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/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

Al Jazeera English

US urges China to honour Busan trade deal commitments - Trump-Xi Busan deal aimed to ease tariffs and tech restrictions; progress hinges on China's fulfilment of commitments.
Eschaton

Pity The Fools - An octogenarian I can celebrate. Senfronia Thompson says she has the votes to become the first woman and first Black Texas House speaker The 87-year-old...
Mother Jones

Anthony Constantino’s Post-Election Crashout - At an election eve rally in upstate New York, Republican congressional candidate Anthony Constantino told the crowd he had a dramatic announcement: Donald ...
Futurism

Delivery Robot Causes Car Accident With Nine Injuries - "The robot fled, if you can put it that way." The post Delivery Robot Causes Car Accident With Nine Injuries appeared first on Futurism.
Wolf Street

Where Are the Jobs? Winners and Losers by Industry in October and over the Years - How employment changed by industry amid big structural shifts in the US economy.
Raw Story

Ex-RFK Jr. aide spills tea to Joe Rogan on ugly workings inside Trump administration - A former aide to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told podcaster Joe Rogan that key advisers to President Donald Trump took spec...
Crooked Media

MAGApocalypse Now: It’s (Stephen) Miller Time - The post MAGApocalypse Now: It’s (Stephen) Miller Time appeared first on Crooked Media.
Axios

Dems plot a unified case against Trump - Congressional Democrats see a target-rich environment next year. But they're also worried that if they investigate everything, they may appear to investi...
Rallblog

Nothing Will Fundamentally Change - The Democratic Party has ample cause for celebration. Exceeding optimistic expectations for the midterm elections, they not only recaptured control of th...
Deadline Politics

Justice Department Explains Why It Gave Fox-Roku Merger Its Greenlight, Outlines Company Commitments - The Justice Department issued a statement on its clearance of Fox Corp.’s $22 billion aquisition of Roku, concluding that the transaction was “not likely t...
Mediaite

Top House Democrat Makes Clear Stephen Miller Is Top Target For Investigations: ‘Should Lawyer Up’ - A top House Democrat made it clear in no uncertain terms that Stephen Miller should not expect to escape scrutiny in his new role as White House chief of...
Alternet

Haberman spots a clear signal Trump is ‘doubling down’ on unpopular agenda - In the aftermath of the Republicans’ midterm drubbing, President *Trump* is making Stephen Miller, his forceful domestic policy adviser, his new chief of...
Courthouse News

Voters face violence and retaliation after Brazil’s presidential runoff - An initial government tally counted 10 deaths across 45 suspected cases of political violence. Labor officials received about 4,300 complaints of election-...
San Antonio Current

After Abbott’s defeat, Houston mayor tells police to stop alerting ICE during traffic stops - 'I do this to begin a healing process. Reduce fear and anxiety across our community,' Mayor John Whitmire said during a Friday press conference. 'I also...
Popular Resistance

The Democrats Have A Mandate For Peace - Voters in the midterm elections dealt a decisive blow to Trump’s war agenda and have created new possibilities for challenging militarism and ending the ...
Web of Debt

Heads or Tails, Wall Street Wins: Saving Our Pensions From The Casino - “Most billionaires don’t park their money in making more businesses. They park their money in the stock market. That is not meaningfully investing in oppor...
Political Wire

Democrats ‘Inundated’ with Demands Not to Elect Jeffries - “Democratic House members and members-elect are being bombarded with phone calls and emails urging them not to elect Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)...
The Verge

Shure’s popular podcasting and streaming mic is almost $50 off - While the Shure Mv7 Plus is popular with streamers and podcasters, it’s equally good at impressing your friends and coworkers on meetings and Discord calls...
The Week

TV to watch in November - The final episodes of ‘Yellowjackets’ and a ‘Blade Runner’ series will light up screens starting this month
IVN

In Alaska, 'Decoy Dan' Was A Meme Vote, Not A Confused Vote - In Alaska's Senate race, votes for "Decoy Dan" Sullivan appear to be protest and joke votes rather than confused ballots, with most second-choice selection...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Fake Medicine, Cancer Vaccines that Work, and an Update on Bigfoot and Democratic Politics - Part the First: How Do You Identify a Vanity Institution? Last week we discussed an alternative medicine clinic in Switzerland in which several patients d...
Grist

Democrats take control of Georgia’s powerful utility regulator - Swept in on the blue wave, new commissioners plan to tackle power bills, clean energy, and data center accountability.
Ballot Access News

Procedural Win in Texas Ballot Access Case - On October 21, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman refused the state’s request to dismiss the ballot access case filed by an independent candidate for ...
Slate

A Post-Midterms Schaden-Friday Special - Someone else’s turn to say “Ah well, nevertheless…”
World Socialist Web Site

Turkish parliament approves Mecca defense pact amid Middle East war - Türkiye’s parliament has ratified the Mecca defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a step tied to the Yemen war and the US-Israeli war on Iran.
ProPublica

On the Ground in the Final Days Before Trump’s Midterm Debacle - The post On the Ground in the Final Days Before Trump’s Midterm Debacle appeared first on ProPublica.
Texas Standard

At the dawn of a new Texas frontier, advocates consider possibilities for abortion rights - A blue-leaning Texas House of Representatives could pass legislation that takes aim at the state’s bans on abortion, but would likely meet strong resistanc...
Vox

Los Angeles is about to test a new kind of housing politics - It’s notoriously hard to govern Los Angeles, a city that gives its mayor less direct authority over the government than in a city like New York or Chicago....
Glasstire

Artists Sought for Public Artworks in Revitalization of Historic Downtown Austin Park - The Waterloo Greenway Conservancy (WGC), an Austin nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing a 35-acre park along Waller Creek in the city’s downtown district,...
SCOTUSblog

Justices consider when a constitutional rule is “previously unavailable” to prisoner - The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard argument in *Guerrero v. Johnson*, a case about whether a Texas man on death row can bring a second federal post-con...
Election Law Blog

Data (from G. Elliott Morris and Kevin Morris) Strongly Suggestive of Black Voter Turnout Surge in Response to Callais Ruling - I’ve suggested that the Supreme Court’s unprincipled decision in Louisiana v. Callais could spawn a new civil rights movement, and G. Elliott Morris’s da...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Thomas Markle, Meghan’s father, arrested in Florida on charges related to child sexual abuse material - Father of the Duchess of Sussex was taken into custody near Tampa, US prosecutors said Thomas Markle, the father of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, was ar...
Earthworks

Civil Society Calls for Transparency and Independence in the Global Tailings Management Institute - Indigenous, human rights, corporate accountability, and environmental organizations are concerned about the lack of transparent progress of the Global Ta...
Undernews

Resignations - *The Hill - *The U.S. attorney whose Miami office is leading the troubled conspiracy investigation into several of President Donald Trump’s political foes ...
The Daily Poster

Who Got Washed Out By The Blue Tsunami? - Test your knowledge of the blue wave, ballot initiatives, and other issues that really matter.
Houston Public Media

Houston Mayor John Whitmire directs HPD to reduce cooperation with ICE after midterm results - HPD's interactions with ICE posed a political conundrum to Whitmire over the past year.
Consortium News

Providence Becomes Largest US City to Divest From Israel - Organizers in Rhode Island’s capital city are celebrating a win for direct democracy as the Palestine solidarity movement marks its first binding municipa...
Dissent Magazine

The Florida Project - What if the Democratic establishment had actually invested in Angie Nixon?
Sludge

The Private Equity Lobbyist Network Surrounding Chuck Schumer - Blackstone, Apollo, and private equity trade groups employ Schumer alumni to push their interests in Washington as progressive senators push for tougher re...
CultureMap Houston

A soap-and-loofah duo cleans up at Houston's Haute Howloween gala - Halloween’s best-dressed weren’t necessarily on two legs.
Novara Media

UK Government to Extend Palantir’s NHS Contract by Two Years - The government is planning to extend spytech firm Palantir’s £330m deal with the NHS despite pressure from Labour MPs, medical unions and activists to cut ...
Daily Howler

SELF GOVERNMENT: Hinojosa, Talarico emerged oh my! - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2026* *But can we steer clear of the backslide? *In the wake of Tuesday's rout, Ron DeSantis was pulling no punches. On Wednesday m...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strip News & Reviews - Steenz with Heart of the City spent the better part of September with the character Charlotte getting her first period and dealing with it. While it remain...
Rewire

These Democratic Politicians Shattered Glass Ceilings in the 2026 Election - The midterms were a whirlwind of historic firsts as Black, trans, Indigenous, nonbinary, Muslim, and Gen Z candidates won their races.
Mediagazer

Fox closes its $22B Roku acquisition well ahead of the expected 2027 date; Anthony Wood joins Fox's board and co-chairs a new unit with Tubi, Fox One, and Roku (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Fox closes its $22B Roku acquisition well ahead of the expected 2027 date; Anthony Wood joins Fox's board and co-chairs a new u...
Ian Welsh

Americans Still Love Billionaires Too Much - We’re about 2 weeks into our annual fundraiser. We’ve raised about $8,955 out of a $14,500 goal from 69 people. This blog is free for everyone to read, and...
Mondoweiss

Here is what a new Democratic Party foreign policy should look like following the Blue Tsunami - [image: House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer on September 29, 2025. (Photo: Hakeem Jeffries / X)]The midterm ...
Scheerpost.com

Israel Is Finished, War Is Over And Palestinian Liberation Is Imminent. Right? - Nate Bear Do Not Panic The chorus of giddy celebration from the electoral left in the USA and across the west shows no signs of abating, so I thought it wo...
The Root

Meghan Markle’s Dad Arrested in Child Sex Abuse Material Case. Here’s What the Feds Have to Say - Things have officially gone from bad to worse for Meghan Markle's dad in connection with his child sex abuse material investigation. Here's the latest up...
Bonddad

November jobs report: very positive headlines, but with weak hours and aggregate payrolls - * - by New Deal democrat* In the earlier part of this year my Big Theme was that the AI Boom (or possibly bubble) had been counterbalancing a stagnan...
Debunking Christianity

John’s Gospel Is the Worst of the Four - *Pretentious theobabble blended with superstition, magical thinking and cult fanaticism* There must have been a committee that decided to put the four g...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russian opposition leader: release of political prisoners should be part of Ukraine ceasefire negotiations - In his interview with VOA Russian, Kara-Murza explained that international attention helps prisoners resist the isolation that authoritarian regimes seek t...
WhoWhatWhy

Warming UK Seas Could ‘Fundamentally Reshape Marine Ecosystems’ - [image: Science, biodiversity, marine ecosystems, warming oceans, destabilization, food security] Warming UK Seas Could ‘Fundamentally Reshape Marine Ecosy...
ArcaMax

ICE Detained Her for 55 Days. Now She Wants To Help Others. - Armelle Bondonga Bradshaw said she felt betrayed when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained her on Aug. 12. ICE agents took Armelle into custod...
First Draft

Sneaky Midterms Loser: The Electoral College - The Blue Wave's riptide has made the scheme vulnerable for the first time, thanks to the multi-state National Popular Vote compact.
El Paso Matters

El Paso runoff voter registration deadline nears; Texas appeals DNA testing order in 1987 killings - There’s still time to register to vote in City Council runoffs: Texas appeals a DNA testing order in David Leonard Wood killings; UTEP receives $1 milli...
Democracy Now!

Hasan Piker: Democrats Won Midterms, But Now They Have to Deliver on Voter Demands for Change - Tuesday was a historic night for progressive Democrats and, in particular, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Six new DSA-endorsed ...
Angry Bear

What Really Did Happen? - Twice (am I correct on this? I am too lazy to look it up), Trunp was chosen over two capable women for the presidency, Was the first tour with this loon ...
Space City Weather

Sunday forecast headaches persist for Houston, despite highest rain risk more into South Texas - In brief: A tricky forecast awaits Sunday in the Houston area, with at least some rain possible. The heaviest rain seems destined for Laredo or Corpus Chri...
Techdirt.

Musk’s Starlink Embraces ‘Dynamic Pricing,’ Further Jacking Up Costs - For years I’ve noted that while Elon Musk’s low-Earth-orbit (LEO) Starlink satellite broadband system can be very useful for people with no other options (...
The Militant

SWP campaign showed road forward for the working class - “Whether the Democrats or Republicans win control of the Senate or House this year, workers will lose,” said Paul Mailhot, Socialist Workers Party candidat...
Independent Political Report

Democratic Strategy of Backing Independent Candidates Falls Short in Key Senate Races - A strategy embraced by several Democratic state organizations this cycle of backing independent candidates in key races in lieu of fielding their own nom...
Texas Observer

The Texas Ocelot in a World ‘Propelled Toward Algorithms and Bottom Lines’ - Neither tacos, nor bluebonnets, nor crooked politicians are unique to Texas. However, ocelots—spotted wild felines—just about are. Although they can be f...
OpEd News

Has Trump Quietly Surrendered Control of the Strait of Hormuz? - As Iran permits selected countries to navigate the Strait of Hormuz without American interception, a new strategic reality is emerging. This article examin...
The Hill

DeSantis comes out swinging as Vance takes heat - In today's issue: ▪ DeSantis makes his case ▪ Eisenkot piecing together coalition ▪ Colom expands lead in Mississippi ▪ Battle brews over House GOP leaders...
Dorf on Law

Is Legal Realism an Impediment to Judicial Resistance to Authoritarianism? (A Preview of My Upcoming Lecture) - Today and tomorrow I'll be attending the Seventeenth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium at Florida State University College of Law, where I'm honored t...
NPR's Health Shots

Past White House adviser Raj Panjabi has written a playbook for 'living room' crises - Dr. Raj Panjabi is the author of *Safer: A Playbook.* His goal is to help people face a personal crisis — health, workplace, family conflicts — and "turn f...
The Smirking Chimp

The REAL Winners and Losers -
Off The Kuff

What will the State Senate do? - They’re the last bastion of Republican power. They have some ways to flex that power. When Vikki Goodwin was elected the first Democratic lieutenant govern...
San Antonio Report

Local researchers hope aging baboons can reveal Alzheimer’s earliest signs - What drives Alzheimer's disease? Local researchers will look at the brains of aging baboons at Texas Biomed for answers. ------------------------------ Loca...
High Country News

Chronicling the West’s hidden springs before they’re gone - [image: Dairy Spring, Colorado Plateau, Arizona. Mormon pioneers in the late 1870s and 1880s used water from this spring to support a cooperative dairy tha...
memeorandum

Key federal panel is expected to approve Trump's arch while it's being challenged in court (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Key federal panel is expected to approve Trump's arch while it's being challenged in court* — A federal judge late Thursday blocked ...
jobsanger

What Democrats Should Do -
Informed Comment

Yes, Laura Loomer, Americans Should be learning Arabic amid Hormuz Crisis - At precisely the time when the fate of our nation hangs on an Arabic- and Persian-speaking part of the world, we are closing ourselves off
Workers World

Elections won’t save us: Look to the youth of Europe - [image: Elections won’t save us: Look to the youth of Europe] This is a talk by Sara Flounders as a participant in the International Manifesto webinar on O...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Blue Tsunami Has Arrived. Now Comes the Work of Democracy. by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Blue Tsunami Has Arrived. Now Comes the Work of Democracy.* *Celebrating a Historic Democratic Victory—and the Responsibility to Turn Electoral Power ...
Portside

Abdul El-Sayed Shows Opposition to Israel Is No Barrier to Winning Battleground States - Abdul El-Sayed Shows Opposition to Israel Is No Barrier to Winning Battleground States jay Thu, 11/05/2026 - 22:25
Brad Blog

‘Democrats Winning in Places They Haven’t Won in Generations’: ‘BradCast’ 11/5/2026 - Our Midterms coverage continues today, as I am still agog at the results as they continue rolling in two days after Tuesday’s Blue Tidal Wave elections. So...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 6, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio November 6, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/06/2026 - 08:51 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
The AltWorld

Israel Claims It Had Nothing To Do With Trump’s Decision To Attack Iran, And Other Notes - Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon is acting like it’s absurd for American voters to have gotten it […] The post Israel Claims It Had Nothing To Do With ...
The Greanville Post

WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL - PE—From the first we have held virulently hostile views toward people of any shade of color not our own off white. Through colonial times, we hated native...
Claytoonz

Don’t Cry For Elon - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 733 days until the presidential election. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Antiwar.com

Very Close to a Nuclear Strike on Iran: We Can Save Ourselves - The 1984 British movie Threads opens with ordinary scenes in Sheffield, England, where a young couple learns they are expecting a baby. The story of their ...
Progressive.org

In Delhi, Indians Confront the Cost of Dissent - Accounts of detention, disputed voter-roll deletions, and restrictions on public assembly raise questions about civil rights in the world’s largest democracy.
Capital & Main

Prop 40 Is Heading for Defeat. Now a Health Care Crisis Awaits California. - The likely failure of the billionaire tax means Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra will need to find ways to shore up the state’s health care system. The post Pro...
TalkLeft

Gavin Newsom Commutes All CA Death Sentences - California Governor Gavin Newsom has commuted the sentences of all 548 death row inmates to life without parole. His letter explaining the decision is he...
Greg Palast

My friend faces the death sentence tomorrowRights Lawyer Tundu Lissu, who exposed the killings at Bush Sr’s gold mine, faces execution by the Tanzanian dictatorship - Tomorrow, Friday, human rights lawyer Tundu Lissu, in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, leader of the opposition to a soulless dictator, will be sentenced for treas...
Lowering the Bar

Who’s to Blame for “Ballot Stacking”? I Guess Everybody - [image: image of the stacked Alaska ballot]It's ridiculous and deceptive—but sadly, some voters fall for it.
Common Dreams

Statement on Google AI in School Allegedly Helping Teen Girl Plan Suicide - Fairplay, the nation’s leading nonprofit fighting to protect kids from the dangers of Big Tech and AI, released the following statement today in response...
The Texas Signal

What Changed In Texas - The sweeping wins by Texas Democrats will create a seismic shift in how the state runs and operates well beyond the state Capitol
The Conversation

Black Michiganders helped push Abdul El-Sayed to victory – but the numbers show he was less popular with this key voting bloc than some other Democratic candidates - About 86% of Black Michiganders voted for Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate, according to preliminary data.
The NM Political Report

Who will be Gov. Haaland’s chief of staff? Here’s who to watch - [image: Sarita Nair] Column by Pat Davis, New Mexico Political Report — Governor-elect Deb Haaland is wasting no time filling top positions in her new adm...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Turned Blue. Now, the Real Work Begins. - A message from the Texas Freedom Network team It’s hard to put into words how we’re all feeling. But we’ll try. We knew this day would come, but it came ...
Project Censored

Jane Doe and the Manosphere - Lily Minh Wass Editor’s note: This week’s Dispatch includes mentions of sexual assault and intimate image abuse. This September, independent student newspa...
Discourse

WOKE 3 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (w/Paul Blest) - The 2026 Midterms episode
Salon.com

Goodbye from Salon - It has been an extraordinary privilege.
Church and State

Wow! Democrats won big. So now is smart time. - I have been making suggestions about what Democrats should do should they win both houses, which they have now done.
See You In 2020

The Dark Enlightenment, the upturning of civilization, and the path of the neo-nomads - Under the surface of our technological dystopian takeover, there are forces that the architects of the chaos can’t understand, and that will undo all of...
Environment Texas

Careers in Environmental and Public Interest Advocacy - RSVP to learn more about careers in environmental and public interest advocacy. The post Careers in Environmental and Public Interest Advocacy appeared ...
Trivial Knot

Punishment of sexual violence - My politics tend towards anti-punitive. That is, I tend to favor smaller and shorter punishments for criminals. No particular reasons for it, no commitment...
Liberation News

Texas rejects the Republican establishment in historic midterm election: What comes next? - While Texas has “turned blue," the question remains if we can build a movement powerful enough to demand something fundamentally different.
The Progressive Wing

November 05 news round up and open thread - A federal judge in Oregon says he can no longer assume ICE agents are telling the truth in their arrest paperwork, declaring Monday that live testimony is ...
Krebs on Security

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? - Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address avail...
Socialist Alternative

Trump & Republicans Routed: What Now To Defeat Their Whole Agenda - The wave became a tsunami: the Republicans, with Trump at their head, were absolutely trounced in the midterm elections. Tens of millions of people in the ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Mr. Bubble - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb Like many of us out here, I’d been watching the impending implosion of the AI “boom” (as they insist on calling...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Blue Tsunami Massacre!' Voters brutally reject Trump and MAGA, propelling Democrats to monumental victories across nation - Just in case none of you dear readers heard about Tuesday night's midterm election, allow me to give you a summation. The Democratic Party won control ov...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2026 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in October 2026, including two fatal ones, one where an innocent bystander was killed in an argument between ot...
Idavox

The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost More Than $440 Million - Musk’s astronomical campaign contributions were no match for outraged voters across the US. Truthout Elon... The post The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost Mo...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

After the Midterms Comes the Real Work: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Bracing Views

A Blue Wave Cometh - Democrats Win Big BILL ASTORE 6 HOURS AGO I woke to the news of a “blue wave” as Democrats regained control of the House and Senate by margins that few pre...
Ecosophia

Politics: Imperial Sunset Revisited - Hindsight is a useful thing, and the twenty years that have passed since I sketched out my first and least accurate set of predictions about the future of ...
NORML

Congressional Shake-Up Bolsters Prospects for Future Federal Marijuana Policy Reforms - [image: an American flag flying in front of the US Capitol is colored in shades of green][image: an American flag flying in front of the US Capitol is co...
Infidel753

A landslide, but no revolution - Well, the polls in many cases *were* wrong -- they understated the size of the blue wave. The Democrats will have at least 54 Senate seats, and possibly ...
Seeing the Forest

The Ballroom - I just got up here in the UK and see that the Dems won!! Finish the ballroom and make it a public monument to ‘It CAN Happen Here’, like how in France you ...
Stinque

2026 Election Results - The post 2026 Election Results appeared first on Stinque.
slacktivist

A Psalm for Election Day - What would it mean to read Psalm 72 through the lens of the Gettysburg Address?
Alas, a Blog

Turek & Stevens - Just a quick one, dashed off in response to some of this week’s news. As folks here know, I usually do cartoons intended to be about lasting issues, and th...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Winner of the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The prize committee is pleased to announce that Maria Tanyag’s article, ‘Who cares for the carers? Patriarchal contradictions and the reinvention of the ...
Crooked Timber

An open letter to JK Rowling from Sophie Grace Chappell - An open letter to J K Rowling (November 2026) Dear Ms Rowling I see you have published an update on your June 2020 essay on transgender issues. As you prob...
Two Party Opera

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Conversation with an Election Expert: Breaking Down This Year’s Election Process - Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt has worked on elections for 25 years in the government, nonprofits, and academia. He addresses common voter quest...
Edinburg Politics

With almost 12,000 Blacks in the Rio Grande Valley, new board members for Village in the Valley (ViVa) continue to promote positive changes for all residents of deep South Texans - FEATURED: Village in the Valley (ViVa), a McAllen-based organization whose stated mission is elevating and uniting the Black community while connecting cul...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Advertisement for The Rise of the New Normal Reich, including a Stupid Anti-Nazi Disclaimer for the German Authorities - Here we go again. The second edition of The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021), published by Tucker Carlson Books, ...
Duck of Minerva

The Curse of Elon - As part of my interest in electric vehicles, I have listened to 7 or 8 audiobooks on Elon Musk, EVs, and Tesla (Vance, Isaacson, Niedermayer, McKenzie, Slo...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections Predictions - The time has arrived. Tuesday, November 3, 2026 is Election Day and Election Night. I will likely be a guest on *Due Dissidence* with a focus on the elec...
Field Negro

Midterm fears. - November third is almost here, and the talking heads and political junkies at news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and FOX are losing their minds. This is the...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin' my dreams - This image was swiped from Snoogums' flickr feed. Look, if you were hoping Netanyahu would lose and it would make everything okay, no, that was not going ...
MintPress News

Iran Downs US Aircraft As Israel Prepares ‘Unprecedented Strikes’ Amidst Election Turmoil - Iranian air defences downed three US drones and opened fire on a fighter jet, amidst ongoing military preparations by the United States to carry out anot...
DeSmogBlog

Ohio Denies Evidence of Fracking Waste in Drinking Water. Its Own Records Show Otherwise. - This story was co-published with Rolling Stone. In Ohio’s rural southeastern corner, Marietta College geology professor David Jeffrey was among the resid...
The Grayzone

Facing subpoenas, pro-Palestine activists refuse to testify in Fergie fishing expedition - A pair of activists subpoenaed by Trump’s Justice Department have announced their refusal to cooperate with investigators on an apparent legal fishing ex...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway - Jeff Schapiro on Virginia's 2026 elections The post Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway appeared first on Sabato...
Land Destroyer

US Project Meridian” - A Symptom of American Decline, Not a Solution - *October 12, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently announced the creation of the 120 day task force, “Project Meri...
Campaign for America's Future

Will You Save Democracy? - Everyone who has the right to vote must vote. We must send a clear message to authoritarians that we reject their plan, and reject division. We stand toget...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DADDY ISSUES EDITION. - *I forgot they were good right to the end.* Getting close to zero hour, so Tubby and his goons are trying to fuck with the election. For example, he was ...
LareDOS

Avowed racist Bo French running for Texas Railroad Commissioner - His xenophobic sentiments evidence a lack of character
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
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...
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...
Unlimited Hangout

EP003: The Unlimited Hangout Podcast - The Bitcoin-Dollar - In this episode, Whitney and Mark discuss their actual (and often misrepresented) views on Bitcoin and stablecoins and how both are due to be used in tande...
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...
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.
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...
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 -
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...
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...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....
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...
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...
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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