Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

Countercurrents

The United States’ Hegemonic Actions: An Open Challenge to Global Sovereignty and Justice - On January 3, 2026, a stunning announcement shook the international community: the United States, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, had orche...
ProPublica

Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases - The post Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

Research says this is the 'minimum dose' of gym time you need to see results - Building muscle has huge health benefits, but working out takes time. So what's the least amount of time you can spend at the gym and still see the benefit...
Grist

The biggest climate migration problem may be that there’s not enough of it - In his new book, Julian Hattem explores how migration can be a climate solution — not just for those who are able to move, but for their home communities a...
Al Jazeera English

What is the US charging Nicolas Maduro with? - Maduro and five others are charged in the US with a number of crimes, including 'narco-terrorism'.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Oil price dips as markets assess impact of Trump’s moves in Venezuela - Crude oil falls amid fears US president’s pledge to run country and unlock vast reserves could deepen global supply glut - Business live – lat...
Dissident Voice

US Strikes on Venezuela Sound an Alarm for Global Governance - Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on January 3, 2026. The US mi...
Daily Dot

“We are so back”: Fans react to the first teaser of Seth Rogen’s “The Muppet Show” featuring Sabrina Carpenter - [image: the muppet show new series sabrina carpenter] It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights... because *The Muppet Show* is coming b...
Raw Story

Trump has 'a lot to hide from' with admin problems 'all closing in': expert - Donald Trump has "a lot to hide from" at the start of 2026, with a political commentator suggesting the problems are "all closing in". Joyce Vance, the ...
Crooked Media

Can America Pull Back From the Brink of Autocracy? - The post Can America Pull Back From the Brink of Autocracy? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

They’re Not Even Trying to Lie Well Anymore - Venezuela is merely one of seven countries Trump bombed in 2025, one of several where regime change is the official but unstated agenda. Increasingly, Am...
Counterpunch

Captain America for Sale: $72 Billion - On 5 December 2025, Netflix announced it would buy Warner Bros — including the film studio, TV studio, HBO, HBO Max, and the entire DC Comics universe — ...
The Week

A lemon-shaped exoplanet is squeezing what we know about planet formation - It may be made from a former star
The Verge

This robot companion is a cameraman for your pet - For a long time, tech companies have pitched pet cameras as a way to find out what your furball is up to when you're not home. Vex, a new robot companion l...
Consortium News

Trump & Rubio: Cuba, Mexico, Colombia Could Be Next - Jake Johnson reports on the Progressive International declaration: “The ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine is the single greatest threat to peace and...
jobsanger

The Worst Is Not Over -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1501: Horizontal Diffusion - Episode: 1501 The orientation of continents determines their development. Today, the advantage of being horizontal.
Liberation News

Declaración del PSL: ¡No a la guerra contra Venezuela – rechazamos el secuestro de Nicolás Maduro! - La administración Trump ha cometido un acto de agresión sin precedentes con su asalto a Venezuela para secuestrar al jefe de Estado del país a punta de pis...
World Socialist Web Site

Mass protests erupt in Iran over mounting economic distress - Large protests against mounting economic distress have occurred in many parts of Iran over the past week, and have continued in the face of increasing stat...
Informed Comment

“A Blind Understanding:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:33 - No one has peeked behind the veil of fate. / No one’s discovered destiny’s secret
Axios

Prime ministers of Greenland, Denmark tell Trump to stop U.S. takeover threats - The leaders of Greenland and Denmark called on President Trump to stop threatening to take over the resources-rich autonomous territory that's part of th...
memeorandum

Trump Says US Needs 'Total Access' to Post-Maduro Venezuela (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Trump Says US Needs ‘Total Access’ to Post-Maduro Venezuela* — President Donald Trump said the US needs “total access” to Venezuela as ques...
The Hill

Pope Leo calls for Venezuelan independence after Maduro ouster - Pope Leo XIV on Sunday underscored the importance of safeguarding Venezuelan sovereignty after U.S. forces captured President Nicolás Maduro and took contr...
Common Dreams

A Softening of Hearts: The Mayor Is Listening - In a new year that promises to be as wretched, rancorous and bloody as the last one - cue oil lust and delusions of empire - we celebrate the stirring ho...
Political Wire

Trump Says U.S. Needs ‘Total Access’ to Venezuela - President Trump said the U.S. needs “total access” to Venezuela as questions mount about the country’s leadership following the capture of President Nicolá...
Daily Cartoonist

Addenda: Departures, Deviations - Have added Diamond Lil to our 2025 list of Departures and Rubes to the 2025 Deviations list. Diamond Lil has been in rerun status since the September 29 da...
Portside

Sunday Science: After Legal Deal, NIH To Review Grant Proposals Frozen, Denied, or Withdrawn Because of Trump Directives - Sunday Science: After Legal Deal, NIH To Review Grant Proposals Frozen, Denied, or Withdrawn Because of Trump Directives Ira Sun, 01/04/2026 - 22:27
Claytoonz

Ghost Of Invasions Past - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Mediagazer

The federal government's role in merger approvals gives the Trump administration an easy way to coerce big media companies; other industries could be next (Dan Perry/MediaPost) - Dan Perry / MediaPost: *The federal government's role in merger approvals gives the Trump administration an easy way to coerce big media companies; other...
Mediaite

You’re Next! Trump Threatens Colombia’s ‘Sick’ President His Days Are Numbered After Maduro’s Capture - President Trump issued a not-so-thinly-veiled threat to Colombia's Gustavo Petro that he will be the next Latin American leader ousted by the U.S. Milita...
WhoWhatWhy

Denmark Tells Trump to Keep His Greedy Mitts Off Greenland - [image: Mette Frederiksen, Folkemødet] In the wake of the US attack on Venezuela, other countries are realizing that Donald Trump may not stop there. Denma...
The Greanville Post

Diaspora Gusanos celebrate the (momentary) imperialist victory over Bolivarian revolution - Venezuelans living in VARIOUS COUNTRIES gathered to celebrate news that U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. The operation marks a his...
Popular Resistance

The US Attacks Venezuela And Seizes Its President - A little after 2am, Venezuela time, on 3 January 2026, in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the United States began an attack on seve...
Courthouse News

Trial to begin for police officer charged in delayed response to Uvalde school shooting - The families have pinned their hopes on the jury after their gun-control efforts were rejected by lawmakers, and their lawsuits remain unresolved.
The Conversation

Can the US ‘run’ Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy - If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create pol...
Antiwar.com

‘We’re Going To Run the Country:’ Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela - I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the coun...
Mother Jones

Even Republicans Are Challenging Trump’s Claim That His Venezuela Campaign Is About Drugs - Even some Republican lawmakers criticized the Trump administration’s assertion that it is engaging in a military campaign in Venezuela to block fentanyl tr...
Deadline Politics

‘60 Minutes’ To Broadcast New Segment On Maduro Following U.S. Capture - CBS News’ 60 Minutes is airing a new segment on Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro after his capture and detainment by the United States government. With the...
Undernews

American justice - * BBC*
Eschaton

But Were Any Of Them Real People - General pundit consensus is "no."
slacktivist

Bad for the brain, worse for the heart - I cannot keep up. I can barely keep up reading the posts of others who are trying, bravely, to keep up, but they can't keep up either.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Why Aren't Professors Braver? Fear and Self-Censorship in Academe, by Paul Bloom, Chronicle of Higher Education - * Friends:* *I'm finally getting around to reading this piece that is listed by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of its most widely read articles...
Salon.com

Trump aide Katie Miller: Greenland part of the US “SOON” - Trump aide’s post drew international attention as global leaders reacted to escalating US foreign policy moves
The Militant

Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! - SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT Statement Issued January 3, 2026 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party The Socialis...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County precinct, Balcones Heights police opt into immigration enforcement - ICE partnerships are expanding in Bexar County, with some local law enforcement agencies opting into the federal 287(g) program. ---------------------------...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of 2025 At Techdirt - It’s that time again! Instead of our usual look at the top comments of the week, it’s time to celebrate the most highly voted comments of the year at Techd...
Space City Weather

Our official forecast for the Houston Marathon: trending cooler, with borderline ideal conditions - In brief: In this Sunday special edition of Space City Weather, we’re offering the latest forecast for the Houston Marathon, which is one week from today. ...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – January 04, 2026 - by Tony Wikrent Trump DHS Post Calling for ‘100 Million Deportations’ Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens Stephen Prager, January 02, 2026 [Commo...
Off The Kuff

Weekend link dump for January 4 - “2026” is definitely a science-fiction year. “The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors...
See You In 2020

Big tech’s agenda of AI pandemonium, & the breakthrough that will come from defeating it - When John Martin created his 1841 painting Pandemonium, pictured above, he was reacting to the hell that capital had created through the industrial revo...
Election Law Blog

“Trump Super PAC Raised More Than $100 Million in Recent Months” - NYT: President Trump’s team raised more than $100 million for a super PAC in the second half of 2025, with much of the money coming from wealthy people a...
Scheerpost.com

Jeffrey Sachs on the U.S. Attack on Venezuela: A Call to Recognize the Dangers of Lawlessness - In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay...
Slate

I Really Want to Climax, but My Orgasms Scare the Living Hell Out of Me - It's not squirt. It's something else entirely.
Ballot Access News

New York Governor Signs Bill Making it Easier for Parties to Expel Members - New York law has long permitted political parties to expel members believed not to be in sympathy with the party’s principles. But the law always required...
Alternet

Greenland on edge after threat from Trump official’s wife - Danish leaders are on edge after President Donald Trump invaded Venezuela to capture Nicolás Maduro. A top Trump insider posted on X that Greenland might...
Futurism

The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI Construct - "Part of it is definitely the novelty, part of it is some of the things she says." The post The Most Popular Streamer on Twitch Is Now an AI Construct a...
Land Destroyer

New Year Starts, Same Old US Proxy War Continues - *January 3, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While the United States government poses as “pursuing peace” with Russia regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine,...
Reform Austin

Austin Police Investigate First Homicide of 2026 - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Austin police are probing the city’s first homicide of the year after a fatal incident at a Wes...
Angry Bear

Wanting more Northern European Immigrants - Partial of a recent immigration article in Newsweek. “Trump said he wants more Nordic immigrants. (A) Norwegian man’s reply goes viral,” (Newsweek): In r...
San Antonio Current

Texas comptroller GOP primary attracts big money from donors with business before the agency - [image: Texas Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick speaks to delegates at the 2024 Texas GOP Convention in San Antonio on May 25, 2024.] One candidate r...
Glasstire

Twenty-Five Years is a Long Time: On Glasstire’s Anniversary - Twenty-five years ago, Glasstire went live on the World Wide Web. It was a different time: people weren’t chronically online (if they were even online at...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Peace President' Toons - And now...just a few of the toons we had otherwise planned/hoped to run today before Trump decided to change the narrative on Friday night... (In related n...
Mondoweiss

This is how Israeli settlers, backed by the military, erased a Palestinian village from existence last week - [image: A general view of Yanoun school, September 15, 2015. (Photo: Nedal Eshtayah/APA Images)]The last family in the Palestinian village of Yanoun left t...
First Draft

Cry Of The City (1948) - Starring Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde, Berry Kroeger, and Hope Emerson. Directed by Robert Siodmak. Screenplay by...
El Paso Matters

How to join El Paso’s growing birding scene - Bird migration has long been embedded in the landscape of the borderland, with nearly 300 species of birds visiting here every year, including what some...
Vox

Is heterosexuality cringe? - In recent months, freelance writer Chanté Joseph noticed a surprising trend on her social media feeds: Women had stopped posting pictures of their boyfrien...
naked capitalism

Links 1/4/2026 -
The Smirking Chimp

Thug World -
The AltWorld

The Hidden Signal: How One Answer Could Ignite the Middle East - The Hidden Signal: How One Answer Could Ignite the Middle East The post The Hidden Signal: How One Answer Could Ignite the Middle East appeared first on ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Windmill Hill - [image: Windmill Hill]
The Root

TikToker Who Allegedly Ran Over and Killed A Man While On Livestream Faces Big Trouble - TikTok influencer Tea Tyme is facing jail time after allegedly killing a man while on TikTok live. Read more...
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Free pleating - I made this a couple months ago in an origami workshop with Goran Konjevod. The subject of the workshop was how to pleat paper without pre-creasing. It’s...
The Daily Poster

Corporations Invested In Lawsuits Before Venezuela Invasion - Trump’s removal of President Nicolas Maduro could tilt international court proceedings and provide a windfall to corporate plaintiffs.
Democracy Chronicles

The Capture of Venezuela’s President and the Crisis of Democratic Norms - Even when a leader is accused of serious crimes, international law does not permit a foreign power to act as police, prosecutor, and jailer simultaneously.
Wolf Street

“Locked-in” Homeowners Nevertheless Pay Off Below-4% Mortgages: their Share Drops to Lowest since Q4 2020 - Slowly unwinding a phenomenon that wrecked the housing market.
Greg Palast

When Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM - It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: There the president went again! - *SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 2026* *Is something wrong with this man? *You'll understand our decision to postpone the final report in our current award-winning ...
Workers World

¡Condenemos el bombardeo estadounidense contra Venezuela! ¡Liberen al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a Cilia Flores YA! - [image: ¡Condenemos el bombardeo estadounidense contra Venezuela! ¡Liberen al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a Cilia Flores YA!] La agresión estadounidense co...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s New War For Regime Change—Hands Off Venezuela! - Read in Spanish below For mass struggle against imperialist plunder, bullying and war Trump has begun a new US imperialist war for regime change in Latin A...
CultureMap Houston

Restaurant news and best new bars top this week's most popular stories - Editor’s note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including a surprise restaurant closure and a new Hill Country osteria with Hous...
Texas Standard

New case of New World screwworm reported less than 200 miles from the Texas-Mexico border - The detection in a six-day-old calf marks the first appearance of the parasite in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
Bracing Views

Venezuela Attacks U.S. - President Trump and First Lady Captured; Will Face Trial and Justice in Venezuela BILL ASTORE JAN 03, 2026 Sometimes, imagining an opposite scenario can br...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier On Why There Is No Free-Will - Edouard Tahmizian had an interesting discussion with Richard Carrier about the metaphysical impossibility of libertarian free will. Our actions are aimed a...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for December 29 - January 2 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. As 2025 ended, all of the important trends seemed to intensify. The US...
ArcaMax

Democrats, Don't Claim a Mandate - There is, at this writing, a better-than-even chance that Democrats will recapture the House of Representatives. They also have a shot at the Senate. If ei...
Skeptophilia

The necessity of representation - It's a weird time for queer representation in fiction. There's some good news, for sure. The surprise breakout hit *Heated Rivalry*, a steamy series abo...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 3 January 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Strong winds make inflatable Christmas decorations even more awesome. Bas...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Progressive.org

Uncharted Waters - Recovered from decades of industrial waste dumping, one river in the nation’s capital is again threatened—this time by federal budget cuts.
Independent Political Report

Region 3 North Representative Dustin Nanna Resigns from Libertarian National Committee - Dustin Nanna, the Region 3 North representative on the Libertarian National Committee, has resigned from his position, citing an upcoming family change t...
SCOTUSblog

Court announces it will hear case on gun rights among several others in February sitting - The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 2 in a case on the federal government’s efforts to prosecute a Texas man for violating a federal stat...
Krebs on Security

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network - The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been explo...
Democracy Now!

"I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist": Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration - Zohran Mamdani hailed “a new era” for New York on Thursday, promising in his inaugural address to deliver on the ambitious agenda that electrified progress...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

BURN!!! CA Gov Gavin Newsom shuts down Libs of TikTok's anti-LGBTQ rant with one sentence - Happy New Year and welcome to 2026!! Hopefully this year will be the year that we work harder on changing the madness November 2024 brought us. And I thi...
TalkLeft

Happy New Year and Open Thread - Happy New Year to all! Photos of the celebrations around the world are pretty awesome. Still, the world is not a happy place today. America has watched ...
Capital & Main

Still the Golden State? - Financial inequality, homelessness and the highest unemployment in the nation — for all its riches, California still has some big problems for lawmakers ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living in the Storm: Preparing for 2026 and the Battles to Come - We're in the thick of a pivotal moment in our lives and history. It's time to take a breath and look at where we're heading.
Earth 911

Protecting Baby From Toxic Chemicals: Tips for a Toxin-Free First Year - Getting ready for a new baby can feel overwhelming. Excitement and worry often go hand... The post Protecting Baby From Toxic Chemicals: Tips for a Toxin...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
High Country News

An introduction to deep time in the West - Step away from the churn of day-to-day, season-to-season, election-to-election urgencies. The post An introduction to deep time in the West appeared fir...
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE CHANGE / Climate Change Review 2025 - Occidental Chemicals CO2 air capture unit in the Permian Basin about to begin operations. The Science of the Effects of Warming By Bruce Melton / The Rag B...
Environment Texas

Start New Year’s day off strong with a first day hike - Get started on your new years resolution with a hike in a nearby state or national park. The post Start New Year’s day off strong with a first day hike a...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Current Gaza War Is a Repeat Of Previous Atrocities - As I pointed out in previous articles, Israel has been committing atrocities, which traditional media rarely ever remind us of, assuming the report on them...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - With all the jigging and *cooning *in America of late, I find myself having to once again call out the sellouts and slave catchers among us. I have ...
Idavox

Brigitte Bardot, ROT IN HELL! - We end the year the same way we began it: the death of a French... The post Brigitte Bardot, ROT IN HELL! appeared first on Idavox.
The Grayzone

As Israel bans aid orgs in Gaza, notorious mercenary firm seeks “Targeter” - Are Israel and the Trump admin planning to revive the dystopian Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme that spawned famine and death under cover of humanita...
Rewire

A Holiday Message from Rewire’s Executive Director - “Journalism is the connective thread that ties us together, especially during turbulent eras like today.” The post A Holiday Message from Rewire’s Execut...
Discourse

Bird of the Year: Blue-Footed Booby - More like blue-footed BEAUTY.
Sludge

House Dems Gave Millions in ‘Dark Money’ to AIPAC-Linked 314 Action - 314 Action is one of the groups that AIPAC diverted its PAC money through in 2024.
Dorf on Law

An Amusing "Classic" to End the Year: Remember the Kendrick-Drake Beef? - *Note to readers: As I explained in my "Note to readers" in the column below, I used my *Dorf on Law* slot on March 17 of this year to take a personal sa...
The Progressive Wing

12/29-1/4 New Year News Roundup and Open Thread - End of the old–start of the new.
Project Censored

History, Myth, and Media in an Age of Disinformation - In the first half of the show Italian philosopher and author Federico Campagna joins the show to discuss his most recent book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean...
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Accuses St. Vincent of Negligent Stage-Diving - The artist allegedly "had to be removed from him by security guards," a detail that is never explained.
The Texas Signal

How Wiess Park Changed Into A Houston Outdoor Art Garden - Thanks to some recent investments from the Houston Parks Board, Wiess Park is now also an open-air sculpture garden for seven Texas artists
Texas Observer

Our Most-Read Stories of 2025 - Web traffic is a fickle thing, but online readership numbers do at least give us at the Observer a sense of what stories are making a splash with a bigge...
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THROW THAT YEAR IN THE GARBAGE CAN EDITION. - *[no caption]* This Friday I’m not going long (nor early, neither!) with ‘Round-the-Horn, because I’m on vacation. Yes, both this and *Roy Edroso Breaks...
Church and State

Trump’s REIGN now fading but will his corruption ever be punished? - Trump’s deteriorating metal condition implies that we have a man entering dementia, which of course will continue to be hidden by his staff.
Duck of Minerva

Do you want a religious war? Because this is how you get a religious war - And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said;“For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Thanks fo...
Second Nexus

Jesse Watters Just Revealed Trump's Real Motive For Building A White House Ballroom—And It's Peak Trump - Fox News host Jesse Watters told a Turning Point USA crowd that MAGA Republican President Donald Trump is building his golden ballroom as a monument to h...
Dissent Magazine

*Dissent* in 2025 - Our most read articles this year.
NORML

Federally Funded Survey: Teen Marijuana Use Continues Historic Decline - [image: group of teens having fun walking down the street][image: group of teens having fun walking down the street]"Sensational claims that adult-use le...
The NM Political Report

What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor - “To move to a world in which so much operates off of power, off of money, off of favors and relationships that circle around power — to see it up close i...
DeSmogBlog

How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next - There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
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 ...
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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