
Courthouse News

Judge extends temporary measures protecting Guatemalan children from deportation - The ruling follows a rushed Labor Day operation in which dozens of Guatemalan minors were slated for deportation before advocates intervened, arguing the c...
The Greanville Post

Russian Drones Allegedly Swarm Poland in Major Provocation…But Whose? - SIMPLICIUS—The incident was obviously very strange because, while a few errant Russian drones had maybe fallen over other countries here and there—after li...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
Axios

Sources: Kirk suspect's transgender roommate "aghast," may be key to motive - Authorities are investigating whether Tyler Robinson, suspected of killing Charlie Kirk, believed Kirk's views on gender identity were "hateful" to people...
Dissident Voice

New Pentagon Plan Prioritizes Western Hemisphere and the Homeland Over China - A draft of the latest National Defense Strategy (NDS) was leaked to Politico (09/5/2025). If implemented, the plan proposes pivoting away from China and ...
OpEd News

Call for stronger response in Asia Pacific that is home to half of global AMR burden - Please consider the below article based on insights from several experts and survivors dedicated to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which is making in...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: September 7th – 13th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we learned about how the White House supposedly blocked Walmart from buying TikTok, and we asked why amidst all the fear ...
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: ##FacialRecognitionFallout - [image: facial recognition, surveillance] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: ##FacialRecognitionFallout or...
Alternet

How Christianity’s 'kook' fringe went mainstream in Trump's MAGA world - The far-right National Conservatism Conference used to be an event that many traditional Goldwater and McCain conservatives made a point of avoiding. But...
First Draft

Caturday: I Will Help - Meow from Rey.
Undernews

Another fired for saying something true about Kirk - *Washington Post - * Within 24 hours of Charlie Kirk’s killing, an assistant dean at a Tennessee college, a communications staffer for an NFL team, a Ne...
Futurism

Woman Sends Money to "Stranded Astronaut" So He Can "Buy Oxygen" - The sky's the limit for how outrageously implausible some scams can get. Actually, try beyond the atmosphere. An elderly woman in Japan sent thousands of...
Deadline Politics

Bill Maher Denounces People Who “Mocked” Or “Justified” Charlie Kirk’s Assassination: “Very Ugly Week In America With Violence Of All Kinds” - Bill Maher began his monologue on Real Time with Bill Maher by denouncing a “very ugly week in America” following the assassination of far-right political ...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
CultureMap Houston

10 Houston billionaires rank among America's richest and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with the richest Houstonians of them all. Plus, a local billionaire i...
Daily Howler

THERE "THEY" GO AGAIN: We're all in this flailing nation together! - *SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2025* *Jesse Watters returns:* Yesterday, at 5 p.m., Jesse Watters was back on *The Five.* In the broadest sense, he made the sa...
Reform Austin

Houston Becomes The Poorest Large City In The United States - According to 2024 U.S. Census Bureau data released on Thursday, Houston now holds the highest poverty rate among the 10 most-populous cities in the Unite...
San Antonio Current

Texas A&M professor fired after viral video disputes termination - [image: The Academic Building at Texas A&M University in College Station is seen on Sept. 9, 2025.] An attorney for Melissa McCoul, seen in a video clashi...
Claytoonz

Empathy - 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...
Glasstire

Mothering in Art: A Study in Contrasts & Care - Moms have been prominent in San Antonio art lately. Several recent exhibitions have centered the combined issues of motherhood and artmaking, illuminatin...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 8 - 12 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. While job growth has almost completely stalled, and inflation shows sig...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Produce For The People - A radical kind of grocery store gains traction, states protect your COVID vaccine, and health care mergers get put under the microscope.
Grist

California’s first solar-covered canal is now fully online - The 1.6-megawatt pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.
Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani, and a 100-year-old history of anti-Zionism in New York City - [image: Zohran Mamdani seen on stage at a campaign event. (Photo: Zohran Mamdani campaign)]In taking a stance against Israels' genocide in Gaza and its Zio...
World Socialist Web Site

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for Brazil coup attempt - The fascist offensive in Brazil is deeply linked to similar political processes developing in all parts of the world – from Latin America to Europe, but ab...
ArcaMax

Why Americans Love Political Violence - "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," Voltaire said. But not really. Stephen G. Tallentyre wrote it in his 1...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts.
Angry Bear

Ultra-processed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health - Briefly . . .Ultraprocessed Foods and Cardiometabolic Health. Characterizing foods people are eating today . . . people in the US aged 1 year or older ob...
Bracing Views

The End Game for Gaza - Using Old Tools of War BILL ASTORE SEP 12, 2025 I’ve taught military history “from Plato to Nato,” as we used to joke, but my expertise focused on technolo...
NPR's Health Shots

Trying to get a COVID vaccine right now? Here's what to know - If you're not over 65 or have certain risk factors, it might be hard to get one but not necessarily impossible. Here's what to know about the confusing and...
Skeptophilia

Life during chaos - If there's one place and historical period I could choose to know more about, it would be England during, and immediately following, the withdrawal of th...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 13 September 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Sometimes cats just go completely bonkers. Nice trick, wrong place for it...
American Prospect

Press Freedoms Protected From ICE Assaults in Los Angeles - A federal judge orders Department of Homeland Security officers to stop violent activity against reporters and peaceful protesters.
ProPublica

The H-2A Visa Trap - by Max Blau, ProPublica, and Zaydee Sanchez for ProPublica, illustrations by Dadu Shin for ProPublica This story contains descriptions of sexual assault...
Crooked Media

Political Violence Bad - The post Political Violence Bad appeared first on Crooked Media.
Wolf Street

Money-Market Funds & CDs: Americans Grow their Huge Piles of Interest-Earning Cash Further despite Lower Yields - Household money-market funds surged, large CDs also surged. But small CDs are the hot money; they flee when yields drop.
TalkLeft

Bad Bunny and Open Thread - Bad Bunny, who is finishing up a two month residency in Puerto Rico where he sold out 30 shows, is about to embark on a world tour of Latin America, Eur...
The NM Political Report

Poll shows Haaland with a commanding lead in Dem race for gov - This column is a part of New Mexico Political Report‘s analysis and commentary series. New Mexico’s 32nd governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, still has anot...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk assassination proves how spiritually rotten Nancy Mace's soul is - Usually when I wrote a post about the exploits of someone who wants to eliminate our equality, some of y'all say "we're not surprised " when you read it. H...
Ballot Access News

Lawsuit Filed Against New Missouri U.S. House District Boundaries, Even Before Governor Has Signed the Bill - On September 12, the Missouri legislature passed HB 1, the bill to change the boundaries of U.S. House districts. Also on September 12, some Kansas City vo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Live Updates: Family Member Alerted Officials to Suspect in Charlie Kirk Killing - *Friends:* *In a democracy, no death like Charlie Kirk’s should ever happen. A society that claims to value life, liberty, and justice cannot tolerate the ...
Consortium News

Charlie Kirk’s Death - Discourse following the Charlie Kirk assassination has left little to be hopeful about, writes Nolan Higdon. By Nolan Higdon Substack On Wednesday, the sh...
Election Law Blog

“Brazil’s Former President Was Convicted of Plotting a Coup. What Comes Next?; Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for conspiring to cling to power after losing the 2022 elections.” - NYT: Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison on Thursday for overseeing a failed coup plot after losing ...
SCOTUSblog

Groups urge Supreme Court to direct Trump administration to spend billions of withheld foreign aid funds - Lawyers for groups challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze billions of dollars in foreign-aid funding on Friday afternoon urged the Supr...
Workers World

Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar - [image: Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar] The Islamic Resistance Movement–Hamas issued the following statement in response to Israel’s bombing ...
The Conversation

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence - The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded ...
Crooked Timber

Is Deep Research deep? Is it research? - I’m working on a first draft of a book arguing against pro-natalism (more precisely, that we shouldn’t be concerned about below-replacement fertility). Tha...
El Paso Matters

A new study shows how the deck plaza could transform El Paso’s future through a $1 billion economic boost. - El Paso is on the cusp of a transformative investment that promises to reshape downtown, reconnect neighborhoods, and generate nearly $1 billion in long...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Charlie Kirk Suspect Arrested” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On the “DeProgram” show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, we dissect ...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
Progressive.org

How State and Local Republicans Are Disenfranchising Voters to Stay in Power - In Miami and Texas, Republicans have recently fought to undermine the will of voters by disregarding term limits and redistricting procedures.
Common Dreams

EPA Seeks to Roll Back PFAS Drinking Water Rules, Keeping Millions Exposed to Toxic Forever Chemicals in Tap Water - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will no longer defend rules that protect people from unsafe levels of PFAS “forever chemicals...
Church and State

Trump now pulls a TACO on Chicago! - This use of the crime issue to propel his authoritarian agenda certainly equates with all of his other standard approaches.
Texas Standard

Rising costs of insurance and utilities eating into property tax relief efforts - The U.S. Census Bureau offered a sobering report that follows efforts from Texas lawmakers to bring down the property tax burden.
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Suspension of 4th Amendment Rights Poses Ominous Threat to Constitutional Republic - Even if nothing else was taking place at this perilous moment, the September 8 SCOTUS decision to temporarily suspend both a presumption of innocence as we...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy - Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
Progressive Army

Referencia: Suspensión excepcional de plazo. Vía Aérea. Aeropuertos Argentina 2000. - Estimados socios, buenas tardes En el día de ayer el Presidente de la AAACI Sr. Germán Raña estuvo reunido una vez mas con el Sr. Director Gral. de la Adua...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Threat No One Wants to Talk About - As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer
The Grayzone

Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals - A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence prov...
Second Nexus

Bride In Tears After NYC Firefighters Surprise Her At Her Wedding To Honor Her Dad Who Died On 9/11 - On September 11, 2001, 343 firefighters were lost while responding to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City. Among them was New York ...
Independent Political Report

Vermont Progressive Party Holding Statewide Reorganization Meetings Throughout September - The Vermont Progressive Party is conducting a series of caucuses across the state this month as part of its 2025 reorganization process. According to a c...
NORML

California: Lawmakers Advance Legislation to Governor’s Desk Halting Tax Hike on Commercially Available Cannabis Products - [image: marijuana money][image: marijuana money]"California NORML is proud to have taken a leadership role sponsoring this bill. Cannabis is already heav...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Capital & Main

ICE Raids Take Toll on Latino Mental Health: ‘It’s Been Nonstop’ - Therapists describe greater stress, anxiety, anger and fear among Latino patients in Los Angeles since immigration raids intensified in June. The post I...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
MintPress News

Trump’s Phony “Cartel” Plot to Invade Venezuela - Washington slapped a $50 million bounty on Maduro and sent warships to Caracas, but experts say the so-called Cartel of the Suns is a U.S. invention to j...
Dorf on Law

How Should We -- Or Should We -- Talk About Violence When We Don't Know What Motivated It? - At the top of his show last night, Stephen Colbert said this: Folks, the country is still shocked and horrified by yesterday's assassination of conservat...
Rewire

Louisiana Has Not Monitored Public Funds Given to Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers - The state's department of children and family services "could have paid pregnancy centers for services ineligible for funding under state law,” a report ...
Democracy Now!

Nepal's "Gen Z Protests" Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality - Following massive, youth-led anti-corruption demonstrations in Nepal, the country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime mi...
Texas Observer

‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border - On a late-April weekend, I went down to Eagle Pass to look at Operation Lone Star (OLS), Governor Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar piece of political th...
Space City Weather

Second summer takes hold in the Houston area for the foreseeable future - In brief: Today should be dry and hot in Houston, but the isolated to scattered shower chances will (sort of) return this weekend. Temps will remain pretty...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: What Is Wealth? - Today’s Earth911 inspiration is a quote from R. Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path. An essential early... The post Earth911 Inspiration: What Is Wealth? ...
High Country News

Resistance to data centers rises on the border - In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center...
The AltWorld

El Salvador And Its Fight Against The Fifth Column - The collective West is concerned about the expansion of the practice of the Foreign Agents Law in […] The post El Salvador And Its Fight Against The Fift...
Portside

The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting - The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting jay Thu, 09/11/2025 - 22:10
Sludge

Blue Dog Democrats Vote for Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget - The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of self-described fiscal conservatives led by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), largely voted for the GOP-crafted bill p...
Antiwar.com

Taking the Constitution Seriously - Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat i...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
slacktivist

What I learned from the murder of Jo Cox - In 2016, I briefly imagined that I understood how explicit fascism and political violence would affect public opinion. Then I quickly came to understand th...
Discourse

You Really Don't Have to Give It Up to Charlie Kirk - Sanitizing his legacy helps nothing except the fascist project he promoted.
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
The Texas Signal

Garland Film Festival Highlights True Texas Tales - Some of the biggest names in Texas history will take center stage at Garland's "It Came From Texas" film festival
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Krebs on Security

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions - In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materializ...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Project Censored

The Great Nonprofit Purge - Through funding freezes, regulatory threats, and legal manipulation, the Trump administration is pressuring nonprofit organizations to fall in line—or fa...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: September 2025 - My PC is out of commission right now, so no origami this month. Still got a handful of links. Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults | Ozy Brennan – When...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Idavox

Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it Sounded it Would Be - A Nazi rally by any other name stinks all the same. Andy Fleming On Sunday,... The post Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it S...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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nonsite.org

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Campaign for America's Future

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La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

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ExChristian.Net

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Rio Grande Guardian

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GreenSource DFW

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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Land Destroyer

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ROAR Magazine

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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...
Reveal

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

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - 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 ...
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

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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

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BEYONDbones

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Novara Media

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Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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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

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Dandelion Salad

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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

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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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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

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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

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

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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

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

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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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...
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Due Dissidence

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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

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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

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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

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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 14, 2007

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