Brains and Eggs: 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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

Raw Story

Trump rages at Fox News after spotting Dem candidate mention on midday show: 'Sleazebag' - President Donald Trump blew his stack after seeing a Democratic candidate for California governor on his favorite TV channel. The 79-year-old president a...
San Antonio Current

James Talarico’s campaign pulls historic $27 million fundraising haul in first quarter - State Rep. James Talarico’s U.S. Senate campaign said Wednesday that it raised more than $27 million in the first quarter of 2026, the largest haul ever...
Slate

My Ex Bought Our Son a Much Too Grown-Up Gift for His Birthday. He’s Only 6! - This is totally inappropriate.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Prosecutors won’t file domestic abuse charges against Taylor Frankie Paul - Mormon Wives star was accused of domestic violence by her former partner Dakota Mortensen Prosecutors in Utah have declined to press charges against Tayl...
The Verge

Most people still don’t want anything to do with robotaxis - I've been reporting on self-driving cars for over a decade, and I've seen the technology go through many ups and downs, highs and lows. But one thing has r...
The Daily Poster

Offshore Accounts For Me, TurboTax For Thee - While shutting down free direct filing for everyday taxpayers, the IRS is letting the ultrawealthy hide billions of dollars in foreign accounts.
Futurism

Earth Now Flying Through a Debris Field, Paper Finds - A hidden rock flying through space is making itself known via meteors or shooting stars. The post Earth Now Flying Through a Debris Field, Paper Finds ap...
The Week

‘Battle Creek’s people needed to reinvent themselves’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Consortium News

Iran Blasts YouTube Ban on Lego Mockery Videos - While Explosive Media’s content can no longer be viewed on YouTube — which is owned by Google — it appears unaffected on other major platforms such as Inst...
Houston Public Media

The Texas film industry is expanding. Are new incentives enough to make it competitive? - A new state program will allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to in-state film and TV productions. But Texas is playing catch up with states like Georg...
Alternet

Trump 'lost to China' with ‘stupid’ Hormuz blockade: security expert - As of Tuesday, according to President Donald Trump, the U.S. has “fully implemented” a blockade of the Hormuz Strait, which he claims will pressure Iran ...
Eschaton

It's Us, Yes We're Back Again - Do we think there's even the notion of a plan here, or are they just following the random 3AM brain eruptions of the sundowning Mad King. The Pentagon is ...
Novara Media

Head of IDF Unit Linked to Hind Rajab’s Killing Badly Injured in Lebanon - The commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) battalion implicated in the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza has been seriously wounded in Leban...
Al Jazeera English

Iran warns US naval blockade threatens ceasefire - Iran says it will halt all trade in the Gulf if the US continues blocking its vessels.
The Hill

Watch live: White House briefs on Trump tax cuts with Iran tensions in backdrop - White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Wednesday afternoon on the "historic" tax cuts included in the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bi...
Deadline Politics

NBC News Now To Debut New Show With Christine Romans, Streaming Channel To Expand To 14 Hours A Day Of Live Programming - NBC News Now will expand to 14 hours a day of live programming and add a two-hour show hosted by Christine Romans to its lineup. Starting in the summer, Ro...
CultureMap Houston

Chef-loved Houston fisherman opens affordable seafood restaurant in Third Ward - A fisherman who’s a favorite of Houston chefs is getting into the restaurant business. Frederick McBride, better known as “Captain Fred,” will open *Captai...
Vox

8 ways to zone out and relax that don’t involve being on your phone - I’m constantly on a quest to reset the demoralizing relationship I have with my phone. I generally try to swap scrolling with another leisurely activity — ...
Dissent Magazine

Building a Post-Trump Foreign Policy - Progressives need to ground international commitments to democratic accountability at home and engage with social movements abroad. Few political figures...
Mediaite

Jimmy Kimmel Ignores Eric Swalwell Rape Allegations and Resignation, Months After Launching His Gubernatorial Campaign on Show - Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ignored the rape allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), as well as the congressman's subsequent resignation. The pos...
SCOTUSblog

Court to contemplate SEC’s use of disgorgement in securities enforcement - Next week’s argument in Sripetch v SEC presents yet another chapter in the court’s sustained examination of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s use ...
Rallblog

Q&A | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Have a question for Ted and/or new co-host Jamarl Thomas? Join the hosts of “DeProgram” for a full hour of nothing but LIVE Q&A! Any topic, any question,...
Mediagazer

Google plans to replace Dynamic Search Ads with AI Max for Search, an AI tool that uses advertiser context, landing pages, and keywords, for all advertisers (Laurie Sullivan/MediaPost) - Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost: *Google plans to replace Dynamic Search Ads with AI Max for Search, an AI tool that uses advertiser context, landing pages, ...
ArcaMax

Rising Progressive Populist Revolt Stuns AI Profiteers - There's a clique of plutocratic, high-tech billionaires who think they're entitled to turn America's farmlands and rural communities into their personal do...
naked capitalism

Maine Gov. Mills Urged to Sign ‘Nation-Leading’ AI Data Center Moratorium - The Maine legislature wants to hit pause on data center buildouts. The governor's silence says she needs a big push to do the right thing.
Glasstire

Review: “The Things We Carry” at Un Grito Gallery - This article is part of a series of pieces authored by Vincent Solis, Contemporary Art Month’s 2026 Critical Writing Fellow. The Critical Writing Fellows...
Ian Welsh

Acknowledging the Human In Each Other - I’ve spent a lot of time around doctors and nurses and low level bureaucrats. Way too much time. I’ve learned a couple things as a result, however. You get...
memeorandum

A cautionary tale about tax cuts (Vox) - Vox: *A cautionary tale about tax cuts* — Americans are getting crankier about paying taxes. — Most people don't enjoy paying Uncle Sam, but for much...
Salon.com

Why Fox News is so mad at Abigail Spanberger - Virginia’s new governor accused of bait-and-switch by right-wing media
Daily Howler

DIAGNOSIS: We don't know what we're talking about! - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2026* *Neither do Baker's dozens:* We start today with a restatement of our own general assumptions: First, we assume that Mary ...
First Draft

Unlovable Nachos - It's not just the Tates. Fieri really doesn't care who he can use to make a buck.
El Paso Matters

El Paso Science Festival returns; Third Thursdays activate Downtown Arts District - The El Paso Science Festival and Third Thursdays lead a week of events, from cultural festivals and art openings to outdoor activities and community fun...
Courthouse News

TMZ in DC: How congressional staff are bracing for the gossip outlet’s descent on Washington - The celebrity news organization unveiled its new Capitol Hill team this week to much online fanfare — but aides to members of Congress say they have mixed ...
Mondoweiss

How Zionism’s anti-Jewish logic led Israel to bomb an Iranian synagogue - [image: Scene from the the destruction of the Rafi-Nia synagogue in Tehran from an Israeli bombing, on April 7, 2026. (Photo shared via MB Ghalibaf on soci...
The Root

11 Reasons *Love Jones *Is a Romance for The Ages - The 1997 romantic comedy still gives fans the feels nearly three decades later, but star Nia Long says the film was a box office flop. Read more...
Democracy Now!

"The Future Is Peace": Maoz Inon & Aziz Abu Sarah on Israelis and Palestinians Working Together - Maoz Inon’s parents were killed in the October 7 attacks in 2023. Aziz Abu Sarah’s brother died after being tortured in an Israeli prison. The two have clo...
Rewire

Court Reform Is the Only Real Exit from Today’s Political Hellscape - Opinion: The problem starts and ends with Democrats' unwillingness to wield their power and money—whether they want to admit it or not. The post Court Re...
Independent Political Report

John Morgan Will Not Run for Florida Governor, Moves to Start New Party - Attorney John Morgan said this week he will not run for governor of Florida and will instead move forward with earlier announced plans to organize a new ...
The Conversation

Why Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon prayer services challenge traditional notions of separation of church and state – but might be blessed by the Roberts Supreme Court - When government officials hold prayer services, quote scripture and engage in religious proselytizing at the workplace, is it religious freedom – or an old...
Countercurrents

Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill Civilians and Police Amid Continued Ceasefire Violations - A series of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed multiple Palestinians, including children and police personnel, amid ongoing violations of th...
Techdirt.

‘Trump Phone’ Sees Price Hike, But Still No Release Date (Or Actual Phone) - Last year the fraud-prone Trump organization announced a half-assed wireless phone company. As we noted at the time, calling this a “phone company” was gen...
Space City Weather

Here’s what to expect this weekend as a front moves in to Houston - In brief: Houston faces four more warm and humid days before a cool front swoops into the city on Saturday, likely during the evening hours, bringing a hea...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Humpday 2026 Is Particularly Taxing - Today is Humpday, but it’s also Tax Day, and so since there are cartoons that will be out of date by tomorrow morning, we’ll take a hybrid comedy/politics ...
Axios

Airline mega-merger story is all about Trump - United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby floated the idea of a merger with American Airlines while meeting with President Trump last month, according to multiple ...
Mother Jones

The Scammers Profiting off Trump’s Immigration Crackdown - In March, a man who needed legal representation reached out to Maria Aguila’s law office in Jacksonville, Florida, asking to meet with an attorney. The onl...
World Socialist Web Site

Turkish coal miners march to Ankara for their unpaid wages - Following the arrest of Independent Miners’ Union leader Başaran Aksu, miners have launched their march to the capital.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Presidential Downballot Losses: An Updated History and a Look Ahead to Trump’s Second Term - Since World War II, presidents have consistently presided over losses for their party in downballot offices—in the Senate, the House, governorships and s...
High Country News

Interior Department crafted talking points for public lands sell-off agenda - The agency’s leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales. The post Interior Departme...
Dorf on Law

Growing Wheat or Weed is Economic Activity, and so is Making Booze - In 1868, Congress passed a law forbidding home distilleries. That law remains on the books today. It is codified as 26 U.S.C. § 5178(b). Last week, a una...
NPR's Health Shots

Fela Kuti is the first African artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame - In December, the late Nigerian superstar became the first African musician to get a Grammy lifetime achievement award. Now he's making history as well at R...
Skeptophilia

Lights in the Ozarks - I was chatting with a good friend and long-time reader of *Skeptophilia* about the difficulties of finding topics to write about six days a week, and right...
Political Wire

Trump Hints at War’s End - “President Donald Trump played down the prospect of renewed fighting in the war with Iran, even as questions remain over Tehran’s nuclear program and acces...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (4.15.26) - Wise words from Rebecca Gordon, Radley Balko, Karen Park, Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, Rebecca Solnit, Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, and Hanna Horvath.
Scheerpost.com

Two Railroads, One System: The Monopoly That Could Reshape America - Joshua Scheer At a moment when global instability is already rippling through supply chains, economies, and political systems, a quiet but potentially deva...
Off The Kuff

Whitmire waffles on ICE ordinance - Pathetic. And predictable. Mayor John Whitmire last week joined his City Council colleagues in voting to limit Houston police officers’ interactions with f...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
San Antonio Report

To make downtown cooler, Centro San Antonio aims to plant 1,000 more trees - Centro launched the Trees Everywhere Project along San Pedro Creek Culture Park with the debut of a new 2,000-gallon watering truck. ----------------------...
ProPublica

Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes. - The post Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrested Over 800 Immigrants, Records Show. Only 2% of the Arrests Were for Violent Crimes. appeared first on P...
Crooked Timber

Music break: Baba Yetu - Do you know Baba Yetu? Take three minutes and listen to this performance of Baba Yetu. (Our ancient blogging platform doesn’t like embedded video, so you’...
Grist

Hurricane Helene ravaged farmers’ topsoil. They’re still fighting to build it back. - "We're dirt farmers. Our primary job is to tend the dirt. That's the basis of everything."
The AltWorld

Iran’s Petroyuan Tollbooth Inadvertently Put China In A Zugzwang - China is still extremely vulnerable to the US Navy’s blackmail 13 years after BRI was announced due […] The post Iran’s Petroyuan Tollbooth Inadvertently...
Crooked Media

JD Vance’s Global Humiliation - The post JD Vance’s Global Humiliation appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Video of the day -- Exodus - A strange piece of fantasy from France -- there's no dialogue, so it doesn't matter if you don't understand French. Use fullscreen.
Counterpunch

Greater North America and the US Government’s New Regional Geography - Just over a month has passed since the first missiles of Operation Epic Fury killed, on the very first day, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, 150 schoolgirls ...
jobsanger

Trump, The Great Dealmaker, Turns Out To Be An Easy Mark And A Loser -
Informed Comment

The Iraq and the Iran Wars: Parallel Strategic Pathologies - The dysfunction of the renewed war in Iran reminds me of what I saw as a strategist in Baghdad in 2004
OpEd News

Spies, Secrets and Revolution: The Art of the Un-King - What the American Revolution's secret spy ring reveals about wisdom, integrity, and rejecting unchecked power-- the very essence of the Un-King.
Wolf Street

Car & Truck Inflation in America: Cost of Vehicle Ownership Soared by 36% since 2020 - Prices of new & used vehicles, insurance, gasoline, maintenance & repairs, parts & accessories, and fees.
Brad Blog

Midterm Elections Reality Check: 'BradCast' 4/14/2026 - On today's BradCast: With voters in Hungary demonstrating on Sunday that the ballot box can be mightier than the autocrat, and with shake-ups in the U.S. H...
Trivial Knot

War mismanagement, in Helldivers - Helldivers 2 is a game that takes a significant amount of inspiration from Starship Troopers, being basically a satire of fascist propaganda. Players take ...
Portside

Mark Ruffalo and Emma Thompson Among 1,000+ Signatories on Open Letter Opposing Paramount’s Warner Buyout - Mark Ruffalo and Emma Thompson Among 1,000+ Signatories on Open Letter Opposing Paramount’s Warner Buyout Marti Tue, 04/14/2026 - 20:40
Progressive.org

Where Everybody Knows Your Name - At Fountain House, an inclusive community for people living with mental illness offers an alternative to hospitals and social isolation.
Antiwar.com

Modi’s Silence: How India Submits to Washington Taking Everything - In early March, a U.S. submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. The ship, a frigate called the IRIS Dena, had been docked at an Indian p...
Election Law Blog

“DOJ moves to undo Jan. 6 rioters’ convictions for seditious conspiracy” - Disgusting: Federal prosecutors are seeking to wipe out the seditious conspiracy convictions of 12 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who helped ...
Claytoonz

Woke Pope - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Ballot Access News

Hawaii Senate Amends Bill that Eases Definition of a Qualified Party - On April 14, the Hawaii Senate passed HB 1716 after amending it. This is the bill that eases the definition of a qualified party. Because the Senate amende...
Workers World

Behind the Artemis moon mission: The race for moondust - [image: Behind the Artemis moon mission: The race for moondust] Crystal containing helium-3, smaller than the width of a human hair, collected by China dur...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition - Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a...
WhoWhatWhy

Orbán’s Defeat in Hungary’s Elections Sparks a Wide Range of Reactions - [image: Peter Magyar, election victory, Hungary, parliamentary election] Even among the many celebrants, there’s a spectrum of concerns about what comes ne...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
The NM Political Report

Sam Bregman’s campaign laid off staff ahead of finance deadline - [image: Sam Bregman] By Pat Davis — In the days leading up to a critical fundraising deadline, Sam Bregman’s campaign for governor laid off staff in areas...
Undernews

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Popular Resistance

Kuwait Must Release The Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin - Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, a fearless Palestinian-American journalist whose writing and reports are defined by unparalleled integrity, depth and eloquence, was ...
Church and State

Teens and young adults are driving the demand for online abortion pills via telehealth – new research - The main reason for this is the steep rise in medication abortion services through telehealth, which has expanded access for tens of thousands of people.
Bracing Views

Unjust Wars - The Catholic Church Takes a Stand BILL ASTORE APR 14, 2026 In the New York Times send-out this morning, the pope and president are described as “clashing.”...
See You In 2020

The “Uyghur genocide” lie’s role in the next big war, and in the socialist movement’s internal conflict - When Washington shifts towards open war with China, this will come at a moment when “humanitarian” imperialism has made a comeback. Trump 2.0’s policy o...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Guts Retail Marijuana Sales Bills — Signs Others Into Law - [image: The Great Seal of Virginia against a background of cannabis leaves][image: The Great Seal of Virginia against a background of cannabis leaves]"Fur...
Angry Bear

March existing home sales demonstrate a new equilibrium in the housing market - – by New Deal democrat Sometimes there just isn’t much drama in economic numbers, and that was certainly the case for this month’s edition of existing h...
Duck of Minerva

The Gulf is a vital lynchpin of global stability, and it goes far beyond energy - The US and Israel’s war on Iran and regional instability threatens to disrupt critical global migration patterns. These serve as vital pressure release val...
Texas Standard

New book spotlights seldom-told stories of the ‘Wild Women for Good’ behind Texas conservation - Author Jennifer Bristol focused both on bigger names — like Lady Bird Johnson and Laura Bush — as well as those whose achievements needed digging into arch...
Capital & Main

ICE Has Arrested Dozens of Delivery Drivers at the Gates of a San Diego Military Base - Advocates warn immigrants to avoid military bases when working for apps like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash. The post ICE Has Arrested Dozens of Delivery Driver...
Bonddad

March existing home sales demonstrate a new equilibrium in the housing market - - *by New Deal democrat* Sometimes there just isn’t much drama in economic numbers, and that was certainly the case for this month’s edition of exis...
Texas Observer

Denton Promised Net Zero. Then It Kept Building Roads. - If you have driven anywhere in the city of Denton over the past few years, you have noticed it. Orange barrels. Lane closures. Freshly churned earth wher...
The Progressive Wing

4/14 – 4/15 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s God Complex Is Getting Even Worse -
Earth 911

Take Action on Arbor Day to Help Our Planet - There are certain things in nature we take for granted. We wake up and the... The post Take Action on Arbor Day to Help Our Planet appeared first on Ear...
Common Dreams

The Terrifying Ridiculous Spectacle - Whew. It's been a time: "Open the Fuckin' Strait," "A whole civilization will die," puerile threats, boundless botches and cover-ups, deranged lurches in...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'WNBA's Brianna Turner - Policies scapegoating trans women and athletes are distractions, don't protect women's sports' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - WNBA star Brianna Turner *I'm a WNBA player. Don't use athletes like me to exclude trans women* - * The IOC has a documented history of refusing to actua...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE preliminarily approves social studies TEKS, reading list - Your April SBOE Rundown Texas Freedom Network, our Teach the Truth coalition, Texas Rising students, and other education advocates organized a strong, un...
Liberation News

High gas prices now brought to you by the U.S. Navy - After telling the country we needed to keep the war going to stop Iran from blockading the Strait of Hormuz, Donald Trump announced that he is… blockading ...
The Texas Signal

What Happens If Texas Experiences Another Disaster? - Responding to and managing disasters is the very mission of FEMA, but the agency that thousands of Texans have relied on in the past is not the agency of t...
Seeing the Forest

Rock Lobster - The thing about this video is this could be any garage band in any local club at any time.
Earthworks

New Mexico Just Made Polluters Pay for Clean Air - We did it! After decades of stagnant fees and a growing oil and gas industry, New Mexico’s Environmental Improvement Board … The post New Mexico Just Ma...
Project Censored

US Militarism in Latin America and Corporate Colonialism in Honduras - While corporate media focuses on the 24-hour wartime news cycle, a lot falls through the cracks, entire continents actually.First up this week, we welcom...
The Grayzone

UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout - Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in solitary confinement. If convicted, the six Pale...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
The Greanville Post

Rescuing TGP from a severe attack. - This option only applies to Single Post Template Styles 1 & 2. if you wish to hide Featured Images from automatically appearing on all posts, you can selec...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Reign Of Terror On Iran Is Blowing Up The World Economy - “Coming on top of the Ukraine and tariff wars, the Iran war is shaping up to be the biggest stagflationary shock the world has seen in five decades.” (Kenn...
The Militant

Get all US troops, bombers, warships out of the Mideast! - Shaky ceasefire agreed on, but fighting still continues Tehran and Washington agreed to a two-week ceasefire April 7 just an hour before the deadline set b...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 10, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio April 10, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/10/2026 - 20:41 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

When the End isn't the End: Audio From A Collapsing State - The "ceasefire" is already fraying. We need to talk about what comes next.
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay Number 9 - *The gospels don’t show a holy hero who was a superior moral * *teacher* Mark Twain is commonly credited with saying that the best cure for Christianit...
Media Lens

Nuclear Genocide – The Threat And The Ceasefire - Given the ‘mainstream’ structural filters that reflexively whitewash the crimes of ‘The Good Guys’ – ‘us’, by doctrinal fiat – we have often wondered how t...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

ANNOUNCEMENT: "First They Came for My College" Documentary - *A new documentary, First They Came for My College, is drawing national attention for its powerful portrayal of the transformation of New College of Florid...
Environment Texas

Your recycling questions answered - Straight answers to Texans’ most common recycling questions—what works, what doesn’t, and why it matters. The post Your recycling questions answered appe...
MintPress News

Iranian Jewish Association Describe Israel as “Ominous Zionist Regime” After Israeli Strikes Destroy Historic Synagogue on Passover - “We are Iranian Jews and we are always ready to sacrifice our lives for our homeland,” Bihdad Mikhail, managing director of the Tehran Jewish Association...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Sludge

AI Super PACs Are Unleashing Millions to Tilt Primaries in Their Favor - So far, the industry groups have won nearly all the races they’ve thrown their money at, helping to advance allies who could help shape AI legislation in t...
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: The MAGA Plan to ‘Take Out’ Progressive Leaders Worldwide - A few weeks ago, Viktor Orbán reminisced about the election of the current American president before a cheering crowd at a conference in Budapest organiz...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Capitalism: 404 - 12×18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first got the word going around that the Citibank building in Dubai had been bombed, my first thought ...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Moon is Full - With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode ...
Texas Environmental News

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Discourse

Trump's Genocidal Threats Can't Hide the Fact that He's Losing This War (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: Pam Bondi's ouster, who we think Trump will fire next, and Jenna Bush Hager's book club
Greg Palast

Trump, the Pirate of Hormuz - It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized...
Alas, a Blog

Don’t Call Them Concentration Camps! - This comic is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: What’s a better challenge than drawing a period piece? Drawing a period piece where the reader is supp...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE EDITION. - *The original orchestrations are grand, but this is just irresistible.* Pam Bondi’s departure is meaningless — Tubby has a huge crabbucket of equally loat...
Lowering the Bar

Still Illegal to Drive (a Horse) Under the Influence in Kentucky - [image: riding a horse backwards]One of the few states where this is pretty clear.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales to help fight decision by Trump Administration to cut $7.4 million from HOPE for Small Farm Sustainability in the Valley - The non-profit Holistic Organic Practical Education (HOPE) for Small Farm Sustainability, headquartered in Harlingen, on Monday, March 30, 2026 announced t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Socialist

Roger Williams Net Worth 2026: The $74.66M Auto Dealer’s Fortune - Table of Contents The Foundation: Williams Auto Group’s Enduring $34.2 Million Value and Legacy Real Estate Empire: A $33 Million Portfolio Rooted Deep in ...
LareDOS

Laredo Center for the Arts vandalized: the violent disarray of so tranquil a place for the arts bespoke a disconcerting rage - Person of interest in custody
TalkLeft

Pam Bondi Fired, Todd Blanche to Replace Her - The rumors are true. Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi. Todd Blanche, one of his personal lawyers from his criminal trial in New York and a former federal...
The Rag Blog

JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity - By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Jan Lance...
Consent Factory, Inc.

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - The House Negroes have been very active of late. As a result, the House Negro power rankings have to be constantly updated. Here goes. 10. *Tim Scott:...
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
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...
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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
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...
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 Reality-Based Community

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CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

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

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

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
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...
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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

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

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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