Brains and Eggs: Enhanced Prevarication Techniques

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

Eschaton

Some Good News - We'll take what we can get. Mahmoud Khalil was granted release on bail by a federal judge after a hearing Friday, in the latest move in the pro-Palestinia...
Popular Resistance

Despite The Pain In The World, Socialism Is Not A Distant Utopia - Every morning, I open the newspapers (now on apps rather than print) and read about atrocities taking place across the world. There is an inflation of pa...
Raw Story

'They would never': Trump whines he'll never get a Nobel Peace Prize - President Donald Trump complained on Friday that he did not receive a Nobel Peace Prize for his work to normalize economic ties between Serbia and Kosovo...
Ballot Access News

June 2025 Ballot Access News Print Edition - SIXTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS TENNESSEE BALLOT ACCESS RESTRICTION FOR MINOR PARTIES On May 1, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion in Darnell v Hargett, 24-5856. I...
Al Jazeera English

Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 20, 2025 - Here are the key events on day eight of the Israel-Iran conflict.
Mediaite

‘She’s Wrong’: Trump Directly Rebukes Tulsi Gabbard Amid Reports She’s on the Outs - President Donald Trump directly rebuked Tulsi Gabbard, his own director of national intelligence, during a Q&A with reporters on Friday afternoon The pos...
SCOTUSblog

Additional opinions from Friday, June 20 - On Friday, June 20, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions: — In Esteras v. United States, the justices considered whether courts weighin...
First Draft

Who’ll Stop The Rain - Cheers to John Fogerty.
The Week

Army commissions tech execs as officer recruits - Some of the tech industry's most powerful players are answering the call of Uncle Sam
Slate

What’s Going On With Justin Bieber, Explained - The pop star has had a troubling few months in the public eye, and fans are concerned.
Salon.com

"Not a danger to the community": Judge order Mahmoud Khalil's release from detention - “It is highly, highly unusual to be seeking detention ... given the factual record,” Judge Michael Farbiarz said
Daily Dot

Kroger responds after TikTok trashes “lazy” and “ugly” Juneteenth cakes: “The colors don’t even make sense” - [image: Left: Kroger Juneteenth cake with icing reading "Free" Middle: Kroger Supermarket front Right: Kroger Juneteenth cake with icing reading "Free at...
San Antonio Report

Court halts distribution of San Antonio’s soon-to-outlawed abortion travel funds - A new appeals court with Abbott-appointed justices said San Antonio can't proceed with issuing funds to groups that help facilitate out-of-state abortions....
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Zoo to celebrate World Giraffe Day on Saturday with DJ, educational activities - The San Antonio Zoo is celebrating World Giraffe Day this Saturday with live music, educational activities and games to raise awareness and garner support...
Political Wire

A Deep Dive Into Two Senate Races - Just for members: The latest edition of Inside Elections. This issue is prime evidence that the most important races aren’t just the ones rated as a toss-u...
memeorandum

Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone) - Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone: *Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill’* — 250 million acres of federal land are at...
The Verge

28 Years Later is a bleak fever dream with rage pumping through its veins - While it wasn't the first film to feature fast-moving ghouls, there is no denying how much of an impact 28 Days Later had on modern zombie movies. It was a...
The Hill

Former Clinton campaign chief on Democrats: 'We're leaderless, we're messageless, we're agendaless' - Democratic strategist Patti Solis Doyle said that the party lacks a leader, message and agenda when asked about the state of the Democratic Party in an int...
alicublog

FRDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: LIFE-RAFTS IN THE FLOOD EDITION. - *The Spanish guys working on the building down the street played this.They know what's good.* I'll be less attentive to the collapse of the Republic ove...
Mondoweiss

Federal judge orders Mahmoud Khalil be released - [image: Mahmoud Khalil (Photo courtesy of Writers Against the War on Gaza)]A federal judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be released on bail. The former Columb...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Assault on Trans Rights - On our live show, Ryan Cooper and Evan Urquhart dig into the recent transphobic Supreme Court decision, and how The New York Times enabled it.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

California challenges troop deployment after appeals court rules for Trump - State to argue in federal court that control of national guard – deployed to Los Angeles – should return to Gavin Newsom California’s challenge of the Tr...
Election Law Blog

Montana Plan is not Without Its Skeptics - Earlier this week, I blogged about a new initiative in Montana that seeks to rein in corporate political spending by amending the state’s constitution to...
Courthouse News

Teams suing NASCAR appeal Fourth Circuit charter ruling - Front Row Motorsports and 23XI Racing claim a Fourth Circuit decision would encourage monopolists to avoid antitrust challenges by requiring a litigation r...
Futurism

As War Descends on Iran, People Have Discovered Some Wild Old Posts on Ayatollah Khamenei's Twitter Account - Back in the days of yore, Twitter capped posts at a paltry 140 characters. That kept tweets short, sweet, and to the point — lending themselves well to o...
OpEd News

Conspiracy Against Rights - New York City corruption in the DA Office - Judge Laura Ward was willfully, intentionally, voluntarily and knowingly working as a participant in a corrupte...
Mediagazer

AAM: The Washington Post's paid average daily circulation is now just 97,000, dropping below 100,000 for the first time and down from 250,000 five years ago (Vince Morris/Washington City Paper) - Vince Morris / Washington City Paper: *AAM: The Washington Post's paid average daily circulation is now just 97,000, dropping below 100,000 for the first...
Progressive.org

‘The Price of My Freedom’: Refusing to Legitimize Israeli Courts - Israeli activist Eran Maoz, who was arrested last month during a protest, has declined to cooperate in legal proceedings.
CultureMap Houston

Online design juggernaut Perigold opens first-ever store in Houston - Houston, *Perigold* has landed. That’s right, the online design juggernaut and Wayfair subsidiary has chosen Houston’s Highland Village shopping center for...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Healthcare and the State of Science, Plus Baseball and Abundance - Part the First. How Did the United States Get This Healthcare System? I distinctly remember the first time this question occurred to me, because as the ch...
ProPublica

New York Bans Anonymous Child Welfare Reports - by Eli Hager ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing aroun...
Axios

Mahmoud Khalil ordered released on bail - A federal judge on Friday ordered the release of Columbia University alumnus Mahmoud Khalil from federal detention, multiple outlets reported. *The big p...
Consortium News

AS`AD AbuKHALIL: How Iran Allowed Israel to Attack - When the history of this period is written, Tehran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with the U.S. administration of a lame-duck president will be depicted as a tra...
NPR's Health Shots

A cancer center in Jordan treats kids from Gaza, but only a few dozen have arrived - Children from Gaza with cancer are finally making it to Jordan for long-promised treatment. But a plan to allow as many as 2,000 patients out of the war-to...
Techdirt.

Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles - Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: wh...
Undernews

Knowing about our leaders health - [image: A bar chart showing the percentage of U.S. adults who say they agree or disagree with various statements from a survey of 1,104 participants condu...
Houston Public Media

Once again targeting higher ed, Texas lawmakers limited faculty influence, campus speech this session - Lawmakers also approved direct pay for student athletes and sought better pathways from college to the workforce.
World Socialist Web Site

Birmingham bin workers strike: The lessons so far and the way forward - The defiant stand by the bin workers is endangered by the continued isolation of their struggle by Unite under General Secretary Sharon Graham, which has d...
Second Nexus

Food Network Stars Pay Tribute To Beloved Chef Anne Burrell After Her Sudden Death At 55 - Food Network star and beloved chef Anne Burrell has died unexpectedly at the age of 55. Burrell, who was most well-known for her 30 (thirty!) seasons as...
Common Dreams

Story Removed - *Common Dreams Update:* * Following publication of the article found at this URL—originally titled "'Disgusting': VA Doctors Can Now Reportedly Refuse to ...
WhoWhatWhy

Six Experts Weigh in on Accelerating Global Energy Transition - [image: climate crisis, renewable energy, transition, accelerating, World Economic Forum report] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our edito...
Daily Howler

REVOLUTION: What were viewers told on CNN? - *FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2025* *What were viewers told on Fox?* The latest murders—along with the latest *attempted *murders—took place in the early morning hou...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump’s Two-Week Notice: Late-Night Hosts Have Fun With President’s Favorite Measure Of Time - President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he could wait two weeks before deciding whether the United States gets directly involved in the Israel-Iran ...
Independent Political Report

Three California Peace and Freedom Party Members Announce 2026 Statewide Campaigns - Three members of the Peace and Freedom Party announced this week that they are mounting bids for statewide office in California’s 2026 general election, ...
Rio Grande Guardian

SPI, Cameron County caught in tug of war - The City of South Padre Island wants to expand its convention center. Cameron County officials say there need to be a balance between economic growth and...
Rallblog

DMZ America Podcast Ep 207: “U.S. War Against Iran?” - LIVE 11:30 am Eastern plus Streaming 24-7: LIVE 11:30 am Eastern, and then streaming whenever you wanna hear it: Get ready for an explosive episode of th...
The Daily Poster

New York City Is About To Decide Democrats’ Future - The upcoming results of the mayoral election could determine the future of the Democratic Party.
Dissident Voice

From Hagiography to Reckoning, This Jew’s Path Toward Rejection of Zionism - In Perpetual Nakba I was raised on Zionist hagiography. As I have noted in past social media posts and internet essays, my late mother was a Holocaust su...
Texas Standard

The rise and fall of the former Texas Lottery commissioner - Dallas Morning News Columnist Dave Lieber tracks what’s been going on with the commission after recent scandals.
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu - The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodie...
Liberation News

Trump’s ‘beautiful’ bill wages war on children - While claiming to fight for children, Trump's cuts hurt them disproportionately.
The Root

AI Is the New Civil Rights Frontier: Loren Douglass on Wealth, Politics & Power - The Boulé chairman explains why Black ownership and political engagement are the keys to lasting influence in the AI era. Read more...
DeSmogBlog

Alberta Is Making It Even Harder to Develop Renewable Energy - Close observers of Alberta politics might be forgiven for wondering if official announcements are actual attempts at public policy, or performative troll...
Discourse

CNN's Despicable Platforming of Brett McGurk - The network is paying the leading Gaza genocide architect to push for war with Iran on its air.
Debunking Christianity

Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? - *Theological humility would be admitting profound ignorance about god(s)* When I was in seminary, Boston University School of Theology, during the 1960...
Workers World

June 28 International Day of Action: ‘No War With Iran’ - [image: June 28 International Day of Action: ‘No War With Iran’] June 28 International Day of Action: “No War With Iran” Click here to endorse the call to ...
Alternet

This GOP proposal would 'make it all but impossible' to 'sue Trump for dictatorial behavior' - Much of the criticism of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" — which narrowly passed in the U.S. House of Representatives, 215-214, and is now...
El Paso Matters

Eastside Sports Complex expansion completed; Escobar on shooter’s list; Texas Gas seeks rate hike - This week: How the sports complex approved by voters in 2012 was ultimately funded; why El Paso Congresswoman Veronica Escobar says threats won’t deter ...
Democracy Now!

"More Choices and More Power": How the Ranked-Choice Ballot Is Changing NYC Elections - As New Yorkers head to the polls in the primaries for upcoming local elections, voters will have the chance to vote for not one, but up to five of their pr...
Space City Weather

Wetter weather returns to Houston next week, and we take a peek at the quiet hurricane season start so far - In brief: Mostly minimal shower and storm coverage this weekend in Houston will increase by a good bit next week. Additionally, we take a look at why this ...
Rewire

New State Laws Aim to Clarify Abortion Bans. Doctors Say It’s Not So Simple. - The risks of punishment have deterred physicians, hospitals, and health systems from providing consistent care, even when needed. The post New State Laws...
Vox

AI doesn’t have to reason to take your job - In 2023, one popular perspective on AI went like this: Sure, it can generate lots of impressive text, but it can’t truly reason — it’s all shallow mimicry,...
Texas Observer

APOCALYPSES: SCENARIO #267-590 - air so cold breath rattles down my throat like a penny tumbling in the cracked engine of a 2008 ford ranger going 75 on 45 with a broken a/...
ArcaMax

Bill Press: Israel should finish what it started – without our help - It’s the old Catholic in me, I guess. But I can’t resist. “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I had breakfast with Steve Bannon.” Well, kind of, sort of....
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Getting The Pig Over the Stile - The world faces a decision. Or the president does. Somebody seems to, but Trump’s allies and supporters appear to be on more solid ground than he is. They’...
Crooked Timber

Open letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the skewed selection process for head of European Data Protection Supervisor - Hi CT readers, I’m publishing this open letter here so there’s a public record of the letter I’ve co-written and signed about what looks, walks and talks l...
The Smirking Chimp

The Most Dangerous Corporation in America -
Skeptophilia

Awe - I was pondering the question of what the hell is wrong with so many of the people in positions of power on our planet, and I've come to the conclusion th...
Mother Jones

The Sunrise Movement Has Launched a Campaign to “Villainize Big Oil” - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The youth activists who put the Green...
Off The Kuff

Abbott appoints Sen. Hancock as Comptroller - New guy alert. Republican state Sen. Kelly Hancock launched his campaign for state comptroller Thursday shortly after taking a senior position at the compt...
The AltWorld

Critiquing Trump’s Point About Russia, The G7, & Ukraine - Trump’s point is all over the place, being sensible, incomplete, and disingenuous all in one. Trump shocked […] The post Critiquing Trump’s Point About R...
Grist

Want to try lab-grown salmon? The US just approved it. - Despite a growing number of state bans, advocates of cultivated seafood say it can protect waterways from overfishing.
Crooked Media

The MAGA Rift Over War in Iran - The post The MAGA Rift Over War in Iran appeared first on Crooked Media.
Claytoonz

Isn’t It Ironic? - 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...
Counterpunch

Israel’s Nuclear Deception: Flagrant Lies and Brazen Hypocrisy - Like so many other colonial projects, Israel was born of terror and has necessitated the use of violence to occupy Arab territory ever since. The realiza...
jobsanger

The U.S. Double Standard On War And Diplomacy -
Informed Comment

Israel’s Wars are Colonial, Contradicting Biblical Values - Montréal (Special to Informed Comment; Featured) – As missiles fly across West Asia, I recall my trip to Iran where, in 2016, I discovered a fascinating co...
Antiwar.com

Israel’s Attack on Iran: The Violent New World Being Born Is Going To Horrify You - Western politicians and media are tying themselves up in knots trying to spin the impossible: presenting Israel’s unmistakable war of aggression against Ir...
Nina Illingworth

On Pogroms, Trans Youth, and the Supreme Court - This week a fundie fascist-dominated US Supreme Court told trans kids to just die, and gave a green light to the burgeoning anti-trans pogrom in American...
Wolf Street

The Condo Bust Is Here: Prices Dropped Already 10% to 23% in 20 Bigger Cities, Unravel the Most Splendid Condo Bubble Ever - Oakland, Austin, St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, San Francisco, Boise, Jacksonville, Detroit, New Orleans, Arlington, Tampa, Reno, Seattle, Denver, Mesa, Chand...
Brad Blog

'Will Kill Lots of People': Senate Budget Cuts to Health Care 'More Extreme' Than House Version: 'BradCast' 6/19/2025 - On today's BradCast: It's getting worse, not better --- and more deadly --- in the U.S. Senate. That, even though the House version is already wildly unpop...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 20, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/20/2025 - 06:40 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Trump Administration shutting down LGBTQ youth suicide hotline by July. Move called 'incomprehensible' and 'wrong.' - When running for president in 2016, Trump pretended to be an LGBTQ ally. When he was elected, he continued the pretense even as his administration tried ...
See You In 2020

MAGA communism’s strategy has been vindicated by the Trump base’s revolt. The next step is mass organization. - This week, the account Texas Patriot made a tweet that’s gotten almost fourteen million impressions. It said: “F*ck it. If Trump takes us to war, I'm d...
Capital & Main

The Crackdown on L.A. Protests is Costing the City Millions. - LAPD’s response to anti-ICE protests, which has already resulted in litigation, is putting additional stress on the city’s budget. The post The Crackdown...
The Greanville Post

Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson) - ROB LARSON—It's an exclusive venue with exclusive products and exclusive service. And it's fascinating because in society, so many of us and so many instit...
Ian Welsh

The Next Big One - [image: The Next Big One] Several months ago I wrote two essays on Russian grand strategy. (My apologies on never completing the nuclear one, an extremely...
Portside

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals - Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals jay Thu, 06/19/2025 - 18:45
Reform Austin

Texas Launches $20 Billion Water Infrastructure Plan, Pending Voter Approval - Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a sweeping water infrastructure package aimed at tackling Texas’ growing water crisis. The initiative, set to to...
slacktivist

‘Code Adam’ - With abductions and attempted abductions on the rise at retail locations throughout America, it's good to review most retailers' official policy on abducti...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Paola Ramos explores her book 'Defectors' about right-wing Latino voters | Horizonte - *Friends:* *Paola Ramos—journalist, MSNBC correspondent, and daughter of Univision anchor Jorge Ramos—offers a timely and provocative reflection on Latin...
Church and State

Trump Is Preparing the Military for Political War – And He’s Using a Confederate Traitor to Do It - In fascist regimes, the press is always one of their first targets, typically labeled as “enemies of the people,” and ultimately silenced or co-opted.
Angry Bear

Why hasn’t the housing downturn caused a recession yet? A detailed look - – by New Deal democrat As promised yesterday, today let me take an extended look at the important leading sector of housing. I want to walk through each...
Socialist Alternative

War On Iran Escalates As Trump Moves Towards Intervention - After 5 days of war, Netanyahu and Trump both ordered the entire population of Tehran to evacuate, stressing Israel’s military superiority and “control of ...
Bonddad

Why hasn’t the housing downturn caused a recession yet? A detailed look - * - by New Deal democrat* As promised yesterday, today let me take an extended look at the important leading sector of housing. I want to walk throug...
Project Censored

Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex - Mischa Geracoulis As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partne...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Anti-Trans Update and Reprise - This will be my third and final rerun for the week, but, as with the other two, it comes with a preface based on current events. On February 11, I publis...
Glasstire

Top Five: June 19, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Un Dique: Iteraciones Del Espacio Interrumpido Rubin Ce...
Earthworks

Ammonia 101: What is Blue Ammonia and Why You Should Care - Author: anaïs peterson The oil and gas industry is constantly shifting and creating new ways to justify its existence and … The post Ammonia 101: What i...
The Conversation

Metro Detroit is growing – but its suburbs are telling a more complicated story - The outer ring of suburbs is attracting more new residents − and they are richer and better educated.
Environment Texas

Drilling threatens Chaco Canyon, one of America’s oldest monuments - Although Chaco Cultural National Historical Park has incalculable ecological and historical value, it is once again threatened by expanded oil and gas dr...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 19 June 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For my post on the No Kings rallies, click here. F...
Bud Kennedy

Were the Minnesota killings ‘spiritual warfare’? Dallas school tied to extremism | Opinion - The trail of violent religious extremism has led to Texas again, raising questions about a small Dallas school for missionaries. Christ For The Nations Ins...
Earth 911

Sustainable Alternative Lawns - The suburban lawn is a potent symbol of the American dream, and many people can’t... The post Sustainable Alternative Lawns appeared first on Earth911.
The Grayzone

US Army appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs as Lt. Colonels - Four senior executives at Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI have been formally appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army following the creation of a “special...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“Iron” Dome - Almost as if somebody threw a switch someplace, Western media were suddenly awash in fotos and video of bombed-out buildings and people weeping for lost an...
The Texas Signal

Texas Democrats Strategize A Path Forward - Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger appeared with several North Texas elected officials to discuss the future of the Democratic Party
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Sludge

‘Unprecedented’ Tax Credit in GOP Megabill Would Fuel School Privatization - A tax credit proposal buried in the Big Beautiful Bill would allow school voucher fund donors to lower their taxes beyond the cost of their donations.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Need a General Strike: The Check-In With Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The way to stop war and authoritarianism is to say enough is enough
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virginia’s Wild Democratic Statewide Primaries - Recapping the wild Democratic statewide Virginia primaries and looking ahead to the fall The post Friends, Neighbors, and Unfriendly Neighbors in Virgini...
Ecosophia

A Brief Guide to Status Panic - Yes, I know I said I was going to return to the theme of climate change as soon as I got back from my working trip to England. Regular readers will know th...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
LareDOS

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

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Reveal

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Enhanced Prevarication Techniques

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