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

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

Raw Story

Fox News slams food costs under Trump: 'Republicans are going to have a problem' - Fox News predicted that rising food prices would cause Republicans to struggle during next year's midterm elections. During a Sunday segment on Fox & Fri...
Undernews

Who's moving... and where - *Washington Post - *In its annual survey, Development Counsellors International, specialists in marketing economic development and travel, found that 41...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: One Nation, Under Bank - Your airline is a bank, your bank is a coffee shop, and more from The Lever this week.
First Draft

He Ran All The Way (1951) - Starring John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, Selena Royle, and Bobby Hyatt. Directed by John Berry. Written by Hugo Butler, Guy, Endore, and Dalt...
Futurism

Amazing New Tech Turns Your Screen 3D by Tracking Your Eye Position With Your Webcam - No glasses needed. The post Amazing New Tech Turns Your Screen 3D by Tracking Your Eye Position With Your Webcam appeared first on Futurism.
The Verge

The developers behind a hit sausage-dueling game hope Steam launch will take it furter - Life is a series of battles, and I just lost my last one against four gyoza on a skewer. It was an unexpected blow, because honestly, who could have expect...
Eschaton

I Think I See The Problem - Both senators (Schatz, Kaine) believed this was an indictment of Republicans, a clever criticism that would resonate. (Senator Lucy's response not pictured)
Al Jazeera English

To end the starvation in Gaza, bring back UNRWA - Western states have condemned the famine. They can end it by refunding and protecting UNRWA.
memeorandum

Democrats shouldn't bail out Trump as the government shutdown drags on (MSNBC) - MSNBC: *Democrats shouldn't bail out Trump as the government shutdown drags on* — The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle ...
Mediaite

‘Legal Insurrection’: Stephen Miller Goes Berserk On a Trump-Appointed Judge for Blocking National Guard Deployment in Portland - Deputy WH Chief of Staff Stephen Miller raged over a ruling — from a Trump-appointed judge — which blocks a National Guard deployment in Portland. The p...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Downer Jokes and Upper Pups - Arctic Circle makes a point that has long bedeviled me, because I don’t live on the seaside. I also don’t toss away a lot of plastic, though I realize much...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism - Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities As the Trump administration cracks down on ...
NPR's Health Shots

States are cutting Medicaid provider payments long before Trump cuts hit - North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals ...
Axios

Scoop — Trump to Netanyahu on Gaza talks: "You're always so f***ing negative" - When Hamas came back with a "yes, but" to President Trump's Gaza peace proposal on Friday, Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to disc...
OpEd News

Carvalhos Quiet Renewal: LAUSD Extends Superintendents Contract Without Public Input - School Board votes to keep Carvalho in power after closed-door deliberations. Los Angeles families are left without a voice in their districts future.
The Hill

Trump presses for Univision return to YouTube: 'VERY BAD for Republicans' - President Trump is calling for Univision to return to YouTube TV, saying its recent removal is “VERY BAD” for the GOP ahead of the 2026 midterms. “I hope ...
Daily Dot

“On the pasta?”: American tourist asks for an Olive Garden-style chicken parm in Italy. The Italian waiter’s response is perfect - [image: italian waiter reacts to olive garden] In the U.S., we treat Italian food like a personality trait. But if you’ve ever traveled to Italy, you kno...
Slate

We Bestowed an Enormous Responsibility on Our In-Laws. But Uh, Now They Can’t Stop Talking About Our Impending Deaths. - It's scaring the kids.
Political Wire

Are We Headed for a Second Civil War? - John Avlon interviewed Barbara Walter, author of How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, about the dangerous warning signs in America today.
Mother Jones

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border - This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just west of Fort Qu’Ap...
WhoWhatWhy

Are We Witnessing a ‘Soft Coup’? - [image: Stephen Millier, Kristi Noem, Donald Trump] How much does Donald Trump know about what is going on in his administration? Is he really the one maki...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Marseillan - [image: Marseillan]
naked capitalism

Links 10/5/2025 -
Salon.com

Trump’s commerce secretary creates a big Epstein mess - Howard Lutnick calls Epstein "the greatest blackmailer ever"
Vox

So the Labubu and Dubai chocolate fads — what was that all about? - If you’re not quite sure why everything is suddenly Dubai chocolate or what exactly a Labubu is, you’re not alone. Trends have such a tenuous connection to...
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday Thought: America’s Trauma -
Scheerpost.com

Mossad ‘In Contact From Very Beginning’ With Killers of Italian PM, Reporter Reveals - A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and ra...
San Antonio Report

One year later, Suzanne Clark Simpson is still missing. Her husband is accused of murder. - [image: Suzanne Clark Simpson, a mother of four, was last seen Oct. 6. Her husband, Brad Simpson, is going to trial Wednesday morning. He's accused of murd...
Off The Kuff

A brief news roundup from the current redistricting trial - What the label says, three news stories I could find that had coverage of the redistricting trial. From the Trib. When Texas first proposed redrawing its c...
Crooked Media

Roxane Gay on the Myth of Civility - The post Roxane Gay on the Myth of Civility appeared first on Crooked Media.
Idavox

An Attack on One of Us Is an Attack on All of US - ICE’s is getting worse and people are not putting up with it. That was shown... The post An Attack on One of Us Is an Attack on All of US appeared first ...
The Week

Jaguar Land Rover’s cyber bailout - Should the government do more to protect business from the ‘cyber shockwave’?
Counterpunch

Every Day Aspects of Another Genocide - Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. – Bertolt Brecht Eve...
jobsanger

Four Words Trump Needs To Hear -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1453: Two Huygens and John Donne - Episode: 1453 Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens, and John Donne. Today, a tale of two Huygens and John Donne.
Wolf Street

Jobs Report to Get Hit by 100,000 Federal Government “Deferred Resignations” on top of the Jobs Already Shed. But ICE Is Hiring - Bringing federal job losses to over 200,000 since January. Excluding federal & state, nonfarm payrolls haven’t been all that bad.
Informed Comment

The Mortal Sins of Patriarchy - Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – How much are women and girls–half of humanity–valued? When men violate us for sex in prostituti...
Deadline Politics

‘Saturday Night Live’ Cold Open Skewers Donald Trump’s Late-Night TV Crackdown As POTUS Warns “Daddy’s Watching” - Saturday Night Live opened its 51st season with a skit skewering Donald Trump’s crackdown on late-night TV, as the president (James Austin Johnson) warned ...
See You In 2020

The KKE/Trotskyist effort to redefine imperialism, & how it undermines the global workers struggle - To win the debate against the KKE’s “neither Washington nor Beijing” camp, what we need to focus on is the role of finance capital. Specifically what pu...
Mediagazer

Publishers that have been wary of Reddit are launching new accounts and reviving old ones, as the platform offers new features such as tools to track engagement (Klaudia Jaźwińska/Columbia Journalism ...) - Klaudia Ja&zacute;wi&nacute;ska / Columbia Journalism Review: *Publishers that have been wary of Reddit are launching new accounts and reviving old ones,...
Claytoonz

Trump Coin - 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...
Ian Welsh

The GENIUS Act is Anything But - ~by Sean Paul Kelley This post is meant to piggy-back on Ian’s recent post, “The Next Big Crash Is On Its Way.” There has been little coverage in the legac...
Dissident Voice

Surreal Reality: Global School Principal and His Favorite Monitor - IMAGE/Khaama Press VIDEO/Mirror Now/Youtube The Principal of Global School had asked his favorite Monitor to keep an eye on other students in the Middle ...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GLIMMERS IN THE GLOOM EDITION. - *Still hits.* A day late on ‘Round-the-Horn, sorry, had to hang some cup hooks. (Many years ago I did a newsletter for the Ogivy ad agency and got to loo...
Liberation News

‘Block Everything’: Millions shut down Italy in general strike for Gaza and Global Sumud Flotilla - Workers in Italy are using their labor power to defend Gaza when their government won’t.
The Conversation

Hamas has run out of options – survival now rests on accepting Trump’s plan and political reform - The Palestinian militant group has said it accepts some of President Trump’s proposed peace plan – but will it go all the way?
The Greanville Post

Seeds of Catholic Totalitarian Rule Against Pagans - BRUCE LERRO—Catholic totalitarianism attempted to control people by anxiety, fear and hatred of life. Let us return to the sixteen characteristics of pagan...
Popular Resistance

Trump Declares War On The United States - Recently the name Department of Defense was retired and that federal agency in charge of the military was given its original name, Department of War. Imm...
Portside

River Valley Co-Op Workers Opened Up Bargaining - River Valley Co-Op Workers Opened Up Bargaining Dave Sat, 10/04/2025 - 18:51
The Root

You’ll Never Guess Who Singer D4vd Hired to Be His Lawyer After Teen’s Body Found in His Tesla - Celeste Rivas' dead body was found inside of a car trunk, and although police haven't made arrests, one person connected to the case hired counsel. Read ...
Election Law Blog

“Partisan Shutdown Messages Could Hurt Civil Service, Experts Warn” - NYT: The Trump administration’s levying of political attacks on Democrats through federal agency websites and the out-of-office email messages of furlou...
Grist

A quick guide to Georgia’s 2025 Public Service Commission elections - When to vote, who’s eligible, and the candidates running.
The Grayzone

Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals - A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and ...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: September 28th – October 4th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, a court slowed Trump’s roll on the TikTok ban because the DOJ couldn’t show any actual national security threat. Meanwhil...
Alternet

Joy Reid slams 'mean girl' Megyn Kelly as 'the blonde Laura Loomer' in scathing takedown - During an early October broadcast of her SiriusXM show, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly attacked ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid and former CNN host Don Lemon fo...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose: Our Identities Have No Bodies - A Crisis of Meaning and Purpose Part III: You cannot understand what is happening in our present crisis without wrestling with the effects of the corporate...
Courthouse News

Abrego Garcia wins request for hearing on whether smuggling charges are illegally ‘vindictive’ - The decision allows Abrego Garcia to argue that his human smuggling prosecution was brought not on the merits of the allegations, but as punishment for his...
Angry Bear

New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators for September 29 – October 3 - – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. All of the high frequency data that I gather in those posts comes from the Fe...
Reform Austin

Hidalgo County Cracks Down on Roadside Animal Vendors - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Hidalgo County Commissioners Court has adopted a new order prohibiting the roadside sale of non...
CultureMap Houston

Houston chef brings back beloved Kemah restaurant and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, which is chock-full of new restaurants. Plus, where to get a taste of cozy fall...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s Grasshopper Lies Heavy unveiling new album focused on its brutal side - [image: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy has released its seventh full-length album.] The band will play a release show for the eight-song LP Heavy on Sunday, ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Shouldn't the public be told about this? - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025* *Also, please send the specialists in:* The week's exhaustion having been conquered, we'll start today with a question, then ...
Mondoweiss

Filipinos reject Israeli tourism amid the Gaza genocide - [image: The Coconut Trees View Deck in Siargao, Philippines in April 2023. (Photo: Michael Angelo Luna/Wikimedia)]Siargao, a small island in the Philippine...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 29 - October 3 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. All of the high frequency data that I gather in those posts comes from ...
ArcaMax

Israel Is Finished - Dying regimes do funny things. Dying superpowers plan for a future that never comes. I have a 1992 Soviet ruble note, redesigned the year before. Consideri...
Glasstire

One Work, Short Take: Raychael Stine at Cris Worley Gallery - “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ― Oscar Wilde Because our world is rife with animus, political violence, and innumerable deeds of intolerance and h...
Skeptophilia

Birdwalking into the Miocene - From the One Thing Leads To Another department, we have: a cute little fuzzy mammal from Madagascar, some thoughts about genetic drift, and a period of g...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 4 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o He thinks the trees are doing it wrong. What is this strange thing rollin...
High Country News

The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral - Photos and reflections from the memorial in the Phoenix suburbs. The post The strange loneliness of Charlie Kirk’s funeral appeared first on High Countr...
World Socialist Web Site

Scale of Australian military exports to Israel exposed - The *Declassified Australia* report is an unanswerable exposure of the Australian Labor government’s active involvement in Israel’s mass murder of Palestin...
Workers World

Hamas response to Trump’s so‑called peace proposal - [image: Hamas response to Trump’s so‑called peace proposal] Resistance News Network posted the following Hamas Movement’s response to the proposal from Pre...
The NM Political Report

Gov signs 3 of 4 special session bills to soften impacts of federal cuts - [image: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham] [image: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham] By Alex Ross, NM Political Report New Mexico lawmakers concluded a two-...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows Trump to remove protected status from Venezuelan nationals - The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon once again cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals of t...
The Texas Signal

Texas Vignette Returns For A Seventh Year - A groundbreaking woman-only artist art fair runs again this weekend in its new permanent facility in the Dallas Design District
Consortium News

Trump Orders Israel to Stop Bombing Gaza - In a surprise move, Hamas has formally agreed to Trump’s peace plan and is prepared to release all hostages. In response, the U.S. president ordered Israel...
Progressive.org

Recognizing the Value in All Humanity - In 'Silent No Longer,' Robert Stack explores the lasting effects of the institutionalization of people with disabilities.
Independent Political Report

New York Libertarians to Hold 2026 Nominating Convention in October - The Libertarian Party of New York will meet later this month for its 2026 nominating convention, where members will select a slate of candidates for stat...
El Paso Matters

Texas higher ed leader praises El Paso progress, says challenges remain - Wynn Rosser, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board commissioner, praised El Paso’s K-12 to higher ed pipeline, but said more work is needed to prepa...
The Militant

Destruction of Hamas is key to ending threat of new Holocaust - On Sept. 29, President Donald Trump announced his 20-point plan to end the fighting in Gaza. It would take Israel’s defensive war to decisively defeat Hama...
Church and State

Trump’s reign of error must be stopped - The recent farce at the Defense Department was a total embarrassment. It was a gross violation of national security.
Lowering the Bar

Court: Complaint That Spends 79 Pages Praising the Client Shall Be Rewritten - Not the "short and plain statement" Rule 8 requires, and also irritating.
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Mamdani Before Mamdani - On our live show, David and writing fellow Naomi Bethune discuss Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the expiration of Microsoft’s Windows 10, and the government shu...
Duck of Minerva

The State of the Union is Grim - The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy tha...
Capital & Main

Repairing the Future - Despite national headwinds of racism and authoritarianism, California’s Black legislators stay on task with reparations. The post Repairing the Future ap...
The AltWorld

Yes.. People who massacre children and women in Gaza are not chosen by God - What will happen once the “Global Freedom Fleet” ships are attacked by the Israeli forces The two […] The post Yes.. People who massacre children and wom...
Dorf on Law

"It Would Be Too Expensive, Pour Moi": Academia Edition (Law & Society, Part 2) - Some of the people who have been targeted by the Trump regime as "foreign enemies" have been academics. Early this year, two graduate students from Tuft...
WAWG Blog

Replacing Authoritarian Capitalism With Democratic Socialism - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about replacing authoritarian capitalism with democratic socialism. Just as authoritarian capitalism replaced authoritarian...
Second Nexus

Eric Stonestreet Hilariously Calls Out 'Modern Family' Costars For Having Mini-Reunion Without Him - Eric Stonestreet is keeping the *Modern Family** chaos* alive—even when he’s left out of the group photo. Earlier this week, Jesse Tyler Ferguson *posted...
Texas Observer

Trump’s ICE Has Arrested a Pillar of the Dallas Muslim Community. I Grew Up Hearing His Calls for Compassion. - When I saw Marwan Marouf’s face plastered on my Instagram feed, under bright red letters announcing he’d been arrested and detained by Immigration and Cu...
Texas Standard

Wall Street really likes Rick Perry’s nuclear-powered data center company - Fermi America, which launched earlier this year and went public this week, wants to build a nuclear complex to power AI data centers.
Earthworks

New Mexico Bonding: Holding Oil and Gas Financially Accountable - New Mexico is a land where world-class biodiversity meets millennia of cultural heritage, with more than 20 national parks and … The post New Mexico Bon...
The Progressive Wing

10/3-7News Roundup and Open Thread - The leaves are definitely falling in the Catskills. No frost yet though. It’s been very dry (except one stormy day) since the end of August so it’s a very ...
Space City Weather

Houston will slowly welcome back some humidity this weekend - In brief: Hot weather will persist with increasing humidity this weekend. Shower chances remain low but even those will increase a tinge as we go through t...
NORML

Clinical Trial: Cannabis Extract Demonstrates Superiority Over Opioids in Patients With Chronic Back Pain - [image: cannabis oil extract][image: cannabis oil extract]"These results affirm the longstanding experiences of patients, many of whom either reduce or e...
Debunking Christianity

Reality Seems to Be Gaining Traction: Religion Is Fake News - *“Christianity is peddling an inferior product…”* Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) was a prominent lecturer in post-Civil War America, and he voiced ...
Democracy Now!

Israel Detains 440+ Global Flotilla Activists; Italian Unions Strike in Protest - The Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces Thursday as its dozens of vessels approached the shores of Gaza. In response to the detention o...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Trump’s Forever War” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou dissects the Trump administration’s drama...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Leading Off - The post Leading Off appeared first on D Magazine.
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The Hum of Bees - American writer and landscape architect Elizabeth Lawrence captured the the quiet charm of a late... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The Hum of Bees appea...
ProPublica

Before Tom Dundon Agreed to Buy the Portland Trail Blazers, Oregon Accused the Company He Created of Predatory Lending - by Tony Schick and Conrad Wilson, Oregon Public Broadcasting This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oreg...
Brad Blog

Biden Budget Expert Warns Mass Firings During Shutdown 'Extremely Illegal': 'BradCast' 10/2/2025 - On today's BradCast: Republican insistence on skyrocketing health care costs for tens of millions of Americans as of January 1 continues to keep much of th...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 3, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 3, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/03/2025 - 05:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Antiwar.com

Who Will Protect Us From the Protectors? - In the same week in which President Donald Trump announced that he was federalizing 200 Oregon National Guard soldiers and dispatching them to the streets ...
Environment Texas

Keep an eye out for monarchs - Monarch butterflies have begun their migration to warmer weather The post Keep an eye out for monarchs appeared first on Environment Texas.
Common Dreams

Weird Drivel and Loser Shit: This Looks Like Terrible - Our authoritarian theater lurches on amidst the forging of a police state by an avenging "Peace President," equally deranged and malignant, who conflates...
Project Censored

“Censorship Is So 1984”: Annual Banned Books Week Celebrates the Right to Read - By Mickey Huff and Cameron Samuels The American Library Association (ALA), Unite Against Book Bans (UABB), and other members of the Banned Books Week Coa...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Asmaa and Her Daughters - Help a displaced mother and her little girls.
Sludge

The Leo Network Behind Virginia’s Attorney General - Jason Miyares’ political rise is intertwined with Leonard Leo’s conservative machine, from shared consultants to millions in outside spending and a persona...
Rewire

The Supreme Court Gears Up for Another Unprecedented Term (Podcast) - Why the justices will soon be back to work wreaking havoc on democracy. The post The Supreme Court Gears Up for Another Unprecedented Term (Podcast) appe...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rating the New Missouri House Map - Missouri Republicans recently passed a mid-decade gerrymander designed to give them an additional seat in the state's House delegation. We are assuming t...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'GOP lawmaker once accused trans people of harming kids. He just pled guilty to child porn charges' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Former SC legislator (and Moms for Liberty's 2023 'Legislator of the Year') RJ May recently pled guilty to child porn charges. May in the past has accused...
TalkLeft

Dems Hold Strong, Shutdown is Here - The Democrats did not cave to pressure from Donald Trump and the cadre of Republicans in Congress who blindly follow him. The federal government has shut...
Bracing Views

Fat Generals Are the Problem! - Hegseth’s Absurdity Masks a Far Scarier Issue BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2025 The military historian Dennis Showalter once told me that he didn’t care about the a...
slacktivist

‘Whoever does not love does not know’ - It's partly "sheer public apostasy" and an explicit rejection of morality. But that means it's also partly genuine incomprehension.
Dissent Magazine

The Battle Over Civil Society - An interview with Dylan J. Riley on Trump and the state of American democracy.
Greg Palast

Mom would’ve kicked Pete Hegseth’s a** - On Tuesday, our newly-dubbed “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth told our military’s top brass that they must restore the "male warrior spirit" to the armed fo...
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 ...
Ecosophia

Situationism: Laughter from the Empyrean - Tolerably often, when I’m reading any of the documents that came out of the original Situationist International, I end up feeling as though the author is c...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

More Educated Than Ever, Still Unequal: The Fantasy Economy of Skills Shortages, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *More Educated Than Ever, Still Unequal: The Fantasy Economy of Skills Shortages* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 1, 2025* *I have been refl...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
Ballot Access News

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees with Lower Courts that a Voter May Vote Provisionally if Original Ballot was Defective - On September 26, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed with lower courts that when a voter’s original postal ballot is not counted due to the voter having ...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has ...
Two Party Opera

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Democracy Chronicles

Facebook is Losing its Chance to be a Force for Democracy - Sarah Wynn Williams pitches her idea that Facebook has great power for good in the world, an idealism she eventually loses as she works in policy for Faceb...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
Unlimited Hangout

TFTC #665 - TFTC #665.
Alas, a Blog

Doin’ Discourse With Ezra and Charlie - Seemingly obligatory disclaimer: Of course I don’t approve of murdering Charlie Kirk. But we can be against assassinating a hateful bigot without whitewash...
Trivial Knot

Hell is Us: War and emotional distance - Hell is Us is a recent action adventure video game, with an emphasis on puzzles and exploration. I really like the game, but this is not a review. See oth...
Media Lens

‘Sixth-Form Politics’ – The Propaganda Blitz Awaiting Green Party Leader Zack Polanski - On 2 September, Zack Polanski, a former Liberal Democrat who joined the Green Party in 2017, was elected leader of the party in a landslide, with 85% of th...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Education And Child Care Reduce Violence Far More Effectively Than A Police State - There's no doubt that there's an enormous amount of research in the academic world showing how to reduce violence in an effective way that saves far mor...
ExChristian.Net

The Rapture Clock That Never Strikes Midnight - If prophecy forecasting were a sport, it would have the same credibility as the Cleveland Browns winning every Super Bowl from now until eternity. For at...
Krebs on Security

Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms - U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered S...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
Edinburg Politics

New state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa makes “zoombombing” – the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, sometimes hateful content – punishable by jail time and/or fines, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law shaped by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, makes “zoombombing” – which is the disruption of virtual government meetings with offensive, somet...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
MintPress News

From WMDs to “Narco-States”: How the US Sells Wars the Intelligence Doesn’t Support - Allegations that Venezuela is a narco-state have justified strikes, sanctions, and military buildups. But even US intelligence concedes Maduro is not dir...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

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

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

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
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...
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....
Downwinders at Risk

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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