Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies for breakfast

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

memeorandum

Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria (New York Times) - New York Times: *Trump Signs Law Repealing Tough Sanctions on Syria* — The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic viol...
The Week

‘Lumpy skin’ protests intensify across France as farmers fight cull - A bovine outbreak coupled with ongoing governmental frustrations is causing major problems for French civil society
Futurism

TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist - "So magical, your neighbors will think it isn't real." The post TikTok Accounts Are Using AI Slop to Sell Seeds to Plants That Don’t Exist appeared first...
Alternet

White House allies admit Trump owns the economy — and that 'Americans are not feeling it' - President Donald Trump may be keen to blame his slumping economy on the man who was president roughly a year ago, but that’s not the way his allies appea...
First Draft

The Christmas Song - Cheers to Mel Tormé and Robert Wells.
Daily Dot

Fans of “Survivor” can’t believe the 50th season includes cameos from MrBeast and Jimmy Fallon: “Thought it was a skit from a parody account” - [image: survivor 50 mrbeast jimmy fallon cameos] The 50th season of* Survivor*, meant to be a milestone celebration of the show’s longtime loyal fans, is...
Salon.com

“Frauds and grifters”: MAGA infighting on first day of TPUSA’s America Fest - Tensions flared during an event meant to showcase MAGA unity
Eschaton

Afternoon - Early weekend. Various things keeping me busy.
Raw Story

Top MAGA fighter slams 'Epstein list' White House event in Trump snub - Fighter and Donald Trump fan Sean Strickland is skipping the president's upcoming White House Ultimate Fighting Championship event — because he doesn't w...
Socialist Alternative

Ukraine: A War That Defined an Epoch - This article was originally published in early November 2025, in issue #2 of International Marxism, international political journal of International Social...
San Antonio Report

Why more and more San Antonio businesses are passing on credit card fees to customers - Businesses face credit card swipe fees for nearly every transaction. Some owners are passing on those fees to the customer. ------------------------------ W...
Mediagazer

The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China (Karl Bode/Techdirt) - Karl Bode / Techdirt: *The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the suppo...
Vox

How to consume the Epstein files responsibly - Hundreds of thousands of pages of the Justice Department’s files related to investigations of Jeffrey Epstein are set to be released Friday, and though all...
Mother Jones

Trump Seizes on Brown, MIT Shooting to Suspend More Legal Immigration - President Donald Trump has suspended a diversity green-card lottery program after authorities said that the suspected gunman in the Brown University and MI...
Courthouse News

Supreme Court forces Trump to face immigration judges’ free speech fight - The Trump administration pushed the justices to prevent any lower court from reviewing the president’s executive branch firing spree.
The Greanville Post

AIs Faking History - J. MACFARLANE—LLMs cannot be relied upon for political or social analysis – or anything in the so-called “humanities” other than to establish “conventional...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Climate, Eugenics, and a Note on mRNA Vaccines - Part the First: Climate, “What, Me Worry?” Once again Alfred E. Neuman comes to mind as “policy-based science” remains the order of the day in the Current...
Mediaite

Mediaite’s Most Influential in Media Party Guests Taken to Star-Studded Event in Stylish New Cadillac Escalade IQ - On Monday night, the stars were out to celebrate the release of Mediaite’s Most Influential in Media 2025 — and some of the guests arrived in style, cour...
Daily Cartoonist

Peanuts to be Majority Owned by Sony - Todd Spangler for Variety reports: Sony is paying more than a few peanuts to get majority ownership of Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts franchise featur...
San Antonio Current

Senate candidate James Talarico strives to make inroads with South Texas Latinos - Bobby Pulido's endorsement of State Rep. James Talarico comes as the Democrat looks to build momentum. The post Senate candidate James Talarico strives...
Techdirt.

The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, A Mother Struggles To Keep Her Sons Alive - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Rose Natabo needs to leave one of her starving sons behind....
Al Jazeera English

Rubio says ‘progress but ways to go’ in efforts to end Russia-Ukraine war - US top diplomat's remarks come as Ukraine negotiators travel to US for fresh round of talks on ending the conflict.
The Hill

James Van Der Beek calls his stage 3 cancer diagnosis a 'gift' - Due to rising healthcare costs, the actor has been selling off his items during his teen heartthrob days.
Slate

A Judge Was Found Guilty of Obstructing ICE. That’s Not the Most Farcical Part. - Immunity for me, but not for thee.
World Socialist Web Site

Technology and the working class: Responding to an opponent of Socialism AI - This response seeks to clarify important issues related to the technical and political development of Socialism AI.
slacktivist

LBCF: Boutros Boutros Carpathia - Even good writers would not have been able to escape the trap that Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye set for themselves here in "Left Behind."
Second Nexus

JFK's Grandnephew Offers Blunt Reality Check After Kennedy Center Board Votes To Add Trump's Name - Former Massachusetts Democratic Representative Joseph Kennedy III made a very important point when he explained why the name of the Kennedy Center can't ...
The Verge

Netflix is acquiring an avatar company as it moves into party games - As Netflix continues to build out its gaming strategy, which has recently included a new era of TV party games, it's going to let people build avatars - wi...
Houston Public Media

Altercation at Texas A&M football game reportedly prompts criminal complaint against DPS trooper - University of South Carolina running back Oscar Adaway III filed an assault complaint against a Texas DPS trooper after their encounter at a November game ...
Political Wire

Jack Smith Wants Public Hearing - Former special counsel Jack Smith requested to testify in “an open and public hearing” in a Thursday letter from his attorneys to House Judiciary Chair Jim...
Mondoweiss

The New York Times ignores an essential part of the Jeffrey Epstein story — Israel - [image: Photo released by House Democrats on the Congressional Oversight Committee on December 12, 2025, showing Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz. (Phot...
Undernews

Trump DOJ Moves To Treat Leftist Dissent As Criminal - *Common Dreams - *The Trump administration is about to embark on a massive crackdown on what it describes as a scourge of rampant left-wing “terrorism.” ...
Axios

Democrats "exploring all legal options" as DOJ says it will miss Epstein files deadline - The lead Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees said they are "exploring all legal options" after a top Justice Department official si...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Anti-vaccine group once led by RFK Jr circulates false assertions amid measles outbreak - Children’s Health Defense using familiar playbook to defend health secretary as it downplays dangers of disease and exaggerate risks of vaccines, public ...
Rallblog

We’re Workers Too - From an economic standpoint, governments look at citizens as workers, consumers or both. Most people, of course, are both: we work and earn, and we spend...
Deadline Politics

Savannah Guthrie To Undergo Surgery On Vocal Cords; Will Be Absent From NBC’s ‘Today’ “For A Couple Of Weeks” - Today co-host Savannah Guthrie said that she will be absent from the show for a couple of weeks to have surgery on her vocal cords. Guthrie told viewers on...
Ballot Access News

Civic Lens Research Releases California Gubernatorial Poll - On December 18, Civic Lens Research released a California gubernatorial poll. The three leading contenders are: Steve Hilton 17.8%, Chad Bianco 13.9%, and ...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Announces State Leadership Changes - The Libertarian Party of Michigan has shifted its state leadership following the resignation of Justin Miramonti as chair, with former Vice Chair Tim Tea...
Consortium News

Among the Unalienable Rights - Nothing will chill Tucker Carlson’s exercise of the freedom of speech, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. But that does not absolve Chuck Schumer and the U.S. Se...
Claytoonz

Ho Ho Ho Hoax - 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...
CultureMap Houston

Superstar Spanish chefs return to Houston for dinners with a purpose - Leave it to Houston to blend avant-garde gastronomy with generosity, stirring up a one-two punch of flavor and philanthropy.
Election Law Blog

“I Drove 700 Miles Through California’s Absurd New Congressional District” - Politico: Just a few weeks earlier, this county, a paradisical, mostly suburban community sitting across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, voted...
NPR's Health Shots

He's the first African musician to get a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award - The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African arti...
OpEd News

No, AI will not take all jobs - AI is displacing people, especially tech workers. But there's a difference between producing that's "awesome" or "incredibly good" vs. something that adds ...
Bonddad

The “gold standard” QCEW through Q2 suggests little if any employment growth this year - - *by New Deal democrat* The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is “the gold standard of US employment measures. It is an actual census...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
Scheerpost.com

Help ScheerPost, Save on Your Taxes - In an era when billionaire owners of mass media dominate the media landscape, the need for independent media could not be more obvious.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: XENOPHOBOMANIA EDITION. - *My new music cicerone Gabbie hooked me up.* Another rocky week, America! Lots to be bummed about, like Judge Dugan being found guilty for protecting a ...
Texas Standard

The Trump administration has all but stopped reuniting detained migrant children with families - Government sources say that for the last six weeks, they’ve been ordered not to release undocumented children in federal custody to their parents and relat...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Glasstire

African American Museum, Dallas Receives $250k Grant for New Conservation Lab - The African American Museum, Dallas (AAMD) has announced the establishment of the Harry Robinson Jr. Research and Conservation Lab, projected to open in ...
SCOTUSblog

“Supreme Advocacy”: supreme on style, a bit light on substance - We haven’t had a film review on SCOTUSblog for quite some time now. Given that, we figured Bloomberg Law’s “Supreme Advocacy: What It Takes to Argue at t...
Dissident Voice

End Stage Zionist Hasbara And Its Trolls: The Israel as victim canard, it’s all over but the shouting - A significant number of Zionist trolls plaguing the comment sections of my posts were, as I was, raised on Zionist hasbara i.e., outright lies. As I grew...
El Paso Matters

EPISD finalizes Lusk contract; city confirms new mpox case - This week: EPISD finalizes Superintendent Brian Lusk’s contract; El Paso confirms a new mpox case; SISD offers employee buyouts; plus other El Paso news...
Democracy Now!

"Terror & Fear": Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery - The Trump administration is ramping up efforts to strip more naturalized immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, with *The New York Times* reporting that off...
The AltWorld

The strong return of the Islamic State - What is the most significant threat to America and the new Syria? And what are the causes […] The post The strong return of the Islamic State appeared fi...
The Conversation

Local democracy is holding strong, but rural communities are falling behind, new survey of Michigan officials shows - Officials from 70% of Michigan’s 1,856 cities, villages, counties and townships completed the survey.
The Root

Guess What Tory Lanez Says About Megan Thee Stallion in His First Prison Interview… - Tory Lanez is breaking his silence from behind bars, giving his first ever broadcast interview. Let's get into it! Read more...
Space City Weather

After today Jack Frost is gonna get lost - In brief: It is chilly across Houston this morning, with some outlying areas falling all the way into the upper 30s. Most of us are in the lower 40s. This ...
Texas Observer

A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish - The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating when he called 2025 “this frankly awful year”: Things are dark, and likely to get much darker. Our po...
Angry Bear

An issue of “affordability” - Economist Paul Krugman has a new series at his site. I will post each at Angry Bear about two weeks after he posts. Hopefully, I do not want to interfere...
Daily Howler

BREAKING: He's finally starting to get his due! - *FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2025* *Frogs in pot, slowly they boil: *From this morning's New York Times: *"The rename was just the latest maneuver in the overal...
ArcaMax

Santa Has Equity Issues. Here's How Parents Can Help. - The holiday season is a generous one. More than half of U.S. adults report donating or having plans to make charitable donations by the end of this year, a...
WhoWhatWhy

WhoWhatWhy’s Top 10 Podcasts of 2025 — Part 1 - [image: Jeff Schechtman, Podcast, Best-of, WhoWhatWhy, 2025] This year, podcasts became the essential space where complexity found its voice — not just ref...
The Smirking Chimp

Was That a Speech or a Breakdown? -
ProPublica

How the FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk - The post How the FDA’s Lax Generic Drug Rules Put Her Life at Risk appeared first on ProPublica.
Skeptophilia

Taken by the flood - Not long ago, I was listening to one of my favorite pieces by Claude Debussy, *The Drowned Cathedral*, and I started to wonder what legend had given rise t...
Off The Kuff

TSU poll: Gina Hinojosa well in the Dem primary lead - Noting it for the record. State Rep. Gina Hinojosa has a commanding lead in the race to challenge Gov. Greg Abbott, according to the most recent polling of...
The Daily Poster

Are Bankers Really Shorting AI? - Test your knowledge of meatpacker price-fixing, revolutionary political philosophy, and other issues that really matter.
Grist

Alaska’s $44 billion bet on natural gas - No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: Inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.
High Country News

Colorado cannot heal until it confronts Sand Creek honestly - To move forward, Coloradans must face the massacre’s trauma and begin to repair trust. The post Colorado cannot heal until it confronts Sand Creek hones...
Countercurrents

Jewish Anti-Zionism and the Erasure of Palestinian Time - Caption: Gaza remains visible, but increasingly spoken through the language of others — where Palestinian destruction becomes the ground on which new moral...
Crooked Media

Trump White House Secrets Revealed - The post Trump White House Secrets Revealed appeared first on Crooked Media.
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: No Straight Edges in Nature - Today’s quote is from American writer Steven King. In his novella The Mist he wrote,... The post Earth911 Inspiration: No Straight Edges in Nature appear...
Workers World

Murders in the Caribbean: Can antiwar forces stop Trump’s aggression? - [image: Murders in the Caribbean: Can antiwar forces stop Trump’s aggression? ] December 13. The U.S. Naval Death Fleet in the Caribbean escalated toward ...
Counterpunch

The Classroom as a Battleground: Italy’s Students Rise Against Genocide - In Italy, the bell that signals the start of the school day has recently sounded like a call to arms—not for war, but against it. While the Italian gover...
Portside

‘Throwback to McCarthyism’: Trump DOJ Moves To Treat Leftist Dissent As Criminal - ‘Throwback to McCarthyism’: Trump DOJ Moves To Treat Leftist Dissent As Criminal jay Fri, 12/19/2025 - 01:25
jobsanger

The Truth Comes Out - Trump Wants Venezuela's Oil -
Informed Comment

California: Fossil Gas use Declining, replaced by Solar Plus Megabatteries - Two-thirds of California's electricity retail sales are now generated by renewables.
Ian Welsh

We Don’t Have To Live In Hell - A friend of mine once used the metaphor of “The Lords of Hell” to describe most of the world. There are a few people with lots of money and power, a few bi...
Brad Blog

Old Man Shouts at People from White House for 20 Minutes, and Other End of Year Observations: 'BradCast' 12/18/2025 - My ears are still ringing after the President of the United States spent about 20 minutes barking at me last night. But the show --- in this case, the fina...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Insane claim about children's penises highlights Trump Administration effort to ban healthcare for trans kids - Trump official Mehmet Oz voices a wild and absolutely ridiculous claim about creating children's penises as a part of the administration's effort to ban g...
Popular Resistance

Venezuela Strongly Condemns US Threat Of Blockade - In an escalation of the US empire’s ongoing illegal sanctions on Venezuela, US President Donald Trump has announced a “full blockade” of the sovereign na...
Environment Texas

BREAKING: Senator Mike Lee proposes selling off public lands - Amendment #3972 threatens national parks by allowing their sale to private owners. The post BREAKING: Senator Mike Lee proposes selling off public lands ...
Antiwar.com

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Lethal Legacy - Since early 2023, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have demonstrated against Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his cabinet, due to its proposed...
Progressive.org

Are We Celebrating America’s 250? - Celebrating our country under the Trump Administration feels tough, but doing so is an important act of resistance.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Common Dreams

Veterans For Peace Condemns Trump’s Illegal War on Venezuela - *Veterans For Peace unequivocally rejects the Trump administration’s escalating attacks and threats of war against Venezuela.* The U.S. seizure of a Vene...
Church and State

Before trips to Mars, we need better protection from cosmic rays - And finally, the trip to Mars is planned for the 2030s. But there’s an invisible threat standing in the way: cosmic rays.
The NM Political Report

Thousands of New Mexicans face new work requirements for food benefits - Nearly 56,000 New Mexicans will need to work, volunteer or participate in job training for 80 hours each month to maintain food stamp benefits under new ...
The Texas Signal

An Economic Reality Check In Texas - The president claimed that Texans will begin feeling the impacts of his economic policies next year, a cold comfort for the millions experiencing the pinch...
Reform Austin

Who Is Gov. Greg Abbott Endorsing in the 2026 Elections? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Governor Greg Abbott launched his re-election campaign a month ago and has already begun announ...
NORML

President Trump Takes Executive Action to Federally Reschedule Marijuana - [image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf background][image: Donald Trump gives a thumbs up in front of a marijuana leaf backgr...
Capital & Main

Beyond Hollywood, Rob Reiner Created Opportunity for Young Children Out of a Massive Health Crisis - The actor-director-producer’s legacy includes succeeding in passing a tax on tobacco products to bolster early childhood development in California. The p...
Wolf Street

Today’s Doctored CPI Inflation Release is like a Bad Joke, but Very Serious (though it Suits the Administration’s Narrative) - No CPI data for October, partially made-up CPI data for November, and now 3 months' of doctored OER data which weighs 26% of overall CPI.
Dorf on Law

Birthright Citizenship for Non-Lawyers - This evening (from 6 to 8 pm Eastern time), I'll be giving a talk about birthright citizenship at the Tompkins County Public Library. It also airs live ...
Rewire

My Holidays Look a Little Different This Year (Thanks, Portia)—Podcast - We're both not holiday people, but we're reimagining the season for ourselves. The post My Holidays Look a Little Different This Year (Thanks, Portia)—P...
Project Censored

Trump’s War on Epistemic Institutions - by Steve Macek Contemporary liberal democracies such as the United States depend on more than free elections and stable, functioning economies. They also...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Infidel753

Globalized - "Globalize the intifada" has for some time been a popular slogan among Jew-haters of various stripes. The mayor-elect of the city with the largest Jewish...
Land Destroyer

Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design - *December 15, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Major hostilities erupted once again early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand a...
Crooked Timber

L’Établi (2): the book - Having watched the film, I thought I’d get Robert Linhart’s book off the shelf and finally read it. I think I bought it in Oxford in the early 80s. To remi...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Unlimited Hangout

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

Trump's Speech - Live-Blogging of Donald Trump's Economic Speech: Tales from the Crypt Donald inherited a mess and he's fixing it. He blames life being unaffordable due to...
See You In 2020

Ultra-leftism grows out from the metropole. To defeat it, we must expand the workers struggle into the rural. - Right now, ultra-leftism of the adventurist kind is rapidly growing in its relevance, and in the threat it poses to the working-class movement. Even tho...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Done with this Shit: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

C. Wright Mills Warned Us: The End of Ideology Was Always a Trap, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - Wikipedia C. Wright Mills Warned Us: The End of Ideology Was Always a Trap *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 17, 2025* *In 1960, renowned, Waco, ...
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...
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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

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Consent Factory, Inc.

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Campaign for America's Future

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ExChristian.Net

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Texas Monthly

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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Texas Freedom Network

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Moron Majority

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Reading the Pictures

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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Two Party Opera

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Progressive Army

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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The Socialist

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Free & Equal

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Rio Grande Guardian

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GreenSource DFW

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

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Eater Houston

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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

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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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Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

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Border/Lines

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Robert Reich

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Grits for Breakfast

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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Morning Consult

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TXElects

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Dandelion Salad

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The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

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Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

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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
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Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

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FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

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Caitlin Johnstone

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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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

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Living Blue in Texas

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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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

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Downwinders at Risk

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Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

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Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

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Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

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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

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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

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PERRspectives

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Austin 360

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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

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Modern Democracy

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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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Brains and Eggs

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Sunday Funnies for breakfast

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