Brains and Eggs: Extra 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

Futurism

Hockey Coach Admits He’s Been Asking ChatGPT for Advice After His Team Became the Worst in the League - "Do you guys use ChatGPT?" The post Hockey Coach Admits He’s Been Asking ChatGPT for Advice After His Team Became the Worst in the League appeared first ...
Salon.com

Supreme Court appears uncertain on Trump’s “emergency” argument for tariffs - The court will decide whether or not to invalidate the steep duties of Trump's trade war
memeorandum

Voters Soundly Reject Trump's Plot to Rig the Next Election (Ari Berman/Mother Jones) - Ari Berman / Mother Jones: *Voters Soundly Reject Trump's Plot to Rig the Next Election* — On Tuesday, Democrats passed new congressional maps, defeate...
Raw Story

'Grow a pair': Bitter in-party scrap boils over as Dem celebrates election wins - A reported battle brewing between Maryland Democrats and the party in the rest of the country spilled out into the open on Wednesday, following the Democ...
Mediaite

Fox News Host Rages at Mamandi Win: ‘I Look Forward to Him Totally Failing’ - Fox News host Emily Compagno ripped Zohran Mamdani and the "sedated" New Yorkers who voted for him, saying the next NYC mayor is a communist and a Jew ha...
Al Jazeera English

‘Time for us to step up’: What Zohran Mamdani’s win means to Ugandan youth - Ugandans are celebrating New York City Mayor-Elect, Zohran Mamdani’s historic ascension to city hall.
The Verge

Apple’s slim M4 MacBook Air is cheaper than ever ahead of Black Friday - If you’ve been holding off on getting a new laptop, now’s a great time to pick one up. Ahead of Black Friday, you can snag the base 13-inch M4-powered MacB...
Houston Public Media

Facing apartment industry pushback, Houston City Council delays decision on inspection ordinance - Tenant advocacy groups argued the proposed measure lacks strength because of the narrow program size, while the Houston Apartment Association argued the pr...
Mediagazer

McClatchy is eliminating its real-time national news operation, closing its Washington bureau, and withdrawing from the White House press pool (Oliver Darcy/Status) - Oliver Darcy / Status: *McClatchy is eliminating its real-time national news operation, closing its Washington bureau, and withdrawing from the White Hou...
Slate

The Supreme Court’s Tariffs Arguments Were a Bloodbath for Trump - Going into Supreme Court arguments over President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Wednesday, it was genuinely difficult to guess how the justices would rule.
Eschaton

Source: I Made It Up - Dems listened to Shor after the election, and he had no data to back up assertions like this. .@NBCNews exit polling on young men (18-29) in VA, NJ an...
San Antonio Current

A Democrat is in the lead in a historically red Texas Senate district’s runoff - The veteran and union leader got the most votes in the Fort Worth-area district over his two Republican rivals. The post A Democrat is in the lead in a ...
The Week

Film reviews: ‘Bugonia,’ ‘The Mastermind’ and ‘Nouvelle Vague’ - A kidnapped CEO might only appear to be human, an amateurish art heist goes sideways, and Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless’ gets a lively homage
Axios

Rep. Jared Golden won't seek reelection to Congress in major blow to Democrats - Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) said Wednesday that he will not seek reelection to Congress in 2026, citing "frequent threats" against him and the "grim mile...
Courthouse News

Public defender’s public racism - BOSTON — A criminal defendant who pleaded guilty to three firearms charges will be given a new trial, ruled the Massachusetts Court of Appeals, because his...
Independent Political Report

Liberal Party USA Poised to Gain Recognized Status in Pennsylvania After Superior Court Race - The Liberal Party USA appears positioned to gain recognized political party status in Pennsylvania after its candidate for Superior Court, Daniel Wassmer...
OpEd News

No, You Can't "Cite AI" like a Scholarly Source - Generative AI is not a stable reference, it is not a scholarly source, it is not an authority, and it is not accountable. For these reasons and more, "citi...
Political Wire

It’s Worth Rethinking 2024 - Charlie Cook: “Tuesday’s results back up my oft-stated argument that the November 2024 election was a highly focused repudiation of President Biden, the Bi...
SCOTUSblog

Court debates a time limit on challenging void judgments - On Tuesday, the Supreme Court considered whether it’s possible to run out of time to challenge a judgment that never should have been issued. The disput...
CultureMap Houston

Luxurious downtown hotel elevates with new rooftop restaurant - The next step in a downtown hotel’s renovation and expansion is taking shape. A new rooftop restaurant called *The Perch* will open next year at the *JW Ma...
Daily Dot

“Really crazy things are happening”: Ryan Murphy’s “All’s Fair” gets 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, but viewers are all-in - [image: alls fair rotten tomatoes kim kardashian sarah paulson tv show] Ryan Murphy's *All's Fair* just debuted on Hulu with a whopping 0% Rotten Tomatoe...
NPR's Health Shots

A declaration of famine is rare. It's now happened twice in 2025, this time in Sudan - Famine declarations are relatively rare. But the leading international authority on hunger crises this week declared that regions of war-torn Sudan face ca...
The Hill

New York fire commissioner resigns following Mamdani win - New York Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker was appointed by current Mayor Eric Adams.
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s Historic Victory: Full Steam Ahead To Fight Trump & The Democratic Party Establishment - In a truly historic victory, self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has defeated hated former governor Andrew Cuomo to become mayor of New York...
Vox

The Supreme Court might actually stand up to Trump - The Supreme Court’s Wednesday morning argument on President Donald Trump’s ever-shifting tariffs went better for him than the 2025 elections, but only slig...
Techdirt.

NC GOP Threatens ProPublica: Drop This Story Or We’ll Call Trump To Punish You - The faux “party of free speech” strikes again. For years, the MAGA GOP has insisted that it is the true “party of free” speech even as all evidence suggest...
Daily Cartoonist

Newspaper News - The digital Salt Lake Tribune returns to hard copy editions, The Washington Post does away with reader critiques, the McClatchy group cripples its national...
Election Law Blog

The Complaint Filed By Republicans Against the Maps Created by California’s Prop 50 Raising Racial Gerrymandering and Intentional Discrimination Claims Faces an Uphill Battle, Especially Given 2026 Timing - You can find the complaint here. The main argument in the case is that plaintiffs engaged in a racial gerrymander by making race the predominant factor i...
Second Nexus

Coca-Cola Defends Decision To Use AI To Make New Holiday Commercial After Backlash - In 1995, Coca-Cola aired one of the *most enduring Christmas commercials* of all time: "The Holidays Are Coming." The ad featured glowing red trucks driv...
Consortium News

Islam vs the West: 4 Fallacies Exposed - Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? Jonathan Cook examines ...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City in a Youthquake - Zohran Mamdani's youthquake overturned the New York power structure, and his victory has national implications.
San Antonio Report

Mayoral upset in Schertz, incumbents win in Converse, Windcrest - One challenger scored an upset and two incumbents prevailed in three mayoral contests in Northeast side municipalities. ------------------------------ Mayor...
El Paso Matters

After surviving Stage 4 cancer, El Paso musician turns to the community to restore his smile - Beloved for his decades of contributions to El Paso’s music and arts scene, Russ Kalman is recovering from cancer and hoping to regain his smile through...
Deadline Politics

Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50 Victory Triggers GOP Lawsuit: “Good Luck, Losers”, Governor’s Team Declares - Republicans wasted no time taking Gavin Newsom to court on after Tuesday night’s big Proposition 50 win for the ambitious California governor. Still, even ...
WhoWhatWhy

Give Caterpillars a ‘Soft Landing’ Under Your Trees. - [image: science, ecosystem, biodiversity, trees, gardens, insects, caterpillars, survival] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or ...
Mother Jones

Dems Won. Cue the Far-Right Crash-Out. - Democrats won big on Tuesday night, with victories in high-profile races across the country, including that of 34-year-old Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamd...
The Greanville Post

Sine Die - PAUL EDWARDS—Legislatures were created to represent the people in eras when all government was autocratic, and were only established after fierce struggles...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team as he prepares for New York mayoralty - Team includes Lina Khan, the FTC commissioner under Biden, and other Democratic former city officials - US politics live – latest updates ...
Reform Austin

Menefee Leads Edwards in Houston Special Election Runoff for 18th Congressional District - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee and former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards ...
Alternet

House speaker complains as Dem rep interrupts presser to accuse him of 'lying' - A Democratic member of Congress interrupted Speaker Mike Johnson during his outdoor press conference on Wednesday, denouncing his “lies” and demanding th...
World Socialist Web Site

Samia Hassan, the Butcher of Tanzania, sworn in as president amid escalating repression - The inauguration took place with the streets of major cities still stained with blood. As internet services gradually return following a six-day shutdown, ...
Progressive.org

SNAP Is Vital to the Nation’s Well-Being - Investing in people through food assistance, health care, and education strengthens our democracy and ensures that everyone can live with dignity.
Capital & Main

The David vs. Goliath Story of a Ranching Family and an Oil Giant - They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t. The post The Davi...
Bonddad

ISM services index rebounds, indicating moderate expansion, but with stagflation - - *by New Deal democrat* With the shutdown of the official government sources, along with the regional Fed indexes, the ISM manufacturing and servic...
The Daily Poster

New York’s Sore Winners - Congressional Democrats from the Empire State are less than enthused about New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Wolf Street

Private-Sector Job Growth Lumbers Along after Getting Hammered by the 2024 Benchmark Adjustments in Sep & Aug - ADP Employment Report: +42,000 Jobs in October; wages +4.5% for “Job Stayers” and +6.7% for “Job Changers.”
Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani’s victory is a loss for Zionism - [image: Zohran Mamdani seen on stage at a campaign event. (Photo: Zohran Mamdani campaign)]Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City shows that th...
Texas Observer

My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don’t Like - On October 17, Texas Christian University announced it would close its Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) dep...
Daily Howler

CHAOS: One C-Span caller was sure he was right! - *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2025* *Various sources of chaos: *Even before election results rolled in, there he went again. We've suggested that you pity the...
Dissident Voice

Portugal’s Fight over the Muslim Veil - Portugal, long admired for its tolerance and moderate social fabric, has taken a shocking and regressive turn. The country’s parliament has recently appr...
NORML

Marijuana Arrests Comprised Nearly Half of All Drug-Related Arrests in Over a Dozen States in 2024 - [image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against three tiny buds][image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against t...
Ballot Access News

Eleventh Circuit Delays Lawsuit Over Florida Restrictions on Out-of-State Circulators - On November 5, the Eleventh Circuit stayed the briefing schedule in Florida Decides Healthcare v Byrd, 25-12370. This is the lawsuit over Florida’s new res...
Undernews

Donald Trump - [image: Black and white photograph of several men in suits standing around a desk where one central figure in a suit and tie signs a document with a pen. ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Dem Wave Hits Virginia, New Jersey, and Elsewhere; a Dozen House Ratings Shift in California Following Approval of New Dem Map - Democrats enjoyed a strong election performance last night. Aside from wins in New Jersey and Virginia. Prop. 50 will pass in California, which has promp...
Dissent Magazine

Zohran’s Promise - The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward ...
Discourse

We Got a Hot Mayor - Zohran Mamdani won. We seized the hot future that we deserve. And the uggos better be afraid.
Grist

Why cities around the world are uniting to keep cool - A new global initiative is helping cities from Phoenix to Quezon City address extreme heat with shared solutions and local action.
Glasstire

Bookended: The Art of Theft - From caper novels to blockbuster films, art crimes seem to find their way into fictional storylines quite often. From that standpoint, they might be some...
MintPress News

Fatema Al Harbi: The Arab Working Overtime to Defend Israel’s Genocide - Fatema Al Harbi built her career defending Israel’s actions in Gaza, partnering with Israeli intelligence-linked groups and spreading propaganda that whi...
The Root

Megyn Kelly Has Too Much to Say About Black Women’s Hair After Michelle Obama’s Book Release - Michelle Obama has been open about the pressures she faced as the first Black First Lady, but according to Megyn Kelly, she's making it all up. Read mor...
Ian Welsh

Mamdani Represents A New Era Of Political Conflict - As everyone’s probably aware, Mamdani, a brown muslim social-democrat who has promised, among other things, to open city grocery stories, make transit free...
First Draft

A Triple Moment of Zen - A death, a string of victories, and a sandwich.
Democracy Now!

"Epic Night for Democrats": Party Wins Races Across the U.S. in Voter Rebuke to Trump - We get an overview of how Democrats won big across the United States in Tuesday’s elections, with Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of *Bolts*. Democratic ...
ArcaMax

American Democracy Online: Not a Pretty Thing - *Warning: this column is a dark path to a gaudy "Great Gatsby" party while children go hungry.* We know the damage cellphones cause to kids and teenagers i...
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “The War for the Democratic Party” - Live 9 am Eastern and Streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou tell you what the Democrats’ elections sweep mean...
The Conversation

Zohran Mamdani’s transformative child care plan builds on a history of NYC social innovations - Mamdani’s child care plans could set an example for other policymakers to follow, as Democratic and Republican voters say child care costs are a major prob...
Space City Weather

Warming trend on tap for Houston ahead of a sharp, short front this weekend - In brief: Houston’s forecast remains more or less the same, with warming days and nights heading into the weekend, followed by a sharp cooldown on Saturday...
Infidel753

The election - I suppose I need to say something about this. The two major disasters yesterday were expected, even inevitable, but that doesn't make the disappointment ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Tokenization of Environmental Assets & Ecosystem Services - With forests and seas on the map, tokenization of natural capital is redefining the world’s... The post Guest Idea: Tokenization of Environmental Assets ...
Dorf on Law

The Constitution in Crisis: The Supreme Need for Justice Robert Jackson's Legal Realism - Donald Trump is asserting more executive power than any President since the Civil War. He would likely not only agree with that assessment but be proud o...
Angry Bear

U.S. Manufacturing Can Be the Foundation of Economic Strength and Innovation - Brief rundown on how manufacturing has evolved over the past 40 years. Moving from solely Labor to less Labor at a higher value. One worker at a CNC mach...
The Smirking Chimp

The Daily Chimp for Wednesday, 5 November 2025 -
Texas Standard

Texas voters approve 17 constitutional amendments, from tax cuts to water infrastructure - While most proposed amendments on this year’s ballot focused on taxes, voters also showed strong support for investing in Texas’ network of technical colle...
Skeptophilia

Chasing uselessness - Occasionally I run across something so weird it's almost charming. This happened just yesterday, and has to do with a topic I've looked at here at *Skept...
Off The Kuff

November 2025 election results: Local and state - Quick hits here, as I was up past my bedtime… All 17 constitutional amendments were on the path to passing. Most of them merited a No vote, but once these ...
ProPublica

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley. - The post Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley. appeared first on ProPublica.
Scheerpost.com

Islam vs the West: The Four Biggest Fallacies About Islam Explained - Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the sam...
High Country News

The fallout from Ruby Ridge - Disillusionment pushes Jess Walter’s characters to the brink in his new novel ‘So Far Gone.’ The post The fallout from Ruby Ridge appeared first on High...
Crooked Media

Revenge of the Libs - The post Revenge of the Libs appeared first on Crooked Media.
Common Dreams

To the Long Hopeful Query, Is He Dead Yet? Yes. - Variously dubbed Darth Vader, the Prince of Darkness and "one of the most evil people to exist in modern history," Dick Cheney, the lying, blood-stained ...
Counterpunch

‘New York, This City Belongs to You’: Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech - Thank you, my friends. The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, “I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.” ...
jobsanger

We Have A Choice Between Oligarchy And Democracy -
Informed Comment

On the Occasion of Dick Cheney’s Passing: “All the Vice President’s Men” - Dick Cheney and the Iraq War - was it about Oil? How Cheney coarsened American politics
The NM Political Report

Same-day voter registration boosts turnout for local elections - [image: Voters at the UNM Student Union, 2025] [image: Voters at the UNM Student Union, 2025] By Noah Gollin, NM Political Report — Almost 6,000 voters u...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Mamdani’s victory and the movement for socialism - Mamdani’s victory is another indicator that people want to fight.
Brad Blog

Republican Thuggery While Americans Vote: 'BradCast' 11/4/2025 - Today was Election Day for major contests in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia and California, not to mention about 30 other states which also held eithe...
Popular Resistance

Trump’s Greatest Ally Is The Democratic Party - The only hope to save ourselves from Trump’s authoritarianism is mass movements. We must build alternative centers of power — including political parties...
Workers World

Corporate greed vs people’s need for food - [image: Corporate greed vs people’s need for food] It was bad enough that President Donald Trump’s big, bad budget bill would slash $230 billion over 10 ye...
Portside

Teachers Unions Leverage Contracts To Fight Climate Change - Teachers Unions Leverage Contracts To Fight Climate Change Greg Tue, 11/04/2025 - 20:06
Antiwar.com

Dick Cheney (1941–2025): The Dark Legacy of a War Criminal - Former U.S. vice president Richard “Dick” Cheney died on 3 November 2025 at age 84; his family said he had suffered from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular...
See You In 2020

The “Jewish question” is a psyop by finance capital, crafted to distract from Marxism’s scientific mission - Our ruling class is boosting the JQ to try to offset the massive pro-communist turn which America’s younger generation is headed towards. The objective ...
Environment Texas

Where do bumblebees go in the winter? - The story of bumblebee hibernation and how you can help them The post Where do bumblebees go in the winter? appeared first on Environment Texas.
LareDOS

Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard - Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
Church and State

Which Gospel Is the Worst of the Four? - There is the formula for the success of cults and religions: Don’t ask for evidence: just believe what we claim to know about god(s).
Rewire

Let White People Be the Face of Trump’s Hunger Crisis—Opinion - Black suffering has never moved this country to act. Maybe seeing white families skip meals will finally make us admit that food insecurity isn’t fate—it...
The Texas Signal

Election 2025: What To Watch - Here’s a roundup of some of the hottest, most bizarre, and interesting races in the lone star state taking place today
Black Agenda Report

Z!0nIsm and Race in the White Empire | w/ Gerald Horne & Ajamu Baraka - Z!0nIsm and Race in the White Empire | w/ Gerald Horne & Ajamu Baraka bareditors Wed, 11/05/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Worst of Us: Dick Cheney and the Dystopian World He Built - We live in Dick Cheney's America. God help us.
Crooked Timber

Tuesday photoblogging: Hamburg crows - I’ve been visiting family in Germany, with only a phone, so I couldn’t post on Sunday. But here are some crows from Hamburg.
The AltWorld

New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: Tech Dystopia In The Shadow Of The Empire - The new edition of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. Life […] The post New Issue Of JOHNSTO...
The Progressive Wing

November 4-7 News Roundup and Open Thread - Election Day 2025 is here.
DeSmogBlog

Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises - When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he bro...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trans man 'reading Ben Shapiro to filth' is the video we didn't know we needed (but do) - Right-winger Ben Shapiro when a trans man breaks through his "debate me, dude" nonsense and breaks down his deceptions. The following video took place l...
slacktivist

More American Nazis in the news - Some Republicans are furious with Tucker Carlson for legitimizing actual Nazi and white nationalist Nick Fuentes. But you can't reject Nazis while still su...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Unity Walk—Friday, Nov. 7th in collaboration with the National Day of Action against the Trump Compact for Higher Education - *The Unity Walk in collaboration with the National Day of Action against Trump's Compact for Higher Education is happening this coming Friday. You ...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Bracing Views

More and More War - What Happened to Diplomacy and the Rule of Law? BILL ASTORE Last week, I talked to Judge Napolitano about the Russia-Ukraine War, the Trump administration’...
Project Censored

The Weight of Humanity: Gaza, Academia, and Acts of Solidarity - In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiograph...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
Krebs on Security

Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody - A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Ita...
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Debunking Christianity

The First Pages of "God and Horrendous Suffering, 2nd Edition" - This is a final draft of my Preface, Blurbs, Contents, and Introduction to the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" at Academia.edu. CLICK HERE! E...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Planning For The Nakba Is A Matter of Public Record! - The Nakba was a premeditated crime to commit mass murder, ethnic cleansing and massive theft of land to create Israel, and there are plenty of public re...
Lowering the Bar

Okay, It Seems to Have Been Pretty Successful - If it happened at all.
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
The Militant

The working class needs to take political power! - Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City ...
Idavox

VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi - To the right, Bela played a role that was far, far scarier than Dracula. The post VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi appeared first on ...
Unlimited Hangout

Report Impersonation - Report Impersonation.
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway - Its bipartisan congressional sponsors say the bill, the Fix Our Forests Act, is an important step toward reducing catastrophic fire risk.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Ecosophia

A Few Notes On Psychic Self-Defense - It’s a longstanding custom on this blog that whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, the commentariat gets to nominate and vote on the subject I’ll ...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
alicublog

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

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The Rag Blog

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nonsite.org

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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Bud Kennedy

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Moron Majority

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Southeast Texas Record

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Save Buffalo Bayou

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The Disorder Of Things

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Texans For Public Justice

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Political Garbage Chute

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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)

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The Mind Unleashed

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New Progressive Alliance

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Robert Reich

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Texas Environmental News

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Shadowproof

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One People's Project

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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.
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Lawfare

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News Junkie

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The Contributor

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Liberal America

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epic.org

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Houston Press

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Progressives Everywhere

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Anti-Media

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Splinter

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