Brains and Eggs: Debate Watch Party this Friday

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Daily Howler

HEALING: Laura Ingraham didn't ask... - *TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2025* *...and Kelly doesn't care:* "The sunshine of the prairie summer and fall months would come sifting down with healing and s...
The Verge

Bang & Olufsen’s new earbuds will cost you more than the latest iPhone - Bang & Olufsen’s latest Beo Grace earbuds offer a flashy aluminum design and the brand’s “most advanced” active noise cancellation for a staggering $1,500....
Raw Story

Bizarre new DHS video comparing ICE raids to Pokémon threatens Nintendo backlash - The Department of Homeland Security shared a meme-style video likening ICE raids and capturing undocumented immigrants to Pokémon — prompting a backlash ...
Undernews

How History Links the Death of Comedy to the Death of Democracy -
Second Nexus

People Break Down Facts That Make You Question Your Concept Of Time - There are a lot of memes on the internet about the intersection of famous people or historic events or which dinosaurs are closer to humans on the timeli...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Third lawsuit filed against display of Ten Commandments in schools - *Friends:Attorney General Paxton’s claim distorts both history and constitutional principle. While the Ten Commandments in the Bible are part of the ...
SCOTUSblog

A plea for transparency - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Political Wire

Stephen Miller Leads the Way on Violent Rhetoric - Jonathan Chait: “Stephen Miller delivered a eulogy for Charlie Kirk that served as a battle cry for the Trump administration’s state-sponsored war on his p...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Oklahoma tiger handler was fatally attacked in front of family during show - Officials say tiger unexpectedly bit and shook Ryan Easley in front of wife, child and onlookers at Growler Pines The tiger handler who was fatally maule...
Progressive Army

Cargo Report TV N° 19 - Alejandro Pugliese, arquitecto y productor agropecuario, habla con el periodista Juan Carlos Ortega sobre la actividad agrícola en nuestro país, basándose ...
Mediaite

Morning Joe Sounds Alarm: Conservatives Are No Longer Silencing the Media —They’re Taking It Over - Jim VandeHei sounded the alarm about the threat of a conservative takeover of the media landscape during a Tuesday morning appearance on Morning Joe. The...
Salon.com

Always obvious, the Trump-Nixon parallels are now downright uncanny - Trump's corruption in plain sight is making Nixon look like an amateur
memeorandum

9/23/25 ☀️ AM: ... And happy Rosh Hashanah to those celebrating. (Punchbowl News) - Punchbowl News: *9/23/25 ☀️ AM:* … And happy Rosh Hashanah to those celebrating. … We're going to delve into three key dynamics to watch during the comin...
Futurism

Users Are Saying ChatGPT Has Been Lobotomized by a Secret New Update - "I just want it to stop lying." The post Users Are Saying ChatGPT Has Been Lobotomized by a Secret New Update appeared first on Futurism.
Rewire

Big Tech Is Coming For Your Health Data. Here’s How To Protect Your Information. - Opinion: In the hands of a hostile government, what begins as ‘neutral’ medical data can quickly become a weapon. The post Big Tech Is Coming For Your He...
First Draft

Identity Politics 1.0 - Just how much are White Dude Politics the O.G. of identity politics? For over 300 years, the mainstream term for White Dude Politics was "politics."
Mediagazer

Jonathan Clements, who wrote 1,009 personal finance columns for the WSJ between 1994 and 2008, died on Sunday at 62, after being diagnosed with cancer last year (Jason Zweig/Wall Street Journal) - Jason Zweig / Wall Street Journal: *Jonathan Clements, who wrote 1,009 personal finance columns for the WSJ between 1994 and 2008, died on Sunday at 62, ...
Daily Dot

21 memes about the Rapture in case today is just another Tuesday - Christians on TikTok are bracing for the Rapture this week, with some claiming they’re selling off possessions, leaving their jobs, and urging others to ...
Eschaton

Normies Revolt - Dems have convinced themselves that only annoying online "Bluesky Democrats" have any problem with what they are doing, and I don't think they were the onl...
Election Law Blog

“Several new NH voter laws go into effect - From the USA Today Network, this particular change caught my attention: “HB 154, which will go into effect on Sept. 30, allows voters to request that th...
The Conversation

Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s - By militarizing law enforcement, the US is entering largely uncharted waters, but it’s familiar territory for Chile and Argentina, where established democr...
Al Jazeera English

Drone attack kills eight children in Haiti’s capital - At least 11 people, including eight children, were reported killed in a drone attack in Haiti’s capital.
ArcaMax

Shut Up or Else: Trump Warns Americans They'd Better Be Quiet - If Donald Trump hoped to make Americans feel nostalgic about Richard Nixon, he's succeeded. Those were the days of relatively modest abuse of presidential ...
The Hill

When it comes to political evasions, Kamala Harris has written the book - “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”
Techdirt.

Congress Pressures FCC Inspector General To Investigate Brendan Carr’s Law Breaking And Wasting Of Taxpayer Money - You might recall that back when Brendan Carr was an ordinary FCC Commissioner, he was super worried about government overreach. He was so worried, that he ...
The Week

What would happen if Israel lost America’s support? - Loss of US backing could be a ‘catastrophe’ for Israel
Houston Public Media

Redesigning Houston roads (Sept. 23, 2025) - On Tuesday's show: Listeners share ideas about how they would redesign Houston roads. And Sasha Bonét discusses her new memoir, "The Water Bearers."
Space City Weather

Chance of storms and heavy rainfall on Wednesday ahead of a modest cool front - In brief: Today will be hot with scattered showers, but Wednesday should be more dynamic as a line of storms pushes into the area ahead of a weak cool fron...
Vox

Turning point or political theater? The big push for Palestinian statehood, explained - Palestinian statehood has never had so much international support — or seemed less attainable. As world leaders gather in New York on Monday for the UN Ge...
The AltWorld

New Nepali Gov Features US-funded Puppets - 2 of 4 new ministers announced by Nepali media run orgs funded by the US gov via […] The post New Nepali Gov Features US-funded Puppets appeared first o...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Divine Right of Trump - Jimmy Kimmel is apparently back on the air, or will be tonight. I’m holding off my belief until it happens, but, even if it happens, Sinclair’s ABC station...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear Special: Live From New York, It’s Climate Week! - Tune in today at 5:00 PM Eastern for a special live event as the world... The post Sustainability In Your Ear Special: Live From New York, It’s Climate W...
Dorf on Law

Who Was the Audience for Trump's "Tedious and Burdensome" Allegations Stated in "Abundant, Florid, and Enervating Detail?" - Perhaps one of the most disorienting aspects of living through our current times is the mix of menace and buffoonery that emanates from President Trump a...
San Antonio Report

Listen: San Antonio can’t build startup ecosystem ‘overnight,’ Alamo Angels leader says - Juan 'Sebastian' Garzon outlined the process local angel investors use to find and fund burgeoning businesses in San Antonio. ------------------------------...
naked capitalism

Links 9/23/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

The Sleeping Giant Is Awakening -
Skeptophilia

Apocalypse not - Well, it was nice knowing you all. I have it on good authority that today is the Rapture, wherein Jesus reappears on Earth, selects a few of the Righteous ...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Bridget Wade - Continuing with our week of HISD Trustee race interviews, the next two days will be in District VII, where the incumbent is Bridget Wade, who defeated Anne...
Slate

Help! There’s a Dark Reason Why I Moved to My New Town. No One Knows. - Do they need to?
American Prospect

This Greenland Is Red - The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. What?
Scheerpost.com

Trump Expands ‘Authoritarian’ Free Speech Crackdown, Calls Negative Media ‘Illegal’: Jameel Jaffer - “The president really is using every lever at his disposal to silence, suppress and even imprison his political enemies.”
Courthouse News

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Environment Texas

Tips for insulating your home this winter season - Winter is coming! Insulation: your first line of defense against winter weather. The post Tips for insulating your home this winter season appeared first...
Axios

Energy-related CO2 emissions are falling in every state - Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration; Map: Alex Fitzpatrick/Axios Energy-related CO2 emissions per capita fell in every U.S. state from 2005 to 202...
ProPublica

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions. - by Eli Cahan for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they...
Grist

Clean energy, dirty tactics: Inside the shady world of door-to-door solar sales - On-site solar can be an incredible tool for lowering both energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. But homeowners face a complicated — and sometimes inte...
Crooked Media

Resisting Erasure - The post Resisting Erasure appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

Despite lack of evidence, Trump suggests link between acetaminophen use and autism - The Trump administration announced Monday that the FDA will be updating drug labelling to discourage the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women, suggesting...
Two Party Opera

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High Country News

The dismantling of the Forest Service - The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30. The post The dismantling of the Forest S...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 23 September 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the nutcase assassins video, click here.] ...
Dissident Voice

Might May Rule the Moment, but Right Prevails Forever - Zainul Abedin (Bangladesh), Untitled, 1944. On 28 November 1924, Sun Yat-sen delivered a speech in Kobe, Japan titled China and Japan: Natural Friends, U...
Counterpunch

How the West Normalizes the Crimes of Zionism - There is no end in sight for the massacre in Gaza. Nearly two years after the start of Al Aqsa Flood, the United Nations Human Rights Council has—finally...
jobsanger

NATO Must Act To Prevent Russian Invasions Of Its Airspace -
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Labor’s housing measures will not end affordability crisis - The measures are a gift to the property developers and banks, while workers and their families will be locked into even greater mortgage debt.
See You In 2020

The Davos scheme to end the 1st & 2nd amendments, and how we can defend against it - Right now, the nationless forces of global capital are using American patriotism to justify destroying what’s left of the U.S. constitution. The propaga...
Claytoonz

Trump Rapture - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Informed Comment

Netanyahu Says he’s making Israel a “Sparta:” He means a global Pariah State - Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to position Israel as the modern day Sparta, and to sell this...
Idavox

Pardoned J6er Wearing Auschwitz T-Shirt Arrested for Assault with Dogs - Almost a dozen persons convicted for their roles on Jan. 6, 2021 who were pardoned... The post Pardoned J6er Wearing Auschwitz T-Shirt Arrested for Assau...
Deadline Politics

Kamala Harris, In Rachel Maddow Interview, Hails Jimmy Kimmel’s Return: “We Saw The Power Of The People” - Kamala Harris, in her first news interview since leaving office, hailed ABC’s decision to return Jimmy Kimmel to the air. Harris told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow...
WhoWhatWhy

Gravest American Hero - [image: Cartoon, Evolution, American Heroes] The evolution of the patriot. Gravest American Hero originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Brad Blog

Trump 'Border Czar' Reportedly Took $50k in Undercover Sting, Trump DOJ Dropped the Case: 'BradCast' 9/22/2025 - So much Team Trump criming, so little time to cover it all on today's BradCast. But we try. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Over the weeken...
Popular Resistance

Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza, UN Commission Says - A United Nations commission has conclusively stated that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. This genocide has had the full sup...
Wolf Street

Price Arbitrage (Buy Low, Sell High) Dominates the Use of Utility-Scale Battery Systems - Utility-scale battery capacity tripled in two years. California and Texas are the giants.
Portside

This Week in People’s History, Sep 24–30, 2025 - This Week in People’s History, Sep 24–30, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 09/22/2025 - 21:00
Workers World

Make Oct. 14 a day to honor George Floyd, not Kirk - [image: Make Oct. 14 a day to honor George Floyd, not Kirk] Congress passed a bill on Sept. 19 declaring Oct. 14 as a “National Day of Remembrance for Char...
Antiwar.com

The Israel Lobby and the Engineered Famine in Gaza - Amid one of the most severe humanitarian crises of the century, the gap between the value-driven rhetoric of American foreign policy and the realities on t...
Alternet

Supreme Court justice says her colleagues are destroying 'separation of powers' for Trump - Justice Elena Kagan accused Monday the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of usurping Congress’s power and dismantling the separation of powers — warn...
The Greanville Post

Max Blumenthal: Israel Racing to a FINAL SOLUTION in Gaza, Military Action Needed to Stop Israel - AFSHIN RATTANSI—n this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Max Blumenthal, Editor in Chief of The Grayzone. He discusses the Democrats’ and the media...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Moms for Liberty chapter president strips at school board meeting in attempt to smear trans kids' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - Beth Bourne, Moms for Liberty chapter president of Yolo County in CA, stripped at a recent school board in an attempt to smear trans kids. *Anti-LGBTQ+ a...
Mother Jones

Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Was Christian Nationalism’s Biggest Moment - On Sunday, a crowd of 80,000 people — plus scores more watching online — memorialized Charlie Kirk. The event, held at a State Farm Stadium, home to the NF...
The Grayzone

Top pro-Israel TPUSA donor terminated support for Kirk in days before death, sources say - Ultra-Zionist billionaire Robert Shillman was one of Charlie Kirk’s most committed donors. But as Kirk fell under attack for his increasingly critical Is...
TalkLeft

Jimmy Kimmel Returns to the ABC - Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air tomorrow night, according to a statement released by Disney, which read: Last Wednesday, we made the decision to sus...
Glasstire

Bayou City Art Festival Returns to Memorial Park, Featuring 300 Artists - The biannual Bayou City Art Festival, billed as “Houston’s iconic three-day outdoor fine art festival,” returns to Memorial Park for its fall edition Oct...
Reform Austin

Texas Seeks to Combat Voter Fraud Through Sharing Electoral Data - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson announced that Texas had signed memorandums of understandi...
CultureMap Houston

Stylish Medical Center hotel joins Hilton's boutique network - A hotel in the Texas Medical Center has rebranded after four years in business. Effective September 30, the Blossom Hotel Houston will be known as the *Blo...
Ballot Access News

Louisiana Supporters of the Voting Rights Act Ask U.S. Supreme Court for Equality of Briefing - On September 19, supporters of the federal Voting Rights Act filed this brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana v Callais, 24-109. This is the pending...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico methane rules cut emissions by half compared to Texas, officials say - [image: New Mexico's methane regulations have reduced oil and gas facility emissions in the Permian Basin by half compared to neighboring Texas while gen...
San Antonio Current

Tony-winning musical Kimberly Akimbo begins San Antonio run - [image: Kimberly Akimbo won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.] The darkly comic production starts Tuesday and the Majestic Theatre and runs throug...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Baby Maryam Needs a Tent - Just one tent!
Ian Welsh

First Time Ever: Himalayas Breached By Monsoons - ~by Sean Paul Kelley From time immemorial, even before humanity began writing, the Himalayas were never recorded as breached by a monsoon. During my trip a...
slacktivist

TikTok Rapture - "The Rapture" will not be happening tomorrow because "the Rapture" is not actually a thing and thus will not ever be happening.
ExChristian.Net

Faith, Fear, and Mental Health: Navigating Religious Psychosis in Charismatic Churches - In every Charismatic or Pentecostal congregation I’ve attended, worship was thunderous, prophecy flowed freely, and spiritual experiences were the proof ...
Texas Standard

Gov. Abbott signs ‘bathroom bill’ with new restrictions on transgender Texans - The governor signed Texas’ Senate Bill 8 into law on Monday. The so-called “bathroom bill” prohibits people in many publicly owned spaces from using restro...
Church and State

Trump: Charlie Kirk now a martyr used to banish church and state which is our guard in our constitutional prohibition against religious tyranny! - Trump wants to restrict contraception, abortion, and fertility choices; and enforce “traditional” gender roles.
Consortium News

WATCH LIVE: UN General Assembly on Palestinian State - Heads of state and government are speaking at the U.N. assembly on the recognition of the state of Palestine and the Gaza war in a meeting chaired by Franc...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Bibi Strikes Back” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou explain a cornered Israel’s bizarre threa...
OpEd News

The Bolivian-American War (Part Two) - Bolivia takes the war to the American street, shutting down air traffic and cutting southern California from northern California.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Formally Censures New Hampshire Affiliate - The Libertarian National Committee has voted to censure the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire and invite it to voluntarily disaffiliate from the nationa...
El Paso Matters

Resler Canyon: 20 years of protection, 20 years of community - For 20 years, the Wakeem/Teschner Nature Preserve at Resler Canyon has quietly offered moments of stillness, wonder, and connection. The post Resler Can...
Mondoweiss

The recognition of Palestine: what it does, what it doesn’t do, and why now - [image: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, for a bilateral meeting in 10 Downing Street,...
The Daily Poster

Pharma’s $236 Billion Patent Racket Is About To Fall Off A Cliff - Big Pharma is turning to mergers and acquisitions as the industry is set to lose billions to expired patents by 2030.
Project Censored

Economic Inequality, Immigration, and Media Spin - In the first half of the show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Professor Richard Wolff about the state of our economy as a record number of America...
Angry Bear

Two Industries Which Would Be Better-off if Modernized - Trump administration’s tariffs on U.S. imports are passing through the supply chains and ending up impacting the consumers wallet in the form of increasi...
Earthworks

Getting Lithium Right in California - Deep underground near the Salton Sea, in southern California’s Imperial Valley, lies one of the largest lithium deposits in the … The post Getting Lithi...
The Root

Kevin Durant Was Locked Out of His Bitcoin Account For Years, Here’s How Much It’s Worth Now - Kevin Durant may be used to making money from the NBA but his other stream of income might cash in for more than he originally expected! Read more...
Capital & Main

New Mexico Governor Puts Finger on Scale in Oilfield Wastewater Vote - Gov. Lujan Grisham appears to push commission to overturn its recent ruling barring the use of produced water outside the oilfield. The post New Mexico G...
Crooked Timber

The care economy, or radical economic growth? - I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value. M...
Edinburg Politics

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

Trump’s Foreign Policy and the Purpose of the MAGA State - How can we understand Tump 2.0 foreign policy? It's the product of the fusion of two different forces: Christian Nationalism and Personalist Rent-Extraction.
Democracy Now!

"Nothing Will Stop Israel": Mustafa Barghouti on the Limits of Western Recognition of Palestine - The U.K., Australia, Canada and Portugal took a historic step Sunday in formally recognizing the state of Palestine, but Palestinian physician and politici...
Texas Observer

Officials Said They Busted a Tren de Aragua Party. Attendees Beg to Differ. - On the night of March 31, María, a 40-year-old Venezuelan mother of four who asked that her last name not be published for fear of government retaliation...
Democracy Chronicles

Trump, The Wrestlemania President - To uphold our democracy, we need more than just to be entertained. We need thoughtful discussions/debates even amongst those who disagree.
DeSmogBlog

Meta Put a Climate Change Denier in Charge of Fighting AI Bias - A conservative political activist recently appointed to be Meta’s new artificial intelligence anti-bias advisor is a well-known climate change denier, De...
Common Dreams

A Martyr For Truth and Faith and Memorial Plazas - The canonization of Charlie Kirk continued Sunday with a packed, jarring, often vicious memorial service - part MAGA rally, part revival meeting with fir...
The Texas Signal

From Texas Scream Queen To Marketing Maven - A staple of Texas horror films now takes the helm of her own innovative marketing company (haunted toilets not included)
nonsite.org

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

If the Pentagon’s Done Nothing Wrong, It Has Nothing to Hide - BILL ASTORE SEP 21, 2025 If there’s one thing we’ve learned (or re-learned, again and again) from the Pentagon it’s that all governments lie and that the f...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / The death and life of Charlie Kirk - Charlie Kirk. Creative Commons image. By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / September 21, 2025 It should be axiomatic to any freedom-loving person that no one ...
Campaign for America's Future

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

A giant quantum computing center for warfare threatens the cost of living on Chicago’s South Side - [image: Feature photo: The entrance to the old U.S. Steel South Works on the South Side of Chicago. Photo credit: Vaticanus]Tech companies like these worse...
Trivial Knot

Confession - I left Catholicism when I was 18, so I literally have a child’s understanding of the Catholic practice of confession. It was a ritual that did not make muc...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for September 15 - 19 at Seeking Alpha - *- by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. Along with the continuing resilience of consumer spending, which I wrot...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Sat, 09/20/2025 - 02:18 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Fascism Is Here. How Do We Fight Back?: A Conversation with Wajahat Ali - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THE REAL VIRTUE SIGNALERS EDITION. - *First woke up to her in *La Belle Noiseuse*. Lovely.* The fash frolics proceed apace. Tubby’s apparently so mad that his prosecutor won’t file false cha...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #170 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: "I'm an AG" fails to impress, some shady deals, another thing not to use AI for, and other stuff.
The Militant

Letters - Celebrate life of Helen Nelson On Sept. 13 some 30 people attended a celebration of the life of Helen Nelson organized by her companion, Jude Keast, and ot...
Sludge

Lutnick’s Family Firm Holds Stake in China-Tied Satellogic - Cantor Fitzgerald is a key investor in satellite imagery company Satellogic, which is angling for U.S. defense and intelligence contracts as it works for a...
Debunking Christianity

Hey, Devout Folks: Facing Reality Would Be a Smart Move! - *No god has “the whole world” in its hands*It was reported that on the Sunday following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, church attendance in the New York ar...
The Progressive Wing

9/19-22 News Roundup and Open Thread - More fallout from Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk. I’m in Madrid–just returned from a few days in Cordoba and Granada.
LareDOS

“The Search for Dark Matter” coming to TAMIU Oct. 8 - UT’s Dr. Timothy Aldeen presents latest research in particle physics
Progressive.org

This Incarcerated Journalist Is Making a Case Against Solitary Confinement - Christopher Blackwell’s new book ‘Ending Isolation’ tackles the cruel practice employed against incarcerated people in prisons across the country.
MintPress News

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

Midway to the Midterm: The Imperfect Bellwethers of New Jersey and Virginia - The NJ and VA gubernatorial races sometimes suggest what will happen in the following year's midterms, but there are many exceptions The post Midway to t...
Dissent Magazine

[NYC EVENT | October 18] Food Tour with Arun Gupta - Join us on New York City’s “only Marxist food and history tour” to support *Dissent*.
Ecosophia

Situationism: Understanding the Spectacle - Two weeks ago we started a discussion of the Situationists, an obscure movement spawned by fringe Marxism in 1950s Europe. As I commented at the time, that...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

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

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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Brains and Eggs

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Debate Watch Party this Friday

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