Brains and Eggs: More 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

The Verge

Fortnite blocks creators from selling prize wheel spins - Epic Games is making a big change to the rules for Fortnite creators just days after allowing them to publish experiences with in-game transactions. Beginn...
memeorandum

Trump pardons former Puerto Rican Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced (NBC News) - NBC News: *Trump pardons former Puerto Rican Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced* — She was indicted by the Justice Department in 2022 over her alleged participa...
Futurism

Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI - Just tech company things. The post Microsoft Shuts Down Library, Replaces It With AI appeared first on Futurism.
Popular Resistance

The Need For Climate And Environmental Internationalism - References to the so-called Global South too often primarily connotes the idea of Latin American and Caribbean nations to the geographic south of the Uni...
Mediaite

‘The Left Is Universally Wrong About Everything’: James Carville Warns Dems Against ‘Abolish ICE’ Messaging - In a Thursday episode of Politics War Room, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville offered a warning to fellow Democrats against any ‘abolish ICE’ ...
Raw Story

Judge slams Trump aides for conspiracy to suppress pro-Palestinian activists’ speech - A federal judge blasted Trump cabinet members Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem for conspiring to suppress the free speech of pro-Palestinian activists. Judge ...
Political Wire

Jon Tester Backs Independent for Senate in Montana - “University of Montana President Seth Bodnar is expected to run for U.S. Senate as an independent, part of an elaborate plan apparently backed by former Se...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston (January 16, 2026) - Today: We learn more about the Houston Emergency Center, talk with actor and TV personality John O’Hurley, and preview a new sports documentary about the P...
The Week

Will Democrats impeach Kristi Noem? - Centrists, lefty activists also debate abolishing ICE
Eschaton

Shocker - Watching Sinema, you would've never imagined she was high out of her mind all the time. Former Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, the Democrat turned inde...
Novara Media

The Proxy War in Your Party - Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana are putting up rival slates of candidates for elections to Your Party’s executive committee. Plus: The latest on ICE’s mass...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump gets his hands on Nobel peace prize | The Latest - Donald Trump has been gifted the Nobel peace prize medal by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. Machado presented the medal to the US Pres...
Al Jazeera English

Iran in limbo: What’s next for country under internet blackout? - Heavy presence of armed forces on streets as Iranians stay home in wake of deadly protests.
First Draft

A Change Is Gonna Come - Cheers to Sam Cooke.
Election Law Blog

“Virginia Democrats set up a referendum to try to flip as many as 4 GOP-held US House seats” - Fredreka Schouten for CNN: Virginia on Friday became the latest state to escalate the nationwide redistricting battle ahead of November’s midterm electio...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: The President Fixes Health Care While Unfixing the Air We Breathe, Among Other Things - Part the First: The President Fixes Healthcare. Oh, joy! A very long time ago I told myself that, surely, by the time I was eligible for Medicare the Unit...
The Hill

38K gallons of water recalled over black 'substance' - The affected water was sold in gallon-size jugs in six states.
Slate

DHS Accused Me of a “Lazy Lie.” They’re Lying. Here’s the Proof. - The Trump administration is claiming the viral Story of my ICE Job offer is a lie. Good thing I kept the receipts.
Axios

Scoop: Trump and Netanyahu discussed Iran in second phone call - President Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone Thursday evening to discuss the situation in Iran, according to two sources...
Vox

A non-coder’s guide to Claude Code - If it feels like the tech people in your life and on your timeline have collectively lost their minds — but, like, more than usual — that’s just the Claude...
NPR's Health Shots

For those with addiction, going into and coming out of prison can be a minefield. - Many jails and prisons around the country don't provide medication treatment for opioid use disorder. Studies show that medication makes recovery more like...
Counterpunch

- The post appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Courthouse News

Hawaii takes on Second Amendment history test at SCOTUS - A challenge to the Aloha State’s “Vampire Rule” asks the justices whether gun owners need permission to bring weapons onto private property.
Second Nexus

Matt Damon's Daughter Just Dragged Him For How He Was Posing On The Red Carpet—And Ouch! - No matter how honest we might expect our friends or romantic partners to be, no one can humble us quite like our own children can. Whether they're a todd...
Mediagazer

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired) - Maxwell Zeff / Wired: *OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user...
Salon.com

“Huge internal concern”: CBS report on ICE officer’s injuries caused “big dissension” among staff - A CBS News report from two anonymous "US officials" drew internal ire
The Daily Poster

Trump’s Playing Both Sides Of The Credit Card Fight - Trump claims he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are doing the opposite.
MintPress News

The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again - From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran. The post The Regime Cha...
Undernews

How America has changed - Theo Moudakis
Common Dreams

'Grow a F*cking Spine': Critics Fume as Newsom Backtracks on ICE 'Terrorism' in Ben Shapiro Interview - Amid unprecedented backlash against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, California Gov. Gavin Newsom—considered a leading contender for the 2028 Demo...
Mondoweiss

Israel is attempting to block both aid and solidarity through its new ban on international organizations - [image: American Friends Service Committee staff distributing food parcels in Gaza. (Photo: Amjad Al Fayoumi/AFSC)]New Israeli rules will ban organizations...
San Antonio Report

Spending in LaHood’s GOP primary has already topped $1M - A late-session disagreement between state Rep. Marc LaHood (R-San Antonio) and one of the state’s most powerful lobbying entities is drawing a deluge of ca...
SCOTUSblog

Trump v. Cook: an explainer - The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in yet another battle over the president’s power to remove the heads of independent agencies creat...
Techdirt.

The Case For A 100-Justice Supreme Court - With the current mess that the US is in, there has been plenty of talk of “what comes after” and how to think about the big structural changes needed to pr...
Consortium News

JOHN KIRIAKOU: Unabated US Prisoner Abuse - Guards are leaving federal inmates in restraints for hours and even, in dozens of cases, as long as a week. That’s just the latest finding on abuses pervad...
Capital & Main

Homes That Survived the 2025 L.A. Fires Are Still Contaminated - Testing of homes in communities surrounding the Eaton and Palisades fires has found dangerous levels of lead and asbestos — even after remediation. The p...
CultureMap Houston

70s revival and layers of style lead design expert's top tile trends - Year after year, trend forecasting is all the rage come January. From *bold flooring* to *cream-colored kitchens*, a pair of themes ties all of 2026’s home...
Deadline Politics

Jimmy Kimmel Offers To Give Donald Trump One Or All Of His Own Awards If POTUS Pulls ICE Out Of Minneapolis - Jimmy Kimmel displayed a number of the awards he has received over the years and made an offer to Donald Trump: He’ll give any one of them to him if the pr...
The NM Political Report

Senate sends fed funding bills to Trump with nearly $1B for New Mexico projects - [image: U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich outside the U.S. Capitol / Source: Ofc of MH, 2021] The U.S. Senate sent three major federal spend...
Ballot Access News

Three Arizona Lawsuits Over Arizona Independent Party are Consolidated Into One Case - The three pending lawsuits over the existence of the Arizona Independent Party have been consolidated. The case number for all three cases is cv2025-064149...
San Antonio Current

How teaching in one of San Antonio’s poorest areas spurred James Talarico’s U.S. Senate bid - [image: Texas Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, speaks during a campaign kick-off rally at Centennial Plaza on Sept. 9, 2025.] Talarico’s two years as a publ...
Socialist Alternative

Trump, Venezuela & US Imperialism On The Offensive - 2026 has begun with US imperialism on the offensive. The reactionary juggernaut of Donald Trump dominated 2025, shaking world relations to the core. But t...
Mother Jones

These Finnish Homes Are Being Heated by a Surprising Source: Bitcoin Mining - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For someone who cares about climate change, ...
Dissident Voice

China Is the Threat of a Good Example - “Chinese-style modernization presents itself as a possible alternative path to the Western capitalist model, especially important for Global South countr...
Daily Howler

NOW TOO MUCH FOR US? In a nation which is no more a nation... - *FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2026* *...we're badly in need of a guide:* "A guide...who only has at heart [our] getting lost?" In recent weeks, the flooding of t...
Democracy Chronicles

Is Australia or the USA More Antisemitic? A Data Challenge. - This is your mission, should you accept: Where is antisemitism worse - the USA or Australia? Suggested paths of enquiry: google engrams of headlines, twitt...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of California to Hold 2026 Convention in San Diego - The Libertarian Party of California will hold its 2026 annual convention next month in San Diego, where delegates will consider a slate of bylaws amendme...
Bonddad

Industrial production sets new post-pandemic high in December - but mainly due to utilities - - *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 ...
The Root

The Worst Examples of Black Women Celebs Getting Judged, Criticized and Mistreated Just For Living - Black women have been unfairly talked about from everything from their hair to their financial status. Let's take a look back at some of the worst moment...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate, by Josephine Lee, Texas Monthly, Jan. 13, 2026 - *Friends:* *In a deeply reported investigation for the Texas Observer, staff writer Josephine Lee reveals that Texas’ newly enacted school voucher program...
Glasstire

What Lies Beyond the Doorway You’ve Never Walked Through? - Over the last decade, I’ve visited the City of Dallas’ Latino Cultural Center (LCC) numerous times. Designed by renowned and prolific Mexican architect R...
WhoWhatWhy

Stop Kidding Yourself. The Insurrection Act Is Coming - [image: Armed, Federal Agents, stalk, Park Avenue, Minneapolis] At some point, Donald Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act to occupy a blue city or state...
ArcaMax

The Sweetest Way To Learn About Endangered Species? Girl Scout Cookies - It's Girl Scout Cookie time and this year feels extra special in Louisville, Kentucky, where I live. Not only are Girl Scout cookies made by Little Brownie...
El Paso Matters

El Paso honors MLK with service events, Senior Games registration opens - News roundup: El Pasoans mark MLK Day with service projects; registration opens for 2026 Senior Games; UTEP opens Texas Western Hall, and YISD adopts ca...
Scheerpost.com

There’s an Intensifying Kind of Threat to Academic Freedom – Watchful Students Serving As Informants - Restricting academic freedom is often thought of in terms of universities telling professors what they can and cannot do or teach. But that isn’t the only ...
Democracy Now!

"All That's Left of You": Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family's Love & Loss Since 1948 - *All That’s Left of You* is a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generat...
Space City Weather

A chilly weekend for the city of Houston, as we take a close look at Texans-Pats weather - In brief: Today, we tackle some colder weather for Houston this weekend, but most importantly, we look at the prospects of snow during the Texans/Patriots ...
Debunking Christianity

1. Horrendous Suffering 2. Catastrophic Superstitions 3. A Vicious God - *Christian theology is shattered by these three factors* For centuries, the devout—determined to preserve and protect their faith—have ignored reality....
Rallblog

No ICE, Please | 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...
slacktivist

LBCF: Antiheroes - Left Behind gives us an arch-villain with a dastardly plan to destroy the world. It also gives us a scrappy band of heroes who .. also eagerly want to see ...
Dorf on Law

The Complete Irrationality and Disastrous Effects of Life Tenure for Supreme Court Justices - The world is on fire, and we have larger issues to be worried about than life tenure for Supreme Court justices. On the other hand, the world is on fire ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Keeping It Simple and/or Stupid - As noted yesterday, drawing for Politico gives Wuerker more latitude in creating cartoons that make intellectual demands on people. This, however, is a goo...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Is Something Worse Than a Fascist -
Skeptophilia

Gone in a flash - Sometimes being a skeptic means answering the question, "So what happened?" with the rather unsatisfying response, "We don't know and may never know." That...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Marvalette Hunter - We wrap up our tour of CD38 with a familiar name from Houston politics. Marvalette Hunter was the Chief of Staff for the late Sylvester Turner both for his...
Countercurrents

The Woman Question, Agency, and Victorian Constraints in ‘Middlemarch’ - Since its publication in 1871–72, George Eliot’s Middlemarch has been widely regarded as one of the most accomplished realist novels in the English literar...
ProPublica

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With - The post Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Trump’s EPA is taking itself out of the regulation game - The agency has long tried to curb carbon emissions and protect human health. Critics say it’s giving up on both.
High Country News

How pronghorn outran the ice age - Can they outrun an uncertain climate future? The post How pronghorn outran the ice age appeared first on High Country News.
Crooked Media

ICE’s Reign of Terror - The post ICE’s Reign of Terror appeared first on Crooked Media.
Seeing the Forest

This Is America Now - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy This is what the world sees. Read it. ICE ‘throw flash-bang at family...
jobsanger

Obama Deported More Than Trump (Using Due Process Without Violence And Abuse) -
The Grayzone

Detrás de la denuncia politizada de Washington contra Maduro: una “red” creada por la CIA y un testigo coaccionado - La acusación del Departamento de Justicia contra el líder secuestrado de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, es una diatriba política que se apoya significativame...
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Antisemitism Education Taskforce to attack democratic rights and academic freedom - Just four days after the Bondi attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the creation of the Antisemitism Education Taskforce, chaired by corporate...
Informed Comment

When an ICE Agent Shot Two Bullets Into Renee Good Through the Driver’s Side Window, He Was Not Engaged in Self-Defense - Kristi Noem’s Preposterous Lies About the Killing Confirm That ICE Encourages Agent Violence
Idavox

Indigenous People and Trump Regime - You can’t say I.C.E. is only after “illegal immigrants” when they are going after those... The post Indigenous People and Trump Regime appeared first on ...
Workers World

ICE terror on the Black community - [image: ICE terror on the Black community] As the new year begins, so has the continued repression by the capitalist state. Against the will of the people,...
Wolf Street

Food Inflation Gets Hot, but Not Every Item: A Look at Beef, Chicken, Coffee, Eggs, Dairy, Fruit & Vegetables, “Other Foods” - CPI for “Food at home” jumped in December and is up 30% since January 2020. The CPI for restaurant food is even hotter.
Claytoonz

Polar Finger - 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...
Alternet

CBS News staffers revolt over network 'carrying water' for Trump admin - A recent CBS News story about injuries suffered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross before he fatally shot U.S. citizen...
Brad Blog

'A Cornered Rat is a Dangerous Rat': Trump Terrorizes Minnesota, Menaces NATO, World: 'BradCast' 1/15/2026 - We've been arguing in various ways on The BradCast in recent months that our ignorant, thin-skinned, cruelly incompetent, man-baby clown, pedophile protect...
Portside

Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Minneapolis - Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Minneapolis jay Thu, 01/15/2026 - 19:49
Ian Welsh

Just How Heritable Is IQ - The IQ debates are, to me, tiresome. I’m pretty high IQ, not what I consider genius level (I’ve encountered true geniuses) but just under, in the one-in-te...
Progressive.org

The People’s Historian - We would do well to remember the words of Howard Zinn today.
Antiwar.com

Venezuela – the Petroleum Fortress: Power, Profits, and the Dismantling of a Nation - The history of Venezuela is often reduced to a cautionary tale of a single charismatic leader or a sudden economic collapse, yet the reality is a far more ...
The Greanville Post

Noem DOUBLES DOWN on LIES About Minnesota ICE Shooting - Print this article This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International…
The Conversation

The Insurrection Act is one of at least 26 legal loopholes in the law banning the use of the US military domestically - Can the president use the Insurrection Act and send the military into U.S. cities? A web of legal provisions try to balance presidential power with the pow...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/16/2026 - 03:25 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Church and State

The Old Lessons of Tyranny Are Knocking at America’s Door - Today, Trump seeks to intimidate law abiding citizens, especially those in states that did not support him.
Bracing Views

Making Armageddon Great Again - A Mushroom Cloud, A Smoking Gun BILL ASTORE JAN 15, 2026 Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featured a fiction contest: “Write Before Midnight...
Texas Observer

In Ink and on Airwaves, Texas Media Grows Ever More Concentrated - In the realm of Texas newspapers, one media mogul now rules them all—or close to it at least. Last February, Hearst Communications acquired the Austin Am...
Texas Standard

Texas is hosting FIFA World Cup matches in six months. Here’s what you need to know. - There will be nine matches in Dallas and seven in Houston.
NORML

Study: Cannabis Beverages Associated With Reduced Alcohol Consumption - [image: a cannabis leaf sits atop a canned drink][image: a cannabis leaf sits atop a canned drink]"These consistent findings provide support for the noti...
Angry Bear

Monthly retail sales sharply higher in November, but flagging YoY real sales spell further trouble - – by New Deal democrat Real retail sales, one of my favorite broad-economy indicators, was updated through November this morning, making only one month ...
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...
The Texas Signal

ICE Protests Continue Throughout Texas - While many Texans are calling to abolish ICE, just a few officials in the state are taking that same position despite widespread public condemnation over t...
Rewire

Freestanding Birth Centers Are Closing as Maternity Care Gaps Grow - Centers are confronting financial strain, restrictive regulations, and resistance from hospitals. The post Freestanding Birth Centers Are Closing as Mate...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Trivial Knot

Margaret, the hoarder - This is a true personal story, although not quite true, and not quite a story. I have mixed in some lies to give people some privacy, and to shave off some...
See You In 2020

Fed-orchestrated shootings, Epstein’s role in them, and the trajectory of America’s “years of lead” - The extent to which the first attempted assassination of President Trump has been erased from our historical discourse is remarkable. Right after 20-yea...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Fake photo of Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk's death spread on social media' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *Watch out for this image supposedly showing Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk's death* - *The attack on Renee Good's reputation continues. At this point...
Edinburg Politics

Legislative luncheon in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, featuring Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Sen. Adam Hinojosa, will showcase city’s $14 million Edinburg Arts, Culture and Events Center - Key state issues affecting the Rio Grande Valley will be discussed in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, by Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Chris...
Liberation News

Stop Trump’s war on our rights – SHUT IT DOWN! - The Trump administration continues escalating its full-scale assault on our most basic rights. The whole country watched in horror as an ICE agent gunned d...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We're Sitting on a Powderkeg: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Infidel753

The rebellion in Iran (with updates) - The uprising now taking place across Iran is probably the most serious challenge to the theocracy in its near-half-century of rule. It started on Decembe...
Sludge

GOP Leader’s Family Buys xAI Stock Days Before Pentagon Integration - House Republican Conference chairwoman Lisa McClain disclosed the purchase made just days before the Pentagon announced a major integration with xAI.
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...
Media Lens

Venezuela – ‘War Is Peace’ - After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had n...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Crooked Timber

Utilitarianism: it all went wrong with Sidgwick - As part of my critique of pro-natalism, I’m looking at the philosophical foundations of the idea. Most of the explicit discussion takes place within the fr...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition - Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabil...
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...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Alaska Senate Race Comes Onto the Competitive Board with Peltola’s Entry - Mary Peltola’s (D) entrance into the Alaska Senate race gives Democrats another credible target, even as Republicans remain favored to hold the seat. Th...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #10: COUP TALK (w/Jack Crosbie) - Cros returns to get into the huge mess in Venezuela and Minneapolis
Project Censored

Illegal Gold Rush Strips 140,000 Hectares from the Peruvian Amazon - A new report published by Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) and its Peruvian partner organization, Conservación Amazónica, found that 140,00...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later - Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months th...
Greg Palast

Vigilantes Inc: Free screening and Q&ALive from Chicago: Join us online or in person on Feb 5, 2026 - Join us for a special hybrid screening and discussion of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen, n...
The Progressive Wing

1/13-19 News Roundup & OT - The European National Banks, as well as the Bank of England, sense an economic threat by Drumpt. Come join us for the conversation after the jump.
Earth 911

5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners - Eating for the planet doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor or satisfaction, and it can make a... The post 5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners appeared first on Ear...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
Environment Texas

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 - 25 years of wildlife, recreation, outdoor sports and clean water The post The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 appeared first on Environment Texas.
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
Duck of Minerva

How To Review Efficiently and Fairly - Instead of Dry January, I’m going review free for January after having nearly 80 review requests last year. My New Year’s resolution was to have a healthie...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
Field Negro

The Trump Distraction Machine. - This character in the White House is doing everything in his powers to change the storyline and narrative from Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files. Th...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Resistance Solidarity - Washington – the gangster-in-chief posing as global policeman – refuses to accept any limitations on its actions. If legal authorities, whether domestic or...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOUR LYIN' EYES EDITION. - *Some trippy shit right here.* Just a week after we all hoped for better days in the new year, an ICE officer murdered a young woman in Minneapolis and, ...
The Militant

Tetrosyl workers in UK strike against bosses’ move to cut wages - ROCHDALE, England — After five days of strike action at Tetrosyl’s warehouse and distribution operation here, north of Manchester, some 80 workers are dete...
DeSmogBlog

Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’ - Senior figures in Reform UK have been developing close connections to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an authoritarian, monarchic state with vast fossil ...
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...
The AltWorld

American Conservatives Are Disgusting Frauds - After spending days enthusiastically applauding Trump’s freakish act of imperialist aggression to oust the president of Venezuela […] The post American C...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
LareDOS

Here on the river’s edge as the water, like time, slips past. Here is the promise of the long view and the close look. - Here, where quiet drowns out the distant rancor of fearmongers, we might, instead, be good neighbors.
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
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...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Reveal

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Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
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.
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
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 ...
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...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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...
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...
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

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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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

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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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