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

Salon.com

“The Chair Company” is peak Tim Robinson - The co-creator of "I Think You Should Leave" pushes the limits of cringe with his latest comedy
Mediaite

‘You Are a Real Professional’ Trump Applauds Fox News Reporter Trey Yingst for Israel-Hamas Coverage - President Trump heaped praise on Fox News reporter Trey Yingst for his coverage of the Israel-Hamas War, saying he has been a "real professional" The pos...
Raw Story

'Leave the country': Royal expert tells Prince Andrew to flee amid new Epstein revelations - Prince Andrew has been advised to "leave the country" after the latest revelation about his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Newly reveale...
Mediagazer

Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with "a vibrant new identity" (Eric Slivka/MacRumors) - Eric Slivka / MacRumors: *Apple says Apple TV+ streaming service is being renamed as Apple TV, with “a vibrant new identity”* — Buried in its announcem...
CultureMap Houston

Historic Third Ward park will receive $18.5 million in improvements - One of Houston’s signature parks is getting some major upgrades. *Emancipation Park* will receive $18.5 million in improvements that will strengthen its st...
Eschaton

Bricked - The best rental car I drove recently was maybe a 2016 KIA that seemed like it came from 2003. The most advanced "technology" was power locks. A software u...
memeorandum

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs (Reuters) - Reuters: *How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs* — US companies, consumers bear brunt of US tariffs — Some foreign sellers are raising price...
NPR's Health Shots

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows - Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.
Dissident Voice

The Convenient Lie - Newspaper: Democracy. The case of death is not at all the cause of the dead, it’s the cause of the living. — Ghassan Kanafani, from the novel Men Under t...
Daily Dot

“That ain’t steak”: Woman tries Arby’s new Steak Nuggets. She says they taste like “burnt dog food” - [image: Left: Woman in her car holding a piece of Arby's steak nugget on a fork while trying it. Right: Cup full of Arby's new steak nuggets.] Fast food ...
The Verge

EcoFlow’s Delta Pro Ultra X can power a home for weeks - EcoFlow just announced its latest “most powerful” and “easy-to-install” whole-home battery backup system. It’s called the Delta Pro Ultra X because when yo...
Slate

He Coined the Word That Describes Why the Internet Sucks Right Now. His New Book Could Help Make It Better. - His newest book provides ideas for how to de-enshittify the world wide web that’s become our everyday life.
Election Law Blog

Grateful to Manage ELB for 2 Weeks - Many thanks to Rick Hasen for inviting me to manage the Election Law Blog over the next two weeks. It’s an honor to help steward this indispensable forum...
Axios

U.S. approaching 340 mass shootings this year after deadly weekend - Twelve people were killed, and at least 40 people were injured after shootings marred three different high school events in two states over the weekend. ...
Al Jazeera English

Trump’s 100% tariff threat: History of US trade measures against China - In recent history, the US has made moves restricting China's access to semiconductor technology.
The Hill

Watch live: Trump participates in Mideast peace ceremony - President Trump traveled to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on Monday to participate in a Mideast peace ceremony. Trump earlier Monday addressed the Knesset in Isra...
Daily Howler

SILOS RED AND BLUE: Silo Red, Silo Blue! - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025* *Large nation, coming apart:* On this sprawling campus, we were glad to see what Hillary Clinton said. It was Hillary Clinton ...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Ballot Access News

Independent Write-in Candidate Donna Charles Ends her Campaign for Governor of Virginia - On October 9, Donna Charles ended her campaign for Governor of Virginia. See this story. She had petitioned to be on the ballot, but did not have the neede...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Supports Effort to End Closed Primaries in Florida - The Forward Party has joined a coalition of voter advocacy groups urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to Florida’s closed primary system. T...
Daily Cartoonist

Sundry Funnies Distractions - Forget that Friday the 13th comes on a Monday this month, there are other distractions. Like… John Reiner‘s use of a grease pencil on The Lockhorns was an ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Nor’easter brings flooding to US east coast as storm sweeps away homes in Alaska - Areas from the Carolinas to New England see flooding and high winds, while flooding in Alaska carries away homes New Jersey and parts of New York City we...
Political Wire

Congress Loses Its Grip on the Power to Spend - Washington Post: “There are really three political parties in Washington, according to an old saying: Democrats, Republicans and appropriators.” “The latte...
ProPublica

ProPublica Names Kenneth Morales as David Burnham-TRAC Data Fellow - ProPublica ProPublica has selected Kenneth Morales as the inaugural David Burnham-TRAC data fellow. In this two-year fellowship, Morales will work with ...
naked capitalism

Looking to Türkiye For Clues About What’s Coming in Western Asia - US-Turkish-Israeli Axis remains intact and with Syria as takfiri staging ground aims to spread chaos to Lebanon, Iraq, and ultimately Iran.
Discourse

Gaza Still Needs You - This fight is not over.
Courthouse News

The $300 billion hostage: Europe’s high-stakes gamble with Russia’s frozen fortune - Brussels wants to use Russia's frozen billions to bankroll Ukraine's war effort. The plan is ingenious, legally murky — and could backfire spectacularly.
Second Nexus

People Share Bombshells Their Therapist Dropped That Totally Changed Their Perspective - I love therapy. If only I could afford it regularly. When I was consistent with my sessions, I learned so much. I learned about life as a whole and my...
SCOTUSblog

Shadow overruling: it’s not just for Humphrey’s Executor - Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedu...
Houston Public Media

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader push to limit gender identity discussions - At least two community colleges, Alvin and Blinn, are also considering what they can and can’t teach to high schoolers enrolled in their fast-growing dual ...
Glasstire

An Interview with Christopher Blay: Maximalism, Conceptualism & Performance in “David-Jeremiah: The Fire This Time” - Multidisciplinary conceptual artist David-Jeremiah, originally from Oak Cliff and based in Dallas, creates profound abstract, often metaphorically charge...
The Week

Can Gaza momentum help end the war in Ukraine? - Zelenskyy’s request for long-range Tomahawk missiles hints at ‘warming relations’ between Ukraine and US
Alternet

'It's a gamble': Trump opponents may have a new potent weapon —but will it work? - During Barack Obama's presidency, many Republicans — along with quite a few libertarians and independents — brutally mocked progressives on college campu...
First Draft

Mike Johnson Is Good For Louisiana? - Speaker Johnson's picture is in the dictionary next to sycophant.
Futurism

OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut - Gooners, take your marks. The post OpenAI Says It Will Move to Allow Smut appeared first on Futurism.
El Paso Matters

Harmony El Paso’s Class of 2025 sees record class size decline from eighth-grade cohort - An El Paso charter school system’s most recent graduating class lost nearly a third of its students between middle school and their senior year. The pos...
Bonddad

Tabulations of state level reports indicates 228,000 initial claims, 1.938 million continuing claims last week - * - by New Deal democrat* Among the economic data that is not being reported due to the federal government shutdown are initial and continuing jobles...
Rewire

Louisiana Sues Food And Drug Administration To Stop Mailing of Abortion Medication - Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and 14 other Republican attorneys general have urged Congress to strike down state “shield” laws that have allowed...
Popular Resistance

From The Flag To The Cross: Fascism American Style - The Law and Disorder radio program has immortalized selected recent interviews as it expands into print media with a new book, From the Flag to the Cross...
Democracy Now!

"We Survived the Night": Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History - To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled member o...
The Conversation

Far fewer Americans support political violence than recent polls suggest - Well-known flaws in conventional polling methods may be creating the incorrect perception that many Americans think political violence is justified.
Undernews

Polls - *The Contrarian -* A strong majority of Americans do not approve of deploying military troops at home. “Some 58% of Americans—including seven in 10 Democra...
Mother Jones

Israeli Media’s Distorted View of the War in Gaza - In December 2023, nearly three months after the October 7 massacre, the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies gathered members of the country’s m...
Vox

What humans might learn from nature’s real-life zombies - Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them. She’s read up on the fungi that take ove...
WhoWhatWhy

The Church of Silicon: Peter Thiel’s Gospel of Unfettered Power - [image: Peter Thiel, Antichrist, The Devil, Greta Thunberg] If we’re not careful, says Thiel, Greta Thunberg the Antichrist will have us all riding bicycle...
Dorf on Law

For Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Classic on What and When to Celebrate - Today is what the federal government calls Columbus Day and what some states (like New York in virtue of a 2021 gubernatorial proclamation) and localitie...
Skeptophilia

The ghost forests - I recently read paleontologist Riley Black's lovely book *When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance*, which looks at the ...
The Smirking Chimp

They’re Calling It a “Hate America” Rally -
World Socialist Web Site

Accelerating plans for dictatorship, Macron renames fallen French government under Lecornu - The Macron administration is setting out to build a fascistic dictatorship in France, paralleling Trump’s civil war policies in America, against mass worki...
Debunking Christianity

Do You Know God? -
Crooked Media

Will SCOTUS Allow Conversion Therapy for Minors? - The post Will SCOTUS Allow Conversion Therapy for Minors? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Amanda Edwards - This week we will focus on the election we’ve been waiting for the longest, the special election in CD18 to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Rep. ...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio school for adults with learning disabilities opens Rising Stars Coffee truck - It was opening day for Rising Stars Coffee, a fully-stocked cafe truck staffed by students, or "stars," from San Antonio Life Academy, a day program for ad...
Scheerpost.com

‘A Pretext to Take Over American Cities’: JD Vance Sparks Alarm With Comments on Insurrection Act - “The guardrails are gone,” warned Democratic political strategist David Axelrod.
American Prospect

Chicago Strikes Back, With an Assist from Republican Governors - A federal judge calls out the Trump administration’s “simply unreliable” portrait of the city, while a group of former governors deconstructs the constitut...
Deadline Politics

Gaza Ceasefire: Trump Lands In Israel As Crowds Gather In Tel Aviv; ‘Youth’ Actor David Cunio Among 20 Released Israeli Hostages - UPDATED at 2.53 am with freeing of all Israeli hostages: Israeli Gaza hostage David Cunio, whose abduction was spotlighted by director Tom Shoval’s 2025 do...
The Daily Poster

How Ticketmaster Made It Impossible To Sue Them - Your legal rights are being stripped away by the ticket company's new terms-of-use agreement.
Portside

Sunday Science: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Are Falling to Earth at an Alarming Rate - Sunday Science: Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Are Falling to Earth at an Alarming Rate Ira Mon, 10/13/2025 - 03:02
Rallblog

Missing: Israel’s Humanity - The war in Gaza may be over, but the repercussions for the state of Israel have just begun. Reporters from the Western world, including the United States...
Counterpunch

The Defeat of Israel and the Rebirth of Palestinian Agency - For decades, the prevailing notion was that the 'solution' to the Israeli occupation of Palestine lay in a strictly negotiated process. “Only dialogue ca...
jobsanger

We Would Do Well To Remember The Words Of Abraham Lincoln -
Informed Comment

Rashid Khalidi on the Gaza Ceasefire: The veil that has hidden the true nature of the Zionist project was shredded for good - If I must die, You must live To tell my story To sell my things To buy a piece of cloth And some strings…. – Refaat Alareer, Palestinian writer,...
Workers World

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on ceasefire agreement - [image: Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on ceasefire agreement] Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces spokesperson Abu Khaled made the following st...
slacktivist

History as flattery is a dangerous thing - Eric Metaxas's failed dream of hosting a late night talk show and what that has to do with the legacy of Silas Soule.
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
The AltWorld

Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza - Israel’s top officials are openly declaring that they intend to terminate the Gaza ceasefire after they get […] The post Israeli Officials Are Openly Say...
The Root

Why ‘Family Matters’ Star Darius McCrary Was Arrested Near the Mexican Border Sounds…Familiar For Him - Darius McCrary is being held without bail in San Diego on an out-of-state felony warrant. Read more...
Antiwar.com

‘Free Marwan Barghouti’: The War Against Palestinian Democracy - If Palestinians could have a democratic election, the 66-year-old Barghouti, their charismatic leader in the West Bank prior to his imprisonment, would the...
The Greanville Post

Defending Venezuela from U.S. Imperialism - GARY OLSON—Here we might recall that on September 4, 1970, the Chilean Left held an enormous rally of some 800,000 workers and peasants who marched before ...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Grist

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ - A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.
Consortium News

WATCH: A Time of Grave Peril - Former C.I.A. officer John Kiriakou, former U.S. Green Party V.P. candidate Ajamu Baraka and CN Editor Joe Lauria joined host Danny Haiphong on his webcast...
OpEd News

The U.S., Kurds and Syria meet in Damascus after clashes - This article talks about the latest developments in Syria in the last 48 hours
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a reply to someone pushing back on calling the Trump administration fasci...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 12, 2025 - by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly ...
Angry Bear

Students Voting for Trump did Not Gain Them any Help or Access to Student Loan Bankruptcy - None of this means people can default whenever they wish. It does mean the consequences for student loans is harsher than for commercial loans, etc. One ...
Reform Austin

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is Coming to Replace Wikipedia - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Elon Musk has announced the creation of a new AI-powered encyclopedia called Grokipedia, a proj...
Mondoweiss

She was taken hostage by Palestinians 55 years ago. Now she’s an anti-Zionist activist. - [image: Women and children from the three hijacked aircraft leave Jordan's Revolution Airfield after being released, on September 8, 1970. Catherine Hodes ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Smash and Grab' Toons - Helpful context... • Trump 'border czar' Homan accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents • US offers up to $50k bonus for would-be ICE deportatio...
Infidel753

Videos of the day -- for Halloween month - As the day approaches.....
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

We Have Always Resisted: Mexican Americans and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice in the United States by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *We Have Always Resisted: Mexican Americans and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice in the United States* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 11, 2025* ...
Wolf Street

10-Year Treasury Yield Drops to One-Month Low on Trump’s China Threat, Bond Market Sees One Rate Cut this Year, Deficit-Funding Shifts to T-Bills - Despite the big drop on Friday, the 10-year Treasury yield is higher than shortly before the September rate cut.
See You In 2020

Boomer individualism, civilizational collapse, & the trial our society must undergo to rebuild itself - The society that was built by boomer individualism never had any chance of lasting, because it was premised on lack of regard for the future. When I say...
Unlimited Hangout

The Glenn Beck Podcast - The Glenn Beck Podcast.
ArcaMax

What Did You Do During the Trump Wars, Daddy? - My darling daughter gave me two dramatic blinks of her Aryan-blue eyes and flipped back her pure, naturally blonde pigtails. "What did you do during the Tr...
Common Dreams

A Beacon Of Hope and Woke Bullshit - Citing the value of “keep(ing) the flame of democracy burning," the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado fo...
Progressive.org

‘The Alabama Solution’ Takes No Prisoners as Incarcerated Workers Struggle for Their Humanity - Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: October 2025 - My video game, Moon Garden Optimizer, just released a demo on Steam. If you’ve already tried previous versions, it’s not new. Otherwise… try it! Looking...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTIFA VS. PRO-FA EDITION. - *Just nice.* According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organiz...
ExChristian.Net

Bentham's "Not Paul, But Jesus" Revisited - *By William Kay ~ * JEREMY Bentham was born in 1748 unto a line of London lawyers. His father amassed a fortune flipping real estate. England’s youngest u...
WAWG Blog

Authoritarian Capitalism and Authoritarian Fascism - These examples show that authoritarian capitalism can coexist with a relatively modest ideological veneer, whereas authoritarian fascism embeds a deep, o...
San Antonio Current

Study: San Antonio, South Texas metros have nation’s highest rates of delinquent mortgages - 4.3% of San Antonio metro residents are more than 30 days late on their mortgage. The post Study: San Antonio, South Texas metros have nation’s highest...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump - Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Texas Standard

Texas stock exchange gets a green light - Also: The state’s highest court blocks execution and colleges limit classroom speech.
Bracing Views

The Russia-Ukraine War Continues - The Endgame Remains Unpredictable–Dangerously So BILL ASTORE OCT 08, 2025 Since the last time (July 19th) I wrote about the Russia-Ukraine War, perhaps th...
The Texas Signal

Documentary Shows Librarians Fighting From The Front Line - A new documentary explores the ways in which librarians became front-line workers in the battle for democracy and the First Amendment
MintPress News

Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report - After MintPress exposed ex-CIA and FBI officials working at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, many deleted their profiles and erased incriminating evidence....
Church and State

Reality Seems to Be Gaining Traction: Religion Is Fake News - Christianity is peddling an inferior product, one that cannot withstand critical investigation.
Earthworks

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
The Militant

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Capital & Main

It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. In Small-Town Texas, Clean Water Is Elusive. - Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind. The post It’s Brown And Burns Your ...
Krebs on Security

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS - The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. ...
Dissent Magazine

Close Attention - An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
NORML

Major Alcohol Producer Links Cannabis Legalization to Sales Decline - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
Seeing the Forest

The Real AI Question: Who Benefits? - Here’s a different question about AI. Suppose it does what is promised, and does greatly increase productivity, and does bring all kinds of benefits. Who w...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
The NM Political Report

NM’s vaccine shake-up: Governor acts to set independent immunization standards amid CDC turmoil - [image: A bill that temporarily allows New Mexico to formulate its own immunization policy was signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. ] [image: ...
Space City Weather

Drought slowly creeping into Houston, with slightly cooler temps and more dryness expected into next week - In brief: Dry weather will continue in the Houston area for the foreseeable future with warm to hot afternoons and somewhat pleasant mornings. Drought is e...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
High Country News

The case for national monuments - Can one of the nation’s best conservation tools survive? The post The case for national monuments appeared first on High Country News .
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest for Economic Gain Is Like …. - This week’s quote is from scientist Edward O. Wilson: “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Fron the archives: 'A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2' is the gayest horror movie you will ever see - *A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2* is considered by many to be a very subversively gay horror movie. Of course when I watched it, I was surprised and pleas...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
The Grayzone

Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show - Behind closed doors, the noted ‘humanitarian interventionist’ successfully lobbied for Israel’s inclusion on important UN committees even after the Human...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Texas Observer

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting - On September 24, a gunman shot at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, killing two immigrants, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and...
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map - Earlier this week, Utah Republicans proposed a new House map that includes two new competitive seats. It is one of several that a judge will consider ahe...
Crooked Timber

Delighted to be proved wrong - A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice mi...
DeSmogBlog

Danielle Smith’s Pipeline Without a Proponent Is All Dollars and No Sense - “This is a test of whether Canada works as a country,” warned Alberta Premier Danielle Smith after she finally announced a proposal for a bitumen pipelin...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Principal Symbol - Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, will not seek reelection, but vows to “give it everything I have until the very end” of his term on January 12, 2027 - Longtime State Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, on Thursday, October 2, 2o25, became the most recent member of the 150-member Texas House of Representa...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Sludge

Israel’s New U.S. Influence Campaigns Target TikTok, Churches, and ChatGPT - In the wake of SKDK’s cancelled contract, three firms newly registered under FARA are executing influence operations in the U.S. for Israel.
Project Censored

Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! - Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in Bann...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
The Progressive Wing

9/6 – 9/12 Talarico Takes On ‘Billionaire Mega Donors’ & More - Talarico talks fighting mega donors, priorities in Senate bid State Rep. James Talarico says his campaign for the U.S. Senate is about taking on “billiona...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers’ Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
Two Party Opera

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The Rag Blog

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Texas Freedom Network

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LareDOS

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nonsite.org

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Campaign for America's Future

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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...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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The Socialist

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Rio Grande Guardian

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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Land Destroyer

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

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Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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Texas Watch

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Novara Media

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Green Pages News

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Robert Reich

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Grits for Breakfast

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Right Wing Watch

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Dos Centavos

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Morning Consult

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TXElects

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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

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

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Tribune of the People

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Caitlin Johnstone

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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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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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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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...
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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Downwinders at Risk

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Chicken Fried Politics

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The Contributor

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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

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epic.org

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Malady

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Freethought Now

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

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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

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Progressives Everywhere

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

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PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

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Latino Decisions

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Brains and Eggs

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Debate Watch Party this Friday

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