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

Mediagazer

Filing: WBD president and CEO David Zaslav sold $195M+ worth of WBD stock since the company agreed to be acquired by Paramount; his latest sale totaled $21.7M (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Filing: WBD president and CEO David Zaslav sold $195M+ worth of WBD stock since the company agreed to be acquired by Paramount;...
Axios

"Rubio Realizing" memes become a White House birthday gift - Photo: Marc Caputo/Axios Marco Rubio has three official Trump administration jobs and a fourth unofficial title: Viral meme star. - He's been featured...
Courthouse News

Trump admin attempt to defund LA Homeless Services Authority blocked - "LAHSA may be dysfunctional. But thousands of unhoused individuals rely on these services," U.S. District Judge David Carter said.
Deadline Politics

Parties Lay Out Key Discovery And Other Dates For Pending Paramount-WBD Antitrust Trial - This week has been dominated by headlines about Paramount’s threat to leave California, by unions and other officials urging a settlement and by Capitol Hi...
Techdirt.

Texas Prosecutors Are Trying To Turn A Teenage Shooting Spree Into A Terrorism Case - This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. For decades, terrorism researchers have gene...
Houston Public Media

U.S. attorney confirms that FBI tests didn’t find meth in van driven by man fatally shot by ICE in Houston - Aaron Reitz did not reveal what FBI testing found in bags taken from Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van after his July 7 shooting death. Other men in the van sai...
The Hill

Who will replace Leavitt? Top contenders emerge - News of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt stepping down is still fresh, but political observers are already guessing and taking bets on who coul...
Crooked Media

MAGA Media’s Trump Slump - The post MAGA Media’s Trump Slump appeared first on Crooked Media.
San Antonio Current

Clavicular coming to Texas to frame-mog Aggies or whatever - Influencer Clavicular is coming to Texas A&M University on Aug. 28 as part of a college tour that needs to occur for some reason. Clavicular, known as “...
Alternet

Dana Bash traps MAGA lawmaker in a brutal showdown over alleged wife-beater - U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) did not take kindly to badgering from CNN anchor Dana Bash over $10,000 he received from Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), current...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US government extensively spied on anti-ICE protesters and leftwing groups, records reveal - DHS sent undercover agents to meetings, infiltrated chats and obtained financial records in vast operation into groups opposing Trump’s immigration crack...
The Daily Poster

This Bernie Organizer Is Coming For A “DeSantis Democrat” - Democrats keep losing Florida. DSA-endorsed Oliver Larkin believes he knows why — and that his insurgent campaign against Rep. Jared Moskowitz can turn the...
IVN

California’s Election Referees Wear Party Jerseys. Two Amendments Aim to Change That. - California legislators introduce two constitutional amendments to remove party control from elections: one making the secretary of state a nonpartisan offi...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Frontera Fellows turn public service lessons into projects for El Paso - Frontera Fellows are applying lessons from El Paso leaders to projects focused on transportation, literacy, youth civic engagement and support for migra...
Ian Welsh

Yes, There Is Reason To Believe Humans Can Do Better - Had a commenter in the last post say that humans always over-consume. When I said that commons had been stable for as long as centuries they answered that ...
Texas Standard

This beautiful beetle has some unique habits worth trying to spot - There are many varieties of tortoise beetles. Some are beautiful, some carry around their old exoskeletons and poop on their backs.
slacktivist

‘Goliath has cousins’ - Wherein I share some links and try to persuade you to watch an entire Sunday-morning sermon, which I realize is a big ask, but I still think you'll want to...
See You In 2020

DSA’s politically correct “anti-Zionism,” and the proletarian mass politics that will sweep it away - This is from my upcoming book “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why the pro-Palestine movement failed to stop a holocaust, & how it can still win.” Since Zoh...
CultureMap Houston

Texas-based all-you-can-eat Brazilian steakhouse fires up Katy location - Katy residents don’t have much longer to wait for caipirinhas and all-you-can-eat picanha. *Chama Gaúcha Brazilian Steakhouse* announced it will open its s...
World Socialist Web Site

The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war - We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from Augu...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli forces order families to evacuate homes in Qusra - Israeli forces have ordered Palestinian families in the occupied West Bank to evacuate their homes in Qusra
Eschaton

And Why Do You Think That's Hard Now - This example of what AI might be able to do on your phone for you is a good example of these people not understanding how things work and why. For exampl...
The Week

Medicare Part D: The cost of ending drug subsidies - Part D premiums could rise by $20 per month
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Pharaoh's name to be restored... - *THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026* *...to the walls of The Whathisname Center:* Kurt Andersen's essay appears today in print editions of the New York Times. A...
Slate

J.D. Vance Is Learning an Important Foreign Policy Lesson the Hard Way - This must have been an embarrassing moment for the vice president.
Vox

Karoline Leavitt and the trap of MAGA womanhood - This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. Karo...
Futurism

Giant Oil Tanker Runs Aground in Marine Nature Preserve, Spills Nonstop for Weeks - "A nightmare scenario is there's no adequate response to keep the worst ‌from happening." The post Giant Oil Tanker Runs Aground in Marine Nature Preserv...
Common Dreams

Progressives Win Pair of Victories at DNC Meeting; Committee Approves Resolutions for Abolishing ICE And Affirming Law That Could Bar Military Aid to Israel - The Democratic National Committee today greenlighted resolutions that call for abolishing ICE and implementing “full and consistent enforcement” of two f...
memeorandum

Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime (The White House) - The White House: *Expanding Capabilities to Combat Transnational Cyber-Enabled Crime* — THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY — THE SE...
The Verge

I finally found a robot lawnmower I’d trust with my yard - Robot lawnmowers are finally good enough to take a lot of work out of maintaining a yard, but they’re still not set-it-and-forget-it machines. If you don’t...
Scheerpost.com

Fidel Castro at 100: Reflections on His Life and Legacy - Fidel Castro’s revolution began in hope, hardened into authoritarianism and endured as an audacious rebuke to American empire. Steve Wasserman ScheerPost N...
naked capitalism

Nolan’s Odyssey Is About the End of an Epoch, Our Epoch - Nolan’s Odyssey is the work of a mature artist speaking about his time, perhaps to the detriment of the original work.
Brad Blog

‘Green News Report’ – August 13, 2026 - Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!…(Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: It’s not only the Lower 48 — July 2026 was the ho...
Novara Media

Whatever Happens, Farage Loses - Last month, Nigel Farage resigned as an MP, in the hope that winning a by-election would clear his name as questions mounted over his personal finances. Vo...
Texas Observer

The Takeover Tab: State-Imposed Superintendent Buyouts Cost School Districts Big Bucks - The State of Texas’s latest takeovers of four school districts, including Fort Worth, Beaumont, Lake Worth, and Connally Independent School Districts (IS...
Consortium News

Israeli Violence Pushing West Bank to Breaking Point - Israel can maintain the illusion that overwhelming violence has pacified Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, writes Ramzy Baroud. But military dominati...
The Greanville Post

Hacking America - JM—Iranian hackers have spent years quietly infiltrating networks in the US. IRGC Cyber groups such as Cyber Av3ngers and Mint Sandstorm specialize in brea...
The Root

The 5 Most Shocking Things Paris Jackson Revealed About Her Childhood With Michael Jackson - Paris Jackson is getting transparent about growing up as the daughter of her famous father Michael in a new interview. Here's what she had to say! Read m...
Election Law Blog

Alaska: “State continues Whittier voter misconduct prosecutions despite landmark U.S. Supreme Court citizenship ruling” - KTUU: The State of Alaska is doubling down on its criminal prosecution of nine American Samoan residents in Whittier, opposing a motion to dismiss that ...
ArcaMax

Are Mainstream Democrats Taking Back the Wheel? - You couldn't find a wackier candidate than Francesca Hong, the Democratic Socialist vying to become the governor of Wisconsin. She wanted to defund police ...
Salon.com

In protecting women from body-shaming, we lost something important - Scrutiny over Ariana Grande, Kaia Gerber and Jenna Ortega’s bodies exposes how little we’ve learned
Mother Jones

Senators Sound Alarm on Voter Intimidation in Nursing Homes - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, under Trump appointee Mehmet Oz, changed their guidance on voting in nursing homes last month. Now, a group...
Ballot Access News

Iowa Libertarians Replace Two Nominees Who Had Been Disqualified - On August 12, the Iowa Libertarian Party chose new nominees for Lieutenant Governor and U.S. House, 3rd district, to replace the earlier nominees who had b...
High Country News

Does your dog make you safer in bear country? - What new analysis of more than 300 bear encounters shows about the notion of dogs as early bear alarms or deterrents. The post Does your dog make you sa...
OpEd News

New Legal Thriller about Hidden Drug Risks - "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg," is a fictional account of blockaded attempts to highlight depression and suicidal side effects of the popular acne dr...
Bonddad

Producer prices indicate continued inflationary expansion, but how long can it last? - * - by New Deal democrat* I usually do not pay much attention to producer vs. consumer prices. Partly that is because in the past few decades, the PP...
Discourse

Drafting the Woke 1 Accords (w/Paul Blest & Jack Crosbie) - Plus: AOC egg freezing drama, the Michigan Senate primary, and Francesca Hong.
SCOTUSblog

Once upon a time: storytelling in Learning Resources v. Trump - Every fall, with each new class of 1Ls, we legal writing teachers undertake a strange job. We spend an entire year trying to get students to *not* write ...
Sludge

Dark Money Group Sends Staffers to Tech and Pharma HQs to Kick Off August Recess - Center Forward, funded in part by the companies it sent congressional staffers to visit, paired the tours with policy briefings for aides who sit on the co...
Angry Bear

Quote of the day - Big personnel news out of the White House yesterday: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is leaving the administration. Leavitt, who had her second child in...
Mondoweiss

Palestinian youth are risking their lives to clear rubble in Gaza - [image: Abdulrahman and his brother go about demolishing their home and clearing its rubble. (Photo: Muhammad Eslayeh)]With reconstruction stalled in Gaza,...
Bracing Views

Telling Headline at the New York Times - Trump Is the Real Victim of Gaza and the Iran War? BILL ASTORE AUG 11, 2026 Caught this headline at the New York Times this morning (8/11): Top News Trump ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Despite 'New' Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat - In response to Flock’s announcement of operational changes, the ACLU breaks down why many fall short.
Rewire

The Right to an Abortion Doesn’t Actually Pay for An Abortion (Podcast) - Fifty years after Henry Hyde first decided to target poor women and eliminate Medicaid coverage for abortion, abortion funding is still an aspect of reprod...
Democracy Now!

"Deep Unlearning": Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias - We speak with Timnit Gebru, a leader in the field of AI ethics, about how artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases and inequality. Gebru is t...
Greg Palast

DSA has a race problemThe Arab v. Black collision - African-American radio host Cleopatra Draper is worried. The victory of Democratic Socialist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Democratic primary for US S...
WhoWhatWhy

Meta Can’t Stop States’ $1.4T Lawsuit From Going to Trial - [image: Big Tech, Meta, social media addiction, $1.4T lawsuit, trial, appeals court ruling Image name (title): girl_cellphone_3x2 jpg] PICKS are stories fr...
Rallblog

Desperate US Sailors Leaping Overboard at Sea | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party of West Virginia Announces Candidate Slate for November Election - The Constitution Party of West Virginia will field a dozen candidates for the November general election, announcing a slate that includes nominees for U....
Space City Weather

Friday may offer a brief reprieve from ongoing August heat wave - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the potential for some scattered showers on Friday, which will then give way to an extended period of hot and sunny we...
Dorf on Law

It's Not Just the Tech: Driverless Cars Inevitably Force Us to Make Political Choices About Regulation and Funding Different Types of Transportation - Will we ever reach the point where cars are fully autonomous (that is, driverless)? If so, how soon? At that point, will the American political system ...
NPR's Health Shots

The drug lenacapavir is a mighty weapon against HIV. Its rollout gets mixed reviews - It's a twice-a-year injection that is remarkably effective in preventing an HIV infection. Distribution is starting. But questions are being raised about g...
The Smirking Chimp

Never Underestimate a Cornered Rat: Trump’s Election Plot Is Taking Shape -
ProPublica

This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse - The post This National Youth Sports Organization Is Failing to Protect Kids From Sexual Abuse appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story. - The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.
Portside

How China Won the Iran War - How China Won the Iran War Mark Brody Thu, 08/13/2026 - 02:32
Informed Comment

Subverting Food Safety, HHS Secretary Kennedy Inflicts on US the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak Ever - Robert Kennedy, Jr., eviscerated the food safety and public health apparatus that might have stopped the cyclospora outbreak
Raw Story

Kash Patel vows to carry out 'Russia's bidding in plain sight' in new letter: legal expert - FBI Director Kash Patel pledged to investigate agents who caught Russians trying to frame Democrats before 2020, a new report reveals. According to natio...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: The New Yorker and the British Jane - An analysis of 100 years of The New Yorker and censorship of comics in Great Britain 1930s to 1950s. The New Yorker – Birth and Maturity Feridun Demir offe...
Popular Resistance

Venezuela: Don’t Blame The Victim - Under cover of night, the US military kidnapped the lawful Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife and National Assembly deputy Cilia Flores on ...
Wolf Street

Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q2 2026 - Why we keep an eye on the housing-debt-to-income ratio.
Antiwar.com

Paper Tiger: The Failure of America’s Trillion-Dollar War Machine - According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States spent $21 trillion on its military between 2001 and 2024 (in c...
Claytoonz

- Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
San Antonio Report

Your business signed the contract, but you may still be personally liable - SPONSORED: ROSENBLATT LAW FIRM advises Texas businesses on building stronger businesses from the start. ------------------------------ Your business signed ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Police called on trans men using women's restroom as required by law' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Trans men in Kansas simultaneously point out the quandary trans people have to deal with when using public restrooms and the idiocy of laws policing their...
Workers World

Michigan primary election: Abdul El-Sayed defeats pro-Zionist mainstream Democrat - [image: Michigan primary election: Abdul El-Sayed defeats pro-Zionist mainstream Democrat] Abdul El-Sayed holds a news conference after winning the Michiga...
Liberation News

Flanagan wins big in primary as Minnesotans reject AIPAC and ICE - We need an independent political movement that is completely by and for the working-class, that rejects all billionaire and corporate funding, and is willi...
The Conversation

Michigan’s local election officials are confident in voting integrity ahead of November’s midterm election - Despite their high confidence overall, almost half of surveyed election officials worried about the cost of running elections.
Idavox

Milwaukee County Exec. David Crowley calls for Democrats to unite as he Wisconsin Governor accepts primary nomination - It was a pretty close but DSA candidate and State Rep. Francesca Hong was not... The post Milwaukee County Exec. David Crowley calls for Democrats to uni...
Undernews

Schools - *News from the States - *The Trump administration has put on hold $6.8 billion in federal funds for K-12 schools, according to an Education Department ...
Mediaite

Trump Media Sued For Selling Early Access to President’s Posts: ‘Corrupt and Unconstitutional’ - “The President stands to gain financially by giving ‘market-moving’ government information to those who are willing and able to pay his personal company”...
Political Wire

Another L for Polling - “In a never-ending news cycle, any fresh data is quick to draw eyes and make headlines, like it or not…” Politico reports. “Still, the recent misses — aste...
LareDOS

Janet Krueger’s Thick and Thin exhibit opens at the Hunt Gallery Sept. 3 in San Antonio - Artist talk is set for September 12 from 1 to 2 p.m.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Wisconsin Gubernatorial Race Moves to Leans Democratic After the Establishment’s Great Escape; Other Primary Takeaways; Rating Changes in Montana and Ohio - Passing on Hong makes Democrats favorites to hold the Wisconsin governorship, plus other observations from Tuesday's primaries and elsewhere The post Wis...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 1 - In our journey through the neglected kingdom of Yeats’s A Vision we have now reached one of the points where many previous explorers decided to give up and...
Glasstire

Cave Dark: Being Human with Joshua Mokry - The notion that truth exists with or without human knowledge tends to make sense scientifically. For example, chemistry tells us that the formation of ru...
The Progressive Wing

8/12-13 News Roundup and Open Thread - Great result in Minnesota. Close loss in Wisconsin.
First Draft

If I Go, You Go - Trump doesn't care if you die, and he's not going to do anything to save any of us, either.
Off The Kuff

Even Greg Abbott’s pollster thinks the Governor’s race is close - Via Michael Adams-Hurta on Twitter, the most wild poll result so far this cycle may be this one. DATE: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 TO: Interested Parties FROM:...
The Grayzone

Meet the media and militiamen funded by ‘Lebanese AIPAC Guy’ pushing Beirut into Israel’s hands - As the deadly Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon continues, the fabulously wealthy banker-turned-“philanthropist” Antoun Sehnaoui has assembled a net...
Two Party Opera

Promises Made, Promises Kept - Read More
Counterpunch

D.C. Under Siege: One Year of Military Occupation - One year ago, the Trump administration brought 800 National Guard troops to occupy the streets of Washington, D.C., part of the "Safe and Beautiful Task ...
jobsanger

Trump's Tariffs Didn't Create Manufacturing Jobs - It Eliminated Thousands Of Them -
Environment Texas

Small is Beautiful - Today’s environmental problems can feel overwhelming. Sometimes it helps to think small The post Small is Beautiful appeared first on Environment Texas.
Progressive.org

‘Those People’ - The American safety net didn’t catch me when I fell. The people I was warned about as a child did.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
The NM Political Report

Democrats swap candidates in key metro State House race - [image: Lisa Curtis] New Mexico Democrats are swapping candidates in a key State House race in Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights where they have their targe...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes - Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one wea...
Crooked Timber

My comprehensive plan for US strategy in the Middle East… * - … is set out over the fold. I’m confident readers who take a little time to think about it will realise it’s far superior to existing policy, and to any al...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

How to Occupy a University, by Deena Varner, The Higher Ed Advocate, Aug. 5, 2026 - Friends: *Deena Varner’s powerful essay, “How to Occupy a University,” makes an argument that deserves far more attention: the political remaking of higher...
The AltWorld

Russian-Syrian Relations Have Entered A New Era - Russia has no regional alternative to its Syrian waypoint en route to Africa while Syria’s exclusive dependence […] The post Russian-Syrian Relations Hav...
Dissent Magazine

The SpaceX Sham - The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise o...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Case of Hasan Piker: How to Avoid Having a Debate You Can't Win - Establishment Democrats have no desire to debate actual issues. And we've seen this happen before.
Capital & Main

U.S. Has Deported Hundreds of Children to Cities in Southern Mexico - Human rights organizations said the minors lack the resources to go home safely and that some may have died trying. The post U.S. Has Deported Hundreds o...
Duck of Minerva

Today’s sanctions aren’t special. They’re just keeping up. - We keep hearing that we live in an unprecedented "age of sanctions." Trade and globalization data tell a different story --- the world got bigger, not meaner.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Green Bins Are Spreading Faster Than the Habit of Using Them - Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored posting. Curbside food scrap collection has spread fast. BioCycle’s... The post Guest Idea: Green Bins Are Spreading F...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 11 August 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- to see any image at full size, right-click and open the link in a new tab. [For the link round-up, click here.] Well...
Trivial Knot

Link roundup: August 2026 - Artificial Life | Emergent Garden (video, 35 min) – A video about simulations that simulate evolution or generate life-like complexity. He draws a distinc...
The Texas Signal

Prisoners Sent Out Of State, Left Out Of The Count - Despite the alarming number of deaths and high cost to send inmates out of state, Harris County keeps sending people anyway
Earthworks

Don’t let San Bernardino County permit mines without public input - Sloppy drafting in a new San Bernardino County mining regulation risks giving up local oversight. The post Don’t let San Bernardino County permit mines ...
Church and State

Lack of civics education for our citizens gave us Donald Trump - The history of civics education in America reminds us that failure to understand history and act to confront its hard lessons gave us Trump.
Project Censored

Media Dictates Democracy - On this episode of The Project Censored Show, independent journalist and winner of the Illinois Library Association’s 2026 Intellectual Freedom Award, Ke...
NORML

Clinical Trial: Plant-Derived Cannabis Preparation Is Safe and Effective in Children With Autism - [image: A droplet of oils drips from the medicine dropper over a bottle of cannabis oil next to a flowering marijuana plant][image: A droplet of oils dri...
Texas Environmental News

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Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
Campaign for America's Future

Un pueblo organizado aún puede vencer a los multimillonarios - Si hablamos directamente con los votantes que han perdido la fe en ambos partidos políticos sobre las preocupaciones en sus vidas diarias, podemos comenzar...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: HE CALLS THAT RELIGION BUT I KNOW HE'S GOING TO HELL WHEN HE DIES EDITION. - *New Bands for Old Heads is great, and here's a reminder**that not all the bands there are some punk-hyphenate.* A day late and -- well, they always say...
Lowering the Bar

How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You? Anything You Type, Burgundy Will Read - [image: Bill Oliver]Generative AI claims yet another victim.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2026 - Walmart had at least eight more shootings in July 2026 with one of them fatal where a suspect who had allegedly fired one or more shots and the officer ...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
The Militant

Rail workers honor USW picket line at Marathon refinery - MARTINEZ, Calif. — Locked-out refinery workers at the Marathon refinery here got a boost this week when Union Pacific rail crews stopped delivering tallow,...
Socialist Alternative

South Africa: Xenophobia & The Street War Against Black Immigrants - During the just-concluded World Cup, South Africa in its first match came up against Mexico. All over the African continent there was an immediate shift of...
Debunking Christianity

Beware of Cult Fanatics and Propagandists - *It’s not hard to spot the craziness* If you live in a small town or big city, chances are there’s a lovely public park where you can have a good time. ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report August 7, 2026 - Black Agenda Report August 7, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/07/2026 - 10:06 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
MintPress News

UK Government Targeting of Muslim Scholar Part of a Coordinated Campaign to Clamp Down on Pro-Palestine Solidarity - Amid a deepening crackdown on Palestine solidarity in the country, a senior member of the British parliament is leading a campaign to have a popular acti...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
Green Pages News

Chino Garcia Obituary - While we were meeting at the GPUS national meeting in Chicago on Friday, July 24, one of the OGs (Original Greens) the American Green Party movement, Chino...
Seeing the Forest

Everything Is Trickle-Down Now - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. “Trickle-down” thinking – the idea t...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The People Say “Stop The War”, The Democrats Say “Hold My Beer” - 14×14 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 722 kb “…Under conditions of mass popular opposition to the war, which is being used by the Trump administration as...
Media Lens

‘Let’s Just Embrace A Mediterranean Lifestyle’: Climate Lunacy And Burnham’s ‘Pragmatism’ - ‘Britain can’t stop climate change. Let’s just embrace a Mediterranean lifestyle’ This has to be a serious candidate for the most foolish comment ever made...
Alas, a Blog

Can We Call It Fascism Yet? - Another strip drawn by the amazing Mike Lawrence. From an official press release on whitehouse.gov, July 16 2026: Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller ...
Land Destroyer

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities - *July 21, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - On July 10, 2026 China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered the first stage booster of its Long ...
Field Negro

News roundup. - The main stream media seems to be more fixated on an ideological difference within the Democratic party, than they are actual fascism being practiced b...
Progressives Chat

Prediction: Nomination for Abdul El–Sayed - I am predicting, with next Tuesday’s [August 4, 2026] primaries in my home state, the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Michigan will be wo...
Edinburg Politics

Stronger public safety, improved rehabilitation for inmates, $150 million in taxpayer savings, among major improvements to Texas Department of Criminal Justice under milestone state law led by Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg - Stronger public safety for Texans, improved programs for rehabilitation and reentry into society for inmates, and an estimated $150 million in taxpayer sav...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
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...
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 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...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
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...
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...
WAWG Blog

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...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
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
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 ...
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

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....
Chicken Fried Politics

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
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 03, 2008

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