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/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

Australian Open tennis 2026: Key dates, draw, top seeds, prize money - Who are the favourites? Will there be another Sincaraz final? Will Djokovic play? Al Jazeera has the answers.
Countercurrents

A War without Headlines: Israel’s Shock-and-Awe Campaign in the West Bank - A shock and awe. The phrase is apt in describing what Israel has done in the occupied West Bank almost immediately following the events of October 7, 2023,...
jobsanger

Trump's Very Presence Is An Assault On American Democracy -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2550: Napoleon’s Theorem - Episode: 2550 Could Napoleon have proved Napoleon’s Theorem? Today, did he, or didn’t he?
ArcaMax

The End of the Rule of Law - The headline shook me to the core. "Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow." This is what the end of the rule of law loo...
Counterpunch

Is ICE Trump’s Gestapo? - “Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might th...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

New York Giants reportedly closing in on John Harbaugh as next head coach - - Giants negotiating with Harbaugh on head coach deal - ESPN reports talks active, agreement expected soon - Veteran co...
Mediaite

Putin Adviser Warns Russia Will ‘Use Nuclear Weapons’ Against Europe If It Ever ‘Comes Close to a Defeat’ - Former Putin adviser Sergey Karaganov warned that Russia would use nuclear weapons against Europe should it ever come close to defeat. The post Putin Adv...
Informed Comment

Trump’s Autocratic Logic and Foreign Intervention: America’s New Protection Racket - Among authoritarians, economics exists for the sake of political extraction, and private wealth is only permitted on condition of complicity
memeorandum

Federal Agent Shoots Man in Minneapolis, Prompting Tense Protests (New York Times) - New York Times: *Federal Agent Shoots Man in Minneapolis, Prompting Tense Protests* — The agent shot a Venezuelan man who was resisting arrest, an offi...
Consortium News

Australia’s Hate (Free) Speech Bill - The bill calls for one to be imprisoned for causing theoretical discomfort in a theoretical person, writes Christina Maas. It removes proof of harm, rewrit...
The Hill

DHS says man shot in leg during Minneapolis scuffle, federal officer hospitalized - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that a federal officer shot a man during a scuffle in Minneapolis that involved multiple people -- an incide...
Raw Story

'They don't have an army': Expert warns Trump has 'figured out' how to kill democracy - Legal expert and Supreme Court scholar Jeffrey Toobin warned on Wednesday that President Donald Trump seems to have figured out how to kill democracy. ...
Daily Cartoonist

Wednesday’s Child Reads The Funny Papers News - Cathy Commiserations, Thatababy, Archie, Baseball America, Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Andy Capp, Beware of Toddler, and For Better or For Worse; plus Awards...
Techdirt.

New Year, But The Same Measles Crises Rages On - Meet the new year, same as the old year, at least as far as America’s measles problem goes. We talked a lot about this disease last year, and for good reas...
Courthouse News

Protections for Venezuelans again argued before Ninth Circuit - An appeals panel made no decision Wednesday in the case, instead taking it under submission.
Portside

Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” - Albert Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” Geoffrey Wed, 01/14/2026 - 22:06
The Greanville Post

What Must Happen Before Trump Strikes Iran /Larry Johnson & Lt Col Daniel Davis - LARRY JOHNSON/ DANIEL DAVIS The video discussion centers on escalating tensions involving the United States, Iran, Russia, China, and Ukraine, highlighting...
Ballot Access News

Texas Secretary of State Files Brief in Republican Party Lawsuit on Primaries - On December 24, the Texas Secretary of State filed a brief in Hunt v State of Texas, n.d., 2:25cv-200. This is the lawsuit in which the Republican Party h...
Brad Blog

'This Isn't Close to Over': Mad King Trump in Venezuela (and Beyond): 'BradCast' 1/14/2026 - On today's BradCast: It's been less than two weeks since he ordered the U.S. military invasion of a sovereign nation, killed about 80 people, kidnapped the...
Crooked Media

Can Minnesota Deport ICE? - The post Can Minnesota Deport ICE? appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

Trump administration rolls back $2 billion mental health, addiction grant cuts - Sweeping cuts to mental health and addiction programs worth more than $2 billion are being reversed. After a political backlash from Republicans and Democr...
Mediagazer

Media Matters says it is ceasing posting on X due to changes in X's TOS, effective January 15, that force legal disputes to be litigated in a Texas court (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark) - Andrew Egger / The Bulwark: *Media Matters says it is ceasing posting on X due to changes in X's TOS, effective January 15, that force legal disputes to ...
Mother Jones

Mother Jones Sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell Records - One of the oddest occurrences in the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein imbroglio was the trip that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney g...
Popular Resistance

24 years after 9/11, 15 Still Imprisoned In US Military Prison At Guantanamo - On January 11, 2026, thousands of citizens of many countries held vigils for the 15 men still in the U.S. military prison at the U.S. Naval Base, Guantan...
San Antonio Report

Major update shows where Project Marvel is full steam ahead — and where it’s scaling back - The first major update from city staff in 2026 showed tough times for the land bridge and hotel, but movement on big land acquisitions. --------------------...
Trivial Knot

Margaret, the hoarder - This is a true personal story, although not quite true, and not quite a story. I have mixed in some lies to give people some privacy, and to shave off some...
Election Law Blog

Rich Bernstein: “Bost Is A Boost For Democracy, Especially In 2026” - The following is a guest post from Rich Bernstein: In Bost v. Illinois State Bd. Of Elections, the Supreme Court ruled that candidates have Article III s...
The Verge

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t - Following the proliferation of the nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on X, the platform has detailed changes to the Grok account's ability to edit images of r...
CultureMap Houston

These are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend - It’s MLK weekend, which means Houstonians have an extra day to do something other than work. On that Monday, the City of Houston will team up with the Blac...
See You In 2020

Fed-orchestrated shootings, Epstein’s role in them, and the trajectory of America’s “years of lead” - The extent to which the first attempted assassination of President Trump has been erased from our historical discourse is remarkable. Right after 20-yea...
Antiwar.com

An Assault on the Republic - In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Fake photo of Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk's death spread on social media' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *Watch out for this image supposedly showing Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk's death* - *The attack on Renee Good's reputation continues. At this point...
Political Wire

Republicans Block Effort to Check Trump’s War Powers - Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that sought to force President Trump to seek congressional approval for any U.S. military action related to Venezue...
The Week

Are pesticides making florists sick? - Shop-bought bouquets hide a cocktail of chemicals
Salon.com

“Vitamin C isn’t real”: Noah Wyle roasts RFK Jr. in fake PSA - The TV doctor floats wild conspiracy theories in a send-up of the Trump administration
Axios

Senate GOP succeeds in last-minute move to block Venezuela vote - Senate Republicans successfully thwarted a final vote Wednesday on a war powers resolution seeking to restrict future military action in Venezuela. *Why ...
San Antonio Current

Have a question for former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg? Just ask him on Facebook. - Former San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and his team are getting creative with social media outreach as he campaigns for Bexar County Judge. Early this m...
Deadline Politics

Federal Court Rejects Effort To Halt Gavin Newsom-Led Redrawing Of California Congressional Districts - A federal court rejected Republican efforts to sideline the redistricting approved by California voters via Proposition 50, giving Governor Gavin Newsom an...
Futurism

ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash - Completely shameless. The post ICE Reportedly Stole a 10th Grader’s Phone, Then Seemingly Sold It for Cash appeared first on Futurism.
El Paso Matters

El Paso Water adopts $1.2 billion budget with rate increase - El Paso Water approved its annual budget, raising water rates by 12% for average households as the utility plans ongoing infrastructure improvements and...
Claytoonz

Meet the New Pointy-Head Boss - 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...
Edinburg Politics

Legislative luncheon in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, featuring Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Sen. Adam Hinojosa, will showcase city’s $14 million Edinburg Arts, Cultural and Events Center - Key state issues affecting the Rio Grande Valley will be discussed in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, by Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Chris...
Glasstire

Five-Minute Tours: “After The Volcano” at Monterroso Gallery, Houston - Note: the following is part of Glasstire’s series of short videos, Five-Minute Tours, for which commercial galleries, museums, nonprofits, and artist-run...
Slate

The Bari Weiss Era at CBS Is Already a Complete Embarrassment - The legendary newsroom has become a laughingstock under its new editor in chief.
Vox

The latest on Trump’s weaponization of the DOJ, 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 ...
World Socialist Web Site

Britain to develop new long-range Nightfall ballistic missiles for Ukraine - Besides having a longer range than either Storm Shadows or ATACMS, the Nightfalls could fill the gap left if Ukraine’s stock of American-made missiles is n...
Liberation News

Stop Trump’s war on our rights – SHUT IT DOWN! - The Trump administration continues escalating its full-scale assault on our most basic rights. The whole country watched in horror as an ICE agent gunned d...
Daily Dot

“I am genuinely upset”: Gen Z has officially named the millennial Karen. Sorry, Jessicas - [image: 3 Panel: Left: Blonde woman wearing glasses with text overlay reading, "When you find out the new 'Karen' will be 'Jessica.' Middle: Woman lookin...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
slacktivist

Cross my heart and cross my fingers - If you swear an oath while placing your hand on the Bible, you're swearing an oath on a book that forbids you to do that. That's blasphemy. And really, rea...
Second Nexus

Owner Of Adult Store Stunned After Pentagon Demands She Stop Shipping Butt Plugs To Soldiers In Middle East - Grace Bennett is the co-founder of Bonjibon, an every-person sexual wellness shop and online magazine, based in Toronto, Canada. She's now also the proud...
Church and State

Are Trump’s numerous misdeeds too many to track? No indeed! - Trump's probable loss of the House of Representatives at the midterms will hardly be adequate to fix his trait of using his office as a personal profit mac...
The Daily Poster

The Greenland Fever Dreams Of Trump’s Billionaires - Precious metals, cryptostates, and melting ice sheets: the surreal saga of Trump’s Greenland gambit.
SCOTUSblog

Justices wrestle with what, exactly, New Jersey Transit is - The Supreme Court on Wednesday debated whether New Jersey’s public transit agency can be sued in state courts in New York and Pennsylvania. The New Jerse...
Scheerpost.com

“Federal Invasion” of Minnesota - Posted by Joshua Scheer As Minnesota reels from an unprecedented surge of armed federal agents, Saint Paul City Council Vice President Hwa Jeong Kim delive...
Wolf Street

Sales of Existing Homes in 2025 Drop to Lowest since 1995, Sellers Massively Yank Listings off the Market, Waiting for Spring - Single-family home sales edged up in 2025, condo sales dropped further.
Workers World

Dr. King’s legacy: No borders in the workers’ struggle! - [image: Dr. King’s legacy: No borders in the workers’ struggle!] New York City, April 2018 January 19 will officially mark the 40th anniversary of the Dr. ...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: As we "plunge to new depths of national madness"... - *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2026* *...our journalists refuse to perform: *It's very, very hard keep pace with the madness of the present day. The constant f...
Undernews

Housing shortage -
Bonddad

December existing homes sales add evidence to the “green shoots” thesis for sales, while inventory still has a long ways to go - - *by New Deal democrat* Although the government shutdown is long over, the most recent government housing updates have been for October, I.e., two ...
The NM Political Report

What’s behind the latest border wall plan in Southern New Mexico? - [image: U.S. Customs and Border Protection notified U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez on Jan. 6 that the Department of Homeland Security awarded a $1.6 billion contra...
Novara Media

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Row Could Bring Down a Police Chief - Confidence in the police chief lost after the Israeli fan ban Plus: With interest rates rising, does the UK student loan system need reform? ‘The Voice of ...
Socialist Alternative

Minnesota Unions Call For Mass Work Stoppage—Build All-Out Strike Against ICE On 1/23! - Adam Burch, ATU Local 1005 | Chris Gray, Robbinsdale Federation of Teachers | Lydia Anthony, Minnesota Association of Professional Employees Local 801 | Ry...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Democrats React to Minnesota on ICE - Democrats react to the ICE-engendered crisis in Minnesota with their usual aplomb, savoir-faire, organization, coherence, and discipline. Just kidding.
First Draft

Malaka Of The Week: CBS News - The legacy media malakatude, it burns.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We're Sitting on a Powderkeg: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Angry Bear

October new home sales: also pre-recessionary, also with signs of possible “green shoots” - – by New Deal democrat New home sales were updated for the second time since the shutdown, with data only through October – i.e., stale. The silver lini...
Independent Political Report

Constitution Party of New Hampshire to Hold 2026 Convention in Chichester - The Constitution Party of New Hampshire will host its 2026 annual state convention in Chichester next month, with a tentative snow date scheduled for ear...
Infidel753

The rebellion in Iran (with updates) - The uprising now taking place across Iran is probably the most serious challenge to the theocracy in its near-half-century of rule. It started on Decembe...
Mondoweiss

Why Netanyahu says he wants to stop U.S. aid to Israel - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Ga...
Capital & Main

Keeping People With Their Pets Can Help L.A.’s Housing Crisis — and Mental Health - Social worker Jackie Parra intervenes at L.A.’s busiest animal shelter to help people in crisis keep their pets and housing. The post Keeping People With...
Grist

These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: Bitcoin - Can the reuse of crypto mining’s waste heat redeem its carbon footprint?
Democracy Chronicles

The Quick Fall Into American Fascism - This flirting with fascism isn’t wise or pretty. I believe it’s the current political pursuit of the technocrats of which many are multi-billionaires, indu...
Texas Standard

Skateboarding helps these Austin women balance their lives - Austin Womxn Skate, which recently rebranded to Swirl Austin, prioritizes play and community despite member’s busy schedules.
The Root

Are Americans Really Living in a Police State? - Trump's ICE occupation marks a dangerous time in America history as the threat of a police state weighs on everyone's mind. Read more...
The Conversation

Searching reporters’ homes, suing journalists and repressing citizen dissent are well-known steps toward autocracy - President Donald Trump’s threats against independent media and free speech look a lot like the actions of autocrats elsewhere intent on undermining the ins...
Progressive.org

Anguish and Anger in Minneapolis - As the community reels from the loss of Renée Nicole Macklin Good, ICE agents continue their campaign of terror.
Dissident Voice

When Authoritarians Play Victim, It Is an Admission of Violent Intent - Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808 Fascists and various authoritarian personality types have a proclivity for playing the victim. Anyone who calls in...
Sludge

GOP Leader’s Family Buys xAI Stock Days Before Pentagon Integration - House Republican Conference chairwoman Lisa McClain disclosed the purchase made just days before the Pentagon announced a major integration with xAI.
WhoWhatWhy

No Democrat Should Vote for More ICE Funding Without Strings Attached - [image: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, rally, Bernie] Americans disapprove of the lawlessness of ICE. Now, congressional Democrats have an opportunity to do som...
Democracy Now!

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes - When Becky Pepper-Jackson started middle school, she wanted to join her school’s track and field team. Like many girls her age, she was excited to make new...
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...
Space City Weather

Part of Houston falls into a severe drought, but there may be some real rain in the forecast next week - In brief: Today’s forecast is a tale of three fronts, which will keep Houston mostly on the cooler side of things into the middle of next week. The first t...
Rallblog

What Happens on Epstein Island Stays on Epstein Island | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Dorf on Law

A Cloudy Transgender Athletes SCOTUS Argument With a Possible Silver Lining - Even after roughly three and a half hours of oral argument in the two SCOTUS cases involving state bans on transgender females' participation in girls' a...
The Smirking Chimp

Could This Be What the End of a Would-Be Dictatorship Looks Like? -
Common Dreams

Fossil fuel phaseout urgent as 1.5°C target likely to be passed by 2030 - A new report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that 2025 was the third hottest year on record, marking the first time that a three-year peri...
Greg Palast

How New Venezuela President Will Save Us from Trump’s CrazyThe Radical Pragmatist versus Rubio’s Vulture - Acting Venezuelan president Delcy Rodriguez and Donald Trump desire the same thing: to send Venezuelan oil to the US. But Donald, we already had Venezuelan...
Skeptophilia

Life in the middle - I first ran into the fine-tuning argument around twenty-five years ago when I read astrophysicist Martin Rees's wonderful book *Just Six Numbers*, in whi...
Media Lens

Venezuela – ‘War Is Peace’ - After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had n...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Theresa Courts - Next up in CD38 is a first-time candidate, Theresa Courts. Courts is a school counselor who was a teacher for seven years before getting her Master’s in Ed...
ProPublica

A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. - The post A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. appeared first on ProPublica.
Alternet

You could be next — and all of us need to realize this - If agents of the federal government can murder a 37-year-old woman in broad daylight who, as videotapes show, was merely trying to get out of their way, ...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
High Country News

6 takeaways from our public-lands grazing investigation - Subsidies prop up ranching, grazing degrades the land and politics underpin the system. The post 6 takeaways from our public-lands grazing investigation...
Crooked Timber

Utilitarianism: it all went wrong with Sidgwick - As part of my critique of pro-natalism, I’m looking at the philosophical foundations of the idea. Most of the explicit discussion takes place within the fr...
The Texas Signal

The Legal War Against Immigrant Aid In Texas - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a broad campaign of investigations and lawsuits against nonprofit organizations that provide humanitarian ai...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition - Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabil...
Texas Observer

ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court - In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Alaska Senate Race Comes Onto the Competitive Board with Peltola’s Entry - Mary Peltola’s (D) entrance into the Alaska Senate race gives Democrats another credible target, even as Republicans remain favored to hold the seat. Th...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #10: COUP TALK (w/Jack Crosbie) - Cros returns to get into the huge mess in Venezuela and Minneapolis
Project Censored

Illegal Gold Rush Strips 140,000 Hectares from the Peruvian Amazon - A new report published by Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) and its Peruvian partner organization, Conservación Amazónica, found that 140,00...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later - Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months th...
Debunking Christianity

The 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" is now available as PAPERBACK book!!! - That's right, finally! The 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" is now available as a PAPERBACK book!!! Be one the very first readers to get it....
Rewire

Women and Children Are Being Digitally Undressed on Social Media - X users are asking the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, to create sexualized images before new legal protections take effect. The post Women and Children Are...
The Progressive Wing

1/13-19 News Roundup & OT - The European National Banks, as well as the Bank of England, sense an economic threat by Drumpt. Come join us for the conversation after the jump.
Earth 911

5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners - Eating for the planet doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor or satisfaction, and it can make a... The post 5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners appeared first on Ear...
The Grayzone

Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs - As deadly riots burn Iranian cities, Western media ignores the shocking wave of violence, turning instead to US government-funded NGOs for data. The one-...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Attack On Defense Contractors & The Fed - This is another case of Trump doing the right thing in theory. From Matt Stoller: Trump also issued an executive order to ban buybacks, dividends, and cap ...
Environment Texas

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 - 25 years of wildlife, recreation, outdoor sports and clean water The post The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 appeared first on Environment Texas.
NORML

Multiple States Facing Marijuana Legalization Repeal Threats in 2026 - [image: A person's arm is shown handcuffed in front of cannabis plants representing marijuana criminalization][image: A person's arm is shown handcuffed ...
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
Idavox

Connecting the Dots on ICE Murders & Violence - Terror sent to the Twin Cities is federal overreach designed to destabilize and provoke confrontation.... The post Connecting the Dots on ICE Murders & V...
Duck of Minerva

How To Review Efficiently and Fairly - Instead of Dry January, I’m going review free for January after having nearly 80 review requests last year. My New Year’s resolution was to have a healthie...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
Field Negro

The Trump Distraction Machine. - This character in the White House is doing everything in his powers to change the storyline and narrative from Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files. Th...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A 'Kent State Moment'—When Power Gaslights What We Can all See With Our Own Eyes, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - * A 'Kent State Moment'—When Power Gaslights What We Can all See With Our Own Eyes* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 10, 2026* *There are mome...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Resistance Solidarity - Washington – the gangster-in-chief posing as global policeman – refuses to accept any limitations on its actions. If legal authorities, whether domestic or...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOUR LYIN' EYES EDITION. - *Some trippy shit right here.* Just a week after we all hoped for better days in the new year, an ICE officer murdered a young woman in Minneapolis and, ...
The Militant

Tetrosyl workers in UK strike against bosses’ move to cut wages - ROCHDALE, England — After five days of strike action at Tetrosyl’s warehouse and distribution operation here, north of Manchester, some 80 workers are dete...
MintPress News

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders - Kidnapping heads of state is not a Trump innovation. It is American tradition. The post From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign...
DeSmogBlog

Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’ - Senior figures in Reform UK have been developing close connections to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an authoritarian, monarchic state with vast fossil ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/09/2026 - 03:22 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
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...
The AltWorld

American Conservatives Are Disgusting Frauds - After spending days enthusiastically applauding Trump’s freakish act of imperialist aggression to oust the president of Venezuela […] The post American C...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
LareDOS

Here on the river’s edge as the water, like time, slips past. Here is the promise of the long view and the close look. - Here, where quiet drowns out the distant rancor of fearmongers, we might, instead, be good neighbors.
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Bracing Views

Gangster Capitalism - The Donroe Doctrine of Regional Dominance, Obedience, and Theft BILL ASTORE JAN 04, 2026 There are at least 30 trillion reasons why the Trump administratio...
Two Party Opera

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Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

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nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
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...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
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.
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
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 ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
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 ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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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...
Dandelion Salad

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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

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Due Dissidence

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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

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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

Annise Parker for Houston

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