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

memeorandum

The Democrats Have No Immigration Plan (Freddie deBoer/The Free Press) - Freddie deBoer / The Free Press: *The Democrats Have No Immigration Plan* — The question isn't whether Trump's plans are bad. They are. Democrats are...
Axios

Trump's new tariffs take effect as trade war escalates - President Trump celebrated his sweeping new tariffs finally taking effect on dozens of trading partners early Thursday. *Why it matters: *Trump's tariff ...
naked capitalism

How States Are Placing Restrictions on AI in the Absence of Strong Federal Regulation - Yves here. On the one hand, it is gratifying to see that some curbs are being put on AI, even if in a piecemeal fashion by states. Restrictions on AI use i...
jobsanger

Trump Is Using The Justice System For His Personal Purposes -
Counterpunch

Free Northern Cyprus from Turkish Occupation - Northern Cyprus: A hub of threatening Turkish danger Shay Gal, an Israeli strategist, suggested recently that Israel, Greece and Cyprus need to think and...
The Week

Crossword: August 7, 2025 - The Week's daily crossword
Workers World

PDF of August 7 issue - [image: PDF of August 7 issue] Download the PDF Movement fights racist censorship of slavery End the siege of Gaza! Editorial: Liars figure … and they fire...
World Socialist Web Site

Boeing workers connect strike to capitalism and war - “This company has become a joke. They put stock price and rate before safety and way before employee well-being.”
Informed Comment

We are What we Eat: A Step We all Can take to Fight Climate Breakdown - Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Nuclear physicist Edward Teller predicted in 1959 that the risks of burning fossil fuels, by inc...
Mediaite

Scott Jennings: ‘The Plight of American Hero Big Balls Has Set Off a Firestorm’ in the GOP - CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings declared on Wednesday that "the plight of American hero Big Balls" had "set off a firestorm." The post Sc...
Mediagazer

Glenn Kessler likens working at WaPo now to the Titanic, sinking and aimless under Will Lewis, who asked Kessler for advice on attracting Fox News viewers (Glenn Kessler/By Glenn Kessler) - Glenn Kessler / By Glenn Kessler: *Glenn Kessler likens working at WaPo now to the Titanic, sinking and aimless under Will Lewis, who asked Kessler for a...
The Hill

American youth derived 62 percent of calories from 'ultra-processed' foods: CDC - A new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the majority of calories consumed by American youth in recent years cam...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Dozens more countries face higher taxes on exports to US as new Trump tariffs come into effect - Donald Trump’s latest wave of ‘reciprocal’ levies were in place as of a minute past midnight Washington time on Thursday - See the full list o...
Courthouse News

Transfer of sacred Apache land inevitable, feds tell judge - The U.S. Forest Service says the transfer of the Western Apaches’ sacred Oak Flat to the private ownership of a copper mine is a non-discretionary duty not...
Al Jazeera English

US soldier charged with attempt to provide Russia with battle tank info - Suspect is accused of going online and offering to assist Russian authorities in exchange for Russian citizenship.
Raw Story

'If that's how y'all roll!': Panel erupts at GOP strategist over Trump's D.C. 'fantasy' - The panel on CNN's "NewsNight with Abby Phillip" melted down on Wednesday after a GOP strategist backed up one of the president's assertions about crime....
Political Wire

Chris Cuomo Tricked by Deepfake - Newsnation anchor Chris Cuomo fell for an obviously fake video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calling Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle jeans ad “blatant N...
Deadline Politics

‘South Park’ Lets Loose With A Trump, Satan & JD Vance Ménage À Trois, ICE Raiding Heaven, & Kristi Noem Shooting Dogs - SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s South Park episode ‘Got a Nut’ – like, a lot of details. With a nod — a head butt, really — to Do...
Techdirt.

RFK Jr. Ends Federal Contracts To Develop mRNA Vaccines - One of the more frustrating parts of the RFK Jr. experience is nailing down his views. Part of that is because he tends to keep quite vague about those vie...
Portside

The Liberal Who Hates Leftists - The Liberal Who Hates Leftists Geoffrey Wed, 08/06/2025 - 22:40
Popular Resistance

US Arrests Chinese Scientists In Dangerous Escalation - The US arrested two Chinese researchers on National security-related charges for “smuggling” research materials into the US. But are these researchers re...
Crooked Media

The Truth About El Salvador’s Mega Prison - The post The Truth About El Salvador’s Mega Prison appeared first on Crooked Media.
Brad Blog

'Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens': Media Conglomerates Continue Trump Capitulation: 'BradCast' 8/6/2025 - Today on The BradCast: The corporate capitulation is worse than you think. And it strikes right at the heart of what this nation's founders saw as perhaps ...
Houston Public Media

From Oak Ridge to Hiroshima: One family’s memories of the Atomic Age - It started in secrecy and ended with a mushroom cloud. The daughter of Manhattan Project technician shares what it meant to be raised in the long shadow of...
OpEd News

Historic Bicoastal Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival Declares Victory for Democracy and Truth-Telling - Groundbreaking Simulcast Between Capitol Hill and Arkansas Creates "Most Successful Whistleblower Summit Ever"----The 13th Annual Whistleblower Summit and ...
Alternet

'What if he is arrested?' GOP lawmakers worried new allegations may sink rep's reelection - Some Republican lawmakers are privately weighing whether Rep. Cory Mills' (R–Fla.) latest controversy has become too politically risky to ignore, Politico...
Antiwar.com

U.S. Pressure is Firming Up a Multipolar World - U.S. tariffs wear the cloak of financial policy to address trade imbalances, but they mask deeper geopolitical ambitions. That strategy may backfire. The p...
Consortium News

ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: John Pilger — Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now - Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock o...
Election Law Blog

Watch Video of My Appearance on the PBS News Hour Talking about the New Redistricting Wars and the Implications for the Voting Rights Act - You can watch at this link: Or read the transcript. The post Watch Video of My Appearance on the PBS News Hour Talking about the New Redistricting Wars ...
El Paso Matters

Beto O’Rourke’s political group focus of Texas attorney general investigation - Ken Paxton is investigating Beto O’Rourke’s group, Powered by People, for allegedly funding the Texas Democrats’ walkout to block GOP redistricting plan...
The Verge

Sonos confirms tariffs will increase its prices this year - Tom Conrad took over as CEO of Sonos in January as it continues to recover from last year’s disastrous mobile app update, and now the company has issued it...
Scheerpost.com

‘The Silent Holocaust’ — The Israeli and CIA Sponsored Guatemalan Genocide (w/ Jennifer Harbury) | The Chris Hedges Report - Lawyer Jennifer Harbury discusses the gruesome details of the Guatemalan genocide, and the role that the CIA and Israel played in facilitating this gruesom...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 15 best things to do in Houston this weekend - This weekend will certainly be an arty one.
DeSmogBlog

Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly - The meat industry may have enlisted environmental groups to persuade people to “feel better” about eating beef, despite the sector’s ballooning emissions...
Salon.com

NewsNation’s Cuomo falls for AOC Sydney Sweeney deepfake - The NewsNation anchor was fooled by a fake clip of the congresswoman talking about Sydney Sweeney
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday-Jackie & Ollie - Profiling Jackie Ormes and Ollie Harrington. In an era when Black women were largely erased from the comics page, Jackie Ormes picked up her pen and rewrot...
Rio Grande Guardian

Tributes pour in for Texas Transportation Commission Chairman J. Bruce Bugg, Jr. - Leading the tributes in the Rio Grande Valley is Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr. The post Tributes pour in for Texas Transportation Commission Ch...
Claytoonz

Don’t Swim In Yellow Water - 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...
Progressive.org

The Bombs Still Ticking - Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the trauma of nuclear warfare lingers for thousands of survivors in Japan.
Futurism

Scientists Find Evidence That Aging Is Contagious - Eventually, aging comes for us all — but new evidence suggests that in key ways, it may be a contagious condition. In a provocative new study published i...
Independent Political Report

Local Libertarian Candidates Advance to General Election in Michigan, Kansas, and Washington - Local candidates affiliated with the Libertarian Party in Michigan, Kansas, and Washington state advanced in nonpartisan primary elections held Tuesday, ...
Reform Austin

Texas Senate OKs stricter limits on city, county property tax revenue - The Texas Senate advanced a proposal Wednesday aimed at gut-checking city and county property tax bills as Republican lawmakers seek ways to rein in the ...
Slate

It’s the Most Mysterious Movie of the Year. Will It Send You Running, Arms Aloft, Out of the Theater? - The new movie from the director of Barbarian is even more acclaimed—and packs a different kind of scares.
Sludge

Billionaires, Crypto Investors, and Fossil Fuel Companies Fill up Trump Super PAC - As the Trump administration doled out new corporate tax breaks and rolled back regulations, donors who gained showered millions of dollars on the president...
Wolf Street

Here Come the HELOCs: Mortgages, Housing-Debt-to-Income-Ratio, Serious Delinquencies, and Foreclosures in Q2 2025 - Taxpayers and investors are mostly on the hook this time, not banks.
Vox

RFK Jr. defunds a medical miracle - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
San Antonio Current

Can anything halt the gerrymandering arms race? - This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or f...
San Antonio Report

Bruce Bugg, chair of the Texas Transportation Commission, dead at 70 - Bugg passed away Wednesday morning following complications from a back surgery, a source close to him confirmed. ------------------------------ Bruce Bugg, ...
Discourse

Welcome to the United States. That Will Be $15,000 Please - The Trump administration is moving to charge immigrants an entry fee at the gate.
Second Nexus

TikToker Reveals Why There Aren't More Male Kindergarten Teachers—And She's Got A Point - In recent discussions surrounding public education in the United States, there have been many "make it make sense," "the math ain't mathin'," and "thanks...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
The NM Political Report

Rep. Anaya to host town hall on medical malpractice reform - [image: State Rep. Marianna Anaya] [image: State Rep. Marianna Anaya] State Rep. Marianna Anaya will host a public town hall later this month to discuss...
Mother Jones

Idaho Lost One in Three Obstetricians After Its Abortion Ban - Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took e...
NPR's Health Shots

How the Trump administration is rolling back access to birth control in the U.S. - Contraception is routine for many Americans – and people across political parties agree that it should be legal and accessible. But the Trump administratio...
Texas Standard

Recent college grads have new competition for jobs: artificial intelligence - “If you think about the tasks that artificial intelligence can absorb most readily, a lot of it is the grunt work, the data entry, that type of manipulatio...
Dissident Voice

Eighty years after the U.S. Bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki Are We on the Verge of Another Nuclear War? - Eighty years ago, the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are now nine nuclear-armed nations, many in...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Now Trump’s Robbing Banks” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On the “DeProgram” show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, we dissect ...
The Daily Poster

Big Broadcasters Plan For A Trump TV Takeover - Inside the plan to let MAGA mouthpieces monopolize the local TV news landscape.
Daily Dot

“No one is ready for that”: Calvin Harris praised for normalizing childbirth in shocking new Instagram post—while completely horrifying others - [image: calvin harris surprising instagram birth post] Scottish DJ and music producer Calvin Harris welcomes the birth of his child, showing pictures fro...
See You In 2020

The resurgent popular revolutionary struggle, & its path to defeating the USA’s world war schemes - *Above: protesters in occupied Korea gathered at the National Assembly after last year’s attempted coup* In December 2024, when south Korea’s President ...
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Meet the symbol of Gaza’s famine – and target of Israel’s propagandists - The Grayzone visits the family of Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a severely malnourished toddler living in a Gaza City tent, who has become a symbol of the...
ProPublica

“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal - by Gerardo del Valle, ProPublica, and Alejandro Bonilla Suárez and Edwin Corona Ramos for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigate...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: What does the state of Texas want? - *WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 2025* *What does California already have?* Just for the record, our personal preference would be these: *Our personal druthers:* W...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check In with Jared and Danielle - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie's live video
First Draft

Up On The Roof 2.0 - Cheers to Gerry Goffin and Carole King.
Ecosophia

Talking Back to Flying Heads - As a writer with an unruly muse, I’ve gotten used to accepting inspiration no matter the quarter from which it arrives. Even for me, though, this essay is ...
WhoWhatWhy

Class-Action Lawsuit Could Force EPA to Reinstate $3B Climate Program - [image: climate crisis, US EPA, $3B in grants halted, coalition class-action lawsuit] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recom...
The Root

The Lies That AI Delivers Can Be More Harmful For Black Americans Than You Think - OPINION: AI can be fun, but we shouldn't look past the real harm it can do to marginalized communities Read more...
Mondoweiss

Democrats attempt to navigate Israel’s declining support among base, as midterms loom - [image: Senator Alsobrooks (Sen. Alsobrooks Twitter)]Bernie Sanders's recent resolutions blocking weapons to Israel failed, but analysts say they suggest t...
Ballot Access News

A Little Bit of Sanity in the Redistricting Wars - US House of Representatives member Kevin Kiley (R-CA) proposes banning congressional redistricting before the 2030 Census results are available. Here is th...
Capital & Main

ICE Is Pressuring People in Custody to Self-Deport. Many Are Giving Up. - A promise of $1,000 and a free plane ride home tempts many who've grown weary of being locked up in crowded detention centers. The post ICE Is Pressurin...
Edinburg Politics

With key governments in South Texas using taxpayer-funded lobbyists, Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Christi, taking leadership role to stop use of such a practice by local politicians - With key governments in South Texas for years using taxpayer-funded lobbyists, Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Christi, is taking a leadership role to ...
Space City Weather

Welcome to Space City Weather’s new commenting system - Hey all—my name’s Lee, and I run the server side of Space City Weather (and The Eyewall, too!). Today we’re changing how comments work on both sites. We’re...
Angry Bear

Some good news - In the past six months, the Trump Administration, acting through Elon Musk’s DOGE, cut more than 10% of the staff at the National Weather Service. But it...
Texas Observer

U.S.-Mexico Border Militarization Fails to Stop Modern Drug Smuggling Industry - Just across the Texas border, in cities like Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, criminal networks are strengthening their hold on drug routes despite increased en...
Undernews

Earthquakes - *NY Times - *A 2.7- magnitude earthquake hit northern New Jersey on Tuesday, just days after a 3.0-magnitude quake struck the same area on Saturday, sha...
SCOTUSblog

Skrmetti and birth equality (Part III) - Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the ...
The AltWorld

Russian Gains Mount in Ukraine as Panic Grows in Washington - Russian forces have taken the heavily-fortified, strategically-located city of Chasov Yar west of Bakhmut; Russian forces are […] The post Russian Gains ...
Bonddad

Dismal scenes from the July employment report - - *by New Deal democrat* We’ve settled back in to our typical post-employment week lack of new data, so today is a good day to update the leading in...
Environment Texas

Austin’s $6.3 billion budget targets water, energy, and parks upgrades - Proposed FY 2026 plan boosts investments in clean energy, tree planting, wildfire preparedness, and water conservation amid financial constraints The pos...
American Prospect

FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE - Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It could signal problems with ICE recrui...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
MintPress News

80 Years of Lies: The US Finally Admits It Knew It Didn’t Need to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki - On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a trove of military and presidential admissions dismantles the myth of necessity. The post 80 Years of...
Glasstire

Nasher Sculpture Center Names 2025 Artist Grant Winners - Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center has announced the winners of the 2025 Nasher Sculpture Center Artist Grants in Honor of Jeremy Strick. The awardees are H...
Rewire

Trump’s $150 Billion for Mass Deportation Could Pay For So Much Health Care—Analysis - Reopen shuttered maternity wards, fund rural hospitals for decades, screen millions for breast cancer: An economist does the math. The post Trump’s $150 ...
Democracy Now!

80 Years After Hiroshima & Nagasaki, U.S. Keeps Covering Up Horrors of Atomic Bombing: Greg Mitchell - This week marks 80 years since the first use of nuclear weapons in war, when the United States dropped a pair of atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hir...
The Texas Signal

The Time-Traveling Manga From a Rising Black Artist - Golden Mist follows a young man named Kai who is part of a legendary martial arts dynasty destined to save the world
Krebs on Security

Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum? - On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old adm...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How the Redistricting Fight Could Change the Bias in the House (and Other Notes on the State of Politics) - How redistricting could alter the median House seat by 2024 presidential results; what if Sherrod Brown runs for Senate? The post How the Redistricting F...
ArcaMax

Trump's Rap Sheet vs. the People - Donald Trump's conquering of the country is complete. The blows he's inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal. The president fired the ...
Common Dreams

ICAN chief at 80th Hiroshima commemoration calls for immediate action to eliminate nuclear weapons - Melissa Parke, the Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, ICAN, attended the 80th Hiroshi...
Dorf on Law

Practicing Law Institute SCOTUS Roundup Today: I Preview My Skrmetti Remarks - Today, I'll be participating in the 27th annual Practicing Law Institute Supreme Court Review--as I have done for each of the past 26 years. It is almost...
Infidel753

The right decision - Today is the eightieth anniversary of the US use of the atomic bomb against Hiroshima. A view has become entrenched in some circles that this action was ...
The Smirking Chimp

Top Trump Officials Call Emergency Meeting To ‘Craft Unified Response’ to Epstein -
Skeptophilia

Old as the hills - In northwestern Australia, there's an administrative region called Pilbara. Even though on a map, it looks kind of long and narrow, it's *big*. The area...
Off The Kuff

Quorum break Day 2 roundup: Paxton hauls out a big threat - He seems destined to fail, but we’re going to go through the motions anyway, I guess. Attorney General Ken Paxton will ask for a court ruling declaring vac...
Progressive Army

Récord de TEUs en Mar del Plata: terminal de contenedores crece 41% en operaciones - La terminal de contenedores movilizó 5.492 TEUs en lo que va del año, con mejoras en conectividad, infraestructura y servicios clave para el comercio exter...
Grist

Groundwater is drying out, heating up, and causing sea level rise - Overuse has created zones of “mega-drying” around the world — and caused more sea level rise than Greenland’s ice sheet.
Earth 911

Repair or Replace: Which Is Best For You And The Environment? - Chances are you currently have one or more appliances or devices in your house in... The post Repair or Replace: Which Is Best For You And The Environmen...
Trivial Knot

NSFW and defensibility - Earlier I wrote about Itch.io delisting NSFW content. Here’s some followup discussion. I’ve been impressed by how quickly gamers mobilized around this. The...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

America owes drag queens a huge apology - America owes drag queens a huge apology. Drag queens have had to endure a long season of being mispresented, taken out of context, threatened with of v...
Ian Welsh

Why China’s Big On Open Source - Yesterday we discussed Chinese vs. American AI. The big difference is that a lot of China’s AI is Open Source. Not just Deepseek, but: In addition to Baidu...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Morton Meyerson’s email signature - I was very fortunate to receive a few emails from Morton Meyerson over the years. One of them is the most cherished “fan letter” I have ever gotten (or, ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICAL COMMENTARY / Vice President Vance says people who fought in the Civil War have a larger claim to citizenship than people living here today - J.D. Vance by DonkeyHotey. This caricature of J.D. Vance was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmore’s Flickr photostream. By Mic...
NORML

Federal Survey: No Changes in Marijuana Use by Adolescents, Young Adults - [image: teen marijuana use falls][image: teen marijuana use falls]SAMHSA’s data is consistent with statistics compiled by other government agencies findi...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Epistle to the Wokians - Here comes Road Trip Update No. 2. It’s a bit of a weird update, as you are about to discover. Before we get into it, I want to convey my heartfelt thanks ...
High Country News

How to become a bird - A Montana man finds kinship in living with pigeons. The post How to become a bird appeared first on High Country News.
Project Censored

Oppression as Policy: Israel, Sanctions, and the Global Cost of Control - In the first part of the program, Dr. Shir Hever joins us to discuss Israel’s disinformation economy, the zombie economy that is held together by nothing...
slacktivist

Innocence, identity, and blood libel (cont’d.) - Sexual predators like Jeffrey Epstein serve the same vital function as the kitten-burners and the Satanic baby-killers. They provide both absolution and li...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Has Trump 2.0 Been a Success So Far? - Matt and Sam answer listener questions about Trump, Judaism and Catholicism, bourbon, literature, and more.
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
The Conversation

The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone - A landmark 1964 Supreme Court ruling protects the press in lawsuits by public officials angry about how they’ve been covered. It’s being targeted by Presid...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: juvenile woodpecker - [image: Juvenile woodpecker]
The Militant

‘No deportations! Amnesty is way to unify the working class!’ - SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — “Hundreds of workers here have already lost their jobs,” Lindsay Aime, co-founder of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, tol...
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
Lowering the Bar

Sea-Cucumber Abuser to Be “Moved Far From the Sea for a Long Period of Time” - [image: sea cucumber]Sea cucumbers would breathe a sigh of relief, if they had lungs.
Bracing Views

Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War - The Real Enemy of America BILL ASTORE AUG 01, 2025 The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit...
nonsite.org

When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - What the storm and the sheer devastation wrought in its wake made possible was the consolidation of this ideological transformation virtually overnight—as ...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 2 - *Matthew 5: Highly prized, but deeply flawed, Jesus-script * Christian clergy and theologians—drawn to their profession by devotion to Jesus—are committ...
The Progressive Wing

8.1-8.8 Open Threads - Hola amigos y amigas. 🙂 Well, it’s the first of August. Here in ECFL, that means we go into the peak of the hurricane season which now lasts well into No...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/01/2025 - 08:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Church and State

The Inquisition – one of the most appalling gifts to human tyranny - Along with its judges, the Inquisition had its armed retainers, extortionists, spies, and of course, torturers and executioners.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was The Gaza Genocide Predicted By The Bible? - To many this may seem like an insane question, but a large number of people believe in it, even if there's nothing *mystical, prophetic, or no influence...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: Camp Mystic, the Texas Flood, and the Landscape of Loss - In our latest ‘Chatting the Pictures’ video, we highlight the juxtaposition between a ripped-open Harrison Hall and the eerily placid Guadalupe River. T...
Stinque

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

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
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...
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Liberation News

En Illinois, los centros de datos disparan las tarifas eléctricas - [image: Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to secure nuclear power from the Clinton, Illinois, power plant (pictured) for its growing...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
Save Buffalo Bayou

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

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

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

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

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Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 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...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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