Brains and Eggs: An Historical High-Five

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Trump threatens to double tariffs on South Korea if they do not pay for Alaska natural gas pipeline - US politics live (Robert Mackey/The Guardian) - Robert Mackey / The Guardian: *Trump threatens to double tariffs on South Korea if they do not pay for Alaska natural gas pipeline - US politics live* —...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – LIVE at Houston’s Original Greek Festival (October 2, 2026) - Today: We broadcast from the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral to break down all the sights and sounds of this decades-long Houston area celebration of...
Alternet

Response leaves kids stunned after calling out 'cultist' MAGA mom to her face - On Friday, two hosts of a popular podcast went on MS NOW to call out their mother – an avid supporter of President Donald Trump – for being a MAGA “culti...
Al Jazeera English

Flydubai pilot recounts cockpit stabbing in call with Indian PM Modi - Smit Machchhar recalls midair disaster after co-pilot's attack on Flydubai flight to Tel Aviv.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Mayor, majority of City Council unite against East Side ICE detention center - Eight members of San Antonio City Council and Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones on Friday called for a special meeting to delay U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforc...
The Greanville Post

Due Dissidence Dispatch: Sylvester Stallone Finally Realizes War is a Racket - DD—The materialist view of free speech analyzes expression not as an abstract, sacred ideal, but as a product of concrete economic, social, and physical co...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US sanctions three individuals and two charities over alleged Hamas financing - The justice and treasury departments said they sent $2m to Hamas through charities and cryptocurrency, while six people were arrested across the US and F...
Political Wire

Trump Revisits the Scene of His Political Ascent - “Eleven years ago, Donald Trump arrived in Mobile in his Boeing 757, strode onto a football field to ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ and was greeted by a sight that r...
Mediaite

Ousted Publisher Says Hegseth’s Pentagon Ordered Him To Fire Journalists, Made Clear ‘You Have No First Amendment Rights’ - "Their disciplinary action was basically saying you have no First Amendment rights. It's not consistent, to me, to fire somebody who's exercising their F...
Daily Cartoonist

Trudeau & Doonesbury, A (Joint) Review - Bill Cooper for Spectrum Culture reviews the new biography Trudeau & Doonesbury by Joshua Kendall. “Garry Trudeau, lives privately and shuns interviews. Fr...
Environment Texas

Data center moratorium now - The rush to build large data centers is causing big environmental problems. We need to hit the brakes on big data centers to make sure we can get this ri...
Futurism

Government Officials Order the Robot Cage Fights to Stop, Organizers Say - "We made it boys." The post Government Officials Order the Robot Cage Fights to Stop, Organizers Say appeared first on Futurism.
Courthouse News

As fires rage in Borneo, several of the world’s rarest primates are continually threatened - A nonprofit environmental group working with primates in Sebangau National Park says the dry peatlands can be a catalyst to more destruction.
World Socialist Web Site

Budget crisis prompts closure of oldest natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere - The 198-year-old Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, which has ceased operations, holds one of the world’s largest collections of scientific speci...
CultureMap Houston

Aaron Bludorn dishes on his new neighborhood tavern in The Woodlands - On this week’s episode of “What’s Eric Eating,” chef and restaurateur *Aaron Bludorn* joins CultureMap editor Eric Sandler to discuss the new location of *...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Mother Jones

A New Trump Rule Could Transform Gun Sales. The President’s Son Is Poised to Profit. - The Trump administration has spent much of this year rewriting the federal government’s approach to guns. Just last month, the Justice Department concluded...
Liberation News

La reorientación de Venezuela hacia el imperialismo pone en peligro los logros de su revolución - La operación militar de EE. UU. contra Venezuela el 3 de enero de 2026, que dejó cientos de muertos, incluidos 32 combatientes cubanos, y resultó en el sec...
Popular Resistance

Amazon Is Deploying AI To Spy On Its Workers - The 18th-century notion of the panopticon — a circular prison design with a guard station in the middle, allowing a single officer to enforce discipline ...
Glasstire

Review: Rage Exported: “From Texas with Love” at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, New York - In New York, where I live, the trees are going red. They’re blooming like slow, unreal fire; orange like I have never seen is swallowing what’s left of s...
The Week

Could the 30-day savings rule help you rein in overspending? - Curb impulse buys by reconsidering your purchases
Greg Palast

Why Save Your Vote MattersHow do you protect a right that people assume they already have? - There is something dangerous happening to American democracy, and it does not always look like voter suppression. Sometimes it looks like a spreadsheet. So...
Vox

The Cornell case, explained - “In what world,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul asked on Friday, “would the police learn from a victim that she’d been literally gang raped while she was intox...
WhoWhatWhy

Final Pre-Election Jobs Report Adds to GOP’s Woes - [image: Donald Trump, delivers remarks, economy, Mount Airy Casino Resort] Americans remain deeply skeptical of the state of the economy, and the last jobs...
The Verge

Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes - Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reporte...
Undernews

Massachusetts Catholic clergy abused children - More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over several decades, according to a report rele...
alicublog

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

Trump’s $500 Checks Reveal the GOP’s “Billionaire Theory of Democracy”: Everything Has a Price - According to the White House, over the next few days about a million Americans will get a check for $500 in the mail.
Ballot Access News

Eighth Circuit Will Rehear Dakotans for Health v Johnson - On October 1, the Eighth Circuit decided to rehear Dakotans for Health v Johnson, 25-2940. This is the lawsuit in which the Eighth Circuit had struck down ...
Slate

Colleen Hoover’s Most Bonkers Book Is Now an Even Wilder Movie Starring Anne Hathaway. It’s Quite the Ride. - Colleen Hoover’s Verity is chock-full of impossible twists.
slacktivist

LBCF: Fire-breathing Martians - We were promised that the Two Witnesses would literally breathe fire. But then they don't literally breathe fire. I am disappointed.
Crooked Media

Is Trump Escalating The War In Iran? - The post Is Trump Escalating The War In Iran? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mondoweiss

Life on the edge of Israel’s occupation in southern Lebanon - As part of a U.S.-brokered agreement with Israel and Lebanon, residents of some southern villages are cautiously returning to their homes. What they have f...
Project Censored

Banned Books Week 2026 – Protect The Right To Read - Featuring Marshall Romero
Election Law Blog

Constitutional avoidance and the federal statutory ban on alien voting - Rick H. links to the Reuters story about a federal district court finding a ban on alien voting unconstitutional. The underlying opinion is here. Back in...
Novara Media

Zack Polanski Promises Rent Controls at Tense Party Conference - Zack Polanski has called for a 3-year cap on private rents. Elsewhere at Green Party conference, tensions are running high over a motion to declare that Zi...
naked capitalism

Hooray! Met Our Fifth Goal, On to Our Sixth: Karōshi Prevention - Please dig deep to support this fundraiser, including keeping Yves in fighting form.
First Draft

Sunny Afternoon - Cheers to Ray Davies.
MintPress News

The Saudi-Israeli War On Yemen’s Resistance: Intelligence Sharing, Civilian Targets & Sectarian Propaganda - Scrambling to halt the ongoing offensive of Yemen’s Armed Forces, Israel and Saudi Arabia have strengthened ties through a joint covert campaign aimed at...
NPR's Health Shots

October 1 ushered in a new era in U.S. foreign aid. What's the plan? Will it work? - The America First strategy asks for a Memorandum of Understanding as a condition for healthcare and development aid. It's been praised for promoting self-r...
San Antonio Report

The voter registration deadline for the November midterm election is Monday, Oct. 5 - Unlike other states that allow same-day voter registration, Texans who want to participate in the 2026 midterms must be registered in advance. -------------...
Deadline Politics

Kennedy Center Honors To Move To Capital One Arena Amid Closure Of Arts Complex - The Kennedy Center Honors will move to a new location for the first time in its history, as it will be held at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. The ce...
IVN

Pennsylvania’s Closed Primary Wall Just Took a Major Hit - Pennsylvania moves toward opening its primaries as lawsuits spread, turnout data favors open systems, and Gen Z drifts further from the two-party mold.
Angry Bear

First as tragedy, then as farce - A sucker is born every minute. “If you go back to the middle of the last decade, the big tech platforms were massive, and were entrenching their monopoly...
Techdirt.

Bricks & Minifigs Really Doesn’t Want You To Know About The BAM Map, Sues To Unmask Whoever Runs It - A few days ago I wrote about the anti-SLAPP motion filed by “Reckless” Ben Schneider against Bricks & Minifigs (BAM Franchising) over the ridiculous RICO s...
Mediagazer

Disney licenses a large group of titles to Netflix, including all five Ice Age movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Felicity, Elio, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Disney licenses a large group of titles to Netflix, including all five Ice Age movies, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Felicit...
The Militant

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

Trump Administration Sued Over Fuel Economy Rollback - A coalition of environmental and consumer protection organizations filed a lawsuit today challenging the Trump administration’s final rule rolling back f...
Raw Story

Trump's trade war is coming for a beloved restaurant freebie: report - A beloved freebie at Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants could soon disappear as President Donald Trump's tariffs on Mexican tomatoes push costs higher. The ...
Earthworks

Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassment Limit Reporting on Harita’s Nickel Operations in Indonesia - In 2025, I sat locked in a room in a private home as military officials camped on the front porch. The post Silencing the Story: Surveillance and Harassm...
The Daily Poster

LeverMind Quiz: Do Banks Have To Rip Us Off? - Test your knowledge of PSAs, forever chemicals, and other issues that really matter.
Socialist Alternative

“We’re Coming For You & Your Rotten System”: Ten Years Of Socialist Alternative’s Revolutionary Socialist Council Seat - Years before Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Zohran Mamdani were household names, Socialist Alternative and our member Kshama Sawant shook the Seattle establishme...
Axios

Brazil's Lula-Bolsonaro showdown unfolds in Trump's shadow — with the Amazon at stake - Brazil votes Sunday in a presidential election that could reshape its relationship with President Trump, return the Bolsonaro movement to power and alter...
Salon.com

“Cassie Workman is Witchy AF” is a comic spell for a mad world - Produced by Lilly Wachowski, this show is a darkly funny delight for occult history buffs
Consortium News

Gaza From the Sky - One Palestinian from Gaza said the imagery “shows you the Israeli barbarism and terrorism that the world lets happen.” By Brett Wilkins Common Dreams Upda...
Texas Standard

Abbott ramps up attacks on Democratic challenger, Gina Hinojosa, as Texas governor’s race tightens - Gov. Greg Abbott is escalating attacks on Gina Hinojosa as some polls show a closer race and Republicans confront voter concerns about the economy.
The Root

Forget MJ, Here’s 13 Highest-Paid NBA Players of All Time - Michael Jordan doesn't even crack these top 13 highest-paid players in NBA history. Read more...
Dorf on Law

The Global Migration (or not) of Scholars and Researchers (a Dorf on Law classic) - *Note to readers:* I published the column below on *Dorf on Law* on December 2, 2025. For the multitude of obsessive Buchanan superfans out there, thi...
Progressive.org

Remembering Wendell Berry - Berry was bighearted, ever open to other people, passionate about what he believed, and accustomed to being misunderstood.
Sludge

Black Caucus Groups Take $1.6 Million From Big Tech as Caucus Weighs Data Center Stance - Beyond the money, the groups have hosted executives from Meta, Exelon and Entergy at their conferences, and caucus aides toured a data center with a think ...
ArcaMax

His Student Was Detained by ICE. Now He's Fighting To Bring Her Home. - "I'm being taken, please fight for me." This is the text that came through on Ryan Davis' phone on Aug. 12 from his former student Armelle Bondonga Bradsha...
Daily Howler

HEALING: Sandburg, Lincoln believed in The People! - *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2026* *CEO enters Hall of Fame:* Good God! If we survive the likely madness of the next few years, our flailing nation is going to be...
Scheerpost.com

How The War In Sudan Is Teaching Society To Govern Without The State - Eglal Hamid Abdulgadir Waging Nonviolence After the collapse of state infrastructure and services amid war in Sudan, mutual aid networks stepped up to fill...
SCOTUSblog

Justice Barrett – the zombie (noun) slayer - Suppose a Bond villain (or Dr. Evil) demanded $1 million unless you read every word of a SCOTUS majority opinion. And just to make it interesting, he req...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Michigan Disavows Gubernatorial Nominee Anthony Hudson - The Libertarian Party of Michigan has formally disavowed the campaign of gubernatorial nominee Anthony Hudson following an earlier censure and what party...
Bracing Views

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

INVITATION: Rethinking Schools 40th Anniversary Celebration, Monday October 5th, Workers Defense Project at 5:30 PM CST - * Friends:* *For forty years, Rethinking Schools has been so much more than a publication. It has been a source of courage, imagination, intellectual no...
Bonddad

September jobs report: a weakly positive report consistent with an inflationary expansion - - *by New Deal democrat* For most of this year my Big Theme has been that the AI Boom (or possibly bubble) has been counterbalancing a stagnant or e...
The Conversation

White nationalism’s appeal runs deeper than partisan politics - Nearly 1 in 7 white men under 30 in the US support white nationalism, and partisanship alone doesn’t explain who’s drawn to it.
The Smirking Chimp

Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump -
Texas Observer

Angela Paxton’s Message: Elect the Elephant at All Costs - When Angela Paxton spoke to a room of Republican women in Texas in September, she named her speech “The Elephant in the Room.” The elephant, of course, w...
Democracy Now!

"The School That Became a Grave": Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids - *Drop Site News* released a major investigation this week into the U.S. bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh children’s school in the Iranian city of Minab on ...
The Hill

MAGA betrayed rural America - Democratic candidate Sharice Davids argues that current Republican policies on healthcare and agriculture have betrayed rural communities, prompting new De...
Rewire

Anti-Abortion States Ask Supreme Court To Nullify Shield Laws in Blue States - The laws protect providers who mail abortion medication to patients in other states. Plus, Arkansas' abortion ban is in court, and medical society urges OB...
The AltWorld

11 factors prove “Israel” staged the Emirati jet bombing. - What are the primary objectives of this “theatrical performance”? How did the failure come across as shocking […] The post 11 factors prove “Israel” stag...
Debunking Christianity

If Devout Christians Don’t Love Reading the Gospels… - *How do they feel about the letters of Paul?* Many years ago, I met a devout Catholic woman who bragged—during out first meeting—that she had seen the B...
Space City Weather

After heavy rains over western half of the region, focus should slowly shift toward the coast - In brief: Houston’s radar has quieted down after Thursday night’s widespread showers west and north of Houston, but our rain chances will continue through ...
Rallblog

French Students Wild in the Streets | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - IVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas d...
The Progressive Wing

10/2 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Jourdyn Wilson - One more time with the Harris Central Appraisal District Board of Directors, and before I get into it here I want to say that I did reach out to Kathy Blue...
ProPublica

We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway. - The post We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Toxic algal blooms are spreading across the West - Climate change is increasing the frequency of the blooms. Here’s what you need to know. The post Toxic algal blooms are spreading across the West appear...
Two Party Opera

The Little Magician - Read More
Workers World

Native Americans drive mining company off sacred land - [image: Native Americans drive mining company off sacred land] Nine Native American tribes, joined by local community activists, successfully drove off a m...
Infidel753

Division on the right -- unity for the nation? - The American right wing is not homogenous. It comprises several factions, but the most important division is between what might be called the "elitist" c...
Wolf Street

Homeowners Are Clinging to their Below-4% Mortgages for Dear Life as Mortgage Rates Went over 7% - The housing market, wrecked by ultralow mortgage rates, will stay wrecked for longer.
Informed Comment

The Mask of Civilization, the Face of Apartheid: Netanyahu at the UN - He must keep the machinery of war permanently running and drag the region toward the precipice of a global war to avoid trials & defeat
Brad Blog

Dems COULD Win U.S. Senate Races in Previously Unthinkable Places: ‘BradCast’ 10/1/2026 - Did anyone have Mississippi on their 2026 Midterm Bingo card last year as a state where Democrats could flip a U.S. Senate seat this year from “red” to “bl...
Portside

Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign May Have Accomplished Something More Fundamental Than Moving Policy Debate to the Left - Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign May Have Accomplished Something More Fundamental Than Moving Policy Debate to the Left jay Thu, 10/01/2026 - 21:53
Antiwar.com

The Tyranny of One Man’s Opinion - Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henr...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 2, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 2, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/02/2026 - 04:52 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Claytoonz

Swinging for the Midterms - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 33 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
See You In 2020

Cornell, south Korea, and how sexual assault justice gets twisted to support gender wars - There’s a real danger that the Cornell rapes will be exploited by our ruling class to manufacture a new era of gender war divisions. And the main facili...
El Paso Matters

Supreme Court grants review of Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy for immigrants - The 5th Circuit Court, which covers El Paso and all of Texas, has held immigrants accused of illegally entering the U.S, must be detained while their de...
The Grayzone

Exclusive: British state targets Palestine Action with yet another crooked trial - Once again, the British state is exploiting anti-democratic terrorism measures to secure convictions of Palestine Action defendants who targeted an Israe...
Grist

Under Trump, California’s clean car rules are essential — and vulnerable - The federal government has scrapped its rules lowering vehicle emissions, and it's going after California's.
Capital & Main

New ‘Oligarch Index’ Tracks California’s Biggest Political Spenders - Over two decades, the top 99 individuals and business organizations spent more on campaigns and lobbying than the bottom 99.9%. The post New ‘Oligarch In...
Ian Welsh

America Continues To Destroy Its International Markets - Sanctions come with a cost. When the US, in Trump’s first term, put chip sanctions on China and particularly sanctioned Huawei (the leader in 5g networks),...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Icosahedral Weave - I spent an inordinately long time designing this model in 2024, so let me talk about it. In modular origami, there are many models that have exactly 30 uni...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The United States of Enshittification: AI and the Flattened Future - The purpose isn’t progress. It’s profit for less.
The Texas Signal

The Author With A Fix To The Immigration Crisis - Almost a decade ago, Houston author Loren C. Steffy laid out a clear case for why draconian anti-immigration policy was economically destructive. His new b...
Progressives Chat

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

Peter Oborne On 25 Years Of Media Lens And An Appeal For Support - In response to news that we are this year celebrating 25 years of Media Lens we have received many kind comments from readers, some of them sympathising th...
jobsanger

Our Voting Rights Can Only Be Protected By Voting For Pro-Democracy Democrats -
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-trans grifter Riley Gaines suffers major court loss against NCAA - Riley Gaines From the online publication them: A federal judge dismissed Riley Gaines’ lawsuit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Venezuela Coup & Iran War Part of Neo-Colonialism Tyranny! - If there ever was any doubt about the fact that our government is behaving like the biggest criminal organization in the world Trump's obvious behavior, wi...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich introduces long-sought permitting reforms with key Republicans to expedite energy projects, and he wants a Senate vote right after Election Day - [image: Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks during a press conference Wednesday.] By Kevin Hendricks, NM Political Report — New Mexico families watching their ele...
Crooked Timber

The Office: A sort of conjecture about why some US sitcoms are the way they are. - People here often ask me what part of England I grew up in, which isn’t a particularly easy question – I was born in the north, but then lived in South Wal...
Alas, a Blog

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Will Trump Administration Officials Be Held Accountable for Defying a Court Order? The Courts Are Still Deciding. - The ACLU argued in court that Trump administration officials broke the law by defying a judge’s order and sending 100 Venezuelan men to a notoriously bruta...
Ecosophia

Notes on Magical Geography - As my regular readers know well, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to my commentariat to nominate and vote on the topic for the fifth ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

Judge Won’t Stand for Being Jerked Around - In case you weren't sure.
OpEd News

Having Viewed Nolan's "Odyssey" a Second Time - A talk on Nolan's film "Odyssey" as well as the epic as a whole by Princeton's Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Classics Professor Barbara Graziosi.
Texas Freedom Network

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

NORML Op-Ed: Vote This November To Keep Marijuana Legal in Massachusetts - [image: green traffic light with cannabis sign][image: green traffic light with cannabis sign]This campaign is not about promoting the health and safety ...
LareDOS

San Ygnacio, Texas: en aquel entonces and now - In 1951 a group of Zapata and San Ygnacio residents, ranchers, farmers, business owners, and veterans formed the Executive Committee for the Preservation o...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Access Excess - 10 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 696kb I can’t even begin to pretend to care about the Donster kicking MSNOW (the artist formerly known as MSNBC) ...
Krebs on Security

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hac...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: End Times Fascism - Matt and Sam talk to Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about their new book, *End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World*.
Idavox

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

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

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Land Destroyer

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

When Constitutional Functions Blur - Constitutional orders rarely announce that they are becoming less constitutional. More often, the institutions remain in place while their functions begin ...
Discourse

The World Ed Sheeran Wants to Live in No Longer Exists (w/Katherine Krueger) - Plus: A touching tribute from Project Mohammed
Unlimited Hangout

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

My Life as a Thought Criminal - What follows is a timeline of events that have transpired since I published The Rise of The New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021),...
TalkLeft

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

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

The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks - Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears - GOP still favored, but just barely The post The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears appeared first on Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Counterpunch

A Rupture in Israeli Security Politics: Can the Palestinians Exploit It? - Settler colonialism is a fairly common phenomenon, both ancient and modern, as the unhappy history of the indigenous people of Palestine testifies. The f...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

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Earth 911

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Reveal

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ExChristian.Net

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Progressive Army

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Bud Kennedy

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Ring of Fire

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Southeast Texas Record

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Save Buffalo Bayou

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Texans For Public Justice

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Political Garbage Chute

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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
The Reality-Based Community

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Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

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New Progressive Alliance

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Houston Press

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Dallas Observer

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Progressives Everywhere

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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."
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

An Historical High-Five

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