Brains and Eggs: Partied like it's 1929

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

"Could've been solved": Trump suggests he would have handled the Civil War better than Lincoln - Hundreds of thousands of people died in the Civil War. Trump seems to think he can negotiate that down
SCOTUSblog

Watching environmental law get eclipsed by Skrmetti - The courtroom is quite full today as we near the end of the term. A key reason for that is this is the last day for in-person admissions to the […] The p...
memeorandum

Vaccine advisers to review ingredient RFK Jr. has long wanted banned (Politico) - Politico: *Vaccine advisers to review ingredient RFK Jr. has long wanted banned* — The health secretary wrote a 2014 book arguing that thimerosal cause...
Al Jazeera English

Petro’s labour reform referendum suspended by Colombia’s Council of State - President Gustavo Petro has sought to call a referendum, in a move opposition say violates the constitution.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Rodney Scott confirmed as head of CBP by US Senate despite ‘cover-up’ claim - Senate backs Trump’s nominee to lead Customs and Border Protection despite accusation by former official The US Senate on Wednesday confirmed Rodney Scot...
Raw Story

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace left 'speechless' by economist's NSFW trade deal analogy - Economist Justin Wolfers left MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace "speechless" after he used a sexual analogy to describe President Donald Trump's latest tariff m...
Courthouse News

Queens attorney accused of draining public defense funds - The government did not seek to detain Lori Zeno, who presented a $500,000 bond package secured by her son, older sister and brother-in-law.
Slate

Everyone Is Upset About Pedro Pascal and Dakota Johnson’s Buzzy Rom-Com. Are You People OK? - Is the film "broke guy propaganda," or a depressing fantasy of luxury? Depends who you ask!
San Antonio Report

Amid growing Middle East conflict, Commissioner Grant Moody called up to active duty - The Marine F-18 pilot is headed to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, to support U.S. Central Command staff. ------------------------------ Amid grow...
Grist

Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction - Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.
Mother Jones

FDA Approves “Breakthrough” HIV Drug - On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration approved a highly effective, injectable drug to help prevent the transmission of HIV, according to its manuf...
Mediaite

CNN’s Harry Enten: Polls Show ‘American Public is With Donald Trump’ On Not Letting Iran Get a Nuke - "And so the American public is with Donald Trump. They definitely oppose Iran getting nuclear weapons." The post CNN’s Harry Enten: Polls Show ‘American ...
Progressive.org

RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Panel Puts Our Nation at Risk - The move by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to replace medical experts with anti-vaxxers will be catastrophic.
Rio Grande Guardian

Delta Area leaders unite in big push for medical center - The idea was brought up at the Delta Area Summit by Elsa City Manager J.J. Ybarra. The post Delta Area leaders unite in big push for medical center appe...
Mediagazer

How top Hollywood executives are pushing Gov. Gavin Newsom to expand California's film and TV program from $330M to $750M, seeking to halt a production exodus (The Hollywood Reporter) - The Hollywood Reporter: *How top Hollywood executives are pushing Gov. Gavin Newsom to expand California's film and TV program from $330M to $750M, seeki...
The Week

The Week contest: Tornado wedding -
OpEd News

Are You Eating These Food Chemicals? - The breadth of livestock diseases and drugs routinely given to food animals could kill people's appetites, especially if the information were included on f...
Angry Bear

No, Social Security and Medicare aren’t going to go broke - Here’s the headline in the Boston Globe: “Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed up due to rising health care costs, new SSA law” Read furthe...
Deadline Politics

Eric Kripke Has No Intention Of “Pulling Our Punches” With ‘The Boys’ Under Trump: “That’s Vital” - As The Boys approaches its fifth and final season, the elements of life imitating art have never been more crucial for the Amazon Prime Video series. Showr...
The Hill

Trump Mobile faces roadblocks - {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Trump Mobile faces steep hurdles with plans for US-made smartphones The Trump family’s new mobile phone ventu...
Futurism

Department of Homeland Security Head Visited Biohazard Lab One Day Before Hospitalization - Kristi Noem, the gun-loving former South Dakota governor who now runs Homeland Security, was rushed to the hospital earlier this week for a severe allerg...
Houston Public Media

Federal judge restores nearly $20 million in terminated public health funds to Harris County - In March, the Trump administration clawed back more than $11 billion in public health funding that had been distributed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Harri...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Dissident Voice

Endless Wars, Failing Infrastructure, and a Dying Republic - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those wh...
Daily Dot

“I cannot express the pain”: Javier Bardem speaks out against genocide in Gaza—”The View” cuts to commerical - *Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem* ended an interview on ABC talk show 'The View' by showing support for Gaza. However, the show quickly cut to commerci...
The Greanville Post

WW3 Chronicle / Something’s Happening Here, What it is Ain’t Exactly Clear… - LARRY JOHNSON—Trump continued his intemperate postings on Truth Social until he convened a meeting of his National Security Council in Washington, DC this ...
Rallblog

DeProgram: “TrumpTempted by the Neocons” - LIVE 5 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: In an uncertain world in an uncertain time, you can count on the “DePtogram show with political cartoonist Ted...
Second Nexus

VA Doctors Can Now Refuse To Treat Veterans Who Are Democrats Or Unmarried Thanks To Trump Order - Per an executive order from President Donald Trump, the Department of Veterans Affairs has introduced revised guidelines for VA hospitals nationwide, rem...
Reform Austin

From “Gay Frogs” to Fraud Claims: Alex Jones in Hot Water with Sandy Hook Families - Alex Jones, the Infowars host notorious for spreading conspiracy theories, is under renewed legal scrutiny as a U.S. bankruptcy trustee accuses him of mo...
Techdirt.

Verizon ‘AI’ ‘Personal Shopper’ Assistant Ripping Customers Off With Weird Unwanted Charges - One recurring theme of our head-first rushed adoption of “AI” is that half-cooked automation routinely reflects the often shitty natures of the companies o...
Axios

Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson's blowup exposes MAGA's divide on war with Iran - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and conservative talk show host Tucker Carlson got into a contentious argument over America's role in the escalating war between I...
The Daily Poster

How To End Democrats’ Civil War - Abundance liberals and populists can together combat scarcity — but one side has to come clean.
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Common Dreams

Statement on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report - The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, on the 2025 Social Security Trustees Report: “This report shows that ...
Church and State

Does the Existence of Atheists Prove There is a God? - Why do theists keep asking already answered questions? I don’t really know and I’m not sure they do, either.
Sludge

‘Unprecedented’ Tax Credit in GOP Megabill Would Fuel School Privatization - A tax credit proposal buried in the Big Beautiful Bill would allow school voucher fund donors to lower their taxes beyond the cost of their donations.
San Antonio Current

Trump pollsters find 61% of Texas voters, including majority of GOP voters, oppose state THC ban - Yet another poll has found that Texas’ proposed on THC-containing hemp products is deeply unpopular across the political spectrum. The survey, conducted b...
Political Wire

Inside the Chaos Swirling Through the DNC - “Just months into the tenure of a new party leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee’s financial situation has grown so bleak that top officia...
CultureMap Houston

Galveston RV resort charms on new list of best campgrounds in America - Two charming Texas campsites – Galveston's *Stella Mare RV Resort *and *Neches Bluff Overlook Campground* in Davy Crockett National Forest – were just rank...
The Verge

Ancestra actually says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos - After watching writer / director Eliza McNitt's new short film Ancestra, I can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in generative AI. Many ...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian National Committee Appoints Members to New Financial Standards Committee - The Libertarian National Committee has appointed Adrian F Malagon and Kathy Yeniscavich to its new Financial Standards Committee, which was established a...
World Socialist Web Site

Oppose imperialist-Zionist war against Iran and Turkey’s collaboration! - The principled opposition of the SEG, which gives conscious political expression to the mass opposition of workers and youth around the world to imperialis...
Glasstire

Bookended: Austin’s Music Scene Illustrated - There is no denying that Austin’s music scene is one of a kind. From dive bars to multi-day festivals, the city’s various stages have been graced over th...
American Prospect

On Iran, It’s Trump vs. MAGA - Today on TAP: What happens when a failing dictator is on the ropes? He imagines winning World War III.
Capital & Main

Can Gov. Gavin Newsom Make Californians Healthier? - Advocates worry that soft drinks, candy and other ultra-processed foods bought with government funds via EBT cards may be in his sights. The post Can Gov...
Undernews

Social Security - *CBS News - *Social Security is on track to deplete its trust funds by 2034, one year sooner than previously forecast, when the federal retirement prog...
Wolf Street

Fed Sees Hotter Inflation for Longer, Higher Unemployment, Slower Growth, “Dot Plot” Shifts More Hawkish but still Sees 2 Cuts in 2025. QT Continues - “Uncertainties” rule. Wait-and-see amid inflation fears and slowing growth.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Times tries to explain the growing debt! - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2025* *Also, Times tries to explain arrests:* Even at the highest journalistic levels, simple explanation isn't real easy. As a mat...
DeSmogBlog

Alberta’s ‘Emissions Intensity’ Hasn’t Improved, Despite Government Claim - Political spin and hard facts had another messy moment in Alberta this month. The governing United Conservative Party just released a report touting thei...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Texas Is the MAGA vs RINO Frontline - Texas is the 3rd largest US state. It's been under GOP rule for 21 years and a civil war is brewing between MAGA and RINO factions.
Consortium News

Israel’s War on Iran Has No Future - M.K. Bhadrakumar predicts that Netanyahu, by underestimating the Islamic Republic’s powers of resistance, will meet the same fate as Saddam Hussein in the ...
Rewire

For Black Women in Texas, Juneteenth’s Promise of Freedom Remains Unrealized - State control over reproduction in Texas didn't end with slavery in 1865. Today’s draconian abortion laws and bounty hunts keep Black women in reproducti...
Vox

The Supreme Court’s incoherent new attack on trans rights, explained - It was obvious, if you listened to the Supreme Court’s oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti last December, that the Court would vote — most likely al...
The Root

Remember Christian Keyes? Former Tyler Perry Accuser’s Video Resurfaces Following New Sexual Assault Lawsuit - Keyes, who was in Perry's 2005 film 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman,' became a trending topic once again this week, Read more...
WhoWhatWhy

US Researchers Are Speaking Up for Science in Local Newspapers - [image: science, research, federal cuts, pushback, op-eds, newspapers] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our r...
Mondoweiss

Rogue States: The illegality of the U.S.-backed Israeli attacks on Iran - [image: Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump at the Ben Gurion airport in May 2017. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom GPO)]The attack on Iran is just the latest cri...
Election Law Blog

“Trump’s First Judicial Nominees Dodge 2020 Election Question” - Bloomberg “All five of the nominees to appellate and district courts wrote in response to the question submitted by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top ...
Liberation News

Trump order threatens right to even life-saving abortion care - The executive order is likely to have very real impacts as hospitals determine when and how to administer life-saving healthcare.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virginia’s Wild Democratic Statewide Primaries - Recapping the wild Democratic statewide Virginia primaries and looking ahead to the fall The post Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virgini...
Alternet

Trump’s 'chaotic' ways are making him an 'easy mark' for 'friends and foes alike': analysis - On Wall Street, the TACO meme (Trump Always Chickens Out) was invented to mock President Donald Trump's erratic approach to tariffs. Trump will announce ...
Ballot Access News

Arkansas Libertarian Party Petition Got a Boost at “No Kings” Rally - The Arkansas Libertarian Party is currently circulating its petition to regain its party status. It needs 10,000 valid signatures. On Saturday, June 14, ...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Snakes, Mammoths, and Explosions - The post Strangest State: Snakes, Mammoths, and Explosions appeared first on The Texas Observer.
El Paso Matters

Lydia Patterson Institute fears visa pause could disrupt student enrollment - Leaders at the private Methodist school in Segundo Barrio worry that a State Department pause on student visa appointments while social media vetting is...
Environment Texas

The new threats facing the sequoia forests of the Sierra Nevada - A misleading bill could irreversibly harm some of our oldest and most beloved forests. The post The new threats facing the sequoia forests of the Sierra ...
Texas Standard

With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program - Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about o...
Bonddad

Housing construction looks even more recessionary - - *by New Deal democrat* Because no data will be released tomorrow due to the Federal holiday, I am going to defer a deeper look at the very importa...
Discourse

Abolishing ICE Is the Least We Can Do - And it needs to be a red line in our politics once again.
ArcaMax

Political Violence All the Rage - Scene 1: There I sat in the Senate chamber, waiting for a Republican to decry the use of force against one of their own. Sen. Alex Padilla, a California De...
First Draft

We’re Looking For The Guy Who Did This - This is a rant about Dollar Store Gilead.
Democracy Now!

"What Authoritarians Do": NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Speaks Out After ICE Arrests Him in Courthouse - New York City comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested outside an immigration courtroom Tuesday. Lander has been volunteering as an obser...
The Conversation

Smartphones are once again setting the agenda for justice as the Latino community documents ICE actions - The legacy of Darnella Frazier recording George Floyd’s murder is visible in today’s Latino communities using smartphones to witness the violence and aggre...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Uncle Sam needs your help again - I suggested yesterday that, while its doubtful that Dear Leader saw the mockery in the media, he must certainly have realized that there weren’t huge cheer...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Vindictive President’: Senator Tackled by Trump’s FBI Calls Him Out in Blistering Speech -
Skeptophilia

Signals from the ice - I was maybe sixteen years old when I first read H. P. Lovecraft's atmospheric and terrifying short story "At the Mountains of Madness." Unique amongst h...
Off The Kuff

The other redistricting matter - Here’s a story from the Fort Worth Report on the redistricting trial going on in El Paso, with a focus on the effect in Tarrant County. Federal judges in E...
Scheerpost.com

Israel’s War on Iran Is the Frontline of a US War on Multipolarity - Israel’s US-backed brazen violations of Iranian sovereignty mark a dangerous escalation in Washington’s long war on independent states, exposing the impote...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump administration actions contradict MAHA rhetoric on toxic chemicals - Trump says he backs the MAHA agenda which includes eliminating toxins linked to human health problems. But his administration continues to cuts funds, gran...
ProPublica

ProPublica Sued the FDA for Withholding Records About the Safety of Generic Drugs - by Katherine Dailey and Jessie Nguyen, Medill Investigative Lab We are still reporting. *If you are a current or former FDA employee or someone in the i...
High Country News

Trump quits deal with Northwest tribes to restore salmon - [image: An aerial view of the lower granite dam on the Snake River.] The plan to remove four hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin that blocks th...
Crooked Media

Will Trump Drag Us Into War With Iran? - The post Will Trump Drag Us Into War With Iran? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

For June Dairy Month, Trump Should Celebrate the Canadian System Not Denounce - Uncertainty is nothing new for farmers. Freak weather changes and fluctuations in the market make planning for the future a gamble, never a sure thing. ...
jobsanger

Israeli Government Murders Gaza Residents Trying To get Food Aid -
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Columbia Funding Cutoff Update and Reprise - I continue to be on break, so today I'm running another "classic" column from my "Wait, Can He Actually Do That?" series--my first foray into the Trump a...
Informed Comment

Air Campaigns don’t Win Wars on their Own: Why Israel will largely Fail in Iran - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Israel’s militarily useless, entirely unprovoked and wholly illegal air war on Iran differs significantly from its previous ...
Antiwar.com

Putting a Human Face on the Innocent Victims of Israel’s Unprovoked War Against Iran - Israel began an unprovoked and illegal war with Iran on 13 June 2025. This was while Iran and the United States were negotiating a new nuclear deal and wer...
The Texas Signal

Documentary Reveals Houston’s Unsung Blues Legacy - 'When Houston Had the Blues' is a deeply fascinating documentary that explores the rise and fall of the genre in the city’s historic Third and Fifth Wards
Popular Resistance

National Day Of Protest June 18: No War On Iran! - Trump may be about to drag the United States directly into a devastating regional war in the Middle East with an attack on Iran. In these critical days a...
Brad Blog

Trump Calls for 'Remigration', a Far-Right Code-Word for 'Ethnic Cleansing': 'BradCast' 6/17/2025 - Too much going on. So today we try to focus on at least one thing on today's BradCast that is disturbingly under-reported by the corporate media. Something...
The AltWorld

MEDIA FRAUD AND WAR: Assal Rad LIVE on Iran, Israel, and U.S. Complicity - As Israel’s war on Iran escalates, the media continues to flip the script—framing Israel as the victim […] The post MEDIA FRAUD AND WAR: Assal Rad LIVE o...
See You In 2020

The pro-resistance stance on Palestine has been vindicated, & this must translate into support for Iran - The developments we’ve seen since October 7 have provided us all with tremendous lessons in what it means to wage a liberation struggle. In which pract...
Claytoonz

The Peace Grifter - 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...
Workers World

Millions across the U.S. protest Trump’s attacks on workers and oppressed people - [image: Millions across the U.S. protest Trump’s attacks on workers and oppressed people] Democratic Party-affiliated groups, including Indivisible and 505...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump Administration hit with two major court losses in attacks against trans community and DEI' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - *Judge blocks Trump anti-trans passport policy* - *The trans community gets a major win in court against the Trump Administration.* *Judge deems Trump'...
Trivial Knot

How I Made an EP - I have finally released a new EP titled Unrelenting Introspection. You can listen for free on Bandcamp. It’s only 14 minutes long. It’s xenharmonic dark a...
Portside

Most Americans Believe Misinformation Is a Problem — Federal Research Cuts Will Only Make the Problem Worse - Most Americans Believe Misinformation Is a Problem — Federal Research Cuts Will Only Make the Problem Worse Judy Tue, 06/17/2025 - 17:50
slacktivist

Killing in the name of (again. still.) - Rudolph, Hill, Roeder, Boelter. Recalling the political violence that forced me to understand that none of my mentors believed what they were saying.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Jose Antonio Vargas on What We Get Wrong About Immigration Reform - This Mother’s Day was the first one that Jose Antonio Vargas celebrated with his mother in person in 32 years. It was also the first one his grandmother,...
Black Agenda Report

US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire - US Imperialism Has Set the Middle East on Fire bareditors Wed, 06/18/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist Garland Nixon
Lowering the Bar

Drunken Mule-Rider Accused of Assault With Deadly Raccoon - [image: raccoon sticking out his tongue]Even in Kentucky the assault charge isn't going to stick.
NORML

Study: Daily Cannabis Consumers Exhibit Few Changes in Simulated Driving Performance Compared To Controls - [image: marijuana driving simulation][image: marijuana driving simulation]Daily consumers demonstrated improvements in SDLP (standard deviation in lateral...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
The Progressive Wing

6.17-20 Open Threads - Hello you all. 🙂 Well, expect the worse and hope for the best. Looks like Israel is picking a fight with Iran. Endless stupid war. Will it ever stop? The ...
Space City Weather

Houston’s forecast for the rest of the week: Mostly sunny, warm, and a few showers - In brief: Overall our forecast is consistent for the rest of the week. We are going to see fairly normal weather for June, which is to say warm temperature...
Infidel753

The true global conflict - In many ways World War II looked like two separate wars happening coincidentally at the same time. Germany and Japan were allies, but did almost nothing ...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Earthworks

The Tip of the Iceberg - Last year, we celebrated the coordinated efforts of Larimer County and Colorado’s Energy and Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) to hold … The post The ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

No Kings Has to be the Beginning - Saturday was the start of something, not the end.
Project Censored

Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space - Today on the program in the first segment: Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny as ...
Ian Welsh

Iran-Israeli War Update - [image: Iran-Israeli War Update] Let’s take this in steps. *Air Defense* Iranian air defense was not active for the first attack wave. They were online f...
Bracing Views

Demonizing the Opposition - The Abyss Beckons BILL ASTORE JUN 15, 2025 Demonizing the opposition is a conduit to murderous crimes. There is no excuse for it. I remember hearing Judge ...
Texas Freedom Network

Reimagining Justice: What We Learned at Texas Rising’s First Houston Criminal Justice Summit - During Texas Rising Houston’s Criminal Justice Summit, students and leaders came together to ask: What would it take to build a justice system that actua...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A "Rare Bird" in the Academy: Why We Need Better Data on Faculty Diversity - *Friends: I’ve always told my students that I am a “rare bird” in the academy. By this I mean that there are still so few Latina or Latino professors tea...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: B-SIDES Founder Yousuf Ahmed Introduces the Upcycled Crunch Puffs Snacks Strategy - What if the ingredients discarded daily in food production could become the foundation of a... The post Earth911 Podcast: B-SIDES Founder Yousuf Ahmed In...
Media Lens

The ‘Selfie Yacht’ – Greta Thunberg And The Merchants Of Smear - If there’s one thing the ‘impartial’, ‘independent’ ‘free press’ can’t stand, it’s someone – citizens, journalists, politicians, celebrities, anyone – prot...
Progressives Chat

Latest Developments… - *Over the last few days:* *• Israel struck Iran and Iran struck Israel.* Naturally, there are tweets on X weighing in. And there are defenders of Israel ...
Idavox

NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, Suprise! - Sigh … Atlantic Nationalist Club it’s trying something stupid again. The fact that we know... The post NJ Nazis Plans Surprise Rally Next Weekend; Well, ...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: The Pork Reich Eyes an Army - As the Trumpenreich tries to occupy LA, the Pentagon is considering a proposal to give the Gestapo a standing army to prosecute the regime's fascist agen...
Debunking Christianity

New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil - Inside the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" will be the first ever full chapter on "The Emotional Problem of Evil."
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Strasbourg cathedral - [image: Strasbourg cathedral]
LareDOS

City investigates taste, odor in municipal water supply - Public assured it is safe to drink: “an aesthetic issue, not a health hazard”
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Authoritarianism On Parade - On June 14, Donald Trump will finally get his wish—a military parade to call his own. Trump will puff his chest, stick out what old age has left of his chi...
Dissent Magazine

Rage and Prayer in Los Angeles - The task of this moment is to build a broad front that can resist authoritarianism. The recent protests are early skirmishes in the fight that will be ne...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IF THE JACKBOOT FITS, WEAR IT EDITION. - *I mean.* Used to worry on Friday the 13th but we’re not feeling too lucky anyhow; every week it seems Tubby’s mob pushes a little harder against the fo...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Bud Kennedy

Could GOP Texas redistricting wipe out a Democrat in Fort Worth? Never say never | Opinion - Could Texas and local Republicans draw Democrats completely out of state or local office? Of course they could. Would Republicans want to? Absolutely. That...
Edinburg Politics

Seven UTRGV professors release book detailing the history of Valley politics: Politics of the Rio Grande Valley: An Insider’s Perspective to Regional Politics - Scholars from around the world are fascinated with the Rio Grande Valley, a region whose political beliefs often are covered by newscasts and newspapers, b...
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Grayzone

Secret British plans to ‘defeat entire Russian Black Fleet’ revealed in leaks - Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone expose the covert war waged by British intelligence against Russia in the Black Sea, outlining Ukrainian “honey tra...
The Rag Blog

NORMAN SOLOMON / POLITICS / When will the Democrats put up a fight? - Democratic party leaders just met for the first time in months. When will they take real action? By Norman Solomon / The Rag Blog / June 10, 2025 This arti...
The NM Political Report

80 years after Trinity, Tularosa Basin continues fight for compensation - Tina Cordova has spent about two decades fighting to bring government compensation to the generations of people in the Tularosa Basin who have suffered t...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Resistencia California - In solidarity with our freedom fighters in the Battle Of Los Angeles. Time to support OUR troops. 15.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 900kb
Eater Houston

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

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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Thursday, January 01, 2009

Partied like it's 1929

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