Brains and Eggs: Sunday 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

Futurism

Tesla’s New Flying Death Trap Looks a Lot Like a Cybertruck - It's not just the looks. The post Tesla’s New Flying Death Trap Looks a Lot Like a Cybertruck appeared first on Futurism.
ArcaMax

Public Parks Aren't Development Opportunities. A Historic Park Serves as a Warning. - I thought the University of Louisville had listened. Two years ago, the university hosted public meetings about the prospect of developing Stansbury Park, ...
Raw Story

'Voila': CNN fact-checker cracks case of Trump's mystery 19 percent inflation number - CNN's Daniel Dale has a theory about where President Donald Trump got his claim that inflation under former President Joe Biden reached 19 percent – and ...
Ian Welsh

The Death Of Democracy - Something I’m seeing in a lot of smart people (and stupid ones too, usually for different reasons) is a loss in faith of democracy. In one sense this is si...
Al Jazeera English

Palestinians, US journalist attacked in West Bank pogrom: What we know - Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives and severely beat Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump attacks Republicans for ‘hurting Texas’ as Paxton struggles against surging Talarico – live - Trump lambasted senator John Cornyn and strategist Karl Rove, claiming that they were ‘sadly, and very stupidly’ working against Paxton due to personal j...
Scheerpost.com

Genocide Treated as Afterthought by Media on Third Anniversary of October 7 Attacks - Belén Fernández FAIR October 7 marked three years since the Hamas attacks on Israel that left some 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage. It also marks t...
Mediagazer

Ex-BBC News presenter Huw Edwards, who served a six-month suspended sentence for possessing CSAM, loses a privacy and accuracy complaint against the Daily Mail (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette) - Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: *Ex-BBC News presenter Huw Edwards, who served a six-month suspended sentence for possessing CSAM, loses a privacy and ...
The Hill

Trump wins elections but fails at governing - He thinks it’s about augmenting his power; voters think it’s about helping them solve their problems.
Techdirt.

Trump Acquired $5 Million In SpaceX Debt Two Days Before Space Transportation Executive Order - Our consolidated corporate press doesn’t really make this clear, surprisingly, but the United States is too corrupt to function. There’s simply no shortage...
The Conversation

Why the 26 secretary of state races this November matter more than they did before Trump’s drive to assert federal authority over elections - Secretaries of state are at the center of growing conflict over how election authority should be divided between states and the federal government. There a...
Rallblog

ICE Chases and Runs Over “Dead” Man | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: • ICE agents ram their unmarked SUV into a fleeing Houston construction worker, shattering his leg in a...
Debunking Christianity

The Biggest Threat to Christianity Is the New Testament - * The feel-good quotes are overwhelmed by contradictions and superstitions* Some scholars have suggested that the earliest document in the New Testament ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Let’s End a Busy Week With Humor - I got about halfway through today’s tranche of editorial cartoons and decided this was not the day for all that. Saw some good ones, but nothing that won’t...
Vox

The case for data centers, explained by a person who wants you to like them - Lately, AI data centers are public enemy No. 1. The concerns are legion: how much water and electricity they consume, the noise they generate, the sprawlin...
Mother Jones

Trump’s SEC is Threatening Big Investors That Pushed ExxonMobil on Climate Risk - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Securities and Exchange...
WhoWhatWhy

What One Subway Death Reveals About a Country That Stopped Listening - [image: People in line, sorting] A man died on a subway and a divided country knew whose fault it was before it knew his name. The real story is a country ...
Houston Public Media

Flock camera oversight (Oct. 16, 2026) - On Friday's show: A report found gaps in oversight of Flock cameras in Harris County. And we break down The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week.
Undernews

Tales from the attic: Finding the right words - Sam Smith, March 2016 – Lately, I’ve been feeling real glad that I got into activism in the early 1960s because I’m increasingly getting the sense that I...
Dorf on Law

I Read Justice Alito's Book so You Wouldn't Have To (And You Shouldn't) - Justice Alito titled his new "book," "So Ordered: An Originalist's View of the Constitution, the Court, and our Country." This project is not new, and it...
Political Wire

Trump Begins Florida Season with Mar-a-Lago Stays - “President Trump will return to his Florida base of operations to juice in-person early voting with an Oct. 23 rally in the southwest part of the state,” A...
naked capitalism

Links 10/16/2026 -
Mediaite

Critics Floored by Sean Hannity’s ‘Crazy’ Zacharia Takedown on Fox News: ‘She’s Cooked’ - Hannity, who had initially defended Zacharia's debut appearance as “perfectly normal,” took a decidedly different approach when she joined him Thursday. ...
Space City Weather

Hellooooo, Fall! Soak up this weekend Houston, you’ve earned it - In brief: Autumn arrives in the Houston area today, with plummeting humidity and comfortable, if not cool temperatures this weekend! While next week offers...
Novara Media

A Motion, a Meltdown, and an Andy Burnham-Shaped Opportunity - They’re calling it the E motion heard around the world, as the fallout continues from the Green party’s ‘Zionism is Racism’ policy, passed at its conferenc...
Salon.com

MAGA just wants to watch people die - Every Trump policy comes with a body count. Is that the point?
Axios

Warsh signals steady Fed outlook despite inflation jump - Federal Reserve chairman Kevin Warsh said Friday that the economy has largely performed as expected since September's rate hike, hinting that little has ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Moral Squalor -
The Week

Mary Portas picks her favourite books - The retail consultant and broadcaster selects works by Rainer Maria Rilke, Edith Wharton and Laurie Lee
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Judge Erika Ramirez - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for Democratic judicial candidates. I ran a series of these for candidates in contes...
The Verge

Time is a-changin’: say goodbye to the leap second - An important change will soon be made to global timekeeping that aims to prevent potential infrastructure failures akin to the Y2K bug scare. On Thursday, ...
San Antonio Report

A debate over canceling a Veterans Day ceremony highlights lack of representation in a Texas congressional district - [image: District 23 Congressman Tony Gonzales R-TX, passes around his congressional voting ID during a luncheon hosted by the San Antonio Chamber of Commer...
The Daily Poster

Tim Walz Warns That Democrats Can Win And Still Lose - The Minnesota governor responds to Barack Obama’s claim that government corruption is down, and to Rahm Emanuel’s call to cast out democratic socialists.
Crooked Media

Donald Trump: Ass Man - The post Donald Trump: Ass Man appeared first on Crooked Media.
Angry Bear

The beginning of the end of dollar dominance? - The US dollar has been the world’s reserve currency for decades. This has meant more favorable lending conditions for America. Now, it looks like China i...
Two Party Opera

Public Safety Power Shutoff - Read More Today's comic is hand-drawn because Southern California Edison shutoff my power all day.
ProPublica

“Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits - The post “Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

Public health nurse talks about the moment she learned to ask for help - For StoryCorps, a public health nurse in Minnesota speaks with her college mentor about a moment when she almost gave up on her career aspirations.
Grist

Long after the Maui fires, toxic metals linger in residents’ bodies - The toxic exposures didn’t begin with the flames. Researchers are examining how fires impacted a community already harmed by plantation agriculture, develo...
High Country News

What my dog taught me about how to live - The luck we don’t know we have. The post What my dog taught me about how to live appeared first on High Country News.
The Root

Black-Led Scary Shows to Stream This Halloween Season - With Halloween right around the corner, these are the Black-led shows worth adding to your scary TV watchlists! Read more...
Slate

What if the Fix for the Supreme Court Isn’t Adding Seats—It’s Adding You, The People? - “Democracy is not an heirloom to be polished and revered.”
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Honoring Frances Stonor Saunders - In her revelatory work The Cultural Cold War, the late British author was the first to shine so unblinking a light on the sprawl of the C.I.A.’s cultural i...
jobsanger

Trump Is Solely Responsible For The Resurgence Of Inflation -
World Socialist Web Site

Democrats plot major escalation of Ukraine war after midterm election - The Democrats are making clear behind the scenes that their central priority, should they win a majority in one or both houses of Congress, will be the esc...
Informed Comment

Oil Prices Soar as Yemen’s Houthis Strike Saudi Oil Co., Rival’s Palace in Aden - Inside Yemen, two hot fronts are the southwestern city of Taiz, pop. 800,000 (think Seattle), and the southern port city of Aden
The NM Political Report

Rep. Reeb resigns from state house after court rules against her double-dipping as legislator, prosecutor - [image: State Rep. Andrea Reeb] A high-profile state representative on the investigative committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein resigned from the New Mex...
Workers World

Austin, Texas: Hundreds say ‘Death row? Shut it down!’ - [image: Austin, Texas: Hundreds say ‘Death row? Shut it down!’] Austin, Texas Anti-death penalty activists came from around the state on Oct. 10 to partici...
Courthouse News

American Airlines to face former cadets’ racial discrimination claims - The plaintiffs say they were subjected to racially abusive treatment and left with an average of $90,000 in debt after being kicked out or forced to quit A...
Brad Blog

DOJ Files Limp ‘Noncitizen’ Voting Suit in CA Just Days After Its Nationwide Voting Roll Scheme Found Unlawful: ‘BradCast’ 10/15/2026 - On today’s BradCast: A saving grace for all of us is that this wannabe-authoritarian Administration is just really bad at it, as evidenced yet again by the...
Claytoonz

Gas And Beans - Read the Blohttps://claytoonz.substack.com/p/gas-and-beansg. There are 19 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support th...
Portside

El-Sayed Works To Stitch Together a Diverse Majority - El-Sayed Works To Stitch Together a Diverse Majority jay Thu, 10/15/2026 - 21:36
Duck of Minerva

Episode 2: Being and Insecurity - Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, Nina Krickel-Choi, Jennifer Mitzen, and Brent Steele join Dan and Patri...
Popular Resistance

The Trump Administration Is Expanding The Definition Of ‘Terrorism’ - In communities throughout the United States, the infrastructure required to surveil and track anyone is rapidly being constructed, from Automatic License...
Alternet

The crush of Trump’s corruption is finally settling in - President Donald Trump and his administration are so corrupt, it overwhelms ordinary Americans while robbing them blind, at least according to one promin...
Ballot Access News

Hearing in California Top-Two Case on October 23 Will be at 9 am, not 11 am - The U.S. District Court hearing in Peace & Freedom Party v Weber will be at 9 am, not 11 am, on Friday, October 23. The address is 450 Golden Gate Ave., Sa...
Black Agenda Report

Congo's Elite Struggle for Power While Imperialist Control and Violence Decimates the Country - Congo's Elite Struggle for Power While Imperialist Control and Violence Decimates the Country Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio distillery cancels ‘non-political’ gun rally involving controversial candidate Brandon Herrera - 'I think we were bamboozled on the whole deal,' Rebecca Creek Distillery said in an online statement. The post San Antonio distillery cancels ‘non-poli...
The Greanville Post

IMPERIALISM: DECADENT & DOOMED W/JOTI BRAR EP 66 – ECONOMIC PROTESTS IN EUROPE SPREAD - GN—This video features a discussion between host Garland Nixon and guest Joti Brar regarding the ongoing economic protests spreading across Europe. The con...
Sludge

Pop-Up Dark Money Group Funnels Millions Into Super PAC Backing Peltola - Peltola pledges to fight dark money, but her campaign did not say whether she would urge the groups backing her to reveal their funding sources.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Explainer: Taiwan’s Alaska LNG Bet - Taiwan is looking to Alaska for more than natural gas. U.S. President Donald Trump announced this week that Taiwan had agreed to buy 30 percent of the outp...
slacktivist

The purpose-driven labor priest - A labor activist reads Rick Warren and it gets me wondering about "evangelicalism" in the age of Bryan.
Election Law Blog

“Costa Mesa woman’s voter fraud case dismissed after she admits registering dog to vote” - NBC Los Angeles: A Costa Mesa woman accused of illegally registering her dog to vote and casting ballots in the animal’s name in two California elections...
Deadline Politics

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Defends Calling Herself A Lawyer Even Though She Did Not Pass Bar Exam - White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia defended calling herself a lawyer, even though she is not licensed to be an attorney at law. The Wall Street Jou...
Progressive.org

Listen to What Single Moms Are Saying - Affordable child care, community, and sustained investment aren’t luxuries; they’re the foundation for economic mobility.
CultureMap Houston

Family friendly Houston sports bar rushes into Conroe for 5th location - Family-friendly sports bar *Spectators Bar & Grill* has opened its fifth Houston-area location in Conroe.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Late start
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
El Paso Matters

Incumbent Art Fierro faces four challengers in East El Paso District 6 race - Art Fierro faces four challengers for the District 6 City Council seat as voters weigh rising costs, the Meta data center deal and city spending. The po...
SCOTUSblog

Challengers ask court to pause agreement between Texas and the DOJ on deportation proceedings - Three cities and a group that provides legal services to immigrants came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to pause an agreement between Texas an...
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
Crooked Timber

On the demise of Contemporary Professional Mathematics - From the Fall of the Berlin Wall until about a decade ago my animating intellectual question was pretty much, ‘how did a small number of natural sciences b...
OpEd News

The Mother of All Bombs' -or the Mother of All Bluffs? Washington's Iran Strategy Meets the Limits of Military Power - Washington's reported plans to use the Mother of All Bombs against Iran raise serious questions about military effectiveness and political strategy. Examin...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Peltola returns to The Last Word! - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2026* *New York Times gone wild: *We were glad to see Mary Peltola back on last evening's *Last Word*. Previously, she had appea...
IVN

Missouri Voters Could Kill a Gerrymander — And Make It Harder for Politicians to Try Again - Missouri voters will decide on two ballot measures that could reshape congressional redistricting. Rejecting the new map while approving Amendment 6 might ...
memeorandum

Bill and Hillary Clinton make eleventh-hour midterm moves as party's old guard faces new reality (Fox News) - Fox News: *Bill and Hillary Clinton make eleventh-hour midterm moves as party's old guard faces new reality* — The Clintons are back on the midterm cam...
Church and State

Does the GOP Lose Congress in the Midterm elections? - If the Democrats take both houses of Congress that would at least pave the way for a commencement of enormous reforms.
Earthworks

Equinox Gold’s outdated environmental studies won’t protect the California desert - Equinox Gold’s Western Mesquite Mine in the desert of Southern California is the state’s largest producing gold mine. The company … The post Equinox Gol...
Mondoweiss

Inside the fight to stop Israel-bound weapons at the East Coast’s biggest port - At Port Newark-Elizabeth, activists are escalating their tactics to stop weapons shipments to Israel. Mondoweiss reports from the port’s front lines.
Project Censored

The Freedom and Restraints of Reporting on China in the US - Reflecting on RFA, VOA, and publications geared toward younger Chinese-speaking communities
Wolf Street

Businesses Slammed by 6.3% PPI Inflation, Worst since 2022, Much Worse than Consumer-Facing Inflation - Driven by spiking costs of energy and services.
Capital & Main

Life Along a Threatened River - Three people share stories of living on the Pecos River as it flows through the oilfields of the Permian Basin. The post Life Along a Threatened River ap...
Socialist Alternative

Union Teacher Speaks Out: Defend The Minnesota 15 & Abolish ICE To Fund Schools! - The following is a speech given by Fiona Cavanagh, member of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (speaking in a personal capacity) and member of Social...
Dissent Magazine

What’s at Stake in the Ilhan Omar Case - Trump’s investigation of Omar strikes at elementary assumptions of a free and republican government: that political opposition is legitimate, that the ex...
Texas Observer

Despite Surge in Prison Overdoses, State Agency Requests No New Treatment Funding - From 2020 to 2025, the number of confirmed overdose deaths in Texas prisons rose from just four to at least 131. Despite this surge in fatalities, howeve...
Texas Standard

Property tax cuts aren’t supposed to affect Texas schools. Districts say it doesn’t always work - Texas officials say nearly 1.5 million homeowners now pay zero school property taxes. The state is supposed to hold districts “harmless,” but some say ther...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Announces Two More Congressional Endorsements in Arizona and Texas - The Forward Party has announced two more endorsements ahead of November, backing Democratic U.S. House candidates Dani Sterbinsky in Arizona and Caitlin ...
Glasstire

Laughing You’ll Never Hear: The Art Guys’ Time Capsule Reveal at the University of Houston - The Art Guys are hard to put into words. Describing their projects — performances, drawings, ideas — can often feel perfunctory, flattening the real magi...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The War We Must Never Let Happen: The New World War and the Fall of American Empire - We’re sitting on a tinderbox unlike any before and we have choices
Bonddad

Retail sales continue this year’s positive trend, suggest jobs market likely to improve as well - * - by New Deal democrat* As per usual, real retail sales is one of my favorite economic indicators, because it says so much about the health of the ...
Bracing Views

The Conceit of Total Dominance - And the Sheer Expense of It All BILL ASTORE 18 HOURS AGO A strange conceit of American exceptionalism is the naked ambition of full-spectrum dominance. The...
Democracy Now!

"Hyperscale": Paris Marx on Excess of Big Tech Data Empires & His Critique of Bernie Sanders' AI Bill - We speak with tech journalist Paris Marx about his new book, *Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires*. In the book, Marx exposes th...
Rewire

Nobody Told Me Menopause Would Feel Like This (Podcast) - Black women reach menopause earlier, deal with symptoms longer, and are less likely to get treated. But hey, at least there’s TikTok.
NORML

The Next Attack on Legalization Targets Voters - [image: An illustration of hands placing marijuana votes into a ballot box containing a wastebasket representing ignoring the election results][image: An...
Infidel753

The election -- a warning from an independent - As the election approaches, it's being greeted by an exuberant festival of unhatched-chicken-counting among Democrats. Posts breathlessly celebrate polls...
Common Dreams

Make It Shitty, Vengeful, Inept and Untrue - The devastation goes on apace at the teeny toxic hands of the clowns and hacks in power (maybe not much longer?). Topping the abuses: An assault by Homel...
Antiwar.com

A Culture of Death - “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.” — Voltaire (1694-1778) A go...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Unhinged man says he loses sleep over the thought of trans men using the public restroom next to his three-year-old daughter - This Trumper gave us one of the most explosive anger-management crash outs I’ve seen https://t.co/0w2cXgUOsG — Isaiah Martin (@isaiahrmartin) October 13, ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Shortlist for the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce t...
Discourse

Is James Talarico Winning or Is Ken Paxton Just Losing? (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: Trump talking about Jon Husted’s ass, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s firing, and the Kelly Clarkson animatronic bird scandal
The AltWorld

Yemen goes for the (Saudi) jugular - The House of Saud has received a stunning warning from Ansarallah and the Yemeni Armed Forces: if […] The post Yemen goes for the (Saudi) jugular appeare...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Hispanic Heritage Month Recognition from the Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (TADOHE) - *My heartfelt thanks to the Texas Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (TADOHE) and its President, Dr. Shawntal Brown, for this incredib...
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Environment Texas

Energy efficiency is our secret weapon - Amid Iran oil shocks, there’s wisdom in efficient energy use The post Energy efficiency is our secret weapon appeared first on Environment Texas.
MintPress News

Embarrassing Defeat: Yemen’s Resistance Thwarts Greater Israel Plot for Red Sea Dominance - Yemen’s Ansarallah are combating Israel’s expanded military outpost project, centred in Somaliland, as it accelerated plans to control the Red Sea and ov...
The Grayzone

US corporate media portrays violent Nicaraguan coup plotter as ‘political prisoner’ - US media and the human rights industry are portraying Jeffrey Jarquin as a heroic freedom fighter tortured and wrongly imprisoned by Nicaragua’s governme...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Completed Symbol 3 - Last month’s passage through the deep places of Yeats’s A Vision focused on the most abstruse and difficult part of the entire system, the relation between...
The Texas Signal

Abbott Aims to Bar H1-B Visas for Teachers - Over the summer, Governor Abbott called for a law that would bar H-1B visa holders from working in Texas public schools
Krebs on Security

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering - The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for pa...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
First Draft

GOP DEI: Katie Zacharia - The new Press Secretary has an IQ problem, an EQ problem, and a QAnon problem. Oh, and she lied about being an attorney.
The Progressive Wing

10/14-15 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, candidate updates, etc. in the comments.
See You In 2020

Zohran’s Zionist unmasking, & the next turn the pro-Palestine movement must take - Zohran’s continued effort to lead his core base into liberal Zionism is part of a much bigger trend: “pro-Palestine” politics that wants to actively tak...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Congressman Questioned Reports of Deadly Conditions at an ICE Detention Center. Then Two More People Died. - Nearly 60 people have died in detention, as calls against medical neglect, inedible food, and unsanitary conditions continue. Congress must establish stand...
Trivial Knot

California 2026 election - In contrast to the clown show of politics, actually filling out a ballot is very tedious. I believe in filling out the entire ballot, but I also believe in...
Liberation News

How the French student revolt reveals the broader social crisis in Europe - The protests are broadening beyond education into a referendum on “Macronisme” and the entire constitutional structure of the Fifth Republic.
Alas, a Blog

Adorable AI Puppies - Another collaboration with Nadine Scholtes! (Nadine and I have done an AI-themed cartoon once before). I’m in my fifties, and therefore suspect myself anyt...
LareDOS

When everything looks like a nail, odds are you are using the hammer for the wrong job - Every new tool is sold with the dazzling promise of abundance enjoyed in leisure
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: INTERNATIONAL SCUMBAGGERY AFOOT EDITION. - *Can you dig it?* Hey, remember when the bad guys were the lunatics who performed executions in front of cameras and broadcast it to the world? Well, gue...
The Militant

Solidarity with BP oil workers, locked out for over 6 months! - WHITING, Ind. — The 800 oil refinery workers locked out by BP in March, after they overwhelmingly rejected the company’s “last, best, and final” offer, hav...
Lowering the Bar

Court Holds AI-Generated “Victim Statement” Not Reliable - [image: still from Chris Pelkey video]Like almost everything else AI generates.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Try to Avoid a Crossover District Shutout; Four House Rating Changes - Even in wave midterm years, the presidential party has retained a few "crossover" seats. Will Republicans this year? The post Republicans Try to Avoid a ...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Consent Factory, Inc.

My Breakfast with Tucker - So I did the Tucker Carlson Show. That’s right, I flew back to the USA (again), rented a car, drove up to Tucker’s place in Maine, had breakfast with Tucke...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

White House Halloween Card - 9.5 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb I was working in the lab late one night, telling myself to not waste time doing cartoons about bullshit issu...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Field Negro

The fake populist. - The following article was written by my friend, *Chauncey DeVega*, for *Salon Magazine. * "Donald Trump is not a real populist. That fact will not cha...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
Land Destroyer

The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape - *September 15, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with...
Unlimited Hangout

Remember Yesterday: AI For Today and Tomorrow - A short op-ed from UH contributor Mark Goodwin on the under discussed downsides already apparent today and those likely coming tomorrow due to the prolif...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Green Pages News

A Call for Truth, Accountability, and Mental Health Care in the Wake of Recurring Tragedy - GARNER, NC – Today, I am speaking not only as a candidate for the U.S. Senate and a co-chair of the Black Caucus of the North Carolina Green Party, but as ...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Skeptophilia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

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

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

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

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

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

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Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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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...
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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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