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

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

San Antonio Report

Bexar County judge suspended without pay weeks out from reelection race - [image: Oath of Office Ceremony for Kathryn Brown, Precinct 4 Bexar County Constable elect. Photos taken on January 1, 2021.]Judge Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez ...
Vox

Why a Republican Supreme Court just handed a victory to Democrats - On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that California’s newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give Democrat...
Popular Resistance

Striking New York Nurses Brave Subzero Cold - Fifteen thousand New York nurses are more than three weeks into their strike for a fairer contract. Yesterday members of the New York State Nurses Associ...
Mediaite

Details Revealed About Man Arrested For Nancy Guthrie Bitcoin Demand - The FBI has arrested a Los Angeles man for allegedly sending texts to the family of Nancy Guthrie asking for a ransom payable in bitcoin. The post Detail...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Condemns Trump Calls to Nationalize U.S. Elections - The Forward Party has denounced calls to “nationalize” U.S. elections after President Donald Trump urged Republicans to take control of election administ...
Second Nexus

Philly Woman Goes Viral With Her Totally Chill Reaction To Her Car Being Completely Frozen In Ice - While the Northeast battled winter weather, the internet was captivated by a Philly-based TikToker documenting how her car turned into what she jokingly ...
memeorandum

ICE and CBP's Face-Recognition App Can't Actually Verify Who People Are (Wired) - Wired: *ICE and CBP's Face-Recognition App Can't Actually Verify Who People Are* … BY DELL CAMERON AND MADDY VARNER — INNER LOOP — Inside the ICE For...
Raw Story

'Idiots': Senate Republican scoffs at residency accusations as he eyes governorship - Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) isn't losing any sleep over questions about his Alabama residency as the former football coach takes aim at becoming the sta...
The Verge

Iron Lung’s path to theaters was unique, even if the movie isn’t - As a movie, Iron Lung is occasionally thrilling but mostly forgettable. It's a small-budget horror flick that has some cool ideas and pulls them off in an ...
Al Jazeera English

T20 World Cup: Sri Lanka urge Pakistan to reconsider India boycott - T20 World Cup co-host Sri Lanka asks Pakistan to reconsider boycott of India match on February 15 in Colombo.
OpEd News

A Good Bunny and a Bad Bondi - A member of The Silent Generation speaks out in favor of a free press and against government violence.
Wolf Street

Companies Hang on to their Workers, and Workers Cling to their Jobs: One More Factor why it’s Tough for Job Seekers - Much slower turnover in the labor force leaves fewer job openings to be filled.
Courthouse News

FDIC seeks lower standard of proof in Silicon Valley Bank negligence case - A failed bank's trust gears up for a bench trial as the FDIC asks a federal judge to rule a partial summary judgment in its favor.
Mondoweiss

Life and loss in Umm al-Khair, an island within a settlement - [image: Palestinians attend the funeral of Awdah al-Hathaleen in Umm al-Khair, Masafer Yatta, August 7, 2025. (Photo: © Ilia Yefimovich/dpa via ZUMA Press/...
Futurism

Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment - Disastrous. The post Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment appeared first on Futurism.
Dorf on Law

What Would "Nationalizing the Election" Look Like, and Could It Be Stopped? - It has not been at all difficult to predict what Donald Trump would be willing to do when it comes to dismantling constitutional democracy in the United ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Arizona officials confirm blood found at Nancy Guthrie’s home was hers - Pima county sheriff says police do not yet have a suspect in apparent kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother Law enforcement chiefs in Arizona on Thursd...
Salon.com

“We’re at risk of an arms race”: US-Russian nuclear arms treaty expires - Lawmakers fear a global arms race as the last treaty comes to an end
Slate

Sydney Sweeney Dropped a Lingerie Line. I Tried It. It’s All Too Clear Who It’s For. - Who better to review Syrn than I, someone who is actually just legs, arms, and areola.
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: When Martinez told her story this week... - *THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2026* *...the glorious Times took a pass:* It's amazing to see how little the American public has been told about Charles Exum. A...
The Hill

Trump endorses former MLB star Mark Teixeira in Texas race: 'Total winner' - President Trump on Wednesday endorsed former Major League Baseball (MLB) player Mark Teixeira in his bid for an open House seat in Texas. "I know Mark well...
The Week

‘The censorious effect is the same, even if deployed covertly’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Techdirt.

DHS Is Hunting Down Trump Critics. The ‘Free Speech’ Warriors Are Mighty Quiet. - For years, we’ve been subjected to an endless parade of hyperventilating claims about the Biden administration’s supposed “censorship industrial complex.” ...
Houston Public Media

Ken Paxton reverses stance on Texas CAIR chapters, sues to shut them down - The Texas attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the Muslim Brotherhood, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and its local Texas chapters, aski...
Eschaton

Afternoon - Some things to deal with so light blogging
Novara Media

Are Keir Starmer’s Days As Prime Minister Numbered? - Is this the beginning of the end for Keir Starmer? Plus: Morgan McSweeney’s tenure is called into question, the extent of Peter Mandelson’s connections is ...
Mother Jones

Illinois Representative Asks God to Get Trump to “Do What Is Right” - During his address to God at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Rep. Jonathan Jackson, a democrat from Illinois, called on President Donald Trump t...
Mediagazer

Thomson Reuters' CEO says AI cannot easily replace the company's legal-research expertise, after its stock fell following the release of Claude legal work tools (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal) - Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: *Thomson Reuters' CEO says AI cannot easily replace the company's legal-research expertise, after its stock fe...
Axios

Nancy Guthrie update: Detailed timeline, $50K reward and "imposter" ransom arrest - Law enforcement officials on Thursday provided an updated timeline and new information on the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of "Today" show ...
San Antonio Current

Guajolote Ranch development in limbo after San Antonio City Council vote - [image: Members of the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance and the Scenic Loop-Helotes Creek Alliance pose for a photo after Thursday's victory over Lennar Co...
Sludge

Foreign Interests Are Paying Millions to a Trump-Linked Lobbying Firm - Ballard Partners’ foreign-interest lobbying business has boomed since Trump took office, signing up new clients from Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Albania, Uz...
Common Dreams

New Report Exposes MAHA’s Corrupting Influence in HHS and Beyond - The Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has gained significant influence over the US health care system, according to a new report by Public Citiz...
First Draft

It Could Have Been Any One Of Us, #2 - Aliya Rahman could have been any one of us.
naked capitalism

The Epstein Files as a Weapon in the Conflict Over Currency and the “Central Domain” - What the Epstein scandal reveals about the conflict for digital sovereignty, currency and the shift between Carl Schmitt’s 'central domains'
Consortium News

Hedges Report: The Future of the ‘New World Order’ - Donald Trump believes U.S. economic and military might are all he needs to achieve unilateral control over America’s allies, but he’s a “one-man wrecking c...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Home + Garden Show returns with celeb guests and inspiration galore - The *Houston Home + Garden Show* is back! Frigid arctic blasts have come and gone, so it’s time to seek inspirational — or even aspirational — projects fro...
Election Law Blog

“Maryland senator lodges one-man protest to push for redistricting vote” - Baltimore Banner: Maryland state Sen. Arthur Ellis is lodging a public, one-man protest against Senate President Bill Ferguson’s plan to stall a congress...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - February 5, 2026 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Future Winter Olympic Games may start earlier due to war...
Alternet

'Good citizenship': Indiana GOP bill pushes marriage before kids lessons - Indiana Republicans are pushing controversial “good citizenship” legislation that would require educators to teach students they should have children onl...
Crooked Media

Will Mandelson be Starmer’s downfall? - The post Will Mandelson be Starmer’s downfall? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Political Wire

Vance Says the Olympics Still Unite Americans - Vice President JD Vance arrived in Milan with his family, telling U.S. athletes competing in the Milan games that the competition “is one of the few things...
Ballot Access News

Oregon House Rules Committee Hears Testimony on a New Form of Top-Two - On February 5, the Oregon House Rules Committee is hearing testimony on HJR 201, a proposed Constitutional amendment that would provide for a top-two prima...
Undernews

Immigrants actually cut US deficits - *Christopher Webb * - Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 trillion since 1994, slashing the national debt by a t...
The Daily Poster

Snakes On A Plane - Commercial passengers are helping to foot the bill for billionaires’ private jet mania.
Texas Standard

Musk says SpaceX and xAI will combine to build data centers in space - Two of Elon Musk’s companies are joining forces, creating the biggest merger in history.
Capital & Main

Lawsuits Push Back on Trump’s Attack on Child Care - Unions, small businesses, states sue to stop the administration from punishing blue states by withholding $10 billion in funding. The post Lawsuits Push ...
The Root

You *Have* to Read Whoopi Goldberg’s Hilarious Life Update - Whoopi Goldberg is once again going viral for her comments about love and relationships and it's clear to see why! Read more...
NPR's Health Shots

Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer 'moral distress' - A special corps of health care workers have been called in to work with detained immigrants and many feel deeply conflicted about the assignment, saying th...
Dissident Voice

Progress - We used to have legions. Now we have the military-industrial complex. We don’t really see war anymore; not up close. It happens thousands of miles away, ...
El Paso Matters

Private school voucher applications open, Islamic school funding in limbo - Parents can now apply for the state's voucher program to send their children to one of over two dozen approved private schools in El Paso The post Priva...
Bracing Views

Wrecking Democracy in America - A Meditation on Trump’s “Dream Military” BILL ASTORE FEB 05, 2026 Hi Everyone: Here’s my latest post for TomDispatch.com. It was inspired by President Trum...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

How Redistricting Scrambled the Crossover District List—and How It Could be Scrambled Even More - Updating the list of districts that voted for one party for president and the other for House based on new congressional maps. The post How Redistricting...
WhoWhatWhy

Nuclear Arms Race Looms After Last Weapons Control Treaty Expires - [image: ICBM test launch] For the first time in decades, no nuclear arms treaty is in place after a deal between the US and Russia that had capped the numb...
SCOTUSblog

When the Supreme Court abets lawlessness - Cases and Controversies is a recurring series by Carolyn Shapiro, primarily focusing on the effects of the Supreme Court’s rulings, opinions, and procedu...
Glasstire

Top Five: February 5, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Celia Eberle: The Angels ExitCris Worley Fine Arts (Dal...
LareDOS

Daphne Art Foundation invites Laredo to MÁSCARA SÍMBOLO DE LA CULTURA, an exhibition by local contemporary artists, and live Five Star Wrestling, Friday, Dec. 6 - Free and open to the community!
The Progressive Wing

2/5 – 2/6 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, etc. in the comments.
Bonddad

Jobless claims rise, but still mainly lower YoY; post-pandemic residual seasonality still at work? - * - by New Deal democrat* The December JOLTS report that was delayed from Tuesday is scheduled to be released later this morning. I may cover it toda...
Workers World

PDF of February 5 issue - [image: PDF of February 5 issue] Download the PDF ANTI-ICE SOLIDARITY SPREADS! Cuba denounces escalation of U.S. economic blockade Mundo Obrero: Lo que une...
Democracy Now!

Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links, Grok's Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger - French prosecutors have asked Elon Musk to appear for questioning following a police raid on the offices of the social media network X in Paris. The French...
The Conversation

A terrorism label that comes before the facts can turn ‘domestic terrorism’ into a useless designation - A ‘domestic terrorism’ label that comes before the facts teaches the public to treat the term as propaganda rather than factual diagnosis.
Space City Weather

Houston’s weather forecast: That 70s edition - In brief: Our forecast is fairly straightforward for the next 10 days, with most every day having high temperatures in the 70s. So we’re having a little fu...
ArcaMax

The Midterms Are Democrats' to Lose - Democrats are buzzing over the surprise victory of Taylor Rehmet in a Texas state senate race. Rehmet won by 14 points in a Fort Worth-area district Donald...
Earthworks

Rushing Mineral Extraction Puts This California Community at Risk - The Imperial County, Calif. government is rushing through industrial development at the expense of communities’ health, air, water, and landscapes that h...
Angry Bear

Trump Policies Endanger Farmers as Countries Stop Buying Farm Products Due to Trade War - The challenge facing American farmers was unprecedented trade war with China. Almost immediately, China stopped buying soybeans altogether. This action w...
Rallblog

Americans to Trump: You Lie! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Falling For The Fakery - As the Rock Man told Oblio, “You see what you want to see, and you hear what you want to hear.” The point — no pun intended — is that “You got to open your...
Earth 911

The State of Ocean Plastic Pollution In 2026 - Every minute, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic ends up in the ocean. This constant... The post The State of Ocean Plastic Pollution In 2026 appeared fi...
Infidel753

A political warning - The Democrats face a fundamental problem which the ideological left is determined to avoid addressing -- and has succeeded in not addressing, largely beca...
The Smirking Chimp

Judge Tells Trump To Stop ‘Beating a Dead Horse’ in Bid To Overturn Felony Convictions -
Skeptophilia

Unreliable narrators - In Shirley Jackson's eerie gothic novel *We Have Always Lived in the Castle,* the main character -- an eighteen-year-old named Merricat Blackwood -- live...
Scheerpost.com

Poll: Majority of Americans Oppose Immigration Agents Being Sent to Their States - A majority of Americans also recognized that the Trump administration was dishonest about the killing of Alex Pretti.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Lawrence Allen - For our third and final candidate in HD131, we have once again a familiar name. Lawrence Allen is the previous member of the SBOE in District 4, serving mu...
ProPublica

“You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” - The post “You’re Not Going to Investigate a Federal Officer” appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers - After years of concern over so-called “fluoro” waxes, the Milan Cortina Games will be the first Olympics without them.
Countercurrents

In developing and manufacturing next-generation fighter jets, the nation should accord a central role to HAL, not private firms - To Shri T V Somanathan Cabinet Secretary Dear Shri Somanathan, I have come across a disturbing news report that the government has excluded HAL from biddin...
High Country News

What tumbleweed can teach protesters - Learning from a reviled and inspiring weed. The post What tumbleweed can teach protesters appeared first on High Country News.
Counterpunch

How the FBI Corrupted Democracy in 2016 and Beyond - The FBI treated Hillary Clinton and her coterie like royalty worthy of endless deference, according to a 2018 report by the Justice Department Inspector ...
Portside

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country - Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country Mark Brody Thu, 02/05/2026 - 01:42
jobsanger

The Brave People Of Minnesota Are Showing Us That Nonviolent Resistance Works -
World Socialist Web Site

*Washington Post *slashes one-third of its newsroom, as 2026 jobs bloodbath continues - The *Washington Post *announced Tuesday that it is eliminating more than 300 journalists—roughly one-third of its 800-person newsroom.
Informed Comment

How many people has ICE maimed, killed or Disappeared in Minnesota? - Many of those detained are left without their medication which can lead to life-threatening complications
The Greanville Post

JUDGE NAP | Coleen Rowley : An FBI Veteran Examines ICE Lawlessness. - JUDGE NAP—The first video features Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewing Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent and legal counsel, about serious concerns...
Deadline Politics

LA Mayor Sidesteps Calls For Casey Wasserman’s Olympics Resignation After Epstein Files Revelations; IOC Brass Still Has “Full Trust” In LA28 Chief - Casey Wasserman still has the support of Karen Bass and the International Olympics Committee to stay in charge of LA28, for now. IOC Executive Board member...
Claytoonz

Grab Them By The Party - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The NM Political Report

Gov set to sign bill closing ICE facilities in New Mexico - [image: Torrance Co Detention Center] New Mexico is set to end its involvement in federal civil immigration detention following final Senate passage of th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Anti-gay marriage campaign caught faking Obama's support and using racist tropes ' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs - 'Greater Than,' an anti-gay marriage campaign, was caught falsely implying that former President Barack Obama supports its efforts. The campaign, run by w...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s Board of Peace Is a Dystopia in Motion - While the sheer pomposity, Trumpian megalomania, and painfully paradoxical context surrounding the so-called “Board of Peace” (BoP) might tempt some to dis...
Environment Texas

Dallas Environmental Commission recommends Dallas City Council make convention center bird-friendly - The commission passed a recommendation that the city ensure the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas Expansion includes bird-friendly glass and ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report January 2026 - Walmart had another six shootings in January 2026, with the first three killing one person each, two of those fatal shootings were by police, the third ...
Progressive.org

New Foreign Aid Rules Will Threaten Lives - The Trump Administration is expanding foreign aid restrictions on abortion, transgender health care, and DEI initiatives.
The AltWorld

China and the Western Hemisphere Post-Maduro - The capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by US military forces has turned the theory of a […] The post China and the Western Hemisphere Post-Ma...
Texas Observer

When Local Police Collaborate with ICE, Children Pay the Price - Editor’s Note: The author of this article is currently one of eight Democrats running in the March 3 primary for state House District 49, the seat vacate...
Socialist Alternative

Seattle Students & Workers Walk Out Against ICE - Six Seattle public schools sheltered in place last week due to reported ICE activity in the area. Plainclothes officers were spotted trying to force their ...
Ian Welsh

The Amount Of Contempt Elites Have For Public Intelligence Is Breathtaking - The latest episode is an attempt to suggest Epstein was working for Russia: Epstein is being described by the Polish PM as a possible Russian spy. If so, i...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Rage is the Appropriate Response: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Church and State

Major UN report highlights overpopulation and overconsumption, need for profound transformation - The report is very candid regarding the fundamental drivers of our planetary crises — population growth, overconsumption, and growth-dependent.
The Texas Signal

Joe Folladori: Houston’s Answer To John Cameron Mitchell - Katy Perry Candy Darling Mary Magdalene follows Sophia, the lead singer of Houston underground band Bird Murderer, who goes on a manic quest to write the p...
Ecosophia

On the Education of Desire - As I mentioned a little over a month ago, the competition over which theme would get the fifth Wednesday post in December was almost unparalleled in the en...
NORML

Maine: Campaign To Repeal Voter-Initiated Marijuana Legalization Law Fails To Meet 2026 Deadline - [image: Maine marijuana laws][image: Maine marijuana laws]It is anticipated that the group behind Maine's repeal effort will now aim to qualify the measu...
nonsite.org

Was This Trip Really Necessary? - Suther’s goal is to establish new “methodological imperatives.” His way of going about it is characteristically inflationary in terms of proposing new noti...
Rewire

Bills Cracking Down on Abortion Pills Advance in States That Already Ban Most Abortions - State lawmakers in Indiana, South Carolina, Florida, and Wisconsin have introduced bills that would restrict abortion pill access. The post Bills Cracki...
Crooked Timber

A modest proposal for the use of AI - A modest proposal for the use of AI Which jobs will be replaced by AI? Here is a modest proposal.* Replace higher management by AI. Not “management” in the...
Liberation News

STATEMENT: Defend and Expand Protected Status for Haitians! - We know that legal victories like these are often temporary. Instead of targeting and criminalizing Haitians, we must defend TPS and win permanent legaliza...
See You In 2020

NATO’s Satanic pedophile network, and how it’s tied in with the Democratic Party’s infrastructure - To defeat our pedocracy, we will need to investigate and expose the child trafficking networks that are most deeply embedded in the system. That were al...
Alas, a Blog

Weight Loss Inc - Becky writes: Barry’s script said, “A fat person is handing a bundle of cash to someone standing in the entrance to a building that has a sign saying “WEIG...
Black Agenda Report

Margaret Kimberly - The Duopoly War Dance - The Democrat/Republican Pillow Fight - Margaret Kimberly - The Duopoly War Dance - The Democrat/Republican Pillow Fight bareditors Wed, 02/04/2026 - 03:51 Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Edito...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #13: Alex Pretti's Impact, New Cranks at CBS News, and Reminiscing About Fusion (w/Sam Grasso) - Producer Sam joins us to talk about the dramatic shift in anti-ICE sentiment.
Lowering the Bar

In Memory of “Death v. Graves” - You will be missed.
Project Censored

Déjà Vu News: Corporate Media Repeats Its Failures While Empire Marches On - First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with professor of communications Dr. Steve Macek to talk about Trumps war on epistemic institutions. Dr. Macek sha...
Krebs on Security

Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters - A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim f...
Idavox

Don Lemon and How Two Grifters Make Liars Out of Pam Bondi - They keep doing this. So we will be keep call them out every time they... The post Don Lemon and How Two Grifters Make Liars Out of Pam Bondi appeared fi...
The Grayzone

Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op - Western officials seized on a dubious death toll of 30,000 protesters to escalate against Iran. The number originates with a single, clearly compromised ...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - * Kicking off Black History month with my latest House Negro Power Rankings. I am doing this because sometimes the damage from within, is much more det...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Practical Bookmark - Here’s a really old design of mine, back in 2013. I wanted a simple origami bookmark–no frills, just mark my page please. Some origami bookmarks stick ou...
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

From Women and Gender Studies to Faculty and Syllabus Surveillance at Texas A&M University, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Jan. 31, 2026 - From Women and Gender Studies to Faculty and Syllabus Surveillance at Texas A&M University*by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 31, 2026* *Texas A&M ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IS IT FASH YET? EDITION. - *You better run.* Tubby and his mob have been busy, seizing voting records in Georgia (presumably to manipulate in furtherance of his years-long Stolen E...
Moron Majority

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Dissent Magazine

A Crisis of Conflict Resolution, Not Conflict Studies - A response to “The Demise of Conflict Studies” from our winter issue, followed by a reply by the authors.
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
The Militant

31,000 Kaiser nurses strike over staffing in California, Hawaii - LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across Cal...
Duck of Minerva

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay Number 8 - *There is far too much mediocre, alarming Jesus-script in the gospels* ...
Seeing the Forest

Abolish ICE — Stop Dehumanizing People - If you give them an inch … And look, now they’re taking their mile. Crossing the border without authorization is a misdemeanor. It only became a crime at a...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Greg Palast

The real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, AtlantaYou are watching the theft of 2026 before your eyes - For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday’s-FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warr...
DeSmogBlog

Top U.S. Oil Lobby API Targets Landmark EU Climate Law, Policy Document Shows - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. The U.S. oil lobby aims to bul...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
The Rag Blog

MARIANN GARNER-WIZARD / REMEMBRANCE / Robert “Bob” Pardun, beloved prairie radical - By Mariann Garner-Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 Robert Pardun was born June 30, 1941 and passed away January 16, 2026 after a long struggle with...
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: A North-South Korea-like Divide… in Africa - With continued democracy and civic freedom, and now globalization and a start at international recognition, Somaliland's future is in the other direction: ...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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

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

Illegal Orders - Read More
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Reading the Pictures

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

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

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

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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