Brains and Eggs: Sunday Somewhat 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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Political Wire

Machado Presented Trump with Nobel Prize - “Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado met Thursday with President Trump and presented him with her Nobel Peace Prize, an honor he has long cov...
Mediaite

‘Good Lord’: Scott Jennings Roasted For Shortening a Tim Walz Quote To Call Him an Insurrectionist - Scott Jennings, CNN’s popular conservative pundit, sparked a wave of criticism on Thursday when he took a swipe at protestors in Minnesota and Gov. Tim W...
memeorandum

Machado Leaves White House Visit With Little to Show (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *Machado Leaves White House Visit With Little to Show* — Venezuela's opposition leader had hoped to shore up support while Trump h...
Mediagazer

Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president of Lucasfilm after nearly 14 years and will be succeeded by the studio's Dave Filoni and Lynwen Brennan (Brooks Barnes/New York Times) - Brooks Barnes / New York Times: *Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down as the president of Lucasfilm after nearly 14 years and will be succeeded by the studi...
Vox

What 3,000 federal agents are doing in Minnesota - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Raw Story

Ex-Proud Boys leader claims he's getting death threats over media's 'stupid troll' - A former Proud Boys leader said he has received death threats after reports that he joined ICE, according to a Newsweek report Thursday. Enrique Tarrio,...
The Hill

Senators scramble as crypto fissures threaten key bill - Senators are scrambling to find a way forward on key cryptocurrency legislation after the Senate Banking Committee postponed a highly anticipated markup fo...
CultureMap Houston

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple enhances the zombie franchise - It’s not often that a return to a franchise after years of no activity results in an actual good movie, but 2025’s *28 Years Later* proved successful by re...
The Verge

You can save over $1,500 on LG’s 65-inch C5 OLED TV - LG might have just revealed its new C6 OLED TVs at CES 2026, but we still don't know when they'll actually hit stores. If you don't want to wait - or spend...
NPR's Health Shots

Critics say 'talk to your doc' requirement for some vaccines causes confusion - A recent change puts some long-recommended childhood vaccines in a new category called "shared clinical decision-making." The ramifications of this seeming...
The NM Political Report

Public defender challenge ousts New Mexico’s acting U.S. attorney - [image: A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Ryan Ellison, New Mexico’s acting U.S. attorney, was improperly appointed and cannot serve in that role.] A ...
Futurism

ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster - "They were using AI to scan resumes and found out a bunch of the people who were LEOs weren't LEOs." The post ICE’s AI Tool Has Been a Complete Disaster ...
The Greanville Post

Trump threatens NATO; Putin doesn’t. - ERIC ZUESSE—On 25 July 1945, U.S. President Truman had decided that the U.S. Government must conquer Russia and take over the world, and that getting Ukrai...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy!
Slate

Fed Chair Publicly Rejects Trump’s Boots on His Neck - Are Trump’s attacks on the Fed Chair just about Powell, or does he have a longer-term agenda?
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/16/2026 - 03:25 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Houston Public Media

Houston ISD has seen increased enrollment decline, workforce shifts under state takeover, UH report shows - Enrollment was steadily declining prior to the takeover, but the decline increased in size and pace after the 2022-2023 school year.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

San Francisco to make childcare free for families earning up to $230,000 - Officials to offer 50% subsidy up to $310,000 in effort to make one of world’s most expensive cities more affordable San Francisco will offer free childc...
San Antonio Current

Senate hopeful Talarico rolls out ‘anti-corruption’ agenda as he takes 9-point lead in new polling - State Rep. James Talarico, D-Austin, is having a damn good week. In the past seven days, the U.S. Senate hopeful has spoken to an at-capacity crowds in ...
Al Jazeera English

Israel kills 8 in Gaza as US declares phase two of ceasefire deal launched - Two family homes come under Israeli attack in central Gaza's Deir el-Balah, killing at least eight Palestinians.
Techdirt.

Justice Gorsuch Reminds: The Fourth Amendment Isn’t Dead Yet - The Supreme Court released a few decisions this week. All of them are important for the parties involved, and ultimately for everyone, but not to the immed...
Courthouse News

Defense Department says military newspaper Stars and Stripes must eliminate ‘woke distractions’ - The outlet's mission statement emphasizes that it is “editorially independent of interference from outside its own editorial chain-of-command.”
Axios

NATO allies launch Arctic drills as Trump eyes Greenland - NATO allies are increasing their military presence in Greenland against the backdrop of a growing threat: President Trump's takeover push. *Why it matte...
slacktivist

Yeah damn right, she’ll rise again - Love Is All Around. Plus: You can learn a lot about a guy from how he talks about his ex(es).
Second Nexus

Lifters Stand Up For Woman After Fatphobic Guy At Gym Tells Her Not To Work Out Next To Him - There's nothing quite like people going to the gym to improve their health, only for them to be shamed by fellow gym goers. TikToker @_markie.__, who re...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in Canada, Dec 2025: Single-Family & Condo Prices Hit Multi-Year Lows in Toronto, Spike in Montreal, Quebec - In between: Vancouver, Victoria, Hamilton-Burlington, Calgary, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton, Winnipeg.
The Week

San Francisco tackles affordability problems with free child care - The free child care will be offered to thousands of families in the city
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Launches New Bi-Weekly Podcast on Democracy Reform - The Forward Party has launched a new bi-weekly podcast focused on democracy reform, independent voters, and proposals intended to address partisan gridlo...
Bracing Views

Making Armageddon Great Again - A Mushroom Cloud, A Smoking Gun BILL ASTORE JAN 15, 2026 Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featured a fiction contest: “Write Before Midnight...
Texas Observer

In Ink and on Airwaves, Texas Media Grows Ever More Concentrated - In the realm of Texas newspapers, one media mogul now rules them all—or close to it at least. Last February, Hearst Communications acquired the Austin Am...
Mondoweiss

The U.S. has announced ‘Phase 2’ of the Gaza ceasefire. Here’s why it doesn’t matter for Palestinians. - [image: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 28, 2020, in the East Room of the White House ...
Salon.com

GOP senators vow “substantial opposition” against Trump using military force in Greenland - “We cannot do military action in Greenland. Should not, cannot," said Sen. James Lankford
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: That Minneapolis woman has been IDed! - *THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2026* *It's all over now but the sifting: *The young woman who was dragged from her car in Minneapolis has been identified, though...
ProPublica

Her Daughter Died After Taking a Generic Version of a Lifesaving Drug. This Is What She Wants You to Know. - The post Her Daughter Died After Taking a Generic Version of a Lifesaving Drug. This Is What She Wants You to Know. appeared first on ProPublica.
SCOTUSblog

Court to hear oral argument on law banning guns on private property - The Second Amendment provides that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” On Tuesday, in Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme ...
Common Dreams

ACLU Sues Federal Government to End ICE, CBP’s Practice of Suspicionless Stops, Warrantless Arrests, and Racial Profiling of Minnesotans - The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Minnesota, Covington & Burling LLP, Greene Espel PLLP, and Robins Kaplan LLP filed a class-action lawsuit tod...
World Socialist Web Site

Further Education workers strike 17 colleges in England as University and College Union stifles action - Pushing through local deals is a recipe for defeat. It flies in the face of the guiding principle of the workers’ movement that “an injury to one is an inj...
Novara Media

Trump Backs Down Over Iran Strike - The US weighs its military options in Iran. Plus: Robert Jenrick sacked from the shadow cabinet, and the eyebrow-raising attempt at rewriting the history o...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Randall Kennedy Is Afraid. He Thinks You Should Be Too. Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2, 2026 - *Friends:* *This interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Evan Goldstein and Len Gutkin of Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy is one of the cle...
First Draft

While The Religious Right Argues - A religious right luminary speaking out against the Christian Nationalist justification of the Trump administration's fascist crackdown has sent the group ...
Daily Cartoonist

Hey Kids! Comics! Comic Strip Edition - Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for January 2026 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though orderi...
naked capitalism

A Quick Guide to the Power Restructure in the Middle East - The shifting power architecture of the Middle East explored through two new axes: religious politics and regard for territorial integrity
Consortium News

Chopping Down Laws - Trump rejects the obligation to execute his job faithfully, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. His loyalty is to himself, not to the words or the values underlyi...
Scheerpost.com

Deconstructing Trump’s Gaza ‘Peace’ Plan (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report - The resolution, Finkelstein points out, annuls decades of precedent established under international law on Palestine — erasing its entire legal history.
NORML

Study: Cannabis Beverages Associated with Reduced Alcohol Consumption - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
MintPress News

Revealed: The CIA-Backed Think Tanks Fueling The Iran Protests - Alan MacLeod uncovers how HRANA and U.S.-based “human rights” NGOs fuel unrest in Iran, supplying Western media with explosive casualty claims backed by ...
Election Law Blog

“Election officials say trust with CISA is broken — and may not come back” - Jessica Huseman for Votebeat: When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security first declared in January 2017 that election systems were “critical infrastru...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 15, 2026 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 2025 was the second (or third) hottest year on record, a...
Undernews

Trump regime - *Independent, UK - *Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has been mocked online over a “depression meal” she suggested for Americans after the Trump admini...
Mother Jones

A Federal Agent Shot Another Person in Minneapolis. Then Trump Threatened the Insurrection Act. - The Trump administration’s offensive against immigrants in Minneapolis—and those who seek to help them—continued to intensify Wednesday night and into Thur...
Ballot Access News

Former U.S. Senator Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, Appears to Support an Independent Candidate for U.S. Senate - On January 15, former Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester appeared to endorse an independent candidate for the U.S. Senate seat that is up this year. Se...
The Daily Poster

Human Rights Have Been Disappeared At A Top ICE Contractor - A shareholder initiative urging more human-rights monitoring at ICE detention facilities gets shot down with regulators’ blessing.
Popular Resistance

I Used To Be A Critic Of The Two-Party System - I am told that if I don’t like what “my government” is doing, I should write “my representative.” So I dropped Senator Adam Schiff a note about the US wa...
Texas Standard

Texas Supreme Court hears arguments in case tied to state’s bounty hunter abortion law - The court may decide whether a particular challenge to Texas’ Senate Bill 8, also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act, has a path forward.
Capital & Main

When Insurance Says No, Children Pay the Price - A new California bill aims to rein in mental health coverage denials that leave kids without care. The post When Insurance Says No, Children Pay the Pric...
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...
Crooked Media

Grok AI Scandal: should we treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco? w/ Rutger Bregman - The post Grok AI Scandal: should we treat Big Tech like Big Tobacco? w/ Rutger Bregman appeared first on Crooked Media.
Bonddad

Important scenes from the (recessonary?) December jobs report; was July a cycle peak? - - *by New Deal democrat* Last Friday I summarized the jobs report as “show[ing] a contracting jobs market in all important metrics except the headli...
The Root

Jill Scott Explains Why She ‘Hated’ This Memorable Scene in Tyler Perry’s ‘Why Did I Get Married?’ - While many fans may have loved Jill Scott in 'Why Did I Get Married,' the talented singer doesn't have too many fond memories of certain filming days. Re...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Why a nationwide 10% credit card rate cap could backfire on consumers - While intended to protect consumers, a rigid 10% interest rate cap would weaken credit unions and reduce safe, affordable credit options in underserved ...
Dissident Voice

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

ICE Protests Continue Throughout Texas - While many Texans are calling to abolish ICE, just a few officials in the state are taking that same position despite widespread public condemnation over t...
Deadline Politics

Reporters Committee Seeks Judicial Records Of Warrant Served To Search Washington Post Reporter’s Home - A major journalism group is seeking access to the warrant and other judicial records related to the extraordinary search of the home of Washington Post rep...
Glasstire

Top Five: January 15, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Bláithín Haddad: where vilest worms do dwell CO-OPt Res...
ArcaMax

Where There Aren't Fathers, Birth Rates Collapse - Where are the babies? Social conservatives keep asking what's happened as the U.S. fertility rate crashes to its lowest level ever. But the answer should b...
WhoWhatWhy

The Only Way to Prepare for Trump Is to Expect the Worst - [image: Donald Trump, oil industry executives, Venezuelan oil] If Donald Trump risks breaking with NATO over acquiring Greenland under a nonsensical preten...
Countercurrents

SIR:A Scorched Earth Policy - The BJP government and its suspected double the ECI seem to be following a Scorched Earth Policy that leaves nothing standing on the ground,and the pity is...
The Conversation

Most of the 1 million Venezuelans in the United States arrived within the past decade - Most of the 1 million Venezuelan immigrants in the US arrived relatively recently.
Democracy Now!

"This Regime Will Fall": Director Jafar Panahi on Deadly Iran Protests & Filmmaking Under Censorship - With Iran gripped by nationwide protests that activists say have left at least 2,600 people dead, we recently spoke with renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar P...
Grist

This tech could keep EVs from stressing the grid — and save everyone money - Instead of lots of EVs juicing up their huge batteries all at once, "active managed charging" distributes the load throughout the night, helping stabilize ...
Rallblog

Make America Crazy Again | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Space City Weather

A light freeze is possible on Saturday night in Houston - In brief: In today’s post we review the region’s average temperature over the first two weeks of the month. We also take a look at a sharp front that may b...
Dorf on Law

A Sinking Court — and One Way To Right It - This is in response to one of Steve Vladeck's “One First" essays from last month (“Progressive Judicial Institutionalism”), which was itself a response t...
The Smirking Chimp

How to Mobilize America Against Fascism -
Skeptophilia

Sleight-of-hand - Some time ago, I wrote a post about the (in)famous sort-of anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, author of bestsellers like *The Teachings of Don Juan* and *J...
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Judge James Horwitz - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help ...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
San Antonio Report

Outlaw Kitchens keeps it simple, prepares for Restaurant Weeks - Since 2010, Restaurant Weeks has supported local eateries through sluggish seasons. Participating establishments offer three-course brunches from $20 to $3...
High Country News

How geology not only shapes the world, it shapes us - A geologist’s daughter reflects on deep time and her father’s influence. The post How geology not only shapes the world, it shapes us appeared first on ...
Portside

A Push To Expand the Rights of Immigrants in Defiance of Trump - A Push To Expand the Rights of Immigrants in Defiance of Trump Mark Brody Thu, 01/15/2026 - 02:46
Counterpunch

We All Must Stand With NYC Nurses on Strike - Solidarity with the 15,000 New York City nurses at the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the Montefiore Medical Center, and the Mount Sinai Hospital, who ha...
jobsanger

Trump's Very Presence Is An Assault On American Democracy -
Workers World

PDF of January 15 issue - [image: PDF of January 15 issue] Download the PDF Hundreds of thousands of protesters say: ‘NO ICE! NO TRUMP!’ Trump’s plans to plunder Venezuela’s oil Mun...
Informed Comment

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

House Republicans call out 'unbelievably dumb' leadership after major failure - More House Republicans appear to be losing patience with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and GOP leadership in the lower chamber of Congress after mul...
Trivial Knot

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

The Black Book Of Capitalism: Sanctions Version - There’s a black book of Communism, which essentially claims that every death caused by a Communist government is the fault of communism. A while back some ...
See You In 2020

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

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

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

Meet the New Pointy-Head Boss - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Edinburg Politics

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

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

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

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

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

October new home sales: also pre-recessionary, also with signs of possible “green shoots” - – by New Deal democrat New home sales were updated for the second time since the shutdown, with data only through October – i.e., stale. The silver lini...
Infidel753

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

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

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

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

Supreme Court Appears Likely to Uphold Trans Athlete Bans: Analysis - *Little v. Hecox* and *West Virginia v. B.P.J.* ask whether it is unconstitutional for states to bar trans students from sports teams. In oral arguments ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Media Lens

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vigilantes Inc: Free screening and Q&ALive from Chicago: Join us online or in person on Feb 5, 2026 - Join us for a special hybrid screening and discussion of Greg Palast's award-winning documentary, Vigilantes Inc.: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen, n...
The Progressive Wing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trump Distraction Machine. - This character in the White House is doing everything in his powers to change the storyline and narrative from Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files. Th...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Illegal Orders - Read More
Ecosophia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Moron Majority

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

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

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

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

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

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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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