Brains and Eggs: Edouard headed right at Houston

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Alternet

Republicans afraid of criticizing Trump are now blaming his cabinet instead - Republicans are getting so inundated with tirades and gripes about President Donald Trump that NBC News reports they’re now throwing their hands in the a...
memeorandum

Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russian tyrant agrees to 'immediately supply US with 300,000 tons of diesel' (Ross Ibbetson/Daily Mail) - Ross Ibbetson / Daily Mail: *Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russian tyrant agrees to ‘immediately supply US with 300,000 tons of diesel’* — Don...
Mediaite

ABC News Acknowledges Errors in Trump Sons Report It Mysteriously Deleted - "A version of this story published on Oct. 7 contained errors in the description of certain company investments, government contracts and event chronolog...
Courthouse News

Potential investigative misconduct under review in Arizona election interference case - Cochise County Supervisor Tom Crosby claims the lead investigator in his election interference case has been dishonest in the past and isn't a credible wit...
Al Jazeera English

Mexico investigates video said to show cartel members fighting for Ukraine - Mexico is investigating a viral video showing suspected mercenaries chanting cartel slogans while fighting in Ukraine.
Vox

The Trump administration plans a public killing - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
The Greanville Post

What is Really Wrong With France? - RB—The problem for the French oligarchy and its courtier class is that the French people have a long history of successfully organizing to protect their in...
The Hill

UAE says Flydubai suspect intended to crash plane into Tel Aviv airport - The Flydubai co-pilot who attacked the plane’s captain with an axe last month intended to crash the aircraft into a passenger terminal at an Israeli airpor...
Techdirt.

US Postal Service To Start Exploring Its Always-On Surveillance Options - Here comes the latest in ho-hum dystopia. And by that, I mean surveillance creep has become such a regular occurrence that it takes something truly Overton...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific - India: Karnataka garment workers protest pension and provident-fund restrictions; Western Australian coalminers strike over pay and redundancy entitlements...
Mother Jones

David Flippo Has Close Ties to Accused Fraudster Whose Company Spent Lavishly on His Behalf - In June 2025, as the 2026 midterm elections were starting to heat up, a newly formed company named Arizona Land Reserve made a huge donation to the Nevada ...
Axios

JD Vance says he won't watch livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter - Vice President JD Vance said Friday he won't watch a potential livestream of the convicted Fort Hood shooter's execution, which President Trump told repo...
The Verge

Decade-old RAM is making a comeback - CPU makers have noticed that the seemingly unending RAM price hikes are making it tough for a lot of us to upgrade our PCs. Their solution? A return to las...
IVN

Pennsylvania’s Primary Lockout Is Running Out of Defenders - After a bipartisan House vote to open the primaries, Gov. Josh Shapiro and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick are adding their support as advocates turn their attentio...
Futurism

Police Furious After an Anthropic AI Model Submitted a Bogus Tip About an Unsolved Murder, Posing as a Person Who Might Have Information About the Case - "Unacceptable." The post Police Furious After an Anthropic AI Model Submitted a Bogus Tip About an Unsolved Murder, Posing as a Person Who Might Have Inf...
Independent Political Report

Indiana’s Lincoln Party Releases Statement of Principles, Libertarian Candidate Calls It “Bare Minimum” - *This article was originally published by Indiana Capital Chronicle on October 7, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views...
CultureMap Houston

Globe-trotting Houston chef reviews Noma's $1,500 Los Angeles pop-up - [*Editor’s note*: When David Skinner, chef and owner of Kemah’s celebrated eculent and Ishtia restaurants, offered to share his experience eating at one of...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Raw Story

‘Slap in the face’: CNN rips Trump’s ‘shocking’ Putin deal as Russia gets sanctions break - CNN’s Boris Sanchez expressed shock Friday after President Donald Trump announced a new agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin that he said woul...
Mediagazer

Bloomberg Media names Patty Hirsch as chief digital officer, leading digital and subscription strategy; Hirsch was previously an EVP at WBD (Bloomberg Media) - Bloomberg Media: *Bloomberg Media names Patty Hirsch as chief digital officer, leading digital and subscription strategy; Hirsch was previously an EVP at...
Political Wire

Introducing Political Books - When readers email me, they ask for book recommendations more than almost anything else. So I built a better answer. Political Books collects every book th...
San Antonio Current

Mayes Middleton, running for Texas attorney general, wants to ‘put God back in government’ - Middleton, a Republican, has long pushed for injecting Christianity into the public sphere. His Democratic opponent, Nathan Johnson, said those views ma...
ProPublica

New York Plans Stronger Sports Betting Regulation to Curb Gambling Addiction - The post New York Plans Stronger Sports Betting Regulation to Curb Gambling Addiction appeared first on ProPublica.
Ian Welsh

Information Overlord: It’s Ari Emanuel’s World and We Just Watch Skydance In It - What I Released This Week Iran War: Trump TACOS Again Or Does He? Saudi Airports Blasted Again — Naked Capitalism, 9 Oct. Another Epically Bad News Cycle f...
MintPress News

Books or Bombs? France’s Student Revolt vs. NATO’s Spending Push - Fund our high schools instead of genocides Photo: Stephane Jouteux For the third week in a row, high school students across France are taking to the stre...
SCOTUSblog

Trump announces committee investigation of Fed Governor Lisa Cook - President Donald Trump on Friday announced the creation of a three-person committee to investigate allegations of mortgage fraud against Lisa Cook, a mem...
Novara Media

Polanski Responds to Critics After By-Election Loss - Labour have held Holborn & St Pancras, was the Greens’ campaign lacklustre? Plus: Anthropic has banned cruel behaviour towards its chatbots, Abdul Al-Sayed...
Popular Resistance

Axios Looks For Silver Lining In Trump’s Tinfoil Economy - Axios (10/5/26) thinks it’s spotted a mystery: “President Trump’s economic data keeps getting stronger. His economic polling keeps getting worse by the d...
Ballot Access News

Montana Supreme Court Strikes Down $3,700 Filing Fee for Initiatives - On October 6, the Montana Supreme Court issued a unqnimous opinion in Ellingson v State, DA25-0142. It strikes down the $3,700 filing fee for initiatives. ...
Consortium News

Swiss Neutrality: Between Autonomy & NATO - Switzerland is being gradually integrated into a broader European security architecture increasingly oriented towards possible long-term confrontation with...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Reflections on Science During Nobel Prize Week - At this writing three Nobel Prizes of 2026 have been awarded, so this is a good time to think about those who did not win a Nobel Prize but should have. S...
Scheerpost.com

Navi Pillay Wins the Nobel Peace Prize. The World Still Fails to Stop Genocide - Joshua Scheer Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize is a rare victory for someone who confronted power and told the truth. To mark that recognition, we are shari...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

'Let My People Work': A Cry for Justice Amid ICE Violence by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. October 9, 2026 - *'Let My People Work': A Cry for Justice Amid ICE Violence* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 9, 2026* *We should all be outraged.* *The speake...
Progressive.org

Testing Ireland’s Solidarity With Palestine - Over the last three years, a new wave of cooperation has emerged between the Irish people and Palestinians in Gaza—alongside new political conflict.
The Week

All you need to know about everything that matters -
The Root

Stephen A. Smith Dragged For Mocking NFL Star Lane Johnson’s Comments About Mental Health - Stephen A. Smith, who has spoken openly about his own mental health struggles, faces criticism for mocking an NFL star's retirement decision. Read more...
Angry Bear

One thing to keep in Mind with New Deal democrat’s Commentary on AI . . . - more likely than not . . . Without the building of AI data centers, the United States would be on the verge of recession. AB: “The US economy right now: ...
NPR's Health Shots

Did Russia play by the rules in reporting lab worker's death? - A global treaty signed by 197 countries — including Russia — requires reporting any death that could be a sign of an outbreak to come.
Election Law Blog

NYT Deep Dive: “How Trump’s Revenge Campaign Descended Into Turmoil” - Alan Feuer and Glenn Thrush for the NYT: Joseph diGenova, the man assigned by the White House to lead the investigation into those who investigated Presi...
Texas Standard

When a rural Texas school district struggled with growth, charter schools filled the void - The state has limited how much money it gives to fast-growing school districts, creating million-dollar gaps between what is owed and what’s given.
Sludge

Pipeline CEO Turned Senator Wants to Limit States’ Power to Block Pipelines - Sen. Alan Armstrong holds tens of million in stock in Williams Companies, the company he led, plus performance awards that could pay him up to $32.5 millio...
Salon.com

Josh Hartnett turned heartthrob fame into a career of risks - In "Verity," Hartnett once again subverts expectations in a way Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise can’t manage
El Paso Matters

El Paso Electric CEO Kelly Tomblin retires; Eliecer Viamontes named new leader - Kelly Tomblin is retiring after six years leading El Paso Electric. Her successor, Eliecer Viamontes, takes over amid major construction projects, risin...
Duck of Minerva

Don’t Hold Your Breath on AI-Driven Wargaming - Even if you did have a LLM that could mirror human actions and decision-making processes in a wargame, it wouldn't actually be sufficient to model how weir...
The Texas Signal

The Comic Repurposing Lovecraft For Mexican Stories - Hector Rodriguez III has been creating Mexican comic stories for 15 years. His latest one pits monsters created by one of literature’s most notorious racis...
First Draft

I Agree With Pete Hegseth - And he should be impeached immediately.
Democracy Now!

"Entire System of Cornell University Failed Her": Jane Doe Gang Rape Case Enrages Campus Community - University students across the United States held a national day of action in solidarity with “Jane Doe,” the anonymous former student whose lawsuit allegi...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: DoD Help Us - I like the fact that Wuerker has given this clown a 10-gallon hat and a six-shooter, because the sort of clown who serves as a distraction, the way this on...
WhoWhatWhy

How Fast Food Became the Laboratory for Modern Capitalism - [image: Illustration, Enjoy Capitalism] Fast food didn’t just change how America ate. It was the testing ground for today’s economy: weakened unions, low-w...
Debunking Christianity

How Science and Seminary Sabotaged My Belief in God - *I was well on my way there before I got to seminary* I have often pointed out that by the time I had finished my PhD in Biblical Studies at Boston Univ...
Space City Weather

Space City Weather declares Fall Day 2026 has arrived in Houston! If only for a day - In brief: Today marks Houston’s first morning of autumn with a low temperature of 65 degrees, so we declare it to be Fall Day 2026! Enjoy the comfortable m...
Texas Observer

Matters of Religion - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Matters of Religion ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter prompts fierce political backlash – US politics live - Lawmakers branded the move as ‘disturbing’ and compared it to the actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments Hello and welcome to the US po...
Rewire

How to Talk to Your Kids About Consent and the Cornell Rape Case - Untangling rape culture is complicated. Teaching kids that you need permission to touch someone else’s body is not. The Cornell University rape case has sp...
The Smirking Chimp

Would Another 9/11 Be Trump’s Ultimate October Surprise? -
Slate

Slate SoundBites for October 9, 2026 - Build your answer from the sound up with our new game, SoundBites!
San Antonio Report

A century of dioramas, dinosaurs and discoveries: Witte Museum turns 100 with millions of years on exhibit - The Witte Museum is turning 100 years old this year with thousands of pieces of art, artifacts and specimens in its collection and millions of years of sci...
Crooked Media

MAGA’s Big Fat Greek Scandal - The post MAGA’s Big Fat Greek Scandal appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Daily Poster

Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise. - A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics ...
Two Party Opera

Cruel Or Unusual - Read More
Grist

The Louisiana wind industry’s plan for survival: Outlast Trump - Trump brought offshore wind development to a near standstill. Louisiana companies plan to "wait for the clock to run out" in 2029.
High Country News

Meet the flower whose evolution is outpacing climate change - This common perennial blossom, beloved by hummingbirds and biologists, offers key insight on which plants might save themselves from climate stress. Th...
jobsanger

Republican Corruption Is Out Of Control -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1639: Flying to the Edge of Air - Episode: 1639 Helios, NASA’s high-flying almost-satellite. Today, let us ride Helios’ golden chariot.
Portside

“We Need To Tell the Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect on Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom To Read - “We Need To Tell the Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect on Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom To Read jay Fri, 10/09/2026 - 00:31
Informed Comment

Why Doesn’t Iran Concede under US Pressure? The Limits of Coercion - For Tehran, an agreement can be politically acceptable when it is presented as an exchange between two sovereign states
Wolf Street

Status of the Commercial Real Estate Debt and Who Owns it in 2026 - The government is the most aggressive CRE lender. But even CMBS balances are surging again, water under bridge?
Antiwar.com

Three Years of Gaza as a Ghetto of Genocidal Extermination - Reprinted from Andy Worthington’s website. Israel is lost. Every day for the last three years, the decent people of the world — in our untold millions — ha...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/09/2026 - 05:08 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich-backed permitting reform bill unites Big Oil, clean energy and labor for major overhaul to speed up federal projects - [image: US Sen Martin Heinrich, D-NM (speaking), and others introduce the American Affordability and Jobs Act (Courtesy Photo, Oct 2026)] A bipartisan per...
slacktivist

Scandalous - The shortcomings of evangelicalism should not be ignored. But the critics who discuss those shortcomings should be, I guess.
Lowering the Bar

Court Holds AI-Generated “Victim Statement” Not Reliable - [image: still from Chris Pelkey video]Like almost everything else AI generates.
The Grayzone

British chemical warfare commentator’s MI6 ties exposed in leaked emails - Private messages show show Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, a top British pundit on the Salisbury poisoning incident, was a close associate of the MI6 officer w...
Mondoweiss

One Palestinian killed, dozens injured during Israeli settler attacks on West Bank olive harvest - Settler attacks in the West Bank are ongoing with the enthusiastic approval of the Israeli army, as Palestinians are barred from accessing their own land, ...
Earthworks

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge Is Left Behind in the Rush to Mine the Seafloor - The International Seabed Authority is writing policies to govern mining in the deep sea. Those policies cut right to some of the biggest questions that d...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today - In "Let the Record Show," the ACLU's newest podcast, we discuss how office politics gave courts the power to decide if political decisions are constitution...
Common Dreams

Trump Administration Seeks to Exempt Oil and Gas Exploration in the Western Arctic from Environmental Review and Public Comment - As part of the Trump administration’s ongoing push to illegally expand oil and gas drilling into long-protected Arctic public lands in Alaska, the Depart...
Church and State

Trump: Worth impeaching after the midterms? - Another major problem which requires legislative action is the practice of gerrymandering.
OpEd News

The United Front for the Restoration of U.S. Constitutional Democracy: A Message for the Democrats: Part I - Very briefly, this column is the first of a 3-part series in which I set the stage for and then describe a proposal for an over-arching electoral strategy ...
Socialist Alternative

Giant Wave Of Youth & Student Protest Surges In France - Since mid-September, a so far unstoppable wave of student protests has swept across France, led by angry high school students demanding an end to cutbacks ...
Daily Howler

VALUES: Did he say the same thing all over again? - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026* *There's no known cure for this: *Yesterday, the sitting president said it again--or did he? To see what he said, you can...
Undernews

Judge extends temporary limit on Trump's media ban - *The Hill - *A federal judge on Thursday briefly extended an order lifting a ban implemented by the White House last month on three new outlets President...
Dissent Magazine

Is This Play About Us? - Like the *Mission: Impossible* series, *Digger* delights in its own theatricality. But the film takes so much pleasure in autocritique it borders on auto...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Try to Avoid a Crossover District Shutout; Four House Rating Changes - Even in wave midterm years, the presidential party has retained a few "crossover" seats. Will Republicans this year? The post Republicans Try to Avoid a ...
Glasstire

Top Five: October 8, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Chinati Weekend 2026Chinati Foundation (Marfa)October 9...
The Conversation

Why the assault weapons debate is a culture debate - The Supreme Court’s decision to hear two assault weapons cases caps a multi-decade dispute over restricting assault weapons that extends far beyond legal a...
Off The Kuff

Texas blog roundup for the week of October 5 - The Texas Progressive Alliance has always known the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes as it brings you this week’s roundup. Off th...
Infidel753

The importance of ballot initiatives - Voting for political candidates or parties is increasingly a weary exercise in choosing the lesser of two evils. As I've discussed before, the Republican...
Claytoonz

Trump Cooties - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 27 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Equality Forum's LGBTQ History Month icons are varied and controversial - October is LGBTQ History Month and on an annual basis, Equality Forum spotlights 31 iconic figures of LGBTQ history. This year is no different, but I thi...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UN says committed to work with Pakistan for voluntary returns of Afghan refugees - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the United Nations will work with Pakistan to “uphold protection principles and ensure that returns of Afghans...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Escaping Boutique Realities: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Discourse

What Is ‘The Project of Journalism’??? (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Jeremy O. Harris in Vanity Fair, a ROSIE SPOTTING, and David Ellison’s acting ‘career’
Liberation News

Palestine has irrevocably transformed global politics and consciousness - As U.S. imperialism threatens further escalation, in the region and around the world, it is our responsibility to continue to build a fighting movement tha...
Ecosophia

Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting Revisited - Our review of my earliest and least accurate set of predictions about the future of industrial society, published twenty years ago in the first months of m...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Krebs on Security

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests - A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating...
The Progressive Wing

10/7 – 10/8 News Roundup & Open Thread - Senator Susan Collins and Troy Jackson face off in the CBS13/FOX23 U.S. Senate debate. More news, videos, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
Crooked Timber

How Money Matters - Having alighted from the bus in an industrial area I’d never been before, I found the right building and descended the stairs. As instructed by email, I ra...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help households save energy and stay warm this winter - Expert advice includes simple solutions alongside larger home investments; Oct. 7 is national Energy Efficiency Day The post RESOURCE GUIDE: Tips to help...
LareDOS

Solaz y solidaridad: Contra-ICE launches in downtown LA with compilation album featuring artists, musicians, comedians, and performers - Album is a fundraiser for National Day Laborer Organizing Network and Unión del Barrio, non-profits that serve immigrants and protect their human rights
Brad Blog

Good, Bad and Ugly News, Four Weeks from Midterm Election Day: ‘BradCast’ 10/6/2026 - We’ve got mostly encouraging news about the 2026 midterms on today’s BradCast, though there are plenty of caveats and reasons for the pro-democracy forces ...
Trivial Knot

Narrative analysis of The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time - The Remake of The End of The Greatest RPG of All Time isn’t really a remake, nor an RPG. It’s a puzzle game with a metafictional narrative. You get plopped...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Breakfast with Tucker - So I did the Tucker Carlson Show. That’s right, I flew back to the USA (again), rented a car, drove up to Tucker’s place in Maine, had breakfast with Tucke...
NORML

Massachusetts: Lawmakers Publicly Urge ‘No’ Vote on Marijuana Repeal Initiative (Question 8) - [image: Vote for Marijuana][image: Vote for Marijuana]"Repealing legal adult use would have devastating impacts on the livelihoods of those who have inve...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

White House Halloween Card - 9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issu...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Greg Palast

Kumbaya Killers. What’s so funny?The “horseshoe” theory will kick us in the a** - I used to think the “Horseshoe Theory” was horsesh*t. The ”horseshoe” theorem is that, like the two far ends of a horseshoe, extremists of the political Ri...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GOOD FOR WHAT AI'S YA EDITION. - *These guys are local!* This week has been, as is now customary under Tubby II, a cavalcade of horrors, and perhaps the most illustrative horror was the ...
The Militant

Havana event discusses Cuba, Africa independence struggle - HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at ...
Bracing Views

We’re #1! - At Needless Wars, Weapons Exports, and Threatening Annihilation BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2026 Americans like to think we live in the best country in the world. ...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
Texas Freedom Network

Prop B: Corpus Christi’s Fair Water Amendment - Corpus Christi is running out of water. No, that’s not an exaggeration. After several years of continuous drought, the city is now expected to have deman...
Idavox

A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania - When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming “White Power,” folks there wanted to... The post A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Texas Monthly

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Skeptophilia

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

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

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

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

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Dissident Voice

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Monday, August 04, 2008

Edouard headed right at Houston

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