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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

With ‘El Mencho’ killed, what’s next for Mexico and the Jalisco cartel? - Mexico kills Oseguera Cervantes, triggering violence and uncertainty over the CJNG’s future power structure.
memeorandum

Trump to Sell the Economy During State of the Union Address (Meridith McGraw/Wall Street Journal) - Meridith McGraw / Wall Street Journal: *Trump to Sell the Economy During State of the Union Address* — The president is expected to argue that the coun...
Counterpunch

The Innate and Inseparable Ties Between Nuclear Weapons and Energy - What do Canada’s retired general Wayne Eyre and Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman share in common? Answer: In their own ways, both have inadvertently warn...
The Week

The best war movies of the 21st century - War is hell. For most people, these eight extraordinary films will be as close as they ever get to it.
Countercurrents

Modi’s “Jai Maa Kali” Turn Signals Electoral Anxiety in Bengal - Narendra Modi has lost the opening bout of the electoral battle. This becomes explicit in his letter to the voters of West Bengal, where he invokes Goddess...
Mediagazer

Isaac Hayes' estate settles with President Trump to end its lawsuit over the allegedly unauthorized use of the song Hold On, I'm Comin' at 2024 election rallies (Rachel Scharf/Billboard) - Rachel Scharf / Billboard: *Isaac Hayes' estate settles with President Trump to end its lawsuit over the allegedly unauthorized use of the song Hold On, ...
jobsanger

A Disgraceful Lack Of Accountability Shows The Power Of A Malignant Oligarchy -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3266: New Year Fireworks - Episode: 3266 Fireworks, Firecrackers, and Lunar New Year. Today, we ring the new year in with a bang.
Consortium News

Year 4: Why Russia Invaded - HOW IT HAPPENED: Russia says it has no intentions of controlling Ukraine and its military operation is only to ‘demilitarize’ and ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine 30 ye...
Informed Comment

Former Israeli PM, in Epstein Files, Dreamed of Israeli Eugenics and Pretty Converts - former Israeli PM Ehud Barak is being held to account, only because the ruling Likud Party perceives him as an enemy of their agenda
Mediaite

Texas County Drops Proposal to Rename Highway for Charlie Kirk After More Than 100 People Show Up to Commission Meeting - A proposal to rename a portion of a highway in Texas after Charlie Kirk failed after more than 100 local residents showed up to their county commission m...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Crooked Media

Dems Opt Out Of State Of The Union - The post Dems Opt Out Of State Of The Union appeared first on Crooked Media.
Political Wire

Tom Hanks to Play Abraham Lincoln - Oscar-winner Tom Hanks is set to portray President Abraham Lincoln in the upcoming film adaptation of Lincoln in the Bardo, Variety reports.
The Hill

State Department receives hundreds of calls on 24/7 crisis hotline for US citizens in Mexico - The State Department said it received hundreds of calls from U.S. citizens in Mexico to its 24/7 crisis hotline after the government killed a cartel leader...
Raw Story

Attorney flags 'cynical purpose' for Trump's most recent pardons: 'Just decided to do it' - A former federal pardon attorney flagged the "cynical purpose" of President Donald Trump's latest batch of pardons during a podcast interview on Monday. ...
Techdirt.

MAHA People Are Mad At RFK Jr. And For Good Reason As He Reverses Stance On Glyphosate - One of the more perplexing questions in all of the coverage I’ve done on RFK Jr. has been whether or not Kennedy is some misguided true believer or if this...
Portside

Whitening American History - Whitening American History Mark Brody Mon, 02/23/2026 - 22:47
Daily Cartoonist

When Garry Trudeau Took BD to Hell And Back in Doonesbury - For Yale Alumni Magazine Joshua Kendall ’81 offers what I believe is an excerpt from his forthcoming book about Garry Trudeau ’70. This concerns the Doones...
Idavox

‘Juntos hacemos la liberación!’ Philly Marches on I.C.E. - The City of Brotherly and Sisterly lives up to it’s name! Innocent Bystander Philadelphia, PA... The post ‘Juntos hacemos la liberación!’ Philly Marches ...
Alternet

'More drama': MAGA civil war erupts over Trump-Tucker Carlson summit - President Donald Trump is struggling to contain a civil war within his MAGA movement over the role of far right commentator Tucker Carlson — particularly...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s scramble to fix his crumbling tariff strategy sows global chaos and confusion - Economies such as the UK, India, Japan and the EU raced to hammer out agreements, but the blanket rate has left them wondering where they stand “America ...
The NM Political Report

Gary King campaigned on prosecuting child sex offenders – while courting Epstein at lunch and accepting donations through companies designed to avoid “press coverage” for King - By Pat Davis, Julian Paras, NM Political Report — The Epstein files revealed lots of new details about people and places connected to convicted sex traf...
Second Nexus

C-SPAN Issues Clarification After Video Goes Viral Of Man Who Sounds Like Trump Calling Into C-SPAN Under Fake Name - C-SPAN issued a clarification after a caller identifying himself as “John Barron” — a pseudonym long associated with Donald Trump — phoned into its progr...
Brad Blog

How Aileen Cannon May be Helping to Cover Up Evidence of Trump Rape: 'BradCast' 2/23/2026 - Today on The BradCast: The cover-ups (plural) continue! It's good to be king. Amirite, Donald? [Audio link to full show follows this summary.] Among our li...
The Conversation

Violent aftermath of Mexico’s ‘El Mencho’ killing follows pattern of other high-profile cartel hits - Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel have set up roadblocks and attacked property and security forces in the days following their leader’s death.
Popular Resistance

Mass Detention Facility Expansion In The US And The Fight Back - While there has been an ongoing expansion of immigrant detention centers in the United States for nearly two decades, the government recently allocated $...
Election Law Blog

“In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration” - Bolts: The U.S. Postal Service began piloting a cost-cutting plan in 2023 to remove the machines that sort and postmark mail from local offices and inst...
Courthouse News

Minnesota clergy sue Trump for blocking detainee access to pastoral care - Clergy members say they were turned away from providing spiritual care for unspecified safety reasons despite protocols existing in other detention facilit...
The Root

Man With Tourette Syndrome Speaks Out After Racist Remark at BAFTAs, But the Internet Isn’t Here for It - John Davidson has finally broken his silence about the racist ordeal at the 2026 BAFTA Awards. But what he has to say isn't landing too well with folks o...
Independent Political Report

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders Renews Call for AI Data Center Moratorium Following Denver Pause - Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has reiterated his calls for a federal moratorium on artificial intelligence data centers, pointing to a newly annou...
Wolf Street

Biggest Single-Family Rental Landlords, Mom & Pop Landlords, and Trump’s Push to Block Big Guys from Buying More Homes - It might not make much difference now, but it would during a housing crash.
Ballot Access News

Michigan Gubernatorial Poll Shows Almost a Three-Way Tie - This poll, released February 23, shows that the race for Michigan Governor is a virtual three-way tie. See this story. … Continue reading →
Claytoonz

XXX Files - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Salon.com

“Spare me your fake f**king outrage”: Newsom lashes out at Hannity over allegations of racism - Newsom called Hannity a hypocrite after the television host accused the governor of racism
San Antonio Report

Bexar County voter turnout is soaring this primary election. Here’s why the campaigns are sweating. - One striking difference is the number of voters who have a history of voting in general elections, but had never participated in a primary. ----------------...
Deadline Politics

State Of The Union 2026: How To Watch It And How The News Networks Are Covering It - President Donald Trump will deliver the first State of the Union address of his second term in office on Tuesday, February 24. The address to the joint ses...
Antiwar.com

The Arrival of Spring Brings Big Pressure to Ukraine - Spring, normally, brings relief from the bitter cold and struggles of winter. But this year, the coming of spring could start the clock ticking on huge pre...
High Country News

Documents shed new light on Interior official’s growing ethics scandal - The department’s release of Karen Budd-Falen’s ethics documents have sparked renewed calls for an investigation. The post Documents shed new light on In...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'She ain't real, y'all!' - Nicki Minaji's MAGA social media busted for being propped up by bots and fake accounts - Nicki Minaj The idea that Nicki Minaj became a follower of Donald Trump based on the strength of his personality is bull. We all know this. She wants som...
SCOTUSblog

Court grapples with disputes over efforts to recover losses from Cuban confiscations - In a pair of oral arguments on Monday, the Supreme Court wrestled with disputes over whether U.S. companies can recover under U.S. law for losses resulti...
The Greanville Post

The Flamingo Effect - SR—On the night of February 20-21, 2026, Ukraine launched an intermediate-range missile at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant, a strategic defense industr...
Mother Jones

Trump Business Partner Promises New Tower Won’t Be as Tacky as Australians Fear - Donald Trump’s newest business partner is assuring Australians that the Trump Tower he’s building Down Under won’t be nearly as tacky as they fear. On Mond...
Slate

American Hockey Has Reached a New Level of Dominance. - The U.S. has pulled off a huge coup beating out Canada for two gold medals in hockey.
CultureMap Houston

Meet the 10 rising star chefs shining in Houston's culinary scene - The time has come for the *CultureMap Tastemaker Awards*, our annual celebration of the people and places who make Houston’s culinary scene so special. As ...
Vox

Trump’s Iran buildup, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
San Antonio Current

Camp Mystic parents sue Texas, accuse officials of failing to enforce evacuation plan requirement - [image: A group of parents whose children died in the July 4 floods claim in a federal lawsuit that Camp Mystic’s emergency instructions directed kids to s...
El Paso Matters

Early voting in El Paso primaries up sharply from 2022 as new voters drive turnout - A surge in El Paso County primary voting is being driven largely by voters who did not participate in the 2022 primaries, with Democrats holding a turno...
Futurism

American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model - Things could get ugly. The post American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model appeared first on Futurism.
Progressive.org

Nostalgia Amid the Horror - Memories of my childhood in Gaza remind me of the resilience of the Palestinian people.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
ArcaMax

Boycott the State of the Union - I’m not going to watch the State of the Union address Tuesday night. I urge you not to, either. I hope Nielsen (or whoever makes such estimates these days)...
WhoWhatWhy

Cover-Up of Trump’s Hoarding of Classified Documents Is Almost Complete - [image: Aileen M. Cannon, official, portrait] With the help of a judge known for ruling in favor of Donald Trump, the "most transparent administration in h...
Texas Standard

Across Texas, early voters share what’s pushing them to the polls for the 2026 party primaries - From Austin to Lubbock to Houston, we asked Texans what’s motivating them to vote early in Texas’ 2026 party primaries — plus the biggest issues on their m...
NPR's Health Shots

The FDA creates a quicker path for gene therapies - The Food and Drug Administration aims to evaluate treatments for rare diseases based on plausible evidence that they would work — without requiring a clini...
Axios

Anthropic's new code security tool causes market panic - Cybersecurity companies aren't likely to face the same dramatic, AI-induced apocalypse that's hit the software industry over the last month, analysts say...
Angry Bear

Boundary Waters Mining - Earlier I had posted on oil and gas exploration in Alaska. Trump revived what he started in 2017. Reiterating what was going on in 2017 (Trump), stopped ...
Church and State

Can you identify any good Trump insiders? - Can you identify anybody in Trump’s inner circle of his aides who is not somehow acting against our Constitution?
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
The Texas Signal

Health Care Remains A Major Concern For Texans - At least in the early part of 2026, enrollment in the ACA marketplace in Texas held steady, with even a slight uptick. But those numbers may be deceiving.
The Verge

Will Trump’s DOJ actually take on Ticketmaster? - In mid-February, the Department of Justice lost its head antitrust enforcer - just weeks before it was scheduled to argue one of the year's biggest anti-mo...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: The state of the union involves the angry shredding of union! - *MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2026* *The latest Truth Social posts:* As we speak, the state of the union seems to lack the basic spirit of union. A tiny portion ...
Novara Media

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson Arrested - Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Plus: Labour ramp up their attacks on the Green Party Martin Lewis goes head...
Project Censored

Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation - First up, Medea Benjamin joins the show to debunk a whole lotta US propaganda about Cuba. Having just returned from the island nation, Medea explains the...
Undernews

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naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Local Protests Against Data Centers, Surveillance Uniting Broad Political Spectrum - Local protests against data centers and Flock camera surveillance are coming from both sides of the political spectrum.
World Socialist Web Site

Turkish parliamentary committee overwhelmingly approves report on negotiations with Kurdish Workers Party - The parliamentary commission established as part of Turkey's negotiations with the PKK mainly advances the outlook of the Erdoğan government while receivin...
OpEd News

The Italian Dockworkers Shout, Basta! - Chris Hedges has a new documentary out and this is a review of that in the context of demanding peace.
Scheerpost.com

McGovern Warns of Iran War Hype as Intelligence Pushes Back on Nuclear Claims - Posted by Joshua Scheer As Washington debates Iran, Ukraine, and nuclear red lines, Ray McGovern argues the real battle isn’t on the battlefield — it’s ove...
Capital & Main

Photo Essay: The Californians Powering America - Powerful photos capture the lives and work of California immigrants whose contributions often go unseen or underappreciated. A selection of images from a...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Academia Cuauhtli, the Eagle’s Vision, and the Architecture of Belonging: Education in the Shape of a Circle, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Academia Cuauhtli, the Eagle’s Vision, and the Architecture of Belonging: Education in the Shape of a Circle* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Februa...
Glasstire

Ten Artists Selected for 2026 Houston Endowment Jones Artist Awards - The Houston Endowment has announced the recipients of its Jones Artist Awards for 2026. The program annually chooses Greater Houston area artists through...
First Draft

About That East Coast Blizzard - Some random thoughts on major weather events in a time of climate change, including how the public views weather forecasts.
Environment Texas

House of Representatives to vote this week on bill to gut energy efficiency standards - Bill would hand the executive branch new powers to attack existing efficiency standards and create roadblocks to future updates. The post House of Repres...
Dissident Voice

Iran Must Be Stopped: Here’s Why - As you know Trump is gearing up to attack Iran. And I wanna be angry with him, but we must face the facts. Those Iranian assholes have to be stopped. The...
Space City Weather

The SWC Q&A: Late leaves, 7 a.m. please, AI complaints, city picking, allergies, no floods. - Time for yet another Q&A post, in which we answer your questions about area weather and Space City Weather itself. If you missed past Q&As, we keep an arch...
The Progressive Wing

2/23 News Roundup and Open Thread - Starting the week up here with plenty of snow.
Texas Observer

Sarah Eckhardt Wants to Return the Texas Comptroller to the Bob Bullock Era - The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts is an idiosyncratic statewide office—a result of the state constitution’s intentionally decentralized executive ...
Bonddad

Long leading indicators in Q4 GDP suggest worsening conditions for an economy barely keeping its head above water - * - by New Deal democrat* Last week’s Q4 GDP release, as usual, updated two long leading indicators: proprietors’ income (a placeholder for corporate...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Leaving MAGA Behind - Matt and Sam talk to writer Pedro L. Gonzalez about his break with MAGA and the New Right.
Earthworks

Another Nickel Mine Waste Landslide Leads to a Death in Indonesia - A landslide of toxic waste at the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park has reportedly killed one person and halted operations at the site. The post Anothe...
Ian Welsh

The Weirdness Of Getting Old - So, I’m now fifty-eight years old. My body feels it, though that’s more residual damage from various health problems than age, but my soul doesn’t: I feel ...
The AltWorld

We Deserve Better War Propaganda - They’re not even trying anymore. US middle east envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News on Saturday that Iran is […] The post We Deserve Better War Propaganda ...
Rewire

Delayed and Turned Away: How Access to Abortion Can Depend on Your Weight - Research shows abortion is safe across body sizes. But BMI limits at clinics are still pushing some patients into different care and higher costs. The p...
Democracy Now!

As U.S. Olympians Take on the Trump Administration, Trump Attacks Them While Kash Patel Parties - As the winter Olympics come to a close, a number of athletes have drawn controversy for their political statements. U.S. athletes, in particular, have expr...
Rallblog

US to Arabs: Huck You | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Democracy Chronicles

When America Lost Faith in Experts - Experts and the government need to gain trust back from the people and this can be accomplished if promises made are actually promises kept.
Earth 911

The State of Plastic Bans in the United States - State and local plastic bans are gradually changing how Americans shop, eat, and handle waste.... The post The State of Plastic Bans in the United States...
Dorf on Law

Trump's Almost Completely Bonkers Reaction to the Tariff Ruling - In less than the 72 hours that have elapsed since the Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote rejected the Trump administration's assertion of authority to impose ta...
Mondoweiss

How data on the crackdown on Gaza protests reflects the increasing repression of activist movements in the U.S. - [image: FILE: Pro-Palestine protesters march in Washington, DC to call for a ceasefire and end the genocide in Gaza in January 2024. (Photo: Eman Mohammed)...
The Smirking Chimp

Boycott the State of the Union -
Skeptophilia

A Celtic misfire - An *evolutionary misfire* occurs when a trait evolved in one context, where it was an advantage to the organism, but then circumstances change -- and it ...
Off The Kuff

Ruben Ray Martinez - Remember his name. Three months into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation undertaking, an ICE officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in South Padre Is...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- royal crimes - The land of my ancestors confronts the horrors of the Epstein child-abuse ring. And over there, at least, wealthy criminals face consequences. The speak...
ProPublica

U.S. Forest Service Stops Issuing Firefighter Pants That Contain PFAS, Following ProPublica’s Reporting - The post U.S. Forest Service Stops Issuing Firefighter Pants That Contain PFAS, Following ProPublica’s Reporting appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers? - More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.
Common Dreams

For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King? - The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "tru...
See You In 2020

The gender war psyop is about finding scapegoats for American civilization’s collapse - The algorithms are pushing gender-based relationship resentment because this is how to shift the blame for the collapse our civilization is experiencing...
Alas, a Blog

History, Rhyming - The title is a reference to an aphorism that’s often mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Like many pe...
Bracing Views

Why We Fight Wrongful Wars - Ours Not to Reason Why BILL ASTORE FEB 22, 2026 If you’re looking to “your” military to resist wrongful wars, you’re looking in the wrong place. I should k...
Workers World

Stop the U.S. attack on Iran! - [image: Stop the U.S. attack on Iran!] February 22, 2026. The White House has ordered its death fleet to surround Iran. It threatens Iran’s people with des...
The Daily Poster

The Lesson Of Neil Gorsuch - The justice’s tariff-decision concurrence underscores a broader truth: The Supreme Court is no less political — or conniving — than everyone else in power.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Life in the UK - It has been like this for weeks and weeks. And not just in the UK, but across much of Western Europe.
LareDOS

During Saturday’s international Abrazo Ceremony, community members of los dos Laredos deployed giant banners on both sides of Río Grande, declaring “NO BORDER WALL!” - Kayakers with “KEEP THE RIVER FREE” signs paddled downriver as the historic “hug” of goodwill took place
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Authoritarian Monster Turns On His Allies: Trump Attacks Supreme Court - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A TARIFF-IC REVERSAL EDITION. - *A little spring for your step.* Tubby got defied by the usually compliant U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs, which just goes to show that in this country a ...
Krebs on Security

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA - Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abu...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas’ Ten Commandments Law is in Court. Here’s Why TFN is Fighting SB 10. - By Calvin WarnerTexas Freedom Network Board Member Texas classrooms belong to all of us; to children of every faith, and of none. But when Governor Greg ...
Liberation News

Six Black leaders who transformed the labor movement - As we celebrate 100 years of Black History Month, it’s essential we recognize the deep and longtime connections between Black history and the labor movemen...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
MintPress News

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection - A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The post The...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! Build protests against US blockade - Cuban people, gov’t organize to defend their revolution Since late January, when Washington imposed a blockade on Cuba’s access to imported oil, the U.S. r...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: What the New York Times Gets Wrong About Marijuana Legalization - [image: a background of cannabis buds is revealed behind a torn up newspaper][image: a background of cannabis buds is revealed behind a torn up newspaper...
Debunking Christianity

Convincing Evidence for a Real Jesus Still Can’t Be Found - *Close study of the Bible and other ancient texts isn’t helping* My very devout mother was born in southern Indiana in 1905. It was always a puzzle to ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
DeSmogBlog

Carney Government Knew Carbon Capture Was ‘Very Limited,’ Docs Show - When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last November he would support a massive new oil sands pipeline to the west coast, he presented the deal as a w...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Come On and Take a Free Ride: Looking Back at “Uncontested” Senate Races - In New Mexico, Sen. Ben Ray Lujan (D) seems poised to win another term without a GOP opponent. According to our research, there have been close to 30 com...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/20/2026 - 06:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Unlimited Hangout

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Socialist Alternative

Epstein Files Expose The Depravity Of Capitalism - The exposure of the Epstein files is like peeling back a bloody bandage to expose a wound that is somehow even more gaping and puss-ridden than you could h...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Sludge

Sen. Mark Warner, Palantir Critic, Took $37k From the Company’s CEO - Alexander Karp, the CEO of ICE surveillance contractor Palantir, donated in September to Warner's joint fundraising committee, leadership PAC, and the Virg...
Ecosophia

The Laws of Co-Creation - Last December’s contest over what theme would get discussed in the fifth Wednesday post, as I’ve noted here more than once already, was unusually lively ev...
Duck of Minerva

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #15: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Olympics Scandals, and Complaints Dept (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Caitlin is back for another wacky and wild ride
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Trivial Knot

That time I interviewed a fraud - Here’s a story about a job candidate I interviewed who seemed to be engaging in some sort of AI-assisted fraud. Before the interview even occurred, there w...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Lowering the Bar

U.S. Pat. No. 8,667,956: Controllable [Human] Launcher - [image: patent illustration of person launcher]Looks fun! I'll go second.
The Grayzone

EEUU tiene imputación secreta contra Delcy Rodrígez, según periodista opositora - Una periodista de oposición financiada por Estados Unidos reveló que el Departamento de Justicia de Trump ha elaborado una acusación secreta contra la Pr...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
The Disorder Of Things

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slacktivist

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Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
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All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Reform Austin

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Two Party Opera

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Reveal

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Campaign for America's Future

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
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 ...
The Socialist

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Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

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Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

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CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

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

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

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

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

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