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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Vox

Straight guys are “bad” at gossip. Maybe they should learn. - What does it mean to be “good” at gossip? A good gossip doesn’t just tell you that Sally broke up with Joe, they tell you that Sally broke up with Joe jus...
The Verge

What happens when you feed AI nothing - If you stumbled across Terence Broad's AI-generated artwork (un)stable equilibrium on YouTube, you might assume he'd trained a model on the works of the pa...
Raw Story

Stephen Miller's 'obsession' is causing Trump to 'second-guess' him: analysis - Stephen Miller's “monomaniacal obsession” is resulting in President Donald Trump “second-guessing him,” *according to MSNBC opinion writer and editor* *Ha...
Mediaite

Maggie Haberman ‘Struck By’ Trump Blurting Out ‘I Don’t Care’ What Intel Says - Maggie Haberman told anchor Kaitlan Collins she was "struck by" Trump blurting out he "doesn't care" about his intel community's assessment of Iran. The...
memeorandum

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused of hiding money from Sandy Hook families (Tovia Smith/NPR) - Tovia Smith / NPR: *Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones accused of hiding money from Sandy Hook families* — After claiming for years that he does not have t...
Consent Factory, Inc.

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

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

Emil Bove will make an excellent circuit court judge - Some claim that Bove’s lack of attachment to the Federalist Society is a problem. They are wrong.
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-06-18 -
Mediagazer

Sources: Kate Phillips, the BBC's director of unscripted, will replace Charlotte Moore as the BBC's Chief Content Officer; Moore announced her exit in February (Max Goldbart/Deadline) - Max Goldbart / Deadline: *Sources: Kate Phillips, the BBC's director of unscripted, will replace Charlotte Moore as the BBC's Chief Content Officer; Moor...
Political Wire

Tourists Scramble to Get Home from Israel - Wall Street Journal: “This is the first time Israel’s airspace has been closed this long in its 76-year history, and it remains unclear when it will reopen...
Daily Dot

Jersey Mike’s employees are reacting to unhinged “Mike’s Way” sandwich requests - [image: Left: Man at Jersey Mike's under caption reading "Asking for Mike's Way at Jersey Mike's gone wrong, Middle: Ordering a sandwich at Jersey Mike's...
Houston Public Media

New ‘Sugar Land 95’ historical marker to be celebrated in Fort Bend County - A Juneteenth festival on Thursday will coincide with the dedication of the historical marker, which memorializes the 95 individuals believed to be victims ...
naked capitalism

Links 6/18/2025 -
Al Jazeera English

The history of Netanyahu’s rhetoric on Iran’s nuclear ambitions - Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of an imminent threat from an Iranian nuclear bomb for more than 30 years.
The Smirking Chimp

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

The other redistricting matter - Here’s a story from the Fort Worth Report on the redistricting trial going on in El Paso, with a focus on the effect in Tarrant County. Federal judges in E...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Tough, whip-smart and selfless: Melissa Hortman, ‘singular force for democracy’, remembered - Colleagues speak of Hortman’s legislative accomplishments, a ‘steely negotiator’ who went into politics ‘to do something, not to be something’ A group of...
Salon.com

With disbarment decision, John Eastman's downfall continues - California bar proceedings deliver another blow to election denialism
Eschaton

Morning - Wacky Wenesday
Slate

Help! My Ex-Wife Insists on Coddling Our Daughter. It’s Led to Dire Consequences. - We're already having summer camp struggles.
Mother Jones

“Madness”: A Retired Brig. General Slams Trump’s Military Power Grab - Retired Brigadier General Greg Smith spent 35 years in the Army National Guard. He’s seen riots. He’s protected political conventions. He led the military’...
San Antonio Report

A celebration at the rainbow: Pride District to be recognized this Friday - Years of research went into a report making the case for a Pride Cultural Heritage District in San Antonio, set to be celebrated on June 20. --------------...
Axios

The immigrants caring for the elderly are losing their jobs - The White House immigration crackdown is hitting the long-term healthcare industry, as nursing homes and care providers lose foreign-born employees and s...
American Prospect

Senate Bill Gives Giant Tax Break to Big Oil - A provision inserted by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) would exempt many domestic oil and gas drillers from having to pay any corporate taxes.
Scheerpost.com

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

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

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

Canada’s wildfire crisis is displacing First Nations at alarming rates - With over 40,000 people evacuated and infrastructure overwhelmed, Indigenous leaders say climate change is hitting their homelands hardest.
OpEd News

The Magic Solution to the Conflict in Ukraine - The probability of establishing a military dictatorship in Ukraine has increased significantly. The main reason for this is that a military dictatorship su...
High Country News

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

Lame: Pissed Soldiers, Squeaky Tanks, Fake Deals 'R Us - Of course the long-coveted, savagely panned parade for a man-child who would be king was a bust, "a pathetic event for a pathetic president," notably in ...
Consortium News

Craig Murray: The UK’s Genocide Spectre - Last week at the U.N. General Assembly, before Israel attacked Iran, the U.K. ambassador’s written explanation of her vote on a Gaza ceasefire suggested St...
Crooked Media

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

Shutting Down Government Agencies - Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative is the latest conservative push to eliminate federal departments and agencies deemed inefficient. However, the criticism of i...
The Week

A disproven medical theory could be guiding RFK Jr.'s health policy - The miasma theory is one of the oldest medical beliefs in history
Counterpunch

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

Victorian Socialists expand across Australia: A political trap to corral mounting anti-capitalist sentiment - The attempt to claim the mantle of “the Socialist Party” and to describe itself as “the socialists” is a fraud being perpetrated by the pseudo-left Sociali...
SCOTUSblog

Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, June 18 - On Wednesday, June 18, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list o...
jobsanger

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

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

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

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

WW3 Chronicles: Iran vs Israel Who wins? - J. MACFARLANE—It is obvious that Iran has been preparing for war with Israel for a long time. While the Israelis hacked their electronic communications sys...
The AltWorld

Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged Armageddon Cultist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - President Trump has shared a text message that was sent to him by Mike Huckabee, the deranged Christian Zionist […] The post Mike Huckabee Is A Deranged ...
Techdirt.

In-N-Out Australia Popups Are Back, Just So The Chain Can Keep Suing Over Trademarks - Here we go again. We have talked for years now about famed burger chain In-N-Out and its strategic, and very bullshit, practice of opening up pop-up locati...
The Texas Signal

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

'Potentially really bad': GOP senators and lobbyists say Trump's big bill 'cannot pass' - Senate Republicans are increasingly convinced that their sweeping legislative package simply cannot pass under current conditions, casting serious doubt ...
Popular Resistance

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

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

Trump (Like Biden) is Simply Evil - On June 17, Trump demanded the unconditional surrender of Ayatollah Khamenei, and said “Our patience is wearing thin.” On June 16, Trump posted to his Tr...
The Conversation

US and Iran have a long, complicated history, spanning far beyond Israel’s strikes on Tehran - Some of the major events in US-Iran relations highlight the differences between the countries’ views, but others presented real opportunities for reconcili...
See You In 2020

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

The Peace Grifter - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Workers World

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

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

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

What Is Due Process? - In the first months of his administration, President Donald Trump repeatedly threatened due process, a fundamental principle enshrined in the U.S. Constitu...
Ballot Access News

Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City, Says He Will Sue to be Able to Have Two Ballot Lines - Mayor Eric Adams, who is running for re-election in November 2025, says he will soon sue to overturn the state law that says he can only appear on the Nove...
Wolf Street

My Thoughts about those Retail Sales - Looking at the nuts and bolts, we see that the spending goes on, even if the mood is ultra-sour.
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Guaranteed income Is safe in Texas — for now - The Texas Senate passed a bill that would have banned local governments from using public funds for direct cash benefits for residents, but the House di...
CultureMap Houston

Vivaldi and vino charm Houstonians at enchanted garden soirée - In a West University garden scented with jasmine and strung with twinkling lights, *Prelude Music Foundation* hosted its “Vivaldi in the Garden” soirée, tr...
Environment Texas

Texas pollinator protections mostly a blank slate - The post Texas pollinator protections mostly a blank slate appeared first on Environment Texas.
Mondoweiss

Zionism is the root of violence from Palestine to Iran - [image: Aerial view of Tehran, the capital of Iran. (Photo credit: Bornamir/iStock by Getty Images)]Iranians know the logic of Zionism, underwritten by the...
Angry Bear

May real retail sales: the front-running of tariffs is over - – by New Deal democrat We can safely say that the front-running of tariffs is over. As usual, real retail sales is one of my favorite indicators, becaus...
Portside

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

Green Party of Hawai’i to Meet Remotely for Annual Convention - The Green Party of Hawai’i will hold its annual convention remotely on Saturday, June 21. A local watch party will also take place in Pa’auilo on the Big...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty - The Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty to the FCC, a move that gives Donald Trump and Republicans a 2-1 majority on the commission. The Senate voted 53-45 to c...
Sludge

Companies Back GOP Bill Slashing Food Aid While Touting Hunger Relief - The Trump White House is showcasing more than a dozen large companies endorsing the "megabill" that takes away food assistance from millions of low-income ...
Election Law Blog

“‘Insensitive, to say the least’: Mike Lee deletes Minnesota posts amid GOP criticism” - Politico “Utah Sen. Mike Lee, amid widespread outrage, has deleted a pair of social media posts associating the deadly Minnesota shootings last weekend w...
MintPress News

Mohammad Marandi: This War Was Supposed to Break Iran. It’s Breaking Israel Instead - As the bombs fall, Tehran isn’t collapsing—it’s galvanizing. Marandi reveals how Israel’s war effort is failing on every front. The post Mohammad Marandi...
Rio Grande Guardian

Texas Lyceum director: There is still time to co-sponsor our upcoming conference in Mexico City - Among the co-sponsors from the Rio Grande Valley are Titan Fuel, UT-Rio Grande Valley, the Council for South Texas Economic Progress, Mission EDC, Harlin...
Discourse

Brad Lander Showed Democrats What to Do - Dems have been sitting on their most effective tool to fight fascism this whole time: their own bodies.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio man arrested for threatening to kill protesters at last weekend's 'No Kings' march - A San Antonio man is in police custody over accusations he threatened to kill protesters at Saturday’s downtown “No Kings” rally and other anti-Trump demo...
Futurism

Nation Cringes as Man Goes on TV to Declare That He's in Love With ChatGPT - Public declarations of emotion are one thing — but going on national television to declare that you're in love with your AI girlfriend is another entirel...
Liberation News

US and Israel weaponize starvation and humanitarian aid in Gaza genocide - Disgusted with their governments, activists are organizing to break the siege of Gaza themselves.
Second Nexus

MAGA Furious After Rand Paul Blasts Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Military Parade - During an appearance on NBC News' *Meet the Press* on Sunday, Kentucky Republican Rand Paul again criticized MAGA Republican President Donald Trump’s mil...
slacktivist

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

Corruption is rife with door-to-door solar panel scams. This lawyer has made a career out of it. - There is a bill on Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk that would help regulate the solar panel sales industry.
Church and State

Overpopulation: A New Survey Confirms the Cause of the Planet’s Environmental Crises - The world is on track to reach 10.2 billion people by the 2080s. The associated environmental damages are often irreversible.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

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

TUESDAY: Budget bill, war with Iran poll poorly! - *TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2025* *We'd call it a dangerous time: *On the one hand, it could look like a piece of encouraging news. At *Mediaite*, Joe DePaulo rep...
Reform Austin

Love to Eat and Live in a Well-built City? Meatpackers, Farms, and Builders are Reeling from Immigration Raids - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Recent immigration enforcement actions are highlighting a long-running tension between Presiden...
DeSmogBlog

Mental Health Professionals Join Calls For Boycott of Advertising Agencies Over Work for Polluters - Health organisations should cut ties with advertising agencies that work for the fossil fuel industry to protest the role of greenwashing in delaying cli...
WhoWhatWhy

Ukraine Is Still Waiting for Donald Trump To Deliver - [image: Ukrainian soldier, Ukrainian flag, emotional about loss of life, Russian attacks] Sending US Marines to fight protesters in Los Angeles is one thin...
Progressive.org

From Celebration to Cancellation: How Juneteenth Became a Casualty of America’s Reactionary Turn - The holiday’s public recognition has fallen victim to‘anti-woke’ backlash, leading to a quiet retreat from public memory.
Black Agenda Report

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

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

The Supreme Court Just Saved Your Right to Sue for Disability Accommodations - The justices unanimously rebuffed an effort to blunt disability protections in *A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools*. But don’t expect a consensus on this term’...
First Draft

A Nation Founded On Protest - The MAGA way is Un-American.
Capital & Main

A Coal Miner’s Daughter Takes on DOGE to Protect Miners’ Health - Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Now, researchers working to prevent those deaths get layoff notices. The post A Coal...
The Daily Poster

How Trump Launched His Own War In The Middle East - As the president pressed for an Iran nuclear deal, he approved Israel’s new war. Will America’s own military soon be directly involved?
NORML

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

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

Trump accelerates push to reward loyalty in federal workforce - * Washington Post *
The Root

Marquise Jackson Drags 50 Cent on Father’s Day — 50 Seemingly Shoots Back “Power” Style - Let’s just say 50 was not happy with his comedic gesture… Read more...
Texas Observer

A Caucus, if You Can Keep It - In the leadup to Texas’ 89th legislative session, the Republican leadership apparatus was under siege and the party in open warfare as the sitting House ...
Bonddad

Industrial and manufacturing production mixed, but also consistent with the end of front-running - * - by New Deal democrat* Today’s second report was for industrial production, including its important manufacturing component. The data for May wa...
Democracy Now!

Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister on U.S. Embargo, Trump's Deportations, Israel's War on Iran & Gaza - We speak with Carlos Fernández de Cossío, Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, about the Trump administration’s tightening restrictions on the country. Since re...
The Progressive Wing

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

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

The view from the fringe - We've dealt with a lot of conspiracy theories here at *Skeptophilia*. Amongst the more notable: - COVID-19 was a bioterrorism agent sent into the We...
Infidel753

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

Ether - Editor’s note: This essay was written by Frances Colpitt for a 2008 collaborative exhibition with artist Terri Thornton at testsite in Austin. In 2025, i...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Notes on the State of Politics: New Jersey Gubernatorial Race Set, Texas Redistricting? - It's Sherrill vs. Ciattarelli in the NJ governor race, and the prospect of a new House map in Texas is a hugely important story to watch The post Notes o...
The Rag Blog

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

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

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

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Land Destroyer

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

Walmart Crime Report May 2025 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in May of 2025, with at least four deaths from these shootings, two of those were officer involved shootings wh...
ExChristian.Net

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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

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