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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Verge

Benjamin Netanyahu is struggling to prove he’s not an AI clone - Social media platforms are currently awash with conspiracy theories claiming that Benjamin Netanyahu has been killed or injured and replaced by AI-generate...
Mother Jones

Trump: Help, the Iran War Is Going Great - Donald Trump painted his military campaign in Iran with the same gold shine as his plans for the new Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in remarks on M...
memeorandum

Number of U.S. troops wounded in Iran war surpasses 200 across 7 countries (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post) - Dan Lamothe / Washington Post: *Number of U.S. troops wounded in Iran war surpasses 200 across 7 countries* — The injuries have occurred as Iran launch...
Houston Public Media

Afghan asylum seeker who aided U.S. Army Special Forces dies in ICE custody in Dallas - Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, was seized by ICE agents outside his Richardson home last Friday morning, March 13. He died Saturday morning.
Al Jazeera English

Hezbollah rocket hits a residential building in Israel’s Nahariya - Firefighters battled a blaze at a residential building in Nahariya, Israel after a Hezbollah rocket hit it.
The Hill

Federal court blocks Kennedy's vaccine changes, invalidates vaccine advisory panel - A federal judge on Monday blocked Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s changes to vaccine policy, including the reduction of t...
Mediaite

Jimmy Kimmel Calls the US a ‘Ridiculous Country’ - ABC's Jimmy Kimmel complained he is "exhausted" by the state of the world and branded the United States a "ridiculous country." The post Jimmy Kimmel Cal...
Futurism

Chinese Space Station Astronauts Harvest Space Tomatoes - It was a "bumper crop." The post Chinese Space Station Astronauts Harvest Space Tomatoes appeared first on Futurism.
NPR's Health Shots

A new drug could be the beginning of the end for sleeping sickness - The goal in the world of global health s to bring an end to this scourge by 2030. A new drug looks as if it could do the job.
Texas Observer

In Texas Senate Primary, the Influencer Class Was (and Is) the Problem - The Democratic U.S. Senate primary between state Representative James Talarico and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett was marked by subtle, if unremarkable, ...
NORML

Sweeping Changes to Virginia Marijuana Laws Approved by Lawmakers - [image: A man with a beard wearing a gardening apron delicately touches a legal flowering cannabis plant][image: A man with a beard wearing a gardening a...
Daily Cartoonist

Cartoonist Biniam Solomon Freed After 15 Years in Prison - Cartoonist Biniam Solomon was arrested in Eritrea, never tried, and held in detention for 15 years before being released recently. The reasons for his arre...
Novara Media

Trump Begs for Help to Re-open Strait of Hormuz - As the illegal U.S-Israeli war on Iran spreads violence throughout the Middle East, oil exports from the region have ground to a halt. Plus: Why Trump’s wa...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles diagnosed with breast cancer - Wiles, 68, praised by president as ‘one of the strongest people I know’, to continue working while having treatment Susie Wiles, the first woman to serve...
Raw Story

Trump admin 'bending over backward' to free Russian spy: insider - President Donald Trump's administration is reportedly seeking to free a former FBI informant who admitted he lied to federal agents during the 2020 presi...
Eschaton

Clown Stuff - I am still laughing at what a loser Merz is. Only last week German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was "on the same page" as U.S. President Donald Trump over th...
Vox

Sinners never needed the Oscars to be great - Heading into the Oscars on Sunday night, the buzz surrounding Sinners and director Ryan Coogler was that they could be Hollywood’s biggest surprise. In the...
Mediagazer

Notus hires several Washington Post journalists, including columnist Dana Milbank and reporters Paul Kane and Jeff Stein, as well as Politico reporter Joe Gould (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap) - Corbin Bolies / The Wrap: *Notus hires several Washington Post journalists, including columnist Dana Milbank and reporters Paul Kane and Jeff Stein, as w...
Trivial Knot

Review: Revenge of the Phantom Press - Revenge of the Phantom Press is a novel by FTBlogger William Brinkmann. It is the sequel to The Rift, which I previously reviewed, although it may be read ...
Alas, a Blog

The Business Genius - Yes, this comic was inspired by evil non-genius Elon Musk. No one better epitomizes money cosplaying as competence. As Richard Carrier wrote: He fell ass-b...
Popular Resistance

The World According To Gaza - Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrumen...
The Week

Food ingredients that are banned in the EU but not the US - Looser regulations have traditionally led to a more permissive food-additive regime in America
Salon.com

“There are no good options”: Kansas’ new driver license law puts transgender Kansans in a bind - An ACLU attorney told Salon that a new law places trans Kansans in an "impossible position"
Slate

Why I Dearly Wish Sean Penn, Famous Jerk, Had Shown Up to Accept His Oscar - The One Battle After Another actor’s absence made a statement—but not the statement he thinks.
Dissident Voice

The U.S. Has Lost the War. What’s Next? - Any objective observer knows that the U.S. has lost the war in Iran, a war fought for Israel. It’s obvious that the U.S. had no overall plan; now it only...
Undernews

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Courthouse News

3,800 workers are on strike at one of the largest meatpacking plants in the US - The union says its workers perform some of the most difficult and dangerous jobs in the country, and deserve higher wages and better health care.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio activists restore Say Their Names anti-police violence mural - A mural honoring victims of police brutality has been restored after its vandalization during the Martin Luther King Jr. March in late January. The newl...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: AIPAC, Crypto, Gambling, AI Money Coalitions Up The Dark Money Game in Dem Primaries - With Israel's popularity nosediving among Democrats, AIPAC is having to up its dark money game to impact primaries, often in concert with AI and crypto int...
First Draft

The Very Stable Genius’s Stable Of Geniuses - MAGA has some ideas on solving the Iran problem, that they created.
Techdirt.

Daily Deal: Mag 3 Ultra Qi2 25W 3-in-1 Foldable Charger - Power all your Apple essentials-without the clutter. The Mag 3 Ultra Qi2 25W 3-in-1 Foldable Charger delivers fast charging for your iPhone, Apple Watch, a...
WhoWhatWhy

Control of the Strait of Hormuz Puts Iran in the Driver’s Seat - [image: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC, military drill, Strait of Hormuz] Iran’s ability to control the strait shows the Islamic Republic’s sk...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Adebayo goes for 83... - *MONDAY, MARCH 16, 2026* *...and then keeps getting it right:* We didn't even know that the appearance had occurred! We refer to the PBS performance whic...
Independent Political Report

Pennsylvania Pirate Party Leader Reenters 108th District House Race as Independent - Drew Bingaman, the Pennsylvania Pirate Party’s state captain and a former national leader of the U.S. Pirate Party, is reentering the race for Pennsylvan...
SCOTUSblog

Haitian nationals ask court to deny Trump administration’s request to remove their protected status - A group of Haitian nationals urged the Supreme Court on Monday to leave in place a ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that allows them to sta...
Political Wire

Netanyahu Won Over Trump But Is Losing America - Ron Brownstein: “President Donald Trump’s choice to launch a joint military campaign with Israel against Iran represents the crowning achievement of Israel...
Environment Texas

Texas Nature & Energy Project - How Texas can build large renewable energy projects the right way The post Texas Nature & Energy Project appeared first on Environment Texas.
Axios

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has early stage breast cancer - President Trump's most trusted adviser, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, has early stage breast cancer, Trump announced Monday. *The big picture: ...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Informed consent strengthens vaccine trust and public health in El Paso - Informed consent is essential to building vaccine trust and ensuring public health policies truly serve El Paso’s diverse communities. The post Opinion:...
Bracing Views

Networks Still Using Retired Generals to Sell War - Serious Conflicts of Interest for America’s War Salesmen and Cheerleaders BILL ASTORE MAR 14, 2026 Back in 2008, I wrote an article for Neiman Watchdog cal...
Consortium News

WATCH: ‘Don’t Forget Epstein’ - The war in Iran has knocked the Epstein files off the front page. We are here to remind you of its enduring importance in this in-depth interview with auth...
The Progressive Wing

3/16 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Capital & Main

From Invisibility to Inclusion: A ‘Generational Shift’ on Menopause Care - Menopause is an inevitable life stage for women, but many don't receive adequate medical care. New California legislation aims to expand access, but excl...
Project Censored

Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade - In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analy...
CultureMap Houston

Spine-chilling new horror movie Undertone puts podcaster in jeopardy - While the horror genre is still capable of producing some innovative filmmaking, most of the output tends to fall back on jump scares and other tropes to d...
Bonddad

Industrial production increases again in February, but ex-AI related utilities has made little progress since last July - - *by New Deal democrat* Probably my biggest theme right now is that most of the economy is either recessionary or at least on the cusp of recession...
Election Law Blog

“This DHS Official Oversees the Security of Federal Elections. He Wants to Ban Voting Machines.” - ProPublica: In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security, David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation’s elections infrastructure, incl...
The Root

Why Things Got Tense for Teyana Taylor On the 2026 Oscars Red Carpet - Teyana Taylor losing Best Supporting Actress apparently wasn't her only upset at the 2026 Oscars as seen in this testy, viral moment! Read more...
DeSmogBlog

Big Oil Knew It Was Wrecking Louisiana’s Coast, Records Show - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. Scott Eustis is doing what he ...
Common Dreams

Pipeline That Caused Massive 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Restarts Illegally - Texas-based company Sable Offshore Corp. announced today that it has restarted oil flow through the pipeline that ruptured and caused one of California’s...
Deadline Politics

Pope Leo Warns Media About War Propaganda, Says News Reporting Should Not Become A “Megaphone For Power” - Pope Leo has seemingly weighed in on media coverage of the U.S. and Israel war with Iran, this time calling on journalists to depict human suffering and to...
See You In 2020

The chain reaction of resistance, & the new fronts Iran’s victory will open up in the class war - In a moment like this one, all parts of our class and geopolitical conflict are moving extremely fast. Every day, we are seeing new accelerations in a r...
San Antonio Report

This San Antonio doctor left traditional primary care for a membership model - Dr. Walter Walthall, a San Antonio family medicine physician, said he's able to spend more time with patients at his membership-based clinic. --------------...
Glasstire

Weaving Space with Kristin Marie Bachmann - I first encountered Kristin Marie Bachmann’s woven works through her exhibition Sacred Space (June 15, 2025 — March 1, 2026). Installed on the second flo...
Mondoweiss

A year after his arrest, Mahmoud Khalil speaks on the status of his case and the ongoing fight for a free Palestine - [image: Mahmoud Khalil (Photo courtesy of Writers Against the War on Gaza)]March marks the one-year anniversary of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest, a moment that k...
Democracy Now!

"Mr Nobody Against Putin" Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts State Propaganda - *Mr Nobody Against Putin* won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday. *Democracy Now!* recently spoke with co-director David Borenstein a...
Space City Weather

How windy did it get last night in Houston, and how cold will it get tonight? - In brief: In today’s post we look at windy conditions over night, in which large chunks of the region saw gusts of 45 to 55 mph. This is leading to very ch...
Rewire

Mississippi leads the nation in gun deaths among those who are pregnant and postpartum - Mississippi has become a hotspot for these deaths in large part because of lax gun laws and restrictive abortion access, both of which have been proven t...
Rallblog

Boat Buddies | 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...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: The XPRIZE Wildfire Competition Heats Up - Every wildfire starts small. The problem is that by the time most are detected, minutes... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: The XPRIZE Wildfire Compe...
slacktivist

Reach, Throw, Row, Go (revisited) - Leo Cundiff jumped into a freezing lake to save a drowning baby. And now it's our chance to return the favor.
Dorf on Law

The First Amendment Argument Anthropic Didn’t Make -- Guest Post by Doğa Özden - Anthropic’s complaint against the federal government asserts five claims, the second of which is a First Amendment claim. The main First Amendment theory A...
Claytoonz

Spotsy Drug Tests - 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...
Countercurrents

Ayurveda is not a spa retreat; it is a discipline - Ayurveda has survived from 600 BC until modern times because its results speak to millions of Indians. The philosophy, science and bioethics of Ayurveda co...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Stupidest Cabinet Member -
Skeptophilia

The road not taken - One of the most intriguing sets of life forms I've ever heard of is the *Ediacaran Assemblage*. It dates from the late Precambrian Era -- something on the ...
Crooked Media

Make America Grift Again - The post Make America Grift Again appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Interview with Joe Panzarella - Moving along in District C, where early voting starts this Wednesday, March 18, at 7 AM, today we are talking with Joe Panzarella, who is a community organ...
Scheerpost.com

The World According to Gaza - Chris Hedges Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is a...
ProPublica

The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law - The post The Trump Administration’s “Disturbing” New Legal Strategy to Prosecute Border Crossers Is Taxing Courts and Testing the Law appeared first on P...
Grist

Is the world heating up faster than we thought? - A new study says global warming is accelerating. Some aren't ready to agree.
The Daily Poster

THE KINGMAKERS, Ep 1: After The Fall Of The Imperial President - Season 2 of the Master Plan podcast begins fifty years before today’s fears about a kinglike president.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 16 March 2026 - If images are hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] For full details on his proposal, click here. I pos...
High Country News

How Trump’s oil-and-gas agenda threatens critical Wyoming wildlife habitat - [image: Sagebrush steppe wildflowers bloom in the Golden Triangle.] The Golden Triangle hosts the highest concentration of sage grouse in the world. Fossi...
Counterpunch

Trump and Putin: Their Failures in Regime Change - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will go down in history for their respective failures in regime change. Both Trump and Putin overestimated their militar...
jobsanger

jobsanger Is 20 Years Old - This blog is 20 years old today. The first post was done on March 16, 2006.
Informed Comment

Children of War - On January 29, 2024, volunteers from the Palestinian Red Crescent received an emergency call. A 6-year-old girl was trapped in a car, pleading
Portside

Sunday Science: Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made - Sunday Science: Scientists Get a Glimpse of How New Pandemics Are Made Ira Sun, 03/15/2026 - 23:29
World Socialist Web Site

The rate of global warming is accelerating, approaching a dangerous tipping point - Multiple recently published scientific studies all point to the increasing pace of global warming, driven by the mounting contradictions and irrationality ...
Antiwar.com

Five Losers in the War on Iran - There may be no winner in the war on Iran. But, although it is Iran that is under attack, they will not be the only losers. This war, fought without legal ...
The Greanville Post

Airport CHAOS Reported as Israelis SCRAMBLE TO FLEE War - DD—The video transcript explores the stark contrast between Palestinians steadfastly refusing to leave their homes despite dangerous and unlivable conditio...
Alternet

MAGA churches are flouting the law with impunity: report - President Donald Trump and his supporters are engaging in “more overt” defiance of laws prohibiting nonprofits like churches from explicit partisan activ...
Debunking Christianity

My Debate Notes: "God Probably Doesn't Exist Given the Existence of Horrendous Suffering, by John W. Loftus - Get this huge book!! I had mentioned this debate yesterday. Here is my planned opening statement: My focus is on heinous, hideous, horrific levels of ho...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 14, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now Jonathan Saul,...
Angry Bear

“Gap between the boom Trump predicted and the volatile results He Produced” - If you are reading this, New Deal democrat predicted 2025 would be a wash in labor growth and the economy. No Boom to be experienced in any case for 2025...
Field Negro

Operation Epstein. - Happy Sunday field hands. Imagine being such an evil and contemptible human being that you would literally start a war with another country* (one with...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Reader Mailbag: Audio From A Collapsing State - Answering your questions on the podcast
alicublog

ROY’S 2026 OSCAR PREDICTIONS (FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY) - OK cats and kitties it’s OSCAR DAY! Feel the excitement! I've been making Oscar predictions for years, peppered with what I used to call “sucker bets” ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: shed - [image: Shed]
Ballot Access News

USC and ABC 7 Will Host California Gubernatorial Debate but Exclude Some Candidates Who are Polling Above One Candidate Who Is Included - On March 12, the University of Southern California and ABCChannel 7 in Los Angeles announced that they will host a California gubernatorial debate. Unlike ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

When Community Feeds Itself: Supporting Homies Empowerment and The Bloom in Oakland, CA—an Important Message from Dr. César A. Cruz - *When Community Feeds Itself: Supporting Homies Empowerment and The Bloom in Oakland, CA—an Important **Message from Dr. César A. Cruz* *Across the country...
Progressives Chat

The Mall of Showbiz Awards Ceremonies - Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards. Ceremony will be on ABC. In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube. I was thinking about how these...
Wolf Street

Treasury Yields Jump, 10-Year to 4.28%, 30-Year to 4.90%, Mortgage Rates Spike to 6.41%, on Inflation & Deficit Fears - US Government sold $651 billion of Treasury securities this week into these rising yields.
The AltWorld

New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: They’re Going To Keep Lying About This War The Entire Time - Every month I publish a collection of my work called JOHNSTONE magazine. The new issue is now […] The post New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: They’re Going To Keep ...
Discourse

SPECIAL EDITION: Oscars Pod 2026! (w/Katherine Krueger & Caitlin Schneider) - Our most anticipated pod of the year is here!!!
ArcaMax

A Message From President Trump to the People of France -- June 6, 1944 - Hello, Occupied France, from your Favorite Country, America! Happy 1944 or, as the late, great Hannibal Lecter put it, Steak au Poivre! It's me, YOUR FAVOR...
Workers World

when the body becomes a voice - [image: when the body becomes a voice] Capitol police, assisted by pro-war U.S. Senator Tim Sheehy, forced Marine Corps veteran Sgt. Brian McGinnis out of ...
Progressive.org

Silence Is Surrender - If democracy is to hold, local police must resist.
The Texas Signal

Glenwood Cemetery: Resting Place Of Houston Suffragettes - Glenwood is a remarkable cemetery. Though there are movie stars, politicians, and entrepreneurs a-plenty, it’s also home to women who shaped Texas.
Texas Standard

Prairieland shooter convicted of attempted murder, others on lesser charges in ‘antifa’ trial - After about two days of deliberation, the 12 jurors found Benjamin Song alone was guilty of attempted murder, but defendants were convicted of rioting and ...
Church and State

Ocean Warming Drives ‘Deeply Concerning Loss of Marine Life,’ Study Shows - In terms of public policy, the study is highly relevant because it emphasizes that fisheries management systems must become more climate-adaptive.
The Militant

Get all US bombers, troops, warships out of the Mideast! - Washington’s actions make clear that its massive use of air and naval power against Iran has nothing to do with aiding the peoples of that country nor defe...
The Conversation

In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s - There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.
Seeing the Forest

Atari’s Collapse Is A Metaphor For The Iran War - The Promise Of Easy Solutions Is An Easy Sell To The Uninformed Back in the early days at Atari we had that original 2600 game machine. It had really clunk...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 13, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio March 13, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/13/2026 - 06:36 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
MintPress News

Iranian Official Claims Israel Used Arab ‘Contractor’ in Alleged Oman False-Flag Operation - A senior Iranian security official has accused Israel of orchestrating a “false flag” operation in Oman, claiming the attack was designed to inflame tens...
Sludge

Democrats Criticizing ICE Are Paying Consultants Tied to Palantir - Two prominent Democratic consulting firms, Wavelength Strategy and SKDK, are owned by Stagwell, a marketing company that partnered with major ICE contracto...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Getting Deeper into Texas and North Carolina’s Primaries - In the Texas GOP runoff for Senate, Rep. Wesley Hunt's (R, TX-38) voters could help determine the nominee. In both Texas and North Carolina, Democrats ou...
Brad Blog

Iran War's 'Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain'? What Long Term-Gain?!: 'BradCast' 3/11/2026 - Donald Trump's disastrous War on Iran continues to wreak global havoc on today's BradCast, with no apparent end in sight. Though election news from Tuesday...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Maine residents rally to keep LGBTQ book in local libraries' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - Resident in the city of Gardiner, ME rallied to keep the LGBTQ book 'Prince and Knight' on the library shelves after some people called it 'propaganda' cr...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Prepares Slide Deck of Lawyer’s Mistakes - [image: a fail stamp]This is a relatively clear sign that your performance left something to be desired.
The NM Political Report

City councilor seeks to make mayor, councilors liable for blocking ICE arrests in Albuquerque - [image: “unfair, complicated and untrusted.”] A day after a trio of city councilors joined dozens of community advocates and state legislators in support ...
Idavox

ISIS Boogie Man and The Culture Wars - A review of Jake Lang’s “Stop The Islamic Takeover of NYC” rally Freya Jaager and... The post ISIS Boogie Man and The Culture Wars appeared first on Idav...
Krebs on Security

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker - A hacktivist group with links to Iran's intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker, a global medical technol...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Second Quarter - With this post we continue our survey of the Great Wheel of the 28 lunar phases, the central symbolic mandala of Yeats’s A Vision. In last month’s episode ...
Media Lens

‘How On Earth Do You Justify That?’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Selective Empathy - On 8 March, on the BBC politics programme, ‘Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg’, the former BBC political editor put these impassioned words to Seyed Ali Mousavi...
Socialist Alternative

11 Days Of War On Iran—Trump Has Unleashed A Nightmare - US imperialism’s war in the Middle East has continued to escalate into its second week. On the war’s eleventh day (March 10), US Secretary of War Pete Hegs...
Unlimited Hangout

First Friends: How Andrew Farkas and an Emirati Sultan Helped Epstein Build a Smuggler’s Paradise - A deep dive into the relationship shared by Jeffrey Epstein, Andrew Farkas, and one of the top Emirati executives in the UAE reveals the infrastructure E...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health Transplant Institute one of the more advanced hospital services in Texas providing comprehensive adult kidney transplants, report Sen. Juan Hinojosa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - The DHR Health Transplant Institute, opened in Edinburg in 2017, remains a highly-regarded, specialized center in Texas and is the only CMS and UNOS-certif...
Two Party Opera

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Campaign for America's Future

Lo que hacemos nos dice quiénes somos - Asaltos a nuestros derechos civíles han inspirado a una nación a levantarse de los banquillos. Ahora hay millones de personas que exigen que nos tratemos c...
Greg Palast

How Do We Defeat Voter Suppression?A Tribute to the Spirit of Selma - How do you defeat voter suppression tactics when it's fueled by billionaires' cash and partisan power? The same way the Voting Rights Act was first won 60 ...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026 General Election? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Dissent Magazine

War, Revolt, and Iran’s Unfinished Struggle - The protests and repression that preceded the U.S.–Israeli bombing campaign exposed both the fragility of the Iranian governing elite and the organizatio...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israel Brings ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Lebanon: Rania Khalek Reports From Beirut - From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to e...
The Grayzone

How Israel and the FBI manipulated assassination plots to goad Trump into Iran war - The FBI manufactured plots to convince Trump that Iran sought to kill him, while Israel and its administration allies exploited the president’s deepest f...
LareDOS

LC’s Out of the Box art exhibit explores innovation and creative boundaries - Exhibit open to the public through March 20
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report February 2026 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings related to their business, most on their property, but one nearby after a chase that began at Walmart, in Feb...
Democracy Chronicles

The Sigh of the Religious: Marx, Suffering and the Politics of Belief - Religion persists not solely as a symptom of those who fail to confront reason, but because society itself inhabits social conditions that make transcenden...
Earthworks

Earthworks Field Survey 2025 Report for Colorado - Overview In 2025, Earthworks conducted 323 surveys at 195 oil and gas facilities in Colorado with an optical gas imaging … The post Earthworks Field Sur...
Avedon's Sideshow

It was a time when strangers were welcome here - Alison McGhee posted this photo to go with an essay on Facebook* about the occupation of Minneapolis. The essay was fine, but she's no slouch as a photog...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Night Open Thread: War and Regime Change by Remote Control - It's hard to believe only four weeks ago the U.S., at the whim of Donald Trump, invaded Venezuela to snatch its leader Nicolas Maduro. The New York Times...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / REVIEW / Reading C. Wright Mills in the Age of Trump - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / March 3, 2026 Clyde W. Barrow, a professor of political science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, is the autho...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Liberation News

Trump to sanctuary states: health care or deportations - [image: Health care workers protest ICE terror. Liberation photo]Trump to punitively cut $600 million in HIV funding from states with sanctuary cities and ...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

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

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

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

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