Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alternet

Leavitt argues Trump was being respectful when calling a female reporter 'piggy' - On Air Force One over the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked a female reporter, calling her "piggy." Bloombert's White House correspondent, Cather...
Raw Story

MTG's change of tactics is real — but something much more worrying for Georgia is not - The lines that separate truth from falsehood, reality from fantasy, have become so smeared in recent years that democracy itself becomes difficult. Edgar...
Vox

Ethics and Guidelines at Vox.com - As a part of Vox Media, Vox.com adheres to the Vox Media Editorial Ethics & Guidelines and to the following: Vox continues to evolve as a brand as it build...
Mediaite

Trump Admin May Have ‘Tainted’ Mortgage Fraud Investigations Against Schiff, James by Appointing ‘Unauthorized’ People to Case: Report - A prosecutor from President Donald Trump's Justice Department may have undermined the administration's mortgage fraud cases against his political rivals....
Mediagazer

A look at the "explosion" of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's Southland, and nonprofit LA Public Press (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab) - Sophie Culpepper / Nieman Lab: *A look at the “explosion” of LA media upstarts, like the LA Local News Initiative, which has $18M in funding, SFGate's So...
The Verge

The music industry is all in on AI - Two years ago, “BBL Drizzy” was the AI music shot heard around the world: a song with vocals that sounded like Drake bubbled up from nowhere and launched w...
Futurism

Low Doses of Ozempic-Like Drug Can Counteract Aging in Older Mice, Study Finds - "[W]e’ll all be micro dosing GLP1 in a decade." The post Low Doses of Ozempic-Like Drug Can Counteract Aging in Older Mice, Study Finds appeared first on...
The Week

The 5 best narco movies of all time - Cartels from hell and the greasy underside of the international drug trade
Salon.com

The right time to serve Thanksgiving dinner, according to Martha Stewart - The Thanksgiving Queen's choice of hour came as a shock to many fans online
naked capitalism

From the Narrative Collapse, a New World Will Emerge: Will It Be Different? - In the information age, it is difficult to make sense of events. Endless amounts of information do not necessarily coalesce into a coherent narrative with ...
Techdirt.

Cities Shut Down Flock Camera Networks Following Improper Access By Federal Agencies - “Flock Safety” may be the brand name, but this company’s earliest sales successes had nothing to with safety. Its target audience was homeowners associatio...
Mother Jones

Trump Endorses Hanging Democratic Members of Congress - It’s been a week of Donald Trump outrages—he barked at a female reporter, “Quiet, quiet, piggy,” and during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin ...
Al Jazeera English

At least 41 dead as heavy rain, flooding and landslides hit central Vietnam - Forecasters warn more flooding, landslides expected as tens of thousands of people are evacuated from their homes.
Political Wire

Coast Guard Says Swastika Is No Longer a Hate Symbol - “The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews ...
Axios

House Democratic leaders contact Capitol Police after Trump "death threats" against vets - House Democratic leadership said Thursday they've been in touch with the U.S. Capitol Police and the House sergeant-at-arms to protect a group of lawmake...
San Antonio Current

Court order on Texas redistricting forces election officials, parties to scramble — again - [image: Voters cast ballots at a polling place.] First, a switch to new congressional maps. Now, a switch back to the old ones, with a key deadline approa...
memeorandum

Mike Johnson defends Trump's 'sedition' attacks on Democrats (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico) - Meredith Lee Hill / Politico: *Mike Johnson defends Trump's ‘sedition’ attacks on Democrats* — Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump's declaration...
Eschaton

Freedum - Smell it. The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel ...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - Workers at Hellenic Train in Greece walk out over staff shortages and ongoing safety issues; nurses in Mashhad, Iran strike over pay and staff shortages; h...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Donald Trump and JD Vance snubbed for Dick Cheney’s funeral - Joe Biden and George W Bush attend Republican’s service, while notable absences included Barack Obama and Bill Clinton Donald Trump and JD Vance have bee...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Mattea Kramer, Trumps Most Original Idea Ever - Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rmeysa ztrk on a street in Somerville...
Dorf on Law

Will the Future Bend Back Toward Decency? (a retitled Verdict Classic) - Recent headlines suggest that resistance against Trumpian totalitarianism might not be futile after all. "‘Unforgivable’: Trump’s ‘piggy’ insult is stok...
Daily Dot

“Prophetic lyrics”: Olivia Nuzzi’s failed teen pop career resurfaces amid book release - [image: olivia nuzzi livvy myspace] The disgraced journalist’s popstar past has been dredged up by social media sleuths. Olivia Nuzzi’s teenage popstar ...
Houston Public Media

Two more inmate deaths inside the Harris County Jail were reported this week - The deaths of Kerry Parks, 63, and Tony Davis, 66, bring the jail's in-custody death total to 18 this year.
The Greanville Post

The Epstein Files Transparency Act: A Masterclass in Legislative Deception. - J MATSON HEININGER—The current system is demonstrably anti-democratic in both design and effect. Classification prevents Congress from investigating and ho...
Slate

My Son Played a “Prank” on a Teacher That Ended in Near-Disaster. My Husband Thinks It’s Hilarious—I’m Totally Mortified. - And not laughing.
Second Nexus

Police Bust ICE Employee Trying To Solicit Minor For Sex In Sting Operation—And His Excuse Is Going Viral - A Minneapolis and St. Paul (Minnesota's “Twin Cities”) based employee of Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcem...
The Hill

Trump administration reverses, wants to join G20 summit: South African president - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the United States has asked to join the Group of 20 (G20) summit at “the 11th hour” after previously announcin...
WhoWhatWhy

‘Tone It Down’ Trump Agrees Democrats Should Be Hanged - [image: Donald Trump, UN Headquarters] Donald Trump on Thursday amplified a call for Democrats to be executed for the crime of telling soldiers that they d...
Courthouse News

Spain court orders Meta to compensate media for ‘unfair competition’ - A Madrid commercial court ruled in favor of media association AMI, saying Meta had gained a "significant competitive advantage" in digital advertising sale...
Independent Political Report

Vermont Progressive Party Elects New Leadership, Honors Former Chair Anthony Pollina - The Vermont Progressive Party made significant changes to its leadership this month at its annual convention, calling it “the beginning of a new era” for...
NPR's Health Shots

The CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism - A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously stated "Vaccines do not cause autism" has been changed to cast doubt on the scientific...
Texas Observer

Dammed if You Do: East Texas Locals Fight to Stop an Unnecessary Reservoir - Smoke curled lazily from the kitchen, carrying the sweet weight of brown sugar and spice through the room. An elk and two whitetail deer stared down from...
Undernews

Maryland's AG joins 24 other jurisdictions in opposing deployment of National Guard without state approval - *Anthony Brown - *Trump’s attempt to deploy the National Guard in Illinois and his threat to do so in other cities is unlawful, unconstitutional, and undem...
The Daily Poster

Nvidia’s Math Problem - Despite record revenue, the Big Tech juggernaut is cash poor and chip rich.
Ballot Access News

Utah Forward Party Releases Rules for a Private Primary for Voters to Choose Nominee to Fill Legislative Vacancy - On November 20, the Utah Forward Party released the rules by which the voters in the State Senate 11th district can vote on who should fill the vacancy. Th...
Scheerpost.com

‘How Many More Have to Die?’ Asks Democrat as Another Texas Woman’s Death Blamed on Abortion Ban - By: Julia Conley Common Dreams “Let’s be very clear: Republicans are killing women,” said one abortion rights advocate. “Democrats need to start calling th...
Progressive.org

This North Carolina Cafe Is Serving Coffee and Opportunity - Deep Time provides employment and community for people who have been impacted by the criminal justice system.
Consortium News

Leaked Emails Expose Top Tories’ Historic Relationship with Israel - The historic relationship between top Tories and the Israeli government has been laid bare in a remarkable cache of leaked emails seen by Declassified UK, ...
El Paso Matters

Texas AG drops lawsuit against El Paso doctor, but ‘collateral damage’ from trans health care ban remains - Attorney General Ken Paxton sued an El Paso pediatrician for alleged gender-affirming care in 2024. The post Texas AG drops lawsuit against El Paso doct...
SCOTUSblog

Pipeline pay, pandemic preemption, professors’ parity, and a prisoner’s plea - The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is avai...
Liberation News

3 lies we’re being told about Venezuela - Hand in hand with the billionaire-owned mainstream media, the U.S. government is spreading dangerous lies to justify a military invasion of Venezuela with ...
Trivial Knot

Origami should take a page from music - I’ve been really busy this month, so I’m feeling some casual blogging. Question: why don’t origami books take a page from music books? It’s a pun, because ...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
CultureMap Houston

Taco Bell brings Live Más Café beverage concept to Houston suburb - Taco Bell is about to debut a beverage-centric concept in Houston: Called Live Más Café, it's a store-within-a-store located at the Taco Bell at 19400 I-45...
Dissident Voice

The World’s Most Beautiful Woman - There is a reason that the Palestinians will never be defeated; they grow more beautiful every day — in our hearts and minds. At the November 14, 2025 Pa...
Election Law Blog

“As Trump plans backfire, Democrats are ahead in House redistricting fight” - From the Washington Post. My own view is that this is a quintessential example of counting one’s chickens before they hatch–in this case, radioactive chi...
Project Censored

‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed - By James Libresco And then came the universities. After waging war on public broadcasting and the arts, the Trump administration threatened last month to...
San Antonio Report

Chef Davila’s launch of St. Anthony Hotel restaurant stirs memories - The St. Anthony Hotel announces the winter launch of a new upscale restaurant helmed by James Beard nominated chef Leo Davila. -----------------------------...
Mondoweiss

Israel kills 33 Gazans in a single night. It’s part of a new deadly status quo, Palestinians say. - [image: Family members of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Bani Suheila in Khan Younis, Nasser Hospital, November 20, 2025. (Photo: Mohammed Salam...
Daily Howler

BACKLASH: Like horses, cattle, "livestock" and cows! - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025* *Blue America looks away:* Way back in 1991, Susan Faludi believed—we'll guess correctly—that a backlash was going on. For...
First Draft

New Orleans Is A Bordertown? - It's the Crescent City's turn in the MAGA barrel.
Bonddad

September jobs report: a positive - if stale - report - - *by New Deal democrat* First things first: the jobs data we received this morning, like the official data reported earlier this week, is “stale n...
Glasstire

Top Five: November 20, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Bio Morphe Moody Center for the Arts (Houston) Septembe...
Democracy Now!

The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at "Tipping Point" - As we broadcast from the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, we are joined by one of Brazil’s most prominent scientists, Carlos Nobre, who says the Amaz...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Continues Attack On ABC With Call To Drop Jimmy Kimmel After Late-Night Host Makes Jeffrey Epstein Jokes - Donald Trump went after Jimmy Kimmel again, calling for ABC to remove him from the air, after the late-night host joked about Jeffrey Epstein. In a Truth S...
Space City Weather

Thanksgiving week looks cooler. Also, are we buying the hype around a ‘stratospheric warming event’ in early December? - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the region’s ongoing, record-setting heat; our uncertain rain chances for this weekend, and an eventual cooldown next ...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “CIA Cover-Up on JFK Exposed” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Uncover the shadows of history and the fractures of modern power on the DeProgram show with political carto...
The Conversation

First Amendment in flux: When free speech protections came up against the Red Scare - The congressional anti-communist hearings of the 1940s are a reminder that freedom of speech today is even more fragile than it may seem.
ArcaMax

How Low Can Deviancy Go? - The central scandal in the Epstein's sex abuse ring targeting children is not the sex. It's the children. What powerful men do with grown-up women -- that ...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Beyond the Valley of the Pols - This may seem like an odd place to start, but it’s actually perfect. In case you missed it, FIFA, the organization that runs the World Cup tournament, rece...
The Smirking Chimp

How Trump’s MRI Spurred the Epstein Vote -
The Root

Ex-NCAA Player Admits the *Real* Reason Why He Rigged Games in Career-Ending Betting Scandal - Ex-NCAA basketball player Cedquavious Hunter just admitted the secret reason he got involved in an illegal betting scheme that ended his career. Read mor...
Skeptophilia

Signs and portents - The general rule is that you should *always* try to rule out all the natural and normal explanations for something before you jump to a supernatural or p...
Capital & Main

California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields - State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found. The post California’s chil...
Crooked Media

Trump Cracks on Epstein Files - The post Trump Cracks on Epstein Files appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

So who might be running for what now? - There’s a scramble going on, that’s for sure. In August, when the Texas Legislature passed a new congressional map intended to yield five additional seats ...
ProPublica

Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget. - The post Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget. appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

This pig’s bacon was delicious. But she’s alive and well. - A company called Mission Barns is cultivating pork fat in bioreactors and turning it into meatballs and other products. Honestly, they're pretty darn good.
High Country News

Will this threatened frog stop drilling near Denver? - [image: a norther leopard frog] Northern leopard frogs were found near the site of what would be one of state’s largest fossil fuel operations. The post ...
Portside

Trump’s New Best Friend - Trump’s New Best Friend Mark Brody Thu, 11/20/2025 - 01:56
Workers World

PDF of November 20 print issue - [image: PDF of November 20 print issue] Download the PDF Venezuela Resist U.S. war moves! Disability rights! Starbucks workers strike Defend Iran vs pinkwa...
jobsanger

A Darkness No Country Should Have To Suffer -
Informed Comment

Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge? - Türkiye has achievements in low-carbon renewable energy. It is the site of the largest solar power installation in a European country
Environment Texas

House committee’s bills would increase energy waste - Energy efficiency advocates caution that bills attacking energy-saving standards would increase health-harming pollution and raise costs for consumers. ...
Wolf Street

The 24 Bigger Cities where Condo Prices Have Dropped by 12% to 29% through October - The Condo Bust deepens and spreads to more cities, unwinding some mindboggling Condo Bubbles.
Brad Blog

Is MAGA Finally Beginning to Fall Apart?: 'BradCast' 11/19/2025 - As we head toward the holidays, some helpful advice on today's BradCast for how to deal (and even help) some of your MAGA friends and family members who ma...
The AltWorld

Capitalism Is The Best It’s Ever Been! - No no everything’s fine. It’s perfectly normal for people to have 80 hour work weeks while billionaires […] The post Capitalism Is The Best It’s Ever Bee...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Anti-LGBTQ Congressman Clay Higgins the only vote against Epstein files release' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs - Clay Higgins *All about anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Clay Higgins, the lone vote against Epstein files release *- *While I can't, as of now, find anything where...
Popular Resistance

Growing Global Solidarity To Demand Protection Of Palestinians Manifested On Day Of Action - On November 17, social movements in 13 countries held actions in solidarity with Colombia and its President, Gustavo Petro, who has faced retaliation by ...
The Grayzone

Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’ exposed as viral right-wing plot - Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs a...
Antiwar.com

‘More Horrific Than Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo’: The Unsalvageable Depravity of Israel’s Prisons for Palestinians - On June 19, 2024, Khaled Mahajneh, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, became the first lawyer to visit a notorious detention facility for Palestinians from t...
Reform Austin

Texas Delegation Backs Epstein File Release - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The entire Texas congressional delegation voted Tuesday to require the Justice Department to re...
Discourse

Olivia Nuzzi's Nine Lives - How many sins can one career survive?
Church and State

Trump’s change on Jeffery Epstein files release is not surprising but significant!! - For the first time Trump is not in control which in fact has come to shown big cracks in his armor that cannot be put back.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Fascists are Falling Apart: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - This moment is uncomfortable, but a new world is possible. We just have to see it.
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (11.19.25) - Please listen to Tressie McMillan Cottom, E.B. White, Mark Silk, Becky Garrison, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Abby Vesoulis.
Texas Standard

Gov. Abbott released 1,400 pages of emails about Elon Musk. Most are blacked out. - Abbott fought for months to keep secret emails between his office and Elon Musk. Now, hundreds of pages have been released.
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
DeSmogBlog

Pathways Alliance Sponsored a ‘Summer School’ Program in Saskatchewan - Pathways Alliance, a lobby group most recently known for pro-pipeline billboards, also sponsored what they termed a carbon capture summer school in July....
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Latino Conservatism - The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Lati...
Angry Bear

August factory orders rebounded from early summer lows - As with yesterday, the good news is that important official economic data is being reported again. The bad news is that it is very stale, as in covering ...
LareDOS

TAMIU Practicum Seminar students host exhibit opening reception Thursday, Nov. 20 - Public welcome to opening reception and exhibit
Ian Welsh

The Promise Of Automation and Abundance - For a long time after the Industrial Revolution, many thinkers believed that automation would lead to us living lives of leisure. Twenty your work weeks, o...
NORML

Clinical Trial: Cannabis Smoking Linked to Significantly Reduced Alcohol Intake - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
Infidel753

A battle won, but not yet the war - After months of Trumpian stonewalling, things are moving fast. The bill to release the Epstein files passed both the House and the Senate yesterday, and...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

House Rating Changes: Six Moves Toward Democrats, Although Topline Remains Close - There are seven rating changes this week, including three in states that held elections earlier this month, New Jersey and Virginia, plus another two in ...
Ecosophia

Situationism: Where Domination Ends - The two interludes just past strayed some distance from the writings of the Situationists, the little clique of avant-garde Marxists in mid-20th century Fr...
Common Dreams

Hundreds of Lobbyists Try to Clawback Medicare Drug Price Negotiations, Win Trump’s Favor - Big Pharma and its allies have taken corporate influence in Washington to new heights, hiring more than 500 lobbyists this year in an attempt to pass thr...
Krebs on Security

The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap - An intermittent outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday briefly knocked many of the Internet's top destinations offline. Some affected Cloudflare customers were ab...
Rewire

Democrats Picked an Insurance Fight They Weren’t Willing to Win. Now Abortion Is On the Line—Again (Opinion) - Republicans plan to kill the health-care subsidies that make medical care even remotely affordable for some 24 million people. Democrats can't once again...
Greg Palast

Epstein and Larry Summers. Palast Investigates - Palast tears open the newly uncovered emails between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein — emails in which the very-married Summers leans on the convicted pr...
Earth 911

13 Green Tips That Can Save You Over $5,000 a Year - Simple shifts to greener versions of the products you already use can save you more... The post 13 Green Tips That Can Save You Over $5,000 a Year appear...
Counterpunch

America’s Peril: The Rot of Anti-Intellectualism and Demagoguery is Costing us Our Future - As a kid, my favorite part of grocery shopping wasn’t the snacks or the cereal aisle, it was the tabloids at the checkout. I’d devour headlines about Bat...
The NM Political Report

‘Corruption of the highest degree’: Heinrich, Leger Fernández start repeal of $500,000 payout provisions for senators - Two members of the New Mexico congressional delegation are taking the lead in repealing a provision of the recently passed government funding bill that a...
Black Agenda Report

Trinidad and Tobago in the Crosshairs of U.S. Imperialism - Trinidad and Tobago in the Crosshairs of U.S. Imperialism bareditors Wed, 11/19/2025 - 03:43 Clau O'Brien Moscoso Erica Caines
See You In 2020

The class war’s next phase, MAGA’s role in this war, & how it shows Marxists must navigate rural America - I have chosen to emphasize the MAGA movement, and to use imagery which relates to that movement, because this is necessary for breaking Marxist discours...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections - Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-F...
The Texas Signal

Texas Congressional Maps Blocked - The ruling, authored by Trump-appointed Judge Jeffrey Brown is a sharp rebuke for Texas Republicans in the state house and senate
Duck of Minerva

Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern - On November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to end all U.S. assistance to Nigeria and — if he deemed it necessary — launch a military attack aga...
Claytoonz

Surprise - 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 Pa...
Texas Monthly

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

11/17-21 News Roundup and Open Thread - Some mid-November news.
Socialist Alternative

Building The Movement For Socialism In The Age Of Trump 2.0: Socialist Alternative Convention 2025 - Over a weekend in early November, more than 250 socialists gathered in Maryland for the 2025 Socialist Alternative Convention. Our members traveled far fro...
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
Sludge

Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls - Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing ...
Crooked Timber

Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace - If you want to know more about how the current form of capitalism is undermining (a thick conception of) democracy, and what can be done about this, then y...
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
ExChristian.Net

God, The Ultimate Abusive Spouse - *By MTC ~ * The "relationship" Christians have with their deity and wish for others to seek as well, is claimed to be one of pure love, benevolence, and d...
Bracing Views

Nuclear Force “Recapitalization” - An Abomination of the English Language BILL ASTORE NOV 12, 2025 Just when you thought the assault on the English language couldn’t be more severe, I came a...
Alas, a Blog

Blame Immigrants! - As many people have written, one way powerful people and institutions stay in power is by scapegoating immigrants. Dick Dowdell sums it up well: When wages...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
The Militant

Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract - RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EPSTEIN IS THE MONSTER AND THE CREATOR EDITION. - *Robert Christgau told us about these guys.And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!* A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw somethi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
Moron Majority

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

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

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

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
Progressive Army

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

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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