Brains and Eggs: Sunday Evening 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Verge

Google’s Pixel Tablet is $190 off for a limited time - During the most recent Prime Day, the Google Pixel Tablet with Wi-Fi and 256GB of storage briefly dropped to just $309 ($190 off) — but the deal disappeare...
memeorandum

Tillis declares he won't 'go nuclear' to change rules to speed up Trump nominees (Alexander Bolton/The Hill) - Alexander Bolton / The Hill: *Tillis declares he won't ‘go nuclear’ to change rules to speed up Trump nominees* — Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said Thursd...
The Hill

Military walks back plan to discontinue some weather data - The military is walking back its previously announced plans to discontinue some weather forecast data after public pushback. A new statement says that the ...
Salon.com

Trump delays tariff hike on Mexican imports - Trump's threatened 30% tariff on Mexican goods would have started Friday
Daily Dot

“Walmart just called ICE on me”: What’s going on with the TikTok videos claiming they were fired by Walmart and Target? - [image: walmart target employee ice deportation scam on tiktok] Lately, a strange trend has been taking over TikTok. If one looks up “ICE deportations at...
Common Dreams

Funding Cuts Amidst Conflict Leave Sudanese Starving, Women and Children Particularly Affected - Conflict continues to ravage Sudan, driving over *25.6 million people*, 54% of the population, into hunger. Of these, 3.7 million are children aged below...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
San Antonio Current

Bipartisan trio of San Antonio council members accuses mayor of violating city ordinance with rule change - A bipartisan coalition of City Council members has submitted a memo to the City Clerk to demand a special meeting next month to discuss Mayor Gina Ortiz J...
Alternet

'It's well past time': White House insists Trump deserves Nobel Prize — in two categories - President Donald Trump has long craved a Nobel Peace Prize, and has bemoaned that President Barack Obama was awarded the honor but he never has. Now, it ...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party Chair Outlines 2025 Organizing Strategy in Message to Supporters - Constitution Party National Committee Chair Justin Magill issued a message this month urging supporters to use the 2025 off-cycle to expand local organiz...
Mediagazer

Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. $26.8B est. (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Apple reports Q3 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 13.3% YoY to $27.42B, vs. ...
Al Jazeera English

Advocates hail ‘historic’ progress after US Senate vote on arms to Israel - Supporters of Palestinian rights say although bill to block arms to Israel failed to pass, vote shows 'shift' on issue.
Raw Story

MAGA senator shrugs after being caught violating stock trade laws for years - Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) violated federal law by dodging reporting requirements for lawmakers to reveal their stock trades, according to a new report...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump signs executive order to bring back presidential fitness test in schools - The physical test, which included a one-mile run, sit-ups, pull-ups and push-ups, was suspended 12 years ago Donald Trump signed an executive order on Th...
Courthouse News

House Dems push Senate to reject Jeanine Pirro as US attorney for DC - The Senate Judiciary Committee last week advanced the former Fox News host’s appointment as D.C.’s top federal prosecutor on a party-line vote, and she app...
Mediaite

C-SPAN Cameras Catch Elizabeth Warren Absolutely Wipe Out on Senate Floor — And MAGA Goes Wild - A minor tumble taken by Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Senate floor on Thursday set the MAGA world ablaze with mockery on social media. The post C-SPAN Cameras...
Second Nexus

Newsom Epically Rips 'Dumb Dumb' Vance For Claiming Gerrymandering In California Is 'Outrageous' - The animosity between the administration of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump and the state of California continues to escalate, but with Texas now ...
NPR's Health Shots

Living around polluted air increases the risk of developing dementia, study says - A new study finds a strong relationship between exposure to air pollution and the risk of developing dementia, while air quality regulations are being weak...
The Week

How does the EPA plan to invalidate a core scientific finding? - Zeldin says he's 'driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion." But is his plan to undermine a key Obama-era greenhouse gas emissions po...
Houston Public Media

Texas lawmakers move to restore AG Ken Paxton’s power to prosecute election fraud - Proposed bills in the Texas House would restore the Attorney General's power to independently prosecute election fraud, mirroring a Senate plan that's alre...
Progressive.org

Trump Just Halted a Stride for Wage Equality - The squatter’s Department of Labor withdrew a rule that could have ended subminimum wages for workers with disabilities.
Techdirt.

Judge Pulls Opinion Full Of AI-Style Hallucinations, But No One Is Willing To Say It Was Written By AI - Let’s say you’re a federal judge, and you need to write an opinion about a securities case. You could do it the time-tested old-fashioned way: read the bri...
Rio Grande Guardian

King: Thankfully, state leaders have reversed course. They now understand the importance of certified teachers. - The executive director of Region One Education Service Center says the results are now in. Students do far better when taught by certified teachers. Th...
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE SCIENCE / It’s flooding down in Texas - Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far differe...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Greg Gutfeld won't discuss this tonight! - *THURSDAY, JULY 31, 2025* *Blue journalists won't discuss him:* The Washington Post had published a report about conditions at the gulag-adjacent confine...
Church and State

The mRNA Revolution Isn’t Over-Now It’s Targeting Cancer - How a recent study may have just opened the door to a universal cancer vaccine that trains your immune system to kill tumors.
Political Wire

Trump Lashes Out at Fed Chair with Stream of Insults - “President Trump on Thursday unleashed a fiery reaction after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady, blasting Fed chair Jerome Powell with a strea...
Discourse

The Worst Campaign Book Season of All Time Is Here - A feast for the middling political mind is just ahead, with upcoming releases from Kamala Harris, John Fetterman, and more.
The NM Political Report

Governor plans special session to shield New Mexicans from federal budget cuts - [image: Michelle Lujan Grisham] [image: Michelle Lujan Grisham] More than 760,000 New Mexicans who rely on Medicaid and food assistance could face benef...
CultureMap Houston

Liam Neeson spoofs his tough guy image in Naked Gun movie reboot - *The Naked Gun* series holds a place in the hearts of certain comedy fans, as the three films — made in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s — continued a tradition st...
Deadline Politics

Construction To Start On New White House Ballroom, Long Desired By Donald Trump - The White House unveiled plans for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom to be built on the East Wing, a project long desired by Donald Trump. Trump and other dono...
Wolf Street

PCE Inflation Accelerates in Services and Goods. What Powell Is Waiting For - Not everything rose. Prices fell for new vehicles, auto parts, auto accessories, and phones.
Futurism

There's a Very Basic Flaw in Mark Zuckerberg's Plan for Superintelligent AI - This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision for the future of AI, a "personal intelligence" that can help you "achieve your goals, create what ...
OpEd News

Trump's Authoritarian Overreach and the Shameful Militarization of Los Angeles - Over 40 days and at a cost of $134 million to taxpayers, the troops accomplished next to nothing.
Slate

The Double Duplex Is Weird, Overstuffed, and Exactly What L.A. Needs Right Now - City officials tried to rein in McMansions. They got these Frankenstein apartments instead.
Election Law Blog

D.C. Bar Committee Recommends that Jeffrey Clark, Who Tried to Help Trump Subvert the 2020 Presidential Election, Be Disbarred - From the report and recommendation: Having reviewed the record in this matter, including the parties’ arguments before the Board, we reject Respondentís ...
American Prospect

‘Trump Accounts’ Cannot Possibly Replace Social Security - Today on TAP: This is just another tax break for the rich.
El Paso Matters

Is there hope for Pellicano Drive? A pending agreement could restart expansion – at least on a portion of it - The long-stalled expansion could resume if the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority, county commissioners and the surety company on the hook since J....
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - Menzies Aviation workers stage walkouts at airports in Portugal over pay and conditions; ongoing cost-of-living protests continue in Iran over power cuts, ...
WhoWhatWhy

One Tech Tip: Can You Tell If That Song AI-Generated? Here Are Things To Check - [image: tech, AI, music, computer-generated or original material] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our reader...
Mondoweiss

New York Times: Israel isn’t starving healthy children to death. Just the ones with preexisting conditions. - [image: UNRWA health staff screen and treat children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) at an UNRWA Medical Point located in an UNRWA school-tu...
Scheerpost.com

Bob’s Newswire: July 28, 2025 - July 31, 2025 Gaza Genocide and the Middle East Trump and US Politics China July 28, 2025 Gaza Genocide and the Middle East
Reform Austin

Unregulated Development at Core of Texas Flood Tragedy, Experts Warn - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Texas lawmakers hold hearings on flood preparedness in the wake of the deadly July 4th weeke...
Ballot Access News

California Gov. Newsom Threatens US House Redistricting Arms Race if Texas Moves Forward With Its Plan - Here is the story about this overall regrettable development from the Texas Tribune. A silver lining from these sorts of maneuvers may be a move toward the...
Angry Bear

The bottom line in Q2 GDP; front-running, payback, and contrasting long leading indicators - – by New Deal democrat Today’s GDP report for Q2 was pretty much as we expected, i.e., payback from the front-running of import tariffs in Q1. But as us...
Axios

Trump to approve new Gaza aid plan after Witkoff visits Friday: White House - President Trump is expected to approve a new Gaza humanitarian aid plan on Friday after his envoy Steve Witkoff visits the enclave and briefs him about t...
First Draft

Republicans Are Not Stupid. They’re Lying. - Stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
naked capitalism

Syria, the Middle East and the Question of the Nation-State - Syria’s push for a nation-state raises questions: is this model fit for a region where it has brought more conflict than stability?
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - July 31, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump EPA moves to kill its own authority to regulate gr...
Consortium News

Vijay Prashad: Rising Sovereignty of the Global South - Though still weighed down by debt and austerity, developing countries are beginning to chart alternative paths as a new mood takes hold in the Global South...
Idavox

Idavox is on Substack – with a New Podcast Launching Aug. 1! - It has been a whole month and some change since we have had a new... The post Idavox is on Substack – with a New Podcast Launching Aug. 1! appeared first...
Claytoonz

Irritating Screechy Blowhole - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The Daily Poster

Guilty By Chatbot - Judges appear to be using artificial intelligence to issue rulings — and the errors are adding up.
Mother Jones

How a Nazi-Obsessed Amateur Historian Went From Obscurity to the Top of Substack - Nearly a decade ago, Darryl Cooper, then a little-known amateur historian, agreed to appear on Rebel Yell, a self-described “Southern Nationalist podcast o...
The Root

The Most Expensive Black Celebrity Homes, Ranked by Price - From Eddie Murphy to Oprah Winfrey, these 13 celebrity homes simply put the rest to shame! Read more...
Texas Standard

Texas food banks are low on supplies, and demand is expected to grow - The federal government has pulled back on the resources it sends to food banks.
Capital & Main

Unplanned Parenthood and Other Horrors Confront Medi-Cal Patients - Attorney General Rob Bonta has joined a national lawsuit to halt Republicans’ war on Californians. The post Unplanned Parenthood and Other Horrors Confro...
The Grayzone

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation partner endorsed Hitler, called Muslims ‘rapists’ and Palestine a ‘shit hole’ - Matthew Murphy, a former Green Beret and president of Sentinel Foundation, has recently praised Hitler on Instagram and claimed to be conducting ‘manhunt...
Ian Welsh

Oddly, Canada Has More Leverage In A Trade Deal Than Anyone Except Maybe China - Trump: Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Ca...
Texas Observer

‘Shaky’ Audio Series Is a Messy, Real Look at Disabled Life - There are many words you could use to describe Nicole Tompkins, the disabled protagonist of “Shaky,” Audible’s recent 9-part comedy audio series: passion...
Dissident Voice

Genocide is Psychopathy - Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau declares, “I am a Zionist.” Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a particular group. When it i...
Project Censored

The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand - In August 2019, an influential inside-the-Beltway platform called War on the Rocks published a proposal to automate fighting nuclear wars with artificial...
Undernews

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Crooked Media

Is the new left party what the UK needs? - The post Is the new left party what the UK needs? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Daily Cartoonist

Cagle’s Classroom Cartoons - Daryl Cagle proudly notes that his syndicate is the exclusive image provider to Cartoons for the Classroom: You may remember Newspapers in Edication (NIE) ...
Bonddad

June personal income and spending: very weak as payback for front-running continues, meriting a yellow flag - - *by New Deal democrat* In my conclusion last month, I wrote “In the first two months of Q2, total real spending has declined by -0.8%, while serv...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gaslighting: How Trump and Corporations Manufacture Self-Serving ‘Pseudo-Realities’ - This week, the EU agreed to 15% tariffs with the United States, half of President Donald Trump’s threatened rate, before the August 1 deadline. With Mexi...
SCOTUSblog

Will the Supreme Court hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case? - While President Donald Trump fields questions about a potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the Supreme Court is also playing a role in the debate over...
Glasstire

Top Five: July 31, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. The Wyeths: Three Generations: Works from the Bank of A...
Rallblog

Transcript: DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou – Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - Ted Rall: Hey there. I’m Ted Rall, and I’m here for DeProgram along with John Kiriakou. He’s the CIA whistleblower. I’m the editorial cartoonist. Thank y...
Rewire

Federal Judge Issues New Order Protecting All Planned Parenthood Clinics From Medicaid ‘Defunding’ - The ruling is a “powerful reminder that patients, not politics, should guide health care,” Dominique Lee, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood League ...
Dorf on Law

Down Goes Brown - Yesterday, Brown University became the third Ivy League institution to sign a settlement agreement with the Trump administration. Its deal is quite simil...
Democracy Now!

"Total, Random Chaos" of Trump Tariffs Are Not Rebalancing U.S. Trade: Lori Wallach, Rethink Trade - President Donald Trump is standing by his August 1 deadline for other countries to reach new trade agreements with the United States or face steep new tari...
The Conversation

Roman Empire and the fall of Nero offer possible lessons for Trump about the cost of self-isolation - Nero, Rome’s emperor from 54 to 68 C.E., rose to power at a young age and remained focused on himself, letting the needs of citizens fall to the wayside.
ArcaMax

There Won't Be Nannies - When Elon Musk and his first wife talked about how many children they would have, Justine reportedly said she wanted one or two. "But if I could afford nan...
Space City Weather

After Houston’s hottest day of the year, rain chances start to increase - In brief: Houston’s high temperature hit 101 degrees Wednesday with modestly drier air. Now, as tropical moisture moves into the region we will see increas...
Vox

Why are American kids getting sicker? - This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. One of the central claims that R...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 12 High-Impact Changes To Reduce Your Pet’s Carbon Footprint - While pets can impact the natural world, there are actions you can take to reduce... The post Guest Idea: 12 High-Impact Changes To Reduce Your Pet’s Car...
The Smirking Chimp

The Fine Print of Trump Fascism -
Infidel753

Mendacious memes - Meme images seem to add credibility to a statement, in the eyes of many internetters. Slap a sentence across a picture (even one of no obvious relevance),...
Skeptophilia

Rain Woman - I was asked a curious question by a loyal reader of *Skeptophilia*, one that intrigued me enough I thought it was worth devoting an entire post to. Here'...
Off The Kuff

And just like that we have a map - That sure was fast. Good thing all those hearings are over. Texas GOP lawmakers released their first draft of the state’s new congressional map Wednesday, ...
San Antonio Report

West Side Tejana trailblazer’s legacy honored at weekend mariachi competition - Voz de la Paloma honors Tejana trailblazer Beatriz Llamas Saturday at Palo Alto College Performing Arts Building. ------------------------------ West Side T...
ProPublica

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” - by Nicole Foy and McKenzie Funk This story contains videos and descriptions of violent arrests. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abu...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
Progressive Army

Un millonario pronóstico para el campo ilusiona al Gobierno: calculan que ingresarán U$S 28.800 millones extra - A través de su modelo AGMEMOD, la Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario (BCR) proyectó un incremento del 8% en la producción agrícola para la Argentina hacia 2035, ...
Grist

The USDA announced the cancellation of $148M in ‘woke’ grants. Then it went dark. - Farms, ranches, and food organizations brace for cuts, but the federal agency won’t say who’s next.
High Country News

In wildfire-prone Washington, ‘collaboration’ on forest management gives way to timber interests - Forest collaboratives formed in the wake of the Pacific Northwest’s ‘Timber Wars’ have become major power players operating largely out of the public ey...
Portside

This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years - This Is the Moment Democrats Have Been Talking About for Years Mark Brody Thu, 07/31/2025 - 02:12
Workers World

PDF of July 31 issue - [image: PDF of July 31 issue] Download the PDF Opposition to U.S. imperialism grows IOF genocide in Gaza Is internal resistance possible? On the 35th anniv...
Counterpunch

Election 2026: Here Come the Gerrymanders - It’s only mid-2025, but both “major” US political parties are already well into their campaigns to win US House and Senate seats in the 2026 midterm elec...
jobsanger

It's The Worst Fighting The Worst -
Informed Comment

How the Palestinian West Bank is being Annexed by Israel, with Tacit US Support - Behind the fog of war and the obliteration of Gaza, Israel’s far-right cabinet has escalated the annexation of the West Bank to Israel. New York (Special t...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Dark Omens of a New Crusade - Nina talks about how a recent, barely noticed OPM federal workplace guidance may signal the next fundie fascist crusade the Trump regime intends to condu...
Crooked Timber

Moral Deskilling – or, why you spend more time on admin than doing your job. - At the Sydney Gleebooks launch of Graeme Turner’s new book Broken, an audience member said: I spend more time on admin than doing my job. I raised the micr...
Liberation News

Trump’s attack on trans health care aims to divide working people - Trans people, immigrants, Medicaid recipients: we are all under attack by the same enemy.
Popular Resistance

US Security Contractor: ‘I Saw Israel Commit War Crimes At Gaza Aid Sites’ - A former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says he saw Israeli soldiers commit war crimes at the aid distribution sites being run by ...
slacktivist

Innocence, identity, and blood libel (part 2) - It's all about pride and moral anxiety and Satanic baby-killers.
The Greanville Post

ORANGEUTAN: Mass m*rder in the golf bag - MOATS—Trump’s golf trips, particularly to his Turnberry course, are condemned as extravagant and funded by British and American taxpayers. Despite claims o...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander - A proposed Republican gerrymander of Texas could allow them to gain five extra seats, although not all of these gains are guaranteed. The post Texas Repu...
The Texas Signal

First Redistricting Map Revealed - The new congressional districts would potentially net Republicans five more seats by carving out districts in North Texas, Austin and Houston
Krebs on Security

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites - Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people wit...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Authoritarianism as Clarity: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The masks have come off
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Texas Republicans release proposed congressional map - As expected, the first stab at redistricting from the GOP legislators in Austin would give (presumably) the party five additional seats in the U.S. Congr...
Sludge

AIPAC-Funded Reps Propose Bill to Block Financial Aid at Colleges Boycotting Israel - A new bill from Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) would strip federal aid to universities that engage in the BDS movement or limit ...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes on Matriarchy - You don’t actually understand an idea until you know its history. That lesson is one that most people have been doing their level best not to learn in rece...
Trivial Knot

Waking up, past tense - Do you like waking up? Yeah, me neither. I prefer that all my waking be done strictly in the past tense, i.e. to be woke. I’m looking at my drafts bin and ...
Antiwar.com

Entering a Golden Age for War Profiteers - When, in his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the unwarranted influence wielded by a partnership between the ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump-vangelical pastor Kenneth Copeland want angels to go after those calling Trump out' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Kenneth Copeland Calls On Angels To 'Pull Those Devils Down That Are Attacking Our President' *-* Unlike some of my LGBTQ brothers and sisters, I belie...
See You In 2020

Russia’s long march to victory over Ukrainian fascism, & the test it’s created for all anti-imperialists - The start of Russia’s military operation against the Ukrainian fascist regime represented a test for the communist movement. This test has compelled the...
Alas, a Blog

Comic: We’ve Got Nothing Against Immigrants, Except the Immigrant Ones - I’m chuffed to again collaborate with R.E. Ryan, whose last cartoon with me was “Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless” over a year ago. I love the way his drawing r...
Black Agenda Report

Trump SMASHES EU, Threatens Ibrahim Traoré, Putin and BRICS w/ David Hundeyin, Ajamu Baraka Margaret Kimberley - Trump SMASHES EU, Threatens Ibrahim Traoré, Putin and BRICS w/ David Hundeyin, Ajamu Baraka Margaret Kimberley bareditors Wed, 07/30/2025 - 00:00 Danny Hai...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
The Progressive Wing

7/28-31 News Roundup and Open Thread - Finishing off July. Summer is flying by.
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
The AltWorld

El papel de EE. UU. en el conflicto entre Tailandia y Camboya - Brian Berletic es un exmarine estadounidense, autor y experto en relaciones internacionales. Berletic analiza la influencia intrusiva […] The post El pap...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
MintPress News

GAMAAN: The Polling Op That’s Gaslighting the West About Iran - An investigation reveals how the influential Dutch group GAMAAN uses flawed polling methods and collaborates with U.S.-funded organizations pushing regim...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
NORML

Honoring Cannabis Trailblazers in the Disability Community: A Disability Pride Month Reflection - [image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabis leaves][image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabi...
LareDOS

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
The Militant

SWP supports, builds union fights, campaigns against deportations - There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its wo...
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
Debunking Christianity

Religion Survives Because Humans Live in Vast Bubbles of Ignorance - *Reducing your own bubble requires determination, effort, and courage* It’s inevitable actually: when we are born, we know nothing about the cosmos, and ...
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...
Lowering the Bar

Defendant Recruited Seven Actors to “Testify” in Fraud Trial - [image: image from a "12 Angry Men" play]"Are you a real lawyer?" one of them asked defense counsel.
Bracing Views

Trinity, 80 Years Later - Haunted by Thermonuclear Nightmares BILL ASTORE JUL 22, 2025 This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic de...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Reading the Pictures

Essential Images: 13 Scenes of Democracy Under Siege - From militarized raids to detention camps, these visuals expose and interrogate the country's slide into authoritarianism. The post Essential Images: 13 ...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
ROAR Magazine

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

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

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

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Moron Majority

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

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
The Disorder Of Things

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

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
The Socialist

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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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

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

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

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

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

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

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

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

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