Brains and Eggs: Annise Parker for Houston

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

Mother Jones

Burned Cattle, Drought, Smoke-Choked Pastures—and the SCOTUS Case to Make Exxon and Suncor Pay - After one of the largest wildfires in state history devastated Rio Blanco County, Colorado in 2025, Deirdre Macnab saw her share of horrors across the comm...
memeorandum

Democrats Rake in $833 Million Through ActBlue Ahead of Midterms (Bill Allison/Bloomberg) - Bill Allison / Bloomberg: *Democrats Rake in $833 Million Through ActBlue Ahead of Midterms* — The Democratic fundraising organization ActBlue raised $...
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...
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. ...
Futurism

Trump Launched an America.org “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election - A "super intelligence" can't be wrong, right? The post Trump Launched an America.org “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him o...
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...
Al Jazeera English

Man City lodge appeal after guilty finding in financial breach scandal - The Abu Dhabi-controlled club has protested its innocence throughout the long-running case, which dates back to 2018.
Salon.com

Trump’s superpower is fading. Can he recharge before the midterms? - Relentless persistence has driven his quest for grift and revenge. With midterm payback coming, it's not enough
Raw Story

‘Surprising’ jobs report falls ‘far short of expectations’: reports - A total of 29,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy in September, according to a report published Friday from the Labor Department, a figure “far short...
Scheerpost.com

The Mask of Civilization, the Face of Apartheid: Netanyahu at the UN - Reza Fani Yazdi Informed Comment From the heart of a Middle East that has bled for decades under the boots of colonialism, indiscriminate bombardments, sys...
Political Wire

Here’s Who Democrats Want to Impeach Next - Matt Viser: “There’s little desire to go after President Trump again—but lawmakers want to investigate his administration and family.”
The Smirking Chimp

Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump -
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...
Techdirt.

Trump Breaks Law(s), Uses $20 Million In Taxpayer Money To Fund Midterm Propaganda - Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr endlessly pays empty lip service to the “public interest” and the “value of broadcasting integrity” as he engages in ham-fisted...
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...
Vox

More kids are using AI for companionship — and it’s making them lonely - There’s a lot to be anxious about as AI agents and bots get more integrated into every aspect of our lives. Meta, which recently agreed to pay over $17 bil...
The Progressive Wing

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

CSotD: Come to the Talent Roundup - Sometimes there a story so ridiculous that people say “The jokes write themselves.” But Eric Schmitt (R-Mo)’s questioning of Jack Smith was so breath-takin...
WhoWhatWhy

AI Is Making Work Sadder: And What Happens When Everyone Shares the Same Brain? - [image: sharing the same brain? Collaboration, AI,] AI can do the work — but as it drains the humanity from our jobs and makes every company sound alike, o...
naked capitalism

Links 10/2/2026 -
Eschaton

Morning - Fondue Friday
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.
Axios

Why Washington and Tehran keep talking past each other - The Trump administration and the Iranian regime both say they prefer a diplomatic solution to the war, but a deal looks more elusive than ever. - The...
Mediagazer

A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (Vanity Fair) - Vanity Fair: *A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David'...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Calls grow for US death penalty halt after ‘torturous’ botched execution of Christa Pike - Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee Wednesday ‘unimaginably barbaric’ Top lawyers, doctors and members...
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...
The Week

The week’s best photos - A golden guinea pig, a tightrope walker, and more
Common Dreams

Patriotic Cowboys 'R Us - Skirting his debacle of a war, "smug pathetic little man," warfighter fetishist and Gen.-Patton-cosplaying clown Pete Hegseth just gave a blustering spee...
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...
The Daily Poster

How AI Could Wipe Out Our Brains Before Our Existence - Cal Newport looks beyond the doomsday predictions and tackles some of the thorniest questions about AI – how it’s changing the way we work, think, and live.
ArcaMax

Hooray for Death! - As a reporter, I wasn't the guy who caught the big cases. If I was covering the trial of someone who'd killed or injured someone, the alleged perpetrator w...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1636: Of Books and Learning - Episode: 1636 Of books and learning in nineteenth-century America. Today, thoughts on books and learning.
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: The Kiwi Kid - Meow from Perry Mason.
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
World Socialist Web Site

Fourth nationwide school strike in Germany: 45,000 protest against conscription - The school strikes show the continuing opposition among young people to conscription. But the movement can only advance if it bases itself on the internati...
Courthouse News

Hawaii high court lets lawyers keep $222M from Maui fire settlement - An attorney fee carveout capped what lawyers could charge in the $4 billion settlement awarded to victims of one of Hawaii's deadliest natural disasters.
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
Deadline Politics

Aaron Sorkin Clarifies He “Was Never Asked” To Omit Trump From ‘The Social Reckoning’ But Film Is “Not A Red-Blue Thing” - Although Facebook has played a big role in recent U.S. politics, Aaron Sorkin didn’t want to make The Social Reckoning a political statement. The Oscar win...
Alternet

The secret 'weather' code Trump aides use to survive his blunt-force fury - President Donald Trump was seen seemingly yelling at his close assistant Natalie Harp, with whom he reportedly has an unusually close relationship. While...
Election Law Blog

“Georgia board asks Trump administration to investigate voting machines” - AJC: The State Election Board’s Executive Director James Mills has asked the Trump administration to examine Georgia’s voting machines that are deployed ...
The Greanville Post

TRUMP: RUSSIA—NOT MIDDLE EAST—IS DRIVING THE DIESEL CRISIS – w/ Richard Wolff - DW—Regarding the Diesel Crisis Prof. Wolff argues that the current diesel crisis is not primarily driven by the war in Ukraine or the bombing of refineries...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Fairford and a ‘Free Press’ - When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of cri...
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...
Progressive.org

Scapegoating Special Ed - As the Trump Administration kneecaps federal agencies for sport, special education takes the latest hit.
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...
San Antonio Current

Senate GOP smashing political spending records in Texas with ad-buying binge for Ken Paxton - With the Senate GOP majority hinging on a red Texas, Republicans spent an eye-popping $122 million in September to support nominee Ken Paxton. But the p...
The Verge

Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video - Apple's rumored push into smart home tech could include a smart home security camera that only gives users text event descriptions instead of video footage...
San Antonio Report

Counting the costs: Here’s how the dust settled on local tax increases and fees - The San Antonio Report has been keeping a running tally of what simultaneous tax increases and more fees will mean to the average wallet. ------------------...
Liberation News

How the death of Nolan Wells exposes the ongoing war on Black America - Young Black Americans should not be robbed of their futures. The struggle for Black liberation is the engine of progress in the U.S. To ensure our children...
NPR's Health Shots

Heat-related deaths in Phoenix rise, after two years of decline - Metro Phoenix has so far seen twice as many heat deaths as this time last year. Authorities are trying to understand why and how to intervene.
IVN

Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Sue New York After Being Denied the Right to Vote - Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are suing New York over its closed primary system, arguing that independent voters are being denied equal voting rights i...
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...
Mediaite

Trump Refers To Execution Drugs in Botched Attempt as ‘Medication’ - President Donald Trump referred to the drugs used in the botched execution of Christa Pike as "medication" and said putting people to death "shouldn't be...
CultureMap Houston

Houston artist awarded prestigious MacArthur 'genius grant' - Three Texans have been named 2026 MacArthur Fellows, one of the most prestigious honors in the U.S. for artists, scientists, and scholars. Among them is Sa...
Wolf Street

AI Data Center Construction Goes Nuts, Power Plants Take Off, but Spending on Factories Is still Twice as Big as Data Centers - Construction companies are now facing the second wave of inflation.
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...
Texas Standard

Did Taco Bell steal the taco? - Mando Rayo, host of the Tacos of Texas podcast, traces the chain’s origins.
Slate

Jack Smith Testifies, and Senate Republicans Come Up Empty-Handed - Smith used the hearing to remind senators that many likely witnesses against Trump were Republicans.
Socialist Alternative

Pro-Palestine Activists Under Attack—Defend The Michigan 8! - The Trump regime has launched a slew of repressive attacks on activists this summer. On June 10, the FBI raided the homes of and detained eight Palestine s...
Texas Observer

A Blue Wave Could Sweep Greg Abbott’s Handpicked Houston Judges Out of Office - In Texas’ most populous county, the judges who preside over the roughly 50 felony and misdemeanor criminal courts have been riding a political tiger for ...
Crooked Media

Are Democrats Saying The Right Things To Win? - The post Are Democrats Saying The Right Things To Win? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Conversation

Christa Pike survived a lethal injection attempt – the latest person to endure a failed execution - The constitutional prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but courts have not stopped states from...
Undernews

Polls - *Gallup - *Three in 10 Americans (31%) think a college education is "very important," four percentage points below last year’s reading, the previous low ...
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...
Church and State

The Final Stage of a Strongman’s Takeover Is Turning the Law Against the People Who Defended - Yesterday morning, a few weeks short of ninety-two years later, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee went after Jack Smith.
Novara Media

Tories & Lib Dems Scramble for Response to Burnham Speech - Andy Burnham’s announcement of a triple lock shakeup has plunged Britain’s competing parties into chaos. Plus: Another botched execution in the US reopens ...
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.
Ballot Access News

Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds 2023 Law That Requires Primary Voters to Have Enrolled in Their Party by 96 Days Before Primary - On April 1, the Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 2023 law that says voters who change party affiliation during the 96 days before a primary canno...
Mondoweiss

‘They face an existential threat’: Eli Clifton on the past, present, and future of the Israel Lobby - [image: Protest at AIPAC headquarters in New York City, 2024. (JVP)]Eli Clifton speaks to Mondoweiss about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, the shiftin...
Daily Howler

HEALING: "They'll fall to ruin one day?" - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026* *In search of ways to heal:* It's a favorite set of lyrics for us*—*lyrics from all the way back at the end of our days in th...
The Root

Watch Anok Yai Shut Down Paris Fashion Week 2026 in a Stunning Tom Ford Look - Anok Yai is once again giving all the other supermodels at Paris Fashion Week 2026 a run for their money, thanks to her jaw-dropping look at the Tom Ford...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims continue to decline near historic lows - – by New Deal democrat We’ll get important information on manufacturing and construction later this morning, but in the meantime let’s take our regular ...
Project Censored

Make America Read Again - The Banned Books Week Coalition encourages us to stand up for library staff, students, educators, writers, publishers, and booksellers by “Letting Freedom ...
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...
Bonddad

The inflationary AI data center Boom continues, while the rest of the goods producing economy appears recessionary - * - by New Deal democrat* As per usual, we start out the month with the ISM manufacturing report (for September) and the construction report (for Aug...
Glasstire

Fort Worth Modern Launches Permanent Collection Exhibitions; Offers Programming While Galleries are Closed for Installation - During the month of October, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth will close all of its galleries for the installation of In the Making: Stories from the ...
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.
Independent Political Report

Berkshires DSA Endorses PSL Candidate Joe Tache for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts - The Berkshires chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America has endorsed Party for Socialism and Liberation candidate Joe Tache in his bid for U.S. Se...
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...
Dorf on Law

The Puzzling Gaps in Federal Civil Rights Law - Yesterday on this blog, I reproduced my supplemental statement to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for its campus antisemitism investigation. I simult...
The AltWorld

Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life - Being forcefully pro-Palestine is the most efficient way to weed all the worst people out of your […] The post Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The T...
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...
Capital & Main

Downtown L.A. Residential Hotel Closed by City, Leaving Some Tenants Homeless - A developer bet he could clean up the St. George Hotel. But former tenants describe mold, bedbugs and neglect. City records show conditions had deteriora...
slacktivist

White evangelicalism and the ’86 Mets - Yes, the devoutly Christian, teetotaling Gary Carter was captain of the 1986 Mets. But that doesn't mean there was no cocaine at Shea Stadium.
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...
MintPress News

Iran Seizes US Submarine As Anti-Ship Missiles Inflict Soldier Casualties - Damning reports confirm dozens of casualties amongst US navy sailors and marines in Iranian attacks this month, as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...
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...
Sludge

Trump's CFTC Is Suing States for Kalshi and Polymarket, Backed by Trump Jr. - The prediction market companies have been loading up on revolving-door lobbyists from both the Democratic and Republican sides, while ramping up their infl...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Trump admin greenlights dirtier, less efficient vehicles - The Trump administration announced Monday that it will loosen minimum fuel economy standards for American cars. The post STATEMENT: Trump admin greenligh...
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) ...
Greg Palast

The OG of Political Documentary - Yes, that's me and my latest absurd disguise, in a Viet Cong uniform I picked up in Vietnam after the war. I'm celebrating the jokester next to me, Robert ...
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 Militant

Seattle hotel workers strike wins substantial gains - SEATTLE — After a hard-fought 85-day strike against Embassy Suites by Hilton here, UNITE HERE Local 8 members ratified a new contract Sept. 10. It was the ...
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 ...
Earthworks

A mineração suja da Sigma não vai salvar nosso clima - Manifestantes pedem justiça climática na Nasdaq Read in English Em uma decisão descaradamente fora de contexto, a Sigma Lithium foi … The post A mineraç...
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),...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MAKE HIM MAD EDITION. - *Like The Streets? Sleaford Mods? Then this might be for you! * Maybe I’m just contrary -- I won’t say “contrarian,” that’s obviously a synonym for “dor...
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

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
The Mind Unleashed

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Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
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...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
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. —...
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...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
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...
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 ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
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...
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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
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

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
Innocence Project

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

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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....
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...
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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, February 03, 2009

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