Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Tulsi Gabbard fires two intel veterans after they undercut Trump legal argument - Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard fired a pair of veteran analysts whose work undercut a key legal argument the Trump administration had used in court. T...
Mediaite

Trump Lashes Out When Asked About Chuck Schumer Demanding Probe Into $400M Plane - Trump lashed out over Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-NY) demand for an investigation into the controversial multimillion-dollar gift from Qata...
The Hill

Canadian leader 'not impressed' by Great Britain's invitation to Trump for state visit - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his citizens were not “impressed” by Great Britain's decision to invite President Trump for a state visit, even as...
memeorandum

The Republican squirm is in full swing (Aaron Blake/Washington Post) - Aaron Blake / Washington Post: *The Republican squirm is in full swing* — Amid a series of extraordinary Trump gambits in recent days, Republicans are ...
Salon.com

Joan Rivers would have hated this - "Joan Rivers: A Dead Funny All-Star Tribute” reminds us she would've preferred her flowers while she was alive
Eschaton

America's Worst Humans - Scott Bessent.
Daily Dot

Max is changing its name back to HBO Max, lol - [image: 2 panel image showing memes reacting to the news that Max is changing it's name back to HBO Max.] Streaming app Max is changing its name back to ...
The Root

The Episcopal Church Takes a Shocking Stand On Trump's Resettling of White South Africans - Black folks aren’t the only ones offended by President Donald Trump’s move to welcome dozens of white South Africans into the country. The Episcopal Chur...
Political Wire

The World’s Largest Market Is Becoming Two - The Economist: “According to our analysis, America is splitting into two different economies and markets: one conservative, the other liberal. People on ea...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Theroux’s ‘Settlers’ Is About ‘Us’ - Criticism of the film after it was aired by the BBC is not because the director got it wrong. It’s because the extremist settlers in the film, along with I...
Al Jazeera English

Maldives parliament removes two Supreme Court judges - MPs loyal to President Mohamed Muizzu impeach judges in a case a UN expert says undermines judicial independence.
Mediagazer

Xumo founder Colin Petrie-Norris launches Fairground, a production studio focused exclusively on AI-generated TV series that has raised a $4M seed round (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Xumo founder Colin Petrie-Norris launches Fairground, a production studio focused exclusively on AI-generated TV series that ha...
Scheerpost.com

Bob’s List: May 14, 2025 - Trump working on a hostage deal, what's happening next in the tariff trade deal and more on Bob's List today
Techdirt.

DOJ Declares Victory In The War On Drugs, Claims 250 Million Lives Have Been Saved By Fentanyl Seizures - Our long national nightmare is over. More lives have been saved than have possibly ever lived. And that’s just since earlier this year. Using the same drug...
Vox

This life-changing piece of health tech is getting cheaper — and more advanced - Hearing aids, like canes or orthopedic shoes, are something you don’t think about a lot when you’re young. But maybe you should. You probably either know s...
The Verge

Superman gets grilled in latest trailer - Another glimpse at James Gunn’s Superman just dropped — and this time things aren’t looking so great for the hero. While previous looks at the movie had a ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump cabinet member’s links to El Salvador crypto firm under scrutiny - Commerce chief Howard Lutnick’s firm backed controversial crypto giant Tether as Bukele ties deepened Trump administration’s commerce secretary, Howard L...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso governments issue too much debt without voter consent - Certificates of obligation were intended for emergencies. El Paso governments misuse them to bypass voters. The post Opinion: El Paso governments issue ...
Slate

I Begged My Boyfriend to Tell Me What He Wants to Try in Bed. Oh God, Anything But This. - I mistakenly thought he would get over it.
The Week

Senate rejects Trump's Library of Congress takeover - Congress resisted the president's attempts to control 'the legislative branch's premier research body'
Deadline Politics

CNN’s Mark Thompson Provides Some Additional Details For What He Calls Its “First True New Streaming Service” - CNN’s upcoming streaming service, set to debut in the fall, will be “one simple way to explore the very best of CNN journalism on your phone, your connecte...
Ecosophia

A Vision 2: A Packet for Ezra Pound - By the late 1930s William Butler Yeats was an old man. He celebrated his seventieth birthday in 1935; his health, never robust, became increasingly fragile...
Futurism

As Sales Continue to Plummet, Tesla Is Considering a Massive Payday for Elon Musk - As car sales plunge and its brand image goes up in flames, Tesla's board has formed a special committee of exactly two people to review CEO Elon Musk's p...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Eighth Circuit, on 2-1 Vote, Holds Private Plaintiffs Cannot Enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act through a Section 1983 Action, a Ruling Which if Applied Nationally Would Devastate Voting Rights Act Enforcement in the United States - The Eighth Circuit had earlier reached the remarkably wrong conclusion that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act contains no private right of action (meani...
American Prospect

Trump Would Torch Magna Carta - For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus—a fundamental protection against unlawful imprisonment—has remained a core fixture of democratic governance. Suspe...
Daily Howler

WHO WE ARE: Bertrand Russell, plus Tyrus and Kennedy! - *WEDNESDAY MAY 14, 2025* *Snapshots of who we are: *Off on our monthly medical mission, during yesterday's several down times, we turned again to one of ...
Grist

Even your favorite YouTube creators are feeling the effects of federal cuts - Emily Graslie, creator of The Brain Scoop, shares about the uncertain future of her science communication work.
Infidel753

Health issues -- thinking out loud - One thing that recent events really brought home to me is how badly my own health has deteriorated in recent years. It's partly or largely due to my own ...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on May 7: American Express National Bank vs Elliot Carson - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by American Express National Bank and Will Rutledge against Elliot Cars...
Alternet

'Wild negative coattails for Trump' as Omaha's first Black mayor ousts three-term Republican - Voters in Omaha, Nebraska just elected their first Black mayor, Democrat John Ewing Jr., in a historic shift, ousting a three-term Republican who has hel...
Axios

RFK Jr. says he would "probably" vaccinate his children for measles today - Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during Wednesday testimony before a House panel that he would "probably" vac...
Houston Public Media

With deadline passed, thousands of Texas House bills are effectively dead - One of the likely casualties is a bill that would have transferred tens of millions of dollars in surplus funds from the Harris County Toll Road Authority ...
Capital & Main

Donald Trump’s Escape to Alcatraz - Will the old prison be reborn as America’s Devil’s Island or as a theme park for the carceral state? The post Donald Trump’s Escape to Alcatraz appeared ...
WhoWhatWhy

One Small Thing: Stand Up for Our Institutions - [image: Old Colorado City Library] Right now, we must stand strong against the dismantling of our public libraries and independent local schools. One Smal...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Wednesday, May 14 - [image: The morning read for Wednesday, May 14] Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s ...
Dissident Voice

Liberation of the Palestinians - Israel and its worldwide supporters are relatively few, maybe 50 million confined to the western world, compared to those who recognize the genocide of t...
Second Nexus

Transportation Secretary Slammed After Admitting He Made A Telling Switch To Wife's Recent Flight - Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was criticized after admitting in a recent audio clip that he'd just switched his wife's Newark Liberty International...
Mother Jones

Will the Supreme Court Let Trump Target Babies for the “Sins of the Parents”? - In 2022, Florida Republicans enacted the Stop WOKE Act, which sought to remove from school curriculums any lessons that might cause students to feel “disco...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"LULAC Rebukes Senator Creighton’s Assault on Inclusive Education" by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. May 13, 2025 - AI image by A. Valenzuela *The House Public Education Committee abruptly ended yesterday morning’s** hearing on SB 12, silencing over 75 community members...
Courthouse News

Career services - CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois denied Northwestern University’s motion to dismiss a count of intentional Title VI discrimination brought by a law sc...
Common Dreams

Groundwork’s Owens: House Republicans Voted to Give Corporations like RealPage a Free Pass to Rip Off Working Families - Last night, during the Energy & Commerce Committee markup of the Republican tax plan, House Republicans voted to restrict state laws that crack down on s...
ProPublica

Musk Adviser May Make as Much as $1 Million a Year While Helping to Dismantle Agency that Regulates Tesla and X - by Jake Pearson ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
CultureMap Houston

Dozens of Houston summer concert tickets go on sale for $30 - In what has become an annual summer tradition, concert promoter Live Nation is offering a discount ticket program for summer concert season, with $30 ticke...
naked capitalism

Despite China’s Warning, US Has Opened New Front in Trade War with Investment Restrictions in UK Pact - Trump made a big retreat on his China tariffs. But a second gambit, investment restrictions to isolate China, is already giving China fits.
Rewire

Queer People Nearly Twice as Likely To Terminate Pregnancy—New Study - "Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue." The post Queer People Nearly Twice as Likely To Terminate Pregnancy—New Study appeared first on Rewire News Group.
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 138: “Trump Chillaxing with Radical Jihadis” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Get ready for a thrilling episode of The TMI Show with Ted Rall and Manila Chan as they dive into Donald Trum...
Progressive.org

This Supreme Court Decision Could Determine the Future of Charter Schools - A ruling in favor of a religious charter school for Oklahoma could disrupt the 'public' status the charter industry enjoys.
Daily Cartoonist

NCS Silver T-Square Awarded to John Kovaleski - The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is awarding their Silver T-Square to cartoonist John Kovaleski. From the NCS announcement: The National Cartoonists ...
First Draft

The Trump War On DEI: International Edition - I wish I were kidding, but the administration is telling other countries what they can't do.
Mondoweiss

Massive JVP member meeting vows to fight Zionism, fascism, and the weaponization of antisemitism - [image: A panel at the 2025 Jewish Voice for Peace National Member Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 1-4. (Photo: Isabel Gadd)]On May 1-4, over 2,000 act...
Bonddad

Average and aggregate nonsupervisory real April wages continued to fuel the consumer - - *by New Deal democrat* Now that we have April’s consumer inflation data, let’s update real wages for average American families. In April average ...
Democracy Now!

Salvadoran Journalists Exposed Pres. Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest - We speak with a Salvadoran journalist who fled El Salvador along with others from the acclaimed news outlet *El Faro* after Salvadoran President Nayib Buke...
ArcaMax

States of Resistance: A Way Forward - Resistance: a watchword for our times. The state of Wisconsin is showing us how, above all 49 others. In Washington, a senator and congressman heeded the c...
The Conversation

Detroit’s next mayor can do these 3 things to support neighborhoods beyond downtown - Building a stronger Detroit means stabilizing housing, using vacant land to benefit the public and investing in social infrastructure.
Space City Weather

Today and Thursday should see peak heating, but it will be hot and humid for the foreseeable future - In brief: After Houston set heat records on Tuesday, we should see more of the same today and Thursday. The overall pattern moderates slightly this weekend...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, May 2025 Edition - Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 70 vulnerabilities in Windows and related products, including five zero-day flaws that are a...
MintPress News

Zionist Militant Group Responsible for ICE Arrest of Pro-Palestine Former Student - A Massachusetts court found that the ICE detention of a former UMass student was likely politically motivated, after a complaint from the Zionist organiz...
Dorf on Law

Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 18: Trump's Racist Refugee Policy is Unconstitutional - As Mark Kende explained here on the blog on Monday, President Trump's decision to allow entry to the United States of white South Africans as refugees--e...
NPR's Health Shots

Medicaid cuts will hurt families and cost GOP politically, says Kentucky governor - Republicans' proposed Medicaid cuts will cause 8.6 million people to lose health insurance by 2034, an estimate shows. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said it w...
The Smirking Chimp

‘This Is a Bribe’: Trump Buried for Saying Qatar Jet Would Save American Taxpayers’ Money -
Skeptophilia

By any other name... - Scientists have an undeserved reputation for being dry and humorless. If you doubt the "undeserved" part, consider scientific names. Because by convention...
Off The Kuff

Measles update: The wastewater still has something to tell us - Very cool. An outbreak detection program found the presence of the measles virus in samples of Houston wastewater in early January 2025, before cases were ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Midterm Loss Rule: What Do Voters Expect in 2026? - The public's early assessment of which party will win control of Congress in 2026 The post The Midterm Loss Rule: What Do Voters Expect in 2026? appeared...
San Antonio Report

‘We couldn’t be at more polar ends’: Jones vs. Pablos race divides San Antonio into political camps - The nonpartisan mayor's race came down to a conservative Republican and liberal Democrat, yet holdouts are still uneasy about weighing in. -----------------...
Rio Grande Guardian

An In-Depth Discussion on Tariffs – Part One - Analysis from South Texas College economics professors Kevin Peek and Teo E. Sepulveda. The post An In-Depth Discussion on Tariffs – Part One appeared f...
High Country News

Indigenous leaders at UNPFII underscore the need for genuine consent - Free, prior and informed consent is law in some countries. How are they making it work? The post Indigenous leaders at UNPFII underscore the need for ge...
Earth 911

Infographic: 9 Ways Flowers Protect the Environment - They’re decorative and often emit a pleasing fragrance, but flowers serve a much greater purpose... The post Infographic: 9 Ways Flowers Protect the Envi...
Crooked Media

Con Man Air: Trump’s Middle East Cash Grab - The post Con Man Air: Trump’s Middle East Cash Grab appeared first on Crooked Media.
World Socialist Web Site

DHS agents imprison Guatemalan mother at hospital during labor and birth, provoking public outcry - Erika Mateo, a 24-year-old pregnant Guatemalan woman, was taken into custody and held under armed guard by the Department of Homeland Security and placed u...
Counterpunch

What Color Was He? The Killing of Deris Kogoya - What kind of place is this where the lives of young people can be taken from them, leaving a mangled mess of tissue and bone behind, and where a hospital...
jobsanger

Shame On All Of Us If We Let Trump Destroy Our Country -
Informed Comment

Removing Syria Sanctions is a Win for the People, Whatever Trump’s Motives - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Syrians are rejoicing at the announcement on Tuesday by President Donald J. Trump that he will lift U.S. economic sanctions ...
OpEd News

Wired for Fear: It's Not Geographic, It's Evolutionary - A personal and cultural reckoning told through the lens of a rural hometown""where tribal instincts, inherited fear, and nostalgia collide with modernity. ...
Antiwar.com

Starvation in Gaza Is So Bad Even the BBC Is Covering It – and Reporting It All Wrong - You can tell how bad levels of starvation now are in Gaza – as the population there begins the third month of a complete aid blockade by Israel – because l...
Wolf Street

Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, Collections, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies: Our Drunken Sailors’ Debts in Q1 2025 - Student loans are loans again, OOPS.
Ballot Access News

Read Text of Angela McArdle’s Description of Negotiating with Presidential Candidate Donald Trump Last Year - Third Party Watch his a blog post giving the text of a talk by former Libertarian Party national chair Angela McArdle, describing how she first came in con...
The AltWorld

Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital To Kill A Journalist For Doing Journalism: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix - The IDF has admitted to bombing a hospital in order to assassinate a prominent Palestinian journalist in […] The post Israel Admits It Bombed A Hospital ...
Brad Blog

'Deeply Evil Stuff': GOP House Proposes Largest Medicaid Cuts in History: 'BradCast' 5/13/2025 - On today's BradCast: While we're all distracted on a daily basis by Donald Trump's endless, lawless, childish idiocy, Republicans have been quietly prepari...
Workers World

‘Palestine is our compass’ - [image: ‘Palestine is our compass’] The movement in solidarity with Palestine had a big win when a court order released Rümeysa Öztürk from a Louisiana det...
The Greanville Post

MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH W/LAITH MAROUF – SYRIAN CATASTROPHE – GAZA STARVATION – HAMAS AGREEMENT – IRAN? - • Garland and Laith analyse the high-handed theatrics of manipulating Arabs by the Trump admin and Israel, along with its EU vassals and the abject Gulf Ar...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Drag queens and Pride organizers win twice in court cases against Florida's state and city governments - Florida Governor Ron DeSantis In court decisions on Monday and Tuesday, drag queens and Pride organizers won over Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the state...
Claytoonz

Trump Wishlist - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Voters Reject Extreme School Board Candidates - Written by: Elva Mendoza In a surprising political shift, Texas is making national news, and this time, it’s not for something embarrassing or incredibly...
Popular Resistance

Holding The Weapons Industry Responsible For War Crimes - On May 8, 2025, I was honored to speak at the Oxford Union Debates on the topic: “This House Would Hold The Arms Industry Responsible for War Crimes.” M...
Portside

Why Do Cuts to Medicaid Matter for Americans Over 65? - Why Do Cuts to Medicaid Matter for Americans Over 65? Judy Tue, 05/13/2025 - 19:33
Reform Austin

Thousands of House Bills Officially Died Today. Here’s Why. - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Thousands of bills introduced in the Texas House officially died today, marking the beginning o...
Undernews

We've been hacked too much - *Sam Smith - *Because we have been seriously hacked a number of times and are under repeated attacks y,our 87 year old editor is shutting down down our ...
Discourse

Did RFK Jr. Get a Second Brain Worm From Swimming In Poop Water? - Let's look at the evidence!
Texas Standard

Texas braces for record-breaking heat wave this week - The Austin and San Antonio areas are going to be hit the worst, according to the state’s climatologist.
Church and State

The Christian Right is taking over America – but what is the best response? - The Christian Right rejects mutual tolerance between religious and secular worldviews, pursuing instead absolute political and cultural dominance.
NORML

Analysis: State-Legal Cannabis Sales Top $30 Billion in 2024 - [image: An arrow representing a rate increase over a background of cannabis leaves and hundred dollar bills][image: An arrow representing a rate increase...
The Daily Poster

Republicans Aim To Enshrine Rental Price-Fixing - After a lobbying surge, rent-tech giant RealPage is set to score a nationwide reprieve from crackdowns on how it’s price-gouging renters and fueling the ho...
DeSmogBlog

Trump’s Energy Secretary Denies Freezing Federal Funding, Asks, ‘What Does Frozen Mean’? - When the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $720,000 to Libbey Glass in mid-September, it was as a first installment toward a multi-million dollar furnac...
Ian Welsh

The Horror of School - [image: The Horror of School] Back during the pandemic two things happened with students. Overall they committed more suicides, BUT when schools were clos...
Sludge

New Book Examines Seattle Democracy Voucher Program’s Success - An interview with Dr. Jen Heerwig, co-author of a book researching how Seattle's pioneering program has helped boost voter participation and local represen...
Project Censored

Language as Liberation: One Man’s Mission to Teach ASL in Prison - After legal advocates moved a group of deaf prisoners to California’s San Quentin prison, inmate Tommy Wickerd, serving a 57-year sentence for voluntary ...
Trivial Knot

How to fold D. Hinklay’s “Stone Board” - Back in 2017, I designed the Cube Tessellation. It’s one that I have shown off here on multiple occasions. I have a crease pattern, step by step instructio...
Glasstire

Black Holes, Luna Moths, Marfa Lights, and Dreaming: An Interview with Virginia L. Montgomery - There have been wild dust storms in West Texas — a howling force that sometimes obscures the view during my commute between Marfa and Alpine, where I tea...
Liberation News

Outrage in Memphis over Tyre Nichols verdict - On May 8, a mostly white jury acquitted three of the five police officers involved in Tyre Nichols's killing of second-degree murder.
Texas Observer

Texas Already Gives Public Ed Dollars to Private Operators. Here’s How That Worked Out. - At an April 2017 committee hearing in a meeting room tucked away in the Capitol’s underground extension, state Senator Paul Bettencourt, a bespectacled H...
The Progressive Wing

5.13-16 Open Threads - Greetings All. 🙂 I hope everyone had a good Mother’s/Grandmother’s Day Weekend. We here in ECFL finally got several days of badly needed rain, and no viol...
See You In 2020

The “Settlers” thesis obscures America’s rich working-class history, & hides how our ruling class has waged war on us - *This is from part of the book that I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: How the Pro-Palestine Movement Failed to Stop a Holoc...
Angry Bear

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Talks - Live coverage as Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks with Dean William M. Treanor as a part of the 2025 Graduating Class at Georgetown Law. C...
The Texas Signal

The Targeting Of Trans Texans Continues - As its written, HB 229 would have a sweeping impact on over 100,000 trans Texans.
Ring of Fire

Trump’s Trade War Makes Huge Impact On Port Cities & Truck Drivers - Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Caleb Cunningham: So we’re seeing...
slacktivist

Wanted fugitive sighted in the area! That takes priority. - Which takes priority: Assisting some process completely outside of your police jurisdiction? Or following a lead involving the actual Most Wanted Fugitives...
Unlimited Hangout

German Publisher of One Nation Under Blackmail - German Publisher of One Nation Under Blackmail.
Earthworks

Peruvian Communities Challenge Newmont Mining Operations as Investors Meet - As mining company Newmont met with shareholders and investors, communities in Peru, near its proposed Conga gold and copper mine, … The post Peruvian Co...
Bracing Views

Prince of Peace - Pope Leo XIV Calls for an End to War BILL ASTORE The new pope, Leo XIV, is off to an encouraging start as he calls for peace (from CNN): Pontiff calls for ...
Crooked Timber

Perry Anderson’s lazy endorsement of US self-mythologising - A few weeks ago the historian Perry Anderson published an essay “Regime Change in the West?” in the London Review of Books. Like many of Anderson’s essays ...
Eater Houston

Where to Find the Best New Takes on Old Fashioneds in Houston - [image: A smoky Old Fashioned cocktail with an ice cube emblazoned with the shape of the state of Texas.] These Old Fashioned cocktails show the creativit...
Progressives Chat

Stevie Wonder Turns 75! - Music legend *Stevie Wonder* turns 75 on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. He was born May 13, 1950. Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan. (*Side note:* Given most...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: May 12, 2025 - The post The Daily Crossword: May 12, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: Fascism and Climate Imperialism - As the Trump regime's climate nihilism takes hold, the rest of the ruling establishment is admitting the future they see is climate imperialism and genoc...
ExChristian.Net

There is no such thing as an ex-Christian? - In his article "There's No Such Thing As An Ex-Christian," Pastor Ed Collins of the North Christian Church in North Dighton, Massachusetts, asserts that ...
Web of Debt

President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done? - In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest plan, acc...
Greg Palast

Marching Backwards? 60 years after Bloody Sunday - We cannot take progress for granted. Indeed, 60 years after Bloody Sunday, I feel like we are marching backwards. With new laws allowing the return of Ku K...
Moron Majority

Breaking: Trump Declares U.S. Constitution Unconstitutional - Only days after telling NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press that he wasn’t sure whether a president was required to uphold the Constitution, Donald J. T...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FIND THE POPE IN THE DEEP-DISH PIZZA EDITION. - *My hands were made out of silver/ But they were looking for gold* Another wild week, this one with a Pope in it, an American at that! I hardly need rehe...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Tells Lawyers to Apologize for Screaming at Philadelphia - It actually wasn't the screaming, it was the choice to do it at 5:30 a.m.
The Militant

‘In a world of crises, conflicts, the SWP is the anti-war party’ - SWP looks to wrap up NJ ballot fight, expand support UNION CITY, N.J. — “We’re closing in on our goal of signing up over 3,200 people across New Jersey to ...
Duck of Minerva

Probiotic disinformation - “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in” is something I would say at the risk of alienating the younger readership of this blog, but given tha...
Edinburg Politics

Texas Legislature approves measure by Sen. Juan Hinojosa to help create new source of drinking water from potential floods in deep South Texas - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, announced the Texas Legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 1967, which will increase the state’s ab...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio May 9, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio May 9, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/09/2025 - 19:17 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda Rad...
Debunking Christianity

Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives - *The devout don’t seem to notice or care* In my article here last week I mentioned the Catholic sacrament known as the Eucharist, in which the wafer and ...
The Grayzone

Uber CEO plots ‘opening up’ of Iran with Israeli-tied monarchist opposition group - A livestreamed chat hosted by Iranian royalists provided a window into the network of foreign-educated Iranian elites plotting to seize back what was nat...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Artificial Intelligence and American Decline - Something very disturbing is happening with the proliferation of artificial intelligence
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Retro Kitsch - Many of my readers of a certain age may have had Dads or uncles who were enthusiasts of a certain style of rec room bar lighting. Here’s my backhanded trib...
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Trump Voter - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! This cartoon combines two things I don’t do often: A one-panel strip, and caricatures of real famou...
Bud Kennedy

Is this the Incredible Shrinking Political Party? The Tarrant GOP goes 0-for-11 | Opinion - We knew Tarrant County Republicans would eventually cross the line. But the line turned into a concrete wall. After going more MAGA and more hardline conse...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Enemy of My Enemy - One of the most effective thought-terminating clichés is “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” It is particularly effective because it works on both people...
LareDOS

1,400 Laredo College graduates break school’s commencement record - Two ceremonies set May 9
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Voters Reject President Trump's Dystopian Plans for "Public Safety" - President Donald Trump has been pushing mass deportations, aggressive law enforcement measures, and a sweeping expansion of the death penalty as the path...
Countercurrents

Reoccupying Gaza Will be Another Death Trap - While everyone waits for the full-blast war on Gaza which Israel promises to continue, Tel Aviv must know this will not be an easy matter not least of all ...
Media Lens

‘Resist Not Evil’? – Part 2 - What, then, is the alternative to resisting ‘Evil’? And what on earth might be our motivation for doing something else? Three modern masters of meditation ...
Dissent Magazine

Attention Stuffed - Our future rests on our capacity to make digital technology more boring.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2025 - Walmart had at least seventeen more shootings in April of 2025, including at least six fatal shootings killing eight people; one of these almost qualifi...
Campaign for America's Future

Creativity and Courage to Save Democracy - Those in power have made clear there is no democratic norm they are unwilling to break. We live in a time of chaos, and this is not by accident. Over the l...
The NM Political Report

USFS says fall, winter prescribed burns are extinguished - By Hannah Grover The U.S. Forest Service’s Carson National Forest announced this week that the prescribed fires lit over the fall and winter from Octobe...
Idavox

David Horowitz, ROT IN HELL! - When civil rights worker and activist Kwame Ture passed away in 1998, David Horowitz wrote... The post David Horowitz, ROT IN HELL! appeared first on Ida...
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...
Field Negro

And now they come for the courts. - "Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the e...
Democracy Chronicles

Peace Populism Will Not Make A Change - Trump and Putin share a language of power rooted in patriarchy, dismissing justice, facts, and peaceful dissent.
nonsite.org

Revisiting Race, Politics, and Culture: A Symposium - Scholarship and popular memory has far too often taken on the role of hagiography or sought a pure and true 1960s spirit, “uncaptured” by elites and reflec...
Land Destroyer

US Plays “Mediator” in its Own War on Russia - *April 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Recent comments from current US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have signaled Washington’s intent to abandon pea...
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE & POLITICS / The dumbest climate plan in history - By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / April 17, 2025 The title of this article is not solely meant to highlight the level of knowledge of this current administr...
TalkLeft

Trump's Illegal Runaway Train - Will the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia be the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for Trump voters? When they protest in...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
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 ...
Seeing the Forest

China Didn’t Take American Jobs - Trump says other countries took advantage of the US. He says they “took” manufacturing and jobs from thee US. This is just not what happened. American Comp...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not trying to pretend - Hydra VIII by Sebrina Seck is from a collection of Iconic Muse Women by European artists. So, this was the part where I fell and broke my hip, which rathe...
Reading the Pictures

Signaling Strangelove: The New Yorker Cover’s Brilliant Take on SignalGate - Barry Blitt’s masterpiece perfectly captures the essence of the Trump administration. It’s a visual terror warning worthy of Kubrick himself. By Michael ...
Reveal

Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket, and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Children's hand drawings hang on the wall.] Hospitals ro...
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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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, ...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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 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...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
GreenSource DFW

New environmental group powered by seniors has Texas crew - *Tom Kessler of Austin joined Third Act's inaugural Texas group late last year. Courtesy of Tom Kessler.* Feb. 21, 2025 A new environmental advocacy gro...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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 ...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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 ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
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 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
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...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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....
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...
ROAR Magazine

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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