Brains and Eggs: A few more Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots (Jonathan V. Last/The Bulwark) - Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark: *Dire Straits: The Iran War Is Run by Idiots* — Also: Americans don't care about process. So they will get corruption....
Mediaite

Pentagon Reportedly Bans Press Photographers from Briefings Over ‘Unflattering’ Hegseth Pics - The Pentagon barred major news wire photographers from two subsequent briefings on March 4 and March 10, the sources said. The post Pentagon Reportedly B...
Novara Media

Labour Government Bans Pro-Palestine Al-Quds March - The home secretary has approved a request by London’s Metropolitan police to ban the al-Quds march, an annual pro-Palestine event that coincides with the e...
Election Law Blog

North Carolina “Berger, Page move to raise legal funds as likely recount looms” - WRAL: Senate leader Phil Berger, who is trailing in a closely contested primary for his seat, has created a legal fund as he gears up for what could be a...
Eschaton

Lunch - Shop while you eat! (Ad, I get a commission).
Futurism

US Military Investigating Whether AI Was Involved in Bombing Elementary School in Iran - This is horrifying. The post US Military Investigating Whether AI Was Involved in Bombing Elementary School in Iran appeared first on Futurism.
Independent Political Report

American Solidarity Party Denounces Farm Bill Livestock Provision as “Anti-Federalist, Inhumane” - The American Solidarity Party denounced language included in a Farm Bill approved this month by the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, arguing that a p...
The Week

‘If you don’t live here, it’s quite frankly none of your business’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
El Paso Matters

UTEP’s Sun Bowl Stadium draws major concerts as debate over funding upgrades lingers - As Sun Bowl Stadium draws some of the biggest names in music – including BTS this summer – questions remain about whether the venue needs major upgrades...
Bonddad

Test - blah Blah
Raw Story

'GOP mutiny' reported as rising gas prices send Republicans into midterm panic - Surging gas prices amid the war in Iran have sent Republicans in a tailspin. With midterms approaching, GOP lawmakers have growing concerns over how vo...
Common Dreams

Trump Eradicates Critical Oversight as he Fires More Inspectors General than All Other US Presidents Combined - President Trump has removed more inspectors general (IGs) than all other presidents combined, leaving a gaping hole for accountability and ethics concern...
San Antonio Current

Texas oil firms stand to profit from Iran war disruptions while consumers face higher gas prices - [image: Gas and diesel prices displayed at a Shell gas station in Austin on March 10, 2026.] Texas’ status as the nation’s largest oil producer will parti...
Mediagazer

Sources: DOD barred press photographers from briefings on the Iran conflict after they published photos of Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering" (Scott Nover/Washington Post) - Scott Nover / Washington Post: *Sources: DOD barred press photographers from briefings on the Iran conflict after they published photos of Pete Hegseth t...
Scheerpost.com

While Spending Billions on Iran War, Trump Quietly Moves to Boot Millions More Off Food Aid - Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Trump administration is quietly pursuing a regulatory change that would strip federal nutrition assistance from an estim...
Al Jazeera English

Not ‘a litre of oil’ to pass Strait of Hormuz, expect $200 price tag: Iran - Warning comes as 400 million barrels of oil are being released from global reserves during waterway's closure.
Axios

IEA announces historic oil reserve release amid Iran war - The International Energy Agency said Wednesday its member governments will jointly release up to 400 million barrels of oil from strategic stockpiles aft...
NPR's Health Shots

ChatGPT might give you bad medical advice, studies warn - New research finds AI can point people in the wrong direction. And the quality of health information it imparts depends on how well you prompt the tools.
The Hill

Anthropic: Pentagon put billions of dollars at stake with supply chain risk designation - Lawyers for Anthropic warned a judge Tuesday that the Pentagon’s decision to label its products a supply chain risk could cost the artificial intelligence ...
The Verge

Canva’s new editing tool adds layers to AI-generated designs - Canva introduced a new feature that separates flat image files and AI-generated visuals into layered, fully editable designs. The Magic Layers tool is laun...
Courthouse News

AI is homogenizing thought - A new research study from the University of Southern California makes an alarming comparison: The homogenizing impacts of AI on language and thought pose “...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A Powerful Evening at UT Austin on the 'Censored University': The Legendary Nikole Hannah-Jones and Truth-Telling, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *A Powerful Evening at UT Austin on the 'Censored University': Nikole Hannah-Jones and Truth-Telling* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *March 11, 2026* *I...
Political Wire

Three Scenarios for the Iran War - EuroIntelligence: “Donald Trump has also maneuvered himself into a position where his stated war goal – regime change without a ground invasion – is no lon...
The Greanville Post

“Iran Is Fighting Imperialism” – Joti Brar on US-Israel War & Why the Left Is Divided - IGL—We spoke with Joti Brar, leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) Great Britain, about the escalating US-Israel attack on Iran and the wider ge...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Democrats deliver stunning flip in New Hampshire special election - Bobbi Boudman’s win over Republican Dale Fincher marks the 28th seat Democrats have flipped since the 2024 election - Sign up for the Breaking...
Dorf on Law

Is the Government Punishing Anthropic for Speech? - On Monday, Anthropic sued the federal government in federal district court in California, alleging that the various punitive actions taken by Defense Sec...
Daily Howler

ALL THAT REMAINS: Jeffrey Goldberg, come on down! - *WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 2026* *Act like a human for once:* People who watched last evening's *Gutfeld! *show got their jollies right from the jump. At 10...
Deadline Politics

Jill Biden’s Memoir ‘View From The East Wing’ To Be Published In June - Former First Lady Jill Biden will publish her memoir, View from the East Wing, on June 2. The book will give her reflections on her husband Joe Biden’s dec...
Glasstire

Houston Latino Film Festival Special Guests to Include Cheech Marin & Actor Daniel Valdez - The Houston Latino Film Festival (HLFF) will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a slate of films, a Texas premiere, and guest filmmakers and actors over...
The Conversation

Patriots and loyalists both rallied around St. Patrick’s Day during the Revolutionary War - By the Revolutionary War in the late 1770s, those marking the anniversary of St. Patrick’s death on March 17 included Irish immigrants in the Continental A...
Houston Public Media

Marine activists warn of ‘ghost fishing’ as spring breakers gather along Texas coast - “Ghost fishing” can occur when improperly discarded fishing gear, also known as “ghost gear,” floats in the marine environment, continuing to trap animals ...
San Antonio Report

In a sign of things to come, county officials agree to fund Alameda marquee project - Refurbishing the iconic neon sign at the Alameda Theater is the largest part of the total renovation cost, and the most visible of the project. ------------...
Dissident Voice

Why China Crushed Its Own Tech Giants - In late 2020, Beijing did the unthinkable: it attacked its own champions. Trillions in market value vanished, the world’s largest IPO was halted, and ent...
Slate

I Underwent “Conversion Therapy” as a Child. As a Psychiatrist, I Know How Professionally Derelict It Is. - At first glance, Chiles v. Salazar, argued before the Supreme Court in October and still awaiting a decision, appears to ask a narrow legal question.
CultureMap Houston

19 Houston billionaires make new Forbes list of world's richest people - According to *Forbes*, there has “never been a better time to be a billionaire” than in 2026, and the publication's newest *World’s Billionaires List* has ...
SCOTUSblog

The First Amendment’s application to public university students: an explainer - Free speech on university campuses is a perennially hot topic, perhaps most recently reflected in protests about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at plac...
Daily Cartoonist

Howard King – RIP - Teacher/principal/superintendent. musician, and cartoonist Howard King has passed away. Howard Owen (Howie) King January 17, 1952 – February 27, 2026 From ...
Undernews

Cuba - *Newsworthy News - *The U.S. has escalated pressure on Cuba by targeting the island’s oil supply chain, driving widespread blackouts and service disrupti...
First Draft

Everything’s Coming Up Nazis 2: The College Republicans - They're not hiding it anymore.
The NM Political Report

State, local electeds will push new ordinance to make deportations harder in Albuquerque - Barelas Neighborhood, Albuquerque, N.M. — By Jesse Jones — A coalition of local and state leaders convened in the Barelas neighborhood south of Downtown...
Democracy Now!

"Killers of Roe": Amy Littlefield Investigates the "Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" in U.S. - *Killers of Roe* is a new book by the reproductive rights journalist Amy Littlefield on what she describes as the death of abortion rights in the United St...
Vox

The AI threat costing Americans $16.6 billion a year - I was fortunate enough to spend several days last week at the Aspen Institute’s Crosscurrent summit on AI and national security in San Francisco. My first ...
Techdirt.

Things Going Great At Ellison’s Paramount As President Gets Mired In Accusations Of Press Manipulation And Leaking Company Info - The President of Larry Ellison’s “new and improved” Paramount, Jeff Shell, has been conspicuously absent from recent events heralding the company’s problem...
The Progressive Wing

3/11 News Roundup & Open Thread - AIPAC, crypto and AI are pouring money into Illinois to try to buy congressional seats. We cannot allow billionaire-funded super PACs to decide our elec...
Infidel753

Democrats, on the right track at last - Bernie Sanders and Ro Khanna have introduced legislation that would impose a 5% annual wealth tax on all billionaires in the US. The proposed law would, ...
Space City Weather

What to expect from potential stormy weather today, and when to expect it - In brief: Houston can expect to see fairly widespread showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, some of them becoming severe. It will be an afternoon to be...
WhoWhatWhy

There Are No ‘Good Guys’ in the Iran War - [image: Donald Trump, Dignified Transfer, remains, drone strike, Kuwait] Over the past two decades, few countries have as much blood on their hands as the ...
Mondoweiss

Why is Israel trying to cause an ‘explosion’ in the West Bank? - [image: Residents of Yatta, south of Hebron, mourn the death of 27-year-old Amir Shanaran, who was killed by an Israeli settler, March 8, 2026. (Photo: Mam...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Late Candidate Switcheroos Contribute to Rating Changes in California and Montana - Filing deadlines led to some notable candidate changes in a few races in California and Montana. The post Late Candidate Switcheroos Contribute to Rating...
Mother Jones

Bombing of Iranian Oil Facilities Is Causing a Health and Environmental Nightmare - This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Israel’s bombing of Iran’s oil infrastruc...
ArcaMax

Senate Six Declare War on Iran War - Readers, does it seem we're going through one constitutional crisis after another? Six Democratic senators told a scrum of journalists that President Donal...
naked capitalism

Links 3/11/2026 -
The Root

After 12-year-old Girl Dies Following School Bus Fight, Her family Is Searching for Answers - Jada West reportedly experienced bullying before a fight with another girl led to her untimely death. Read more...
Countercurrents

“I watched my sons’ bodies and couldn’t bury them”: Euro-Med Monitor investigation documents Israeli army targeting of the Al-Aweini family in Gaza - Palestinian Territory – A new investigation by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reveals details of the Israeli army’s targeting of a civilian family in Khan Y...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Team ‘Frantically’ Trying To Avoid Admitting They’re ‘A Bunch of Morons’: Expert -
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Skeptophilia

Assessing a collapse - One of the coolest things about science is the cross-fertilization that happens between disciplines. I'm always impressed when I see examples of this, an...
Off The Kuff

The “number of primary votes by Congressional district” metric - Noting this for the record. With the possible exception of U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico, the most relieved Democrats after Tuesday’s primary might be...
The Daily Poster

The Only Way To Stop Trump’s Mad War - Trump’s Iran war is the culmination of a decades-long master plan — and only Congress has the power to end it.
ProPublica

DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases - The post DHS Seeks Access to Massive Employment, Salary and Family Database Legally Restricted to Use in Child Support Cases appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away? - Since 2021, global media coverage of climate change has dropped 38 percent. Blame wars, political chaos, and Jeffrey Epstein.
The AltWorld

Dangerous Disinfo Shifts US Blame: Claims Israel “Caused” US War Rather Than an Extension of It - The US can continue existing as a rapacious empire with or without Israel – it surely did […] The post Dangerous Disinfo Shifts US Blame: Claims Israel “...
High Country News

How federal cuts are reshaping Alaska’s communities, research and species management - [image: View of Yukon river close to Dawson City, Yukon, Alaska.] A former U.S. Geological Survey research scientist reflects on the Trump administration’...
Crooked Media

Why Trump Might Send Ground Troops to Iran - The post Why Trump Might Send Ground Troops to Iran appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

An Eminent Theory of Imminence - Under international law, war is legal only in cases of self-defense or an imminent threat of attack, such as an enemy army massed on your border. As Bush...
Counterpunch

A Success Story Negotiating With Iran - Bilateral negotiations are rarely simple, as the late-February negotiations between Iranians and Americans have recently shown. As an American-Swiss citi...
Ian Welsh

Every Credit Cycle Is Different, Just Like This One - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Every credit cycle is different: they don’t repeat, but they do rhyme at the end. Phase One: the Expansion The credit cycle begins whe...
jobsanger

Trump Killed School Children And Then LIED About It -
Informed Comment

The War is the Message: When did We Stop Asking Why? - But worth asking: what was the JCPOA, if not a serious attempt to achieve exactly that — through diplomacy, through verification
Alternet

Betrayed voters turn on Trump as former prosecutor details how cynicism fuels his power - President Donald Trump “benefits from cynicism” as he erodes Americans’ faith in key democratic institutions, according to a prosecutor speaking with a c...
Consortium News

WATCH: CN Live! — ‘The Toll on Israel’ - Former Israeli military intelligence office Ari Ben-Menashe discusses what he knows about the damage Israel has suffered from Iran, the causes of the war a...
Brad Blog

Trump's Never-Ending, Very-Soon-Ending War: 'BradCast' 3/10/2026 - I wish you as much luck as I wished myself in making sense of what we tried to make sense of on today's BradCast. [Audio link to full show follows this sum...
Workers World

Heroic Iran resists imperialist attack - [image: Heroic Iran resists imperialist attack] March 9 – What a difference a week can make in the unprecedented struggle against imperialism! Just nine d...
Claytoonz

Gassy MAGAts - 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...
Progressive.org

Is Conversion Therapy Speech or Conduct? - The Trump Administration has lent one of its top lawyers to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court in favor of the discredited practice.
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2026 Edition - Microsoft Corp. today pushed security updates to fix at least 77 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. There are no pressing...
Antiwar.com

Does South Korea Really Want US Attention on the Korean Peninsula? - So according to a White House official, and reported in every South Korean news portal, Trump is open to talking with Kim, “without any preconditions.” Som...
Portside

Amid Threats of US Attack, Sheinbaum Tells Trump To Get a Grip on Illegal Guns, Drugs - Amid Threats of US Attack, Sheinbaum Tells Trump To Get a Grip on Illegal Guns, Drugs Judy Tue, 03/10/2026 - 19:39
Wolf Street

Supply of Single-Family Homes Surges to Highest for February in 9 Years, Demand Stuck in the Deepfreeze - Condo sales plunged to a record low shared with two other months.
The Texas Signal

The Private Prison Model For Texas Detention Centers - The South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley has drawn widespread attention over the alleged conditions for detained children. That focus has also s...
Texas Standard

Runoff result may determine if national Democrats spend on Talarico Senate run - Flipping one of Texas’ U.S. Senate seats would be a big prize for Democrats, but it would also be pricey.
Popular Resistance

How Decades Of Anti-Iran Hysteria Set Us On The Path To War - The unthinkable has happened: the United States and Israel have launched a war on Iran, now in its second week. More than 1,300 people have reportedly be...
slacktivist

Andy Ogles and the Flushing Remonstrance - Republican Rep. Andy Ogles demands the establishment of a Single-Sect sectarian America, but he won't say which single sect will be the official one.
Angry Bear

The “gold standard” QCEW for last Q3 strongly suggests no job growth whatsoever in 2025 - – by New Deal democrat The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) is “the gold standard of US employment measures. It is an actual census of 95%...
Environment Texas

Dispatches from a fly fishing show - Poorly designed culverts are bad for fish and fishermen. Where do the anglers stand on fixing this problem? The post Dispatches from a fly fishing show a...
World Socialist Web Site

Labour’s SEND “reform”: an austerity-driven attack on vulnerable children - Many core elements of the reforms have been postponed until the next parliament, as ministers attempt to defuse anger among parent campaigners who recognis...
Bracing Views

Trump’s Disconnection from Reality - And More War By and For Israel BILL ASTORE MAR 10, 2026 Here are some excerpts from recent articles dealing with Trump’s growing disconnection from reality...
Socialist Alternative

11 Days Of War On Iran—Trump Has Unleashed A Nightmare - US imperialism’s war in the Middle East has continued to escalate into its second week. On the war’s eleventh day (March 10), US Secretary of War Pete Hegs...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #18: Texas Senate Primaries, Olivia Reingold's Rama Duwaji 'Investigation,' and Donna Kelce's Home Renovation (w/Producer Sam) - Sam Grasso aka Producer Sam join us talk an absolutely explosive week in news.
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How Andrew Farkas and an Emirati Sultan Helped Epstein Build a Smuggler’s Paradise - A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure E...
Capital & Main

Climate Chilled at New Mexico Legislature — Again - Thanks to bills that did pass, state will divert money to pay for industry problems: abandoned wells and induced earthquakes. The post Climate Chilled at...
Ballot Access News

New Mexico Republican Party Will Try to Nominate Someone for U.S. Senate Via Write-ins at Primary - Although no one qualified to appear on the New Mexico Republican primary ballot for U.S. Senate this year, the Republican Party is planning to nominate som...
NORML

Alabama: Commissioner Says Patients Can Likely Begin Accessing Medical Cannabis Products Next Month - [image: Alabama Marijuana Laws][image: Alabama Marijuana Laws]“For nearly five years, Alabama patients and their providers have lacked the ability to loc...
Rewire

Louisiana’s Legal Fight Against Mailed Abortion Pills: A Timeline - Key moments in *Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration*, the case that could upend telehealth abortion care nationwide. The post Louisiana’s Lega...
Texas Observer

American Citizenship and Other Myths - In widely quoted speeches delivered over the past couple of years, JD Vance has made the claim that he is more American than you. (Well, unless you happe...
Earth 911

Your AI Carbon Footprint: What Every Query Really Costs - Every time you ask an AI chatbot for a recipe, have it summarize an article,... The post Your AI Carbon Footprint: What Every Query Really Costs appeared...
Seeing the Forest

Corruption Leads To Corruption Leads To Today - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. Some time back I listened to Ezra Klein interviewing journalist Anan...
Idavox

‘Free the Goat! Kill Yourself!’ An Anti-Muslim White Supremacist Comes to NYC, Almost Gets Bombed Out of Existence. - Jake Lang brought his Islamophobic circus to the Big Apple; someone almost made applesauce out... The post ‘Free the Goat! Kill Yourself!’ An Anti-Muslim...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Moms risk arrest to protect gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth - From* Orion Rummler of The 19th* by way of *The Advocate* comes a simple fact that the parents of trans kids are determined to keep their children healt...
Church and State

Housing affordability improves when population growth eases - In the past two decades, many high-income countries have endured unprecedented increases in the cost of homes to buy or rent.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Now, The Chaos: The Death of the Liberal Order and Dangerous, Uncharted Territory - We've walked off the cliff. Now we fall.
Project Censored

What Corporate Media Won’t Tell You: Children in Dilley & Attacks on Iran - First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of the...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health Transplant Institute one of the more advanced hospital services in Texas providing comprehensive adult kidney transplants, report Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - The DHR Health Transplant Institute, opened in Edinburg in 2017, remains a highly-regarded, specialized center in Texas and is the only CMS and UNOS-certif...
Two Party Opera

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See You In 2020

The war against America’s people, & the anti-Epstein coalition that will unify them in resistance - The class struggle’s path is becoming ever more perilous, yet we are gaining a greater sense of what the route to victory looks like. It looks like an e...
Campaign for America's Future

Lo que hacemos nos dice quiénes somos - Asaltos a nuestros derechos civíles han inspirado a una nación a levantarse de los banquillos. Ahora hay millones de personas que exigen que nos tratemos c...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - 10. *Tim Scott:* Still silent when it comes to criticizing his master, Donald Trump. We will see if he remains quiet if any of the citizens he represe...
Liberation News

War is a women’s issue! - This Women’s History Month, let us uplift war and imperialism as fundamental issues facing women everywhere that we must fight against on all fronts!
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: VW reflection - [image: Hebron Road reflection]
Greg Palast

How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma - How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it's fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 ...
Trivial Knot

That indie game money - If a game is on Steam, it’s possible for a public observer to estimate how much money it made. The thing to look at is the number of reviews. There’s a fai...
WAWG Blog

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

Corporate Media Go All Out To Support The US-Israeli War on Iran - Across the West, corporate media have employed the same tactics of using the passive voice and not naming the perpetrator when describing U.S./Israeli ag...
Dissent Magazine

War, Revolt, and Iran’s Unfinished Struggle - The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizatio...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IRAQ BUT DUMBER EDITION. - *Doo-wop is such a deep well.* It’s Drunky Pete Warfighter time! It’s a weird war for sure, done Trump style -- no warning, no reason, and especially no ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut - From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to e...
The Militant

US out of the Middle East! - The following statement was released March 1, 2026, by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Co...
The Grayzone

How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war - The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest f...
Debunking Christianity

The Cult-Goofy, Defective Final 16th Chapter of Mark’s Gospel - *Wrapping up my honest sermons on this first gospel* For many centuries, religious scholars and laity alike had no clue that the final chapter of Mark is ...
LareDOS

LC’s Out of the Box art exhibit explores innovation and creative boundaries - Exhibit open to the public through March 20
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 6, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 6, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/06/2026 - 05:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
DeSmogBlog

Mark Carney’s Pipeline MOU With Danielle Smith Has Been A Disaster - It has been three months since Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed their memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a new bit...
Democracy Chronicles

The Sigh of the Religious: Marx, Suffering and the Politics of Belief - Religion persists not solely as a symptom of those who fail to confront reason, but because society itself inhabits social conditions that make transcenden...
Sludge

Defense Contractor–Funded Think Tank Warns of Weapons Shortage After Iran Strikes - NPR listeners weren’t told the think tank receives millions from Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrop Grumman.
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
Ecosophia

The End of the Bureaucratic Era - For several years now I’ve had readers ask me from time to time about my opinion of the current media and investment frenzy surrounding so-called Artificia...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Night Open Thread: War and Regime Change by Remote Control - It's hard to believe only four weeks ago the U.S., at the whim of Donald Trump, invaded Venezuela to snatch its leader Nicolas Maduro. The New York Times...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REVIEW / Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2026 Clyde W. Barrow, a professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is the autho...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Progressives Chat

Can Ds win Texas [Part I]? - Tuesday, March 3, 2026 will give us Uniter States Senate primaries in *Texas*. The primary on the Republican side is whether unpopular incumbent John Co...
Alas, a Blog

The Alpha Wolf - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. And just look at how adorable the wolf pups she drew are! The term “alpha wolf” was coined in 1947 by biologist ...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
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...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Land Destroyer

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

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

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

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

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
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...
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
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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Sunday, February 01, 2009

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