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

SwitchBot’s space-saving robot vacuum is on sale starting at just $179.99 - Small robot vacuums that fit into tight spaces rarely deliver strong performance, which is what makes the SwitchBot K11 Plus stand out. And right now, you ...
Alternet

Democrat in deep-red Kentucky beats Republican challenger - The 2025 elections continued this month with a state Senate seat left vacant in Kentucky and it turned out to be another "blue wave." Newsweek reported ...
The Hill

Epstein files' release: What's required, what could be held back - The Justice Department has until Friday to release its files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Epstein Files Transparency Act...
Election Law Blog

“Republicans push mail-in voting for the midterms in defiance of Trump” - Politico: Republicans are making mail-in voting a core part of their midterm battle plans — a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump’s efforts to abo...
Mediaite

Trump’s Economy Ratings Hit 2-Term Low — Just a Single Point From Biden’s Worst: Poll - According to the findings 57% of voters now disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, with independents showing a sharp drop-off in support. The pos...
Mediagazer

Paramount reaffirms its $30/share all-cash bid after WBD's board officially rejected it, saying its bid offers "superior value and certainty" for shareholders (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Paramount reaffirms its $30/share all-cash bid after WBD's board officially rejected it, saying its bid offers “superior value ...
Raw Story

'It's a PR thing': MAGA host admits Trump's big TV address is desperate stunt - Pro-MAGA host Gina Loudon acknowledged that President Donald Trump was delivering an unexpected address to the nation on Wednesday because he "almost" lo...
Salon.com

10 shows we loved watching in 2025 - From "Severance" to "Andor," here are the series that kept us tuned in to the small screen this year
Eschaton

Discovery - Obviously everything depends on how corrupt the judge is, but discovery demands are how you beat every civil suit from Trump.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Nick Reiner exected to appear in court on murder charges in killing of parents - Son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner being held without bail after parents were found dead in their home Nick Reiner, who has been charged with tw...
Futurism

Joe Rogan Keeps Playing AI-Generated Music for Guests, But He’s Speechless When One of Them Points Out That Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Too - Now wait a minute! The post Joe Rogan Keeps Playing AI-Generated Music for Guests, But He’s Speechless When One of Them Points Out That Podcasts Can Be A...
memeorandum

The West's Embrace Of Mass Third-World Migration Is Civilizational Suicide (Shawn Fleetwood/The Federalist) - Shawn Fleetwood / The Federalist: *The West's Embrace Of Mass Third-World Migration Is Civilizational Suicide* — The West's mass importation of Third-W...
Grist

How the devil is in the details of greener new jobs - Building a skilled workforce for a sustainable future has been much discussed in climate proposals. Now researchers are figuring out what green jobs actual...
SCOTUSblog

Party presentation: A mysterious new rule? - ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. The first “opinion of the court” fo...
The Week

Trump vs. BBC: what’s at stake? - The US president has filed a $10 billion lawsuit over the editing of Panorama documentary, with the broadcaster vowing to defend itself
Slate

Help! My Brother Went to Prison for an Unspeakable Crime. He Might Be Released—And I Know What He’ll Ask Me to Do. - I'm dreading it.
Daily Howler

WHAT WAS "MENTAL ILLNESS?" Is President Trump "mentally ill?" - *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2025* *Our Blue stars didn't ask*: Is the sitting president, Donald J. Trump, afflicted with some (serious) version of (what use...
Political Wire

Time To Twist the Knife on Tariffs - Andrew Egger: “There’s little doubt that Trump’s tariffs are damaging him politically, even without Democrats’ help. They may be tempted to simply sit back...
Houston Public Media

Texans can use school vouchers for pre-K, but the pool of families who qualify is limited - A limited group of families with 3- and 4-year-olds who already qualify for free public pre-K can receive state funds to attend private preschool.
Undernews

Polls - *NPR - *As President Trump nears the end of his first year of his second term, only 36% of Americans approve of his handling of the economy, according to t...
Bonddad

Real retail sales contract; depending on inflation report may signal further job losses - - by New Deal democrat *[Note: An update to my OS the other day has nuked my ability to post graphs. For now, I will post links to FRED graphs that ...
naked capitalism

The Bondi Strike: Who Will Control the Narrative? - How key players are starting to throw down markers to shape perceptions of the Bondi mass shooting.
Al Jazeera English

US dramatically escalates air strikes on Somalia under Trump this year - Tump's strike total on conflict-ridden East African nation exceeds Bush, Obama and Biden administrations combined.
First Draft

It’s Mean Girls All The Way Down - Susie Wiles is just Regina George.
El Paso Matters

Scenic Drive lights up as the Arts District hosts a posada - From Scenic Drive luminarias to La Nube after-hours events, El Paso’s week ahead includes holiday traditions, family activities and civic gatherings acr...
The NM Political Report

Pete Buttigieg backs Biden cabinet colleague Deb Haaland in Dem battle for gov - New Mexico’s Democratic nomination for governor is getting some national attention this week as Deb Haaland, a former U.S. Interior Secretary under Presi...
Deadline Politics

Watch ‘Melania’ Trailer: First Glimpse At Documentary About First Lady Includes Donald Trump Teaser - The trailer for Melania, an upcoming documentary about Melania Trump, debuted on Wednesday, with the first lady posting it on her X account. “MELANIA, the ...
Scheerpost.com

Friedrich Nietzsche Asks George Clooney, ‘Jay Kelly,’ and Us: What is an Actor? - At the time I laughed but really didn’t get it. Now I do. I really do.
The Conversation

America faced domestic fascists before and buried that history - Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that ...
Techdirt.

Elon Musk’s Taxpayer-Subsidized Starlink Yanks Cheaper $40 Plan Because Network Couldn’t Handle The Load - We’ve noted how Republicans are rewriting the 2021 infrastructure bill (they voted against) to ensure that billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded broadband...
Vox

The low, low cost of ending extreme poverty - When it comes to fixing the world’s worst problems, it’s easy to pretend that we’re helpless. We tell ourselves that global poverty is just too big, too di...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado - By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened ...
ArcaMax

Three Geniuses of the 'Silent' Generation - The strange house on 23rd Street -- a trapezoid of plywood, shower glass and chain link fence -- was the laughingstock of our Santa Monica neighborhood. Ev...
Rewire

Pregnant Immigrants and Their Babies May Suffer Complications from Chronic Stress of ICE Raids, Experts Warn - At least two doctors say they're already seeing warning signs in patients, including high blood pressure and deteriorating mental health. The post Pregna...
Space City Weather

Scattered, mostly light showers today in Houston. We are now confident in our Christmas Day forecast. - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the scattered showers moving through parts of Houston today, and a warm-up in temperatures before a short-lived front ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: A Tranche of Stochastic Humpday Humor - I suppose if you’re going to mock the word “stochastic,” you shouldn’t use a relevant cartoon to open the discussion. I finally looked it up because everyo...
Angry Bear

City and Country Food Deserts - A bit of a rewrite and the addition of more information. Poverty and ruralness have been with us forever. Food deserts were discovered around the late 19...
Rallblog

Blockade! | 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...
Mother Jones

FEMA Downsizing Plan Is a Disaster, Survivors Say - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Flood, storm, and fire survivo...
WhoWhatWhy

It’s Not Always About Guns or Monsters - [image: Gun violence] University of Chicago economist Jens Ludwig challenges nearly everything we think we know about gun violence — and, by extension — vi...
NPR's Health Shots

GOP House Rep. says it's 'unacceptable' to allow ACA subsidies to expire - Rep. Mike Lawler says House Speaker Mike Johnson is correct in saying the health care system isn't working, but allowing ACA subsidies to expire without a ...
The Smirking Chimp

‘The Dam Is Breaking’: MTG Says Trump’s ‘Iron Grip’ on the GOP Is Weakening -
Daily Dot

“JUSTICE FOR BRITTANY”: TGI Fridays accused of cheaping after $500 reward to viral waitress who calmed toddler - [image: Left: Waitress holding small boy in a TGI Fridays restaurant in the Atlanta Airport, text overlay reads, "calms a crying toddler at the ATL airpo...
Skeptophilia

Scattered to the winds - One of the more puzzling aspects of evolutionary theory is the phenomenon of *peripheral isolates*. This term refers to widely-separated populations of see...
Axios

Ukraine's defense minister warns Europe: Act now - Europe must quickly acknowledge a "new reality" in which it must "take responsibility for its own security," Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal sai...
Off The Kuff

Some resistance to the push for closed primaries - Of interest: Last week, during a tour driving across parts of rural West Texas, I had a phone call with Nick Troiano, the executive director of Unite Ameri...
San Antonio Report

Technology woes continue at Secretary of State’s office, this time muddling candidate lists - Candidates, party officials and groups planning forums are still trying to find complete lists of the candidates who've filed to run in 2026. --------------...
ProPublica

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases. - The post Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases. appeared first on ProPublica.
Countercurrents

Provisional Bondi Truths: Containment, Power, and the Struggle to Name Palestine on Wikipedia - Introduction: Why Naming Never Ends The reasons why disputes on Israel/Palestine on Wikipedia don’t end are the same reasons the conflict itself endures wi...
Dissident Voice

Using the Slain: Israel Exploits the Bondi Beach Shootings - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely passes an opportunity to comment upon the way Jews in other countries are treated. While the manic hatre...
High Country News

Going bananas in Portland, any portabella in a storm, and squirrels gone wild in California - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Going bananas in Portland, any portabella in a storm, and squirrels gone wild in California appeared...
Crooked Media

ISIS Terror in Australia - The post ISIS Terror in Australia appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker, Threatens Colombia “Could Be Next” Target For Regime Change - The attack against Venezuela's principal revenue source has nothing to do with drug trafficking–military operations abroad are the least effective method...
World Socialist Web Site

Documents of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the suspension of the WRP - We are reposting here two documents, the resolution of the ICFI on the suspension of the WRP from December 16, 1985 and a statement adopted the following day.
jobsanger

Like Opening A Garbage Pail Left Out For Days In A Summer Heat Wave -
The Root

Why A Black Woman’s Vulnerable Story About ‘Being Seen’ Resonates With More Than A Million People - TikTok star Black Barbie recounts her parking lot romance, despite being "bald-headed and badly built," sparking over a million views and heartfelt respo...
Consortium News

Patrick Lawrence: Trump’s ‘End of History’ Moment - Recent executive orders and presidential memorandums go beyond even the Patriot Act in facilitating nebulous and overreaching state surveillance. By Patr...
Informed Comment

Pakistan now gets 25% of its Electricity from Solar, Plans Solar Panel factory - Only about 20 countries globally get a quarter or more of their power from solar.
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: Price Drops & Gains in 33 Large Expensive Metros in November 2025 - Every housing market dances to its own dynamics.
Black Agenda Report

Struggling for Sovereignty: Sudan after Two Years of Civil War - Struggling for Sovereignty: Sudan after Two Years of Civil War bareditors Wed, 12/17/2025 - 10:22 Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Liberation News

PSL Statement: It’s an act of war! We reject Trump’s naval blockade on Venezuela - This is a siege designed to cause economic collapse and a humanitarian crisis as a precursor to all-out war by the United States.
Workers World

Venezuela int’l conference/U.S. delegates defy ‘no-fly zone’ - [image: Venezuela int’l conference/U.S. delegates defy ‘no-fly zone’] Caracas, Venezuela A delegation from the U.S. traveled to Venezuela to attend the Peo...
Ian Welsh

Revisiting The Ivy League “Super Conformer” Thesis - Back in 2021 I wrote What the Ivies have tended towards for generations now are “super conformers” — straight As and spent all their time in adult run extr...
Brad Blog

Bricks in the Wall: 'BradCast' 12/16/2025 - Today on The BradCast: It's difficult to notice --- or trust your own eyes --- when it all happens in slow motion. At least until it happens quickly. But, ...
OpEd News

Rolling Pearl Harbors: A Pattern of Crisis and Empire (six part series) - I have written a six part, probably prize-worthy, series that looks at the pattern of national security abuses, perhaps inspired by the Reichstag fire of 1...
Courthouse News

Water is for fighting: Colorado River group describes history of water disputes, looks for solutions - The Colorado River Water Users Association is holding its annual three-day conference this week in Las Vegas.
Popular Resistance

We Are All Somalia - On two recent occasions, Donald Trump, president of the United States, engaged in a racist meltdown against the African nation of Somalia and its citizen...
Portside

AFSCME Members Help Win Fight To Repeal Utah Law Taking Away Union Rights - AFSCME Members Help Win Fight To Repeal Utah Law Taking Away Union Rights Greg Tue, 12/16/2025 - 20:28
Antiwar.com

Who’s the Dictator – Venezuela’s Maduro or Ukraine’s Zelensky? - Within the narrow spectrum of establishment punditry, “dictator” functions as a term of opprobrium reserved for governments Washington designates as enemie...
Progressive.org

After the Wreck - One year from the midterm elections, what’s next for a nation of states no longer united?
CultureMap Houston

New York Times critic awards Houston restaurant 2 stars in glowing review - Let’s just call 2025 the year of *ChòpnBlọk*. In *a review* published Tuesday, December 16, the *New York Times* has awarded the Houston restaurant two sta...
Claytoonz

An Orange POS - 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...
San Antonio Current

Everyone knows Jasmine Crockett. Could that be a good thing? - [image: U.S. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett speaking with attendees at an office opening for the Joe Biden for President campaign in Phoenix, Arizona.] H...
Second Nexus

Newsom Epically Rips Elon Musk Amid Clash Over Trans Kids—And Even Musk's Daughter Vivian Wilson Got In On It - On Thursday, Elon Musk—through the political action committee (PAC) he named "America"—tried to come for California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. For...
Reform Austin

Is Texas Secretly Tracking Transgender Drivers? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas has compiled a list of more than 100 transgender drivers who attempted to change the gend...
Earthworks

The United Nations Environment Assembly Fails to Deliver on Mining Oversight…Again - On Friday, the 7th United Nations Environment Assembly concluded without the decisive next steps for improved oversight of the mining industry. The post ...
slacktivist

How to build your own Talk To Jesus ‘A.I.’ at home - Our electric bills are soaring thanks to "A.I." data centers, but it's worth it for a tech break-through that is almost, but not quite, as useful as an ori...
Independent Political Report

Green National Committee Approves Plan to Modernize National Digital Infrastructure - The Green National Committee has approved a proposal to overhaul the Green Party’s digital infrastructure, adopting Basecamp as a project management plat...
Ballot Access News

Connecticut Independent Party Nominee in Special Legislative Election Removed from Ballot due to a Paperwork Error - Connecticut holds a special election on January 13, 2026, to fill the vacant 139th State House seat. The Independent Party is ballot-qualified for that off...
Discourse

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time - Weiss guys finish last
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...
The Greanville Post

The Fusion Race: China Versus Outlaw US Empire - KARL SANCHEZ—I find greater value gained from Guancha than the NY Times because IMO there’s a clearer perspective and focus on the topic. As in many techno...
Common Dreams

Statement on Mattel delaying release of its first toy with OpenAI - *Fairplay, the leading nonprofit committed to helping children thrive in a screen-obsessed culture, released the following statement today in response to...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What Do We Want?: Trump as Rock Bottom and Choosing a Better Future - This article is free for educational and organizing purposes, but Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support.
The Daily Poster

An AI Hail Mary - The president’s attempt to backdoor in a federal artificial intelligence preemption isn’t what it seems.
Capital & Main

This Big L.A. Landlord Turned Away People Seeking Section 8 Housing - Apartment hunters with rental assistance were not welcome at many Jamison buildings, in apparent violation of California law, a Capital & Main investigat...
NORML

Cannabis Rescheduling: Separating Fact From Fiction - [image: hand holding a cannabis leaf with smoke wafting in the background][image: hand holding a cannabis leaf with smoke wafting in the background]The f...
Dorf on Law

Constitutional Law Exam 2025 (featuring tariffs and a scenario inspired by Black Mirror) - Per my usual custom around this time of year, I am posting the final exam I administered to my first-year students in constitutional law this past semest...
Dissent Magazine

The Child-Care Challenge - To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing...
Texas Observer

Everyone Knows Jasmine Crockett. Could That Be a Good Thing? - Last Monday, just hours before the candidate filing deadline, Dallas Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett made it official: The high-profile politic...
Mondoweiss

The Settlers Are Not Leaving: Decolonization, not coexistence - [image: An Israeli flag overlooking an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Taken from the Israeli Herodian national park in the West Bank. (Photo: ...
Glasstire

The Texas African American Photography Archive in Dallas Expands Photo History - During a recent trip to Dallas, I was eager to visit with Alan Govenar at Documentary Arts, an expansive nonprofit arts organization that has produced do...
Krebs on Security

Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content - Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast ...
Texas Standard

Joe Ely, who influenced a generation of songwriters with his music, dies at 78 - Joe Ely never broke out into the mainstream, but has been a beloved Texas treasure for five decades. His death Monday at age 78 brought tributes from fans ...
Democracy Chronicles

The Enduring Echoes: Totem Politics in Zimbabwe and Across Africa - Growing up in Zimbabwe, I have seen firsthand the significance of totems in shaping our identity, politics, and social dynamics. In this article, I will ex...
Democracy Now!

From "Alligator Alcatraz" to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump - At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsin...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 16 December 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the video on European self-defense, click here....
Earth 911

How to Recycle Makeup - Makeup is making the planet ugly. The beauty industry generates approximately 120 billion packaging items... The post How to Recycle Makeup appeared firs...
Socialist Alternative

Building The Fight For Socialism In Baltimore City - In September, a new branch of Socialist Alternative was launched in Baltimore City. Baltimore, a city often stereotyped as dangerous or unsalvageable, is h...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

In memory of Rob and Anthony - the gay episode of 'All in the Family' which infuriated President Nixon - Anthony Geary (right), Rob Reiner (center), and Carroll O'Connor (left) We lost two good ones last weekend. Director and actor Rob Reiner and longtime so...
See You In 2020

Trump’s betrayal of MAGA, the rural “youth drain,” & the class battle for America’s hinterland - The only path forward for the class struggle is one where we confront the war that finance capital is waging against our social structures, especially t...
The AltWorld

Putin Just BROKE Zelensky & EU, Trump’s Peace Deal IMPLODES - Alastair Crooke drops truth bombs on the latest theatrics between Trump & his counterparts in the EU […] The post Putin Just BROKE Zelensky & EU, Trump’s...
The Texas Signal

UT Austin Handed Out Drink With ‘Opioid-like’ Ingredient As Poison Calls Climbed - Despite warnings, Feel Free gained mainstream traction across Texas—including on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, where the drink was distr...
Church and State

Trump graduates to an even more Nazi level ordering an FBI search for “domestic terrorists” in the US! - Since the failure on January 6, 2021 to take decisive action to punish Trump places of blame fully on the failure of the GOP.
The Progressive Wing

12/15-12/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Warming trend happening, but floods to follow in parts of the Northwest. It will be a temporary reprieve, but welcomed. Meantime, news below the jump and y...
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...
MintPress News

Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza - Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Gaza, f...
Project Censored

A Viscous Morass: SLAPP Suits, Secrecy, and Complicit Courts - This week, a special roundtable discussion with your Project Censored cohosts and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Director of Advocacy Seth Stern an...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging Deeper into Virginia, New Jersey Returns: Missing Nonwhite Trump Voters? Changing Coalitions in New Jersey, and More - Turnout and swing patterns in VA suggested some "missing" pro-Trump minority voters this year; "Central Jersey" gets bluer; how Govs.-elect Spanberger (D...
Sludge

Koch Network Fuels Republican Push to Kill ACA Subsidies - As millions face higher premiums, Koch‑funded groups are pressuring Republicans to oppose Obamacare subsidy extensions.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Southville houses - [image: Southviille houses]
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Environment Texas

Tips for wasting less this holiday season - Waste less and celebrate more during the holidays. The post Tips for wasting less this holiday season appeared first on Environment Texas.
DeSmogBlog

Report: Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections in Cash-Strapped States - Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in pollution, according to a new rep...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: KICKING THE PRICK EDITION. - *Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool.* It’s not like I’m gonna get very optimistic about the State of the Nation but there have been some go...
The Militant

Protests oppose gov’t threats against Somalis in Minnesota - MINNEAPOLIS — Some 200 people protested in front of Signature Aviation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Dec. 3. The federal government is ...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Alas, a Blog

Bankruptcy Lane - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts thro...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The First Quarter of the Wheel, Part One - With this post we begin a detailed examination of the twenty-eight phases of Yeats’s symbolic lunar cycle. Each phase is a typical personality, as well as ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Invited Testimony of Dr. Angela Valenzuela Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech, December 9, 2025 - *Friends,* *Yesterday I had the honor of testifying before the Texas House Democratic Caucus Special Hearing on Free Speech. Because of time constraints,...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I am having serious computer issues. Every browser is limiting what I can access, and when I write a post and hit "save", it disappears down the rabbit h...
Edinburg Politics

For the sake of their safety, top leadership of higher education in Texas now shielded from having their personal information made public, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - Personal information of top leaders of public and private higher education systems, universities and colleges – such as the University of Texas Rio Grande...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
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...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
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

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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.
Dispatches from the Underclass

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Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Reading the Pictures

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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 ...
Two Party Opera

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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

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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

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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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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