Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies. So?

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

Daily Howler

DEAD SOULS: Gabbard keeps charging Obama with treason! - *MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025* *"God bless us everyone:"* The dead souls which fuel our nation's discourse were widely visible, for all to see, over the warm, h...
Raw Story

Why one Ivy League college set out to appease Trump - The Trump regime’s battle with Harvard University will be aired in court on Monday when a federal judge hears arguments in Harvard’s lawsuit challenging ...
Mediagazer

Ofcom says public service TV is becoming an "endangered species" after finding that streamers offered by PSBs only account for 9% of all viewing in the UK (Mark Sweney/The Guardian) - Mark Sweney / The Guardian: *Ofcom says public service TV is becoming an “endangered species” after finding that streamers offered by PSBs only account f...
naked capitalism

AI and Workers’ Wellbeing: Lessons from Germany’s Early Experience - An only mildly negative report on AI implementation from Germany, and why that is not likely to be generalizable to the US.
Discourse

Prepare For Ol Donny Trump to Wriggle Out of This One - What do people expect the Epstein scandal to actually lead to?
The Week

Thailand's monk sex scandal - New accusations involving illicit sex and blackmail have shaken the nation and opened a debate on the privileges monks enjoy
Political Wire

Migrants Made to ‘Eat Like Dogs’ - Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 184: “Trump Joins the NeoCons” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: It’s Civil War in Trumpworld on “The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan”! Republican Congressman Thomas M...
El Paso Matters

‘We had a different life’: Deportation forces El Paso family, disabled citizen children into uncertainty across the border - Parents struggle to find medical care and schooling in Mexico for their disabled U.S.-born children after being deported from the United States. The pos...
memeorandum

Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein "sound like" Trump? An investigation. (Judd Legum/Popular Information) - Judd Legum / Popular Information: *Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein “sound like” Trump? An investigation.* — On Thursday, the Wall Street Journa...
Courthouse News

Proper labeling - Do you know where your mustard comes from? Do you care? Should you care?
Undernews

Ukraine - *The Guardian - * Russia has said it is open to peace with Ukraine but insists achieving its goals remains a priority, days after Donald Trump gave Mosco...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US protesters call for Democrats to face Trump and ‘fight, fight, fight with every tool available’ - Protesters across the US during a day of rallies said they want to see a more united, organized, and aggressive party opposing Republicans - U...
The Verge

T-Mobile is bringing low-latency tech to 5G for the first time - Over the next few weeks, T-Mobile is expanding support for the L4S standard, which stands for “Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput.” The technology ...
Eschaton

Permission Structure - People - including me - cheer Trump's falling poll numbers, but unless they inspire The Opposition to oppose, the decline in his approval doesn’t mean all ...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Monday, July 21 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: The post The morning r...
Mediaite

Unearthed Video of Trump Judging Teen Models Goes Viral Amid Epstein ‘Secrets’ Bombshell - Unearthed video of Trump judging a modeling competition with contestants in their teens has racked up over 12 million views amid the "Epstein Files" frac...
The Conversation

Comparing ICE to the Gestapo reveals people’s fears for the US – a Holocaust scholar explains why Nazi analogies remain common, yet risky - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is among the politicians who have recently compared the immigration agency ICE to the Gestapo. Such analogies risk oversimplifying ...
First Draft

The Bonfire Of The MAGA Vanities - MAGA eats its own over the Epstein files.
The Hill

Jeffrey Epstein is splitting MAGA. Will he sink Trump and Republicans? - For the first time, there is a very real threat to Trump’s perceived infallibility among the most devoted MAGA acolytes.
Scheerpost.com

‘This Was No Accident’: Trump-GOP Policies Blamed as Health Insurers Prepare to Jack Up Premiums - "It was the plan: decimate American healthcare to line the pockets of the rich, and leave working families to suffer the consequences."
OpEd News

Tomgram: Theoharis and Sandweiss-Back, Whose Country Is This Anyway? - Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of...
Techdirt.

Trump 2.0 Support For Lina Khan Style Antitrust Reform Wound Up Being An Unsurprising Lie - In a lead up to the last Presidential Election, one of the lies circulated by the Trump camp to befuddle plebs and rubes was that Trump 2.0 was going to be...
NPR's Health Shots

The world keeps millions of vaccines on ice. Is it worth it? - It costs nearly $100 million a year to maintain global stockpiles of vaccines for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever in case of emergency. A new s...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: How the Other 45.5% Live - Karoline Leavitt repeatedly says that this is the most transparent presidency ever, prompting the wisecrack from the left of “Yes, we can see through you.”...
Crooked Timber

On the Epstein Files; and Corruption - A cursory glance at the Jeffrey Epstein’s biography (1953 – 2019) shows it can be treated as a modern adaptation (and so adjustment) of Horatio Alger Jr.’s...
Daily Dot

“Women are feral over Tom Hiddleston while exactly zero of us are attracted to Thor”: Superman has spawned “male gaze” vs “female gaze” discourse on social media - [image: male gaze vs female gaze hugh jackman magazine example] The *Superman *reboot sparks a heated debate over the "male gaze" vs. the "female gaze" i...
Election Law Blog

“How an alleged Georgia Ponzi scheme fueled far-right causes” - AJC: The Frost family used nearly $1.4 million in campaign contributions, much of it allegedly swindled from investors, to build political clout in Geo...
Vox

The steamy, subversive rise of the summer novel - As a kid, one of the highlights of my summer vacation was sitting underneath a tree in my grandmother’s backyard and getting lost in a book. I don’t get a ...
Space City Weather

A mostly quiet week, with building heat as we approach the peak of summer in Houston - In brief: As we approach our typical peak of summer heat, we’ll be seeing an uptick in temperatures through the week. We should see potentially upper-90s t...
Progressive Army

Asunto: Representantes Titulares y Suplentes + Casilla de Notificación - Estimados Socios, buenos días: Nos encontramos actualizando la base de datos institucionales por lo que les solicitamos que nos confirmen quiénes seguir...
Al Jazeera English

Video: Death toll rises after South Korea floods and landslides - Days of torrential rain and landslides in South Korea have killed at least 18 people.
Alternet

A discredited propagandist is infiltrating America's public schools — with help from the GOP - Political operative David Barton held up a thick Bible with years of wear on its dark brown cover and proclaimed its pages put Protestant Christianity at...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Tries Out New Ways to Distract MAGA From Epstein - [image: Donald Trump, waving, USA] Donald Trump has tried everything to distract his base from Jeffrey Epstein. Will the prospect of Barack Obama in prison...
Houston Public Media

Texas Legislature begins mid-decade redistricting under pressure from Trump, Abbott - President Donald Trump is seeking to pick up at least four, potentially five, Texas congressional seats for Republicans in a midterm election cycle that or...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Will Tariffs Reignite Fix-It Culture - The current trade war with China, Korea, and much of the world has led to... The post Guest Idea: Will Tariffs Reignite Fix-It Culture appeared first on ...
Axios

Most Americans say Trump focuses too much on tariffs, survey shows - The stock market rallied during President Trump's first six months in office this year, despite a volatility spike in April, but a new poll shows Main St...
Dorf on Law

Meet the New Republican Party; (Mostly) Same as the Old Republican Party - Over the last several months, I have repeatedly encountered news stories reporting on the ostensible irony that some policy that the Trump administration...
Skeptophilia

Cats in boxes - Any cat owners amongst my readers will undoubtedly know about the strange propensity of cats to climb into boxes. Apparently it works for cats of all size...
The AltWorld

Ukraine Proxy-War: Trump Picks Up Where Biden Left Off - Despite promises to end foreign entanglements, the Trump administration has intensified the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine […] The post Ukraine Proxy-War: Tru...
Rio Grande Guardian

More tributes pour in for Sabrina Walker Hernandez - The famed leadership coach is being remembered as someone who devoted her life to serving others and as a champion of South Texas. The post More tributes...
The Smirking Chimp

What Trump’s ‘Halfhearted’ Epstein Retreat Says About MAGA Is Not What You Think -
Crooked Media

SCOTUS Enables Government Destruction - The post SCOTUS Enables Government Destruction appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

July 2025 campaign finance reports – Senate and Congress - PREVOIUSLY: Harris County Back in April I just took a look at who had already started raising money for CD18. There wasn’t much else to report so I thought...
Slate

My Mom Keeps Pushing Me to Share Our Difficult Family History With My Kids. I Can’t. - I want to wait until they're older.
Mother Jones

ICE Agents Keep Snatching Asylum Seekers Immediately After Their Court Hearings - This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers were a...
San Antonio Report

Q&A: Visit SA CEO Mario Bass talks Project Marvel, tourism, industry challenges - Visit San Antonio's new CEO weighs in on tourism and challenges facing the local hospitality industry in a Q&A with the San Antonio Report. ----------------...
American Prospect

Deregulation Swings the Pendulum Toward Financial Crash - The Federal Trade Commission’s decline is a symptom of a public policy designed primarily to protect asset prices.
Grist

The surprising reasons floods and other disasters are more deadly at night - It’s not just that it’s dark and people are asleep. Urban sprawl, confirmation bias, and other factors can play a role.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 21 July 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click to enlarge. [For the link round-up, click here.] Found via Rade. From the early comic books o...
Consortium News

Stand Up for CN Standing Up for Free Speech - With its coverage of the Assange case and of Zionist efforts to silence its critics, Consortium News has established itself as a leading monitor of free sp...
The Daily Poster

Trump, Colbert, And The War On Truth - Why Stephen Colbert is a victim of a larger movement to silence free speech.
Counterpunch

Grow Your Own Food—and a Kinder World - The word veganic is a combination of “vegan” and “organic.” Organic, in essence, refers to anything of natural origin, derived from living matter. Vegan,...
World Socialist Web Site

Taiwan mounts massive anti-China war games - As Washington prepares for war with China, Taiwan holds its longest and most extensive military exercises and civilian drills, based on “whole-of-society d...
Portside

Sunday Science: The Fight From Within: The Science of Immunotherapy - Sunday Science: The Fight From Within: The Science of Immunotherapy Ira Mon, 07/21/2025 - 01:19
The Root

After Shannon Sharpe Settles Rape Lawsuit, Accuser’s Announcement Ignites Black Internet Fury - Sharpe and the accuser settled the $50 million sexual assault lawsuit on Friday. Read more...
jobsanger

The More Extreme Weather Is Due To Human-Caused Climate Change -
Informed Comment

Top 10 Signs that Israeli Gov’t is starving People in Gaza - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli military has destroyed most of the cropland in Gaza and won’t let Palestinians fish. There isn’t enough food in ...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Hot Gestapo Summer - As the July sun scorches Trump's fascist America, The Skinny is again here to bring you the very best of Nina's daily blogging content about the Pork Rei...
See You In 2020

Zionism’s attack dogs are working to cancel Zohran, & the danger is that he’ll respond by giving up BDS - *This is from the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why The Pro-Palestine Movement Failed To Stop A Holocaust, & How I...
Ballot Access News

Legal Marijuana Now Party of Nebraska Has Virtually Enough Registrations to Avoid Worrying About the Vote Test - In Nebraska, a party that has at least 10,000 registered members enjoys qualified status, regardless of whether it polls enough votes to stay on. The vote ...
Antiwar.com

The BBC isn’t failing. Its job is to obscure the UK’s partnership in Israel’s genocide - After months of a confected furore over a BBC documentary supposedly demonstrating pro-Hamas bias, followed by the shelving of a second film on Gaza, an in...
Texas Standard

Number of missing from July 4 floods drops to 3, Kerr County officials say - After days of reports of more than 100 missing victims, officials now say the number of missing is significantly lower than originally reported.
Claytoonz

Coldplayed - 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...
Deadline Politics

Ellen DeGeneres Confirms She Moved To The UK Because Of Donald Trump: “Everything Here Is Just Better” - Ellen DeGeneres confirmed she and her wife, former actress Portia de Rossi, decided to permanently relocate to the UK following the re-election of presiden...
The Greanville Post

HOW THE GLOBAL MAJORITY CAN FREE ITSELF FROM US FINANCIAL COLONIALISM - MICHAEL HUDSON—Industrial capitalism was revolutionary in its fight to free Europe’s economies and parliaments from the hereditary privileges and vested in...
Popular Resistance

Public Applauds ‘Terror’ Suspects; Major Escalation Of Palestine Action Protests - On Saturday 19 July, police arrested nearly 100 more people under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 20, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 20, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ ICE Is ...
Angry Bear

July 16, 2024 Commentary - There is much going on in the United States with a rogue president who clearly is abusing his role as the president to instill greater control over the n...
Liberation News

Pittsburgh Public Schools board vote starts mass school closure process - The Board votes puts 12 schools on the chopping block, while spending 22% of budget on charter schools.
Futurism

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Caught Filing for Benefits Meant for Small Businesses Run by Minorities - Elon Musk appears to have been caught in a major lie as he tried to con the very diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices that he sought to destr...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Tragedy of Internalized White Supremacy: A Response to the Rise of White Nationalist Hispanics by Russell Contreras & Astrid Galvan - T*he Tragedy of Internalized White Supremacy: A Response to the Rise of White Nationalist Hispanics by Russell Contreras & Astrid Galvan* *Angela Valenzu...
Field Negro

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

Puppies Rescued from Texas Flood Zones Arrive at PAWS Chicago - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Nine puppies rescued from flood-ravaged areas of Texas arrived in Chicago on Wednesday, joining...
Mondoweiss

Scenes from the end of Zionism: Reflections on the Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna - [image: A billboard outside the first Jewish Anti-Zionist Conference, which was held June 13-15, 2025, in Vienna, Austria. (Photo: Daniel Friedman)]The fir...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Wonderful Secret' Toons - (And, if you enjoyed that as much as I did, be sure to give a listen to our 'Superman' episode of The BradCast last week!) (Read about it here: Free gift l...
Glasstire

Review: “Figurative Histories” at the Moody Center For the Arts, Houston - Figurative Histories, currently on exhibit at the Moody Center for the Arts, brings together four Texas artists exploring four very different dialogues a...
Greg Palast

Evil Scheme to Purge Half a Million VotersWill control of the US Senate come down to ugly ethnic cleansing? - Georgia Republicans can’t win the Senate seat now held by Democrat Jon Ossoff — the demographics will drown them: Georgia is now a “majority minority” stat...
Second Nexus

Former Steakhouse Server Sparks Debate After Revealing Customer Complained About Plate Not 'Sizzling' - Despite the prices, if you've ever been to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, you know that it's more about the tableside experience than about the food. A key fe...
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Goes On and On - Neocons and Weapons Makers Are Happy BILL ASTORE JUL 19, 2025 Roughly three and a half years have passed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 202...
Dissident Voice

Propaganda Siren: Silencing the Voice of America - In March this year, the Trump administration effectively shuttered the Voice of America, a broadcasting vehicle for the selective promotion of US policy ...
Wolf Street

The 19 Bigger Cities with the Biggest Price Declines of Condos (-12% to -24% from Peak through June) - Oakland, Austin, San Francisco, Denver, Tampa, Seattle, Saint Petersburg, Fort Myers, Sarasota, Boise, Jacksonville, Detroit, New Orleans, Portland, Arling...
ArcaMax

Trump's Modified Limited Hangout - Reacting with borderline hysteria to demands that the government open its files on Jeffrey Epstein -- the deceased pedophile and financier who once describ...
Debunking Christianity

Leaving Home - [Dr. Valerie Tarico posted this on 05/25/2007. Enjoy!] Greetings! John has graciously asked me to join this community of thinkers and scholars, and I am ho...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Convergence: Fascism as Capitalist Consolidation - Moments like Paramount's bribing of Trump and firing of Colbert reveal the true nature of our moment, and we cannot afford to look away.
San Antonio Current

How Trump's IRS may unshackle churches from their political restraints - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
CultureMap Houston

10 hot Houston Restaurant Weeks newcomers lead our most popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with the highly anticipated 2025 Houston Restaurant Weeks lineup. Plu...
alicublog

SATURDAY ‘ROUND THE HORN: BRIDE OF EPSTEIN EDITION. - *I'm still playin' the victim and you still playin' the pick-me.* I don’t usually front-load these weekly updates with a *Roy Edroso Breaks It Down* free...
Sludge

Energy Chair Hires Ex-Lobbyist to Help Shape U.S. Energy Legislation - Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Latta has selected a former lobbyist for natural gas, uranium, and geothermal firms, as his new aide.
Progressive.org

‘The Last Class’ is a Glowing But Incomplete Portrait of Robert Reich - It’s unclear to what extent we should buy into Robert Reich’s autumnal, self-appointed role as a reliable “progressive” voice in the blab-o-sphere. One wou...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 14 - 18 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. A number of shorter term indicators - mainly stock prices and jobless ...
The Militant

2,000 Teamsters strike Republic Services waste hauler nationwide - MANTECA, Calif. — Three dozen members of Teamsters Local 439 went on strike against Republic Services Forward Landfill here July 8, 15 miles south of Stock...
Workers World

The victorious struggle for national liberation of the peoples of the former Portuguese colonies - [image: The victorious struggle for national liberation of the peoples of the former Portuguese colonies] The author, a former member of the Secretariat of...
Environment Texas

The Trinity dispatch - Your hub for all of our articles, updates, and actions about the environment in Dallas-Fort Worth The post The Trinity dispatch appeared first on Environ...
Common Dreams

Sanders: The March Toward Authoritarianism - *Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released the following statement today, on President Trump's steady march toward authoritarianism: * This is what the march ...
ProPublica

Microsoft Says It Has Stopped Using China-Based Engineers to Support Defense Department Computer Systems - by Renee Dudley ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
slacktivist

LBCF: Still not creepy enough - "Creepy" and "numinous" don't mean the same thing. But they kinda FEEL the same way. And you won't find either on in Left Behind.
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...
Capital & Main

Skater Kid: Behind the Viral Video and Continued Fight for Justice - A lone young man taunted an army of immigration cops and a street erupted with the firing of tear gas and crowd-control munitions. The post Skater Kid: B...
Church and State

James Carville Is Right to Panic – Because Trump’s Next Power Grab Doesn’t Need a Mob - Donald Trump has already laid the psychological and structural groundwork to undermine or suspend elections.
The NM Political Report

Good Trouble Lives On: New Mexico communities join national civil rights protests - This report is supported by NM Political Report, a nonprofit newsroom working to increase New Mexicans’ engagement in politics and public policy. Reporte...
The Texas Signal

How Will Democrats Approach The Special Session? - Monday will give a glimpse if Texas Democrats have a plan to fight redistricting not just with websites and rhetoric but action too
MintPress News

Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant - A new MintPress News study has found dozens of former agents of the Israeli spy agency, Unit 8200, working at tech giant Apple. The post Rotten Apple: Do...
TalkLeft

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

Jewish Woman’s Challenge of Kentucky’s Abortion Ban Gets Green Light From Appeals Court - The lawsuit now returns to Jefferson Circuit Court. The post Jewish Woman’s Challenge of Kentucky’s Abortion Ban Gets Green Light From Appeals Court appe...
Democracy Now!

Trump Cuts to Public Media Threaten Native Stations That Protect Culture & Public Health, Issue Alerts - We speak to Loris Taylor, president of Native Public Media, about the Trump administration’s drastic defunding of public media and its impact on tribal nat...
High Country News

The national parks are not OK - Former national park supervisor explains why toilets may be clean this summer, the parks themselves are actually ‘hollowed out.’ The post The national p...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

Poor Passwords Tattle on AI Hiring Bot Maker Paradox.ai - Security researchers recently revealed that the personal information of millions of people who applied for jobs at McDonald's was exposed after they guesse...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Simone Biles gets last laugh in 'feud' with anti-trans activist Riley Gaines during 2025 Espy Awards - While Simone Biles (top pic) shines and achieves, Riley Gaines (bottom pic) will continue to ride her fifth-place tie with trans athlete Lia Thomas for ...
Democracy Chronicles

How Gerrymandering is Poisioning Our Elections - No politician should draw any maps and should not be able to pick their voters. Gerrymandering is a democracy killer.
Independent Political Report

Yankee National Party Seeks Ballot Access in Connecticut - The Connecticut chapter of the Yankee National Party has submitted designation petitions for a wide range of local and state offices ahead of the 2025 an...
Texas Observer

How Trump’s IRS May Unshackle Churches from Their Political Restraints - Last week, the Family Research Council’s longtime president Tony Perkins exulted over the win the Trump administration delivered to the Christian right: ...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center, Boys and Girls Clubs launch Back to School Mobile Clinic - Well-child visits, immunizations, health checks and preventative services available
Texas Monthly

First Hit by a Tornado, Then by the Flood: “I Feel Like Our Family Is Cursed” - For a Central Texas family, two natural disasters nearly three decades apart have destroyed homes, taken loved ones, and turned life into a bad dream.
DeSmogBlog

‘No Such Thing as a Free Lunch’: Opposition Outcry over Reform’s Secretive DOGE Unit - Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of its ‘DOGE’ drive to reduce local “fraud and wa...
Bud Kennedy

Greg Abbott has $86 million. Texas Democrats don’t have a candidate. Here’s why | Opinion - Gov. Greg Abbott is down to his last $86 million. In his 11th year leading the state, Abbott has wielded his power and punished political opponents like no...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
Earthworks

The Big Beautiful Lie - While we celebrated the 4th of July, Republicans passed a budget that puts polluters first—gutting protections, silencing communities, and handing fossil...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: They Will Never Be Shown - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: I often choose which cartoon to draw based on personal grievances—I mean, I carry my wealth of life ...
Socialist Alternative

Behind Enemy Lines: Lessons For Elected Socialists - Following the surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), in NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary, many on the left...
NORML

Nebraska: Omaha Tribe Approves Marijuana Legalization on Reservation Lands - [image: hand holding green bottle of cannabis oil and glass jar containing cannabis flower in front of marijuana plants][image: hand holding green bottle...
Dissent Magazine

The Painter of the Right - Thomas Kinkade’s paintings show conservatives a world they have already won.
Seeing the Forest

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

Mitigation and Other Unspeakable Horrors - In two recent posts (here and here) I’ve discussed the steaming mess of confusion, hypocrisy, and genuine trouble that goes under the label “global climate...
Progressives Chat

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

VIDEO: ‘We are fighting second coup,’ Evo Morales tells The Grayzone - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Oscar Leon, former Bolivian President Evo Morales details a trove of leaked chats and documents which show ...
Project Censored

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk - In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for...
The Progressive Wing

7/14-20 News Roundup and Open Thread - Mamdani has a big lead in the latest NYC poll.0
Reading the Pictures

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

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

Link Roundup: July 2025 - This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects–often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. I came away thinki...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #169 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: pants on fire, complaints about press coverage, a bumbling treason attempt, and somebody wants a measly $1 trillion.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio July 11, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:07 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Web of Debt

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

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Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

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

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Two Party Opera

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

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

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

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
nonsite.org

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

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
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...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
Countercurrents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

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

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gilbert Gottfried and the age of hypersensitivity - When Geico booted me for speaking out about the Tea Party, it taught me troubling lessons about public outrage

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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Sunday Funnies. So?

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