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

Futurism

Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets - Interesting definition of "news." The post Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets appeared first on Futurism.
Raw Story

Joe Scarborough suggests Trump should remove Hegseth over press conference behavior - MS NOW Joe Scarborough criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's over-the-top press conferences about the Iran war, comparing his behavior to "third-gr...
Undernews

2.5 million Americans lost food stamps thanks to Trump's "one big beautiful bill" - *Alternet America - *On July 4th, 2025, Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. By December, the results were in. At least 2.5 million low-income peo...
Mediagazer

Russian authorities detained a former Radio Free Europe freelancer on treason charges; security services also have searched Novaya Gazeta's newsroom in Moscow (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record) - Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: *Russian authorities detained a former Radio Free Europe freelancer on treason charges; security services also have searche...
Mediaite

Golf GOAT Jack Nicklaus Kicks Off Masters With Disastrous Ceremonial Tee Shot - Golf legend Jack Nicklaus on Thursday had an uncharacteristic showing at the Masters on Thursday when he shanked his ceremonial tee shot near the crowd. ...
Courthouse News

Ex-French President Sarkozy shifts strategy in Libyan campaign financing affair - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy denounced a “hatred” that seemed geared at the justice system after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy last ...
The Verge

Slay the Princess’ developer is the latest to expand into indie game publishing - Black Tabby Games, the two-person studio behind the hit indie games Slay the Princess and Scarlet Hollow, is getting into indie publishing. The publishing ...
Salon.com

Movies should make us uncomfortable - "The Drama" opened to box office success and ample controversy, but the film is far more than its discourse
Vox

We have no idea if Iran can still build a bomb - The focus of the US-Iran war — and now the negotiations over the US-Iran ceasefire — has shifted to Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, to such an exte...
Mother Jones

Trump Is Branding America. History Has a Word for That. - No sitting American president has ever put his name on US currency. That will change later this year when bills bearing President Donald Trump’s signature ...
Axios

Netanyahu announces negotiations with Lebanon after U.S. pressure - Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that he has instructed his cabinet to launch direct negotiations with Lebanon as soon as possi...
Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Wishah, killed by Israeli strike, laid to rest - Mourners gathered for the funeral of Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Mohammed Wishah in in Gaza.
Eschaton

Would Whiskey Pete Lie To Us? - And how did this slip through Bari's editing. Survivors of the deadliest Iranian attack on U.S. forces since the war began have disputed the Pentagon's des...
Mondoweiss

The Iran war will end only when the U.S. finally decides to rein in Israel - [image: Donald Trump is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after disembarking Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

JD Vance’s claims about Orbán, the EU and Hungary fact-checked - US vice-president said bloc tried to ‘destroy’ country’s economy, despite it being a net recipient of EU funds During his visit to Budapest, where he hea...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio weighs new name, next steps for Cesar Chavez Boulevard rename - San Antonio is weighing next steps in renaming Cesar Chavez Boulevard as a city survey favored returning the name to Durango Boulevard. --------------------...
San Antonio Current

Dan Patrick says GOP will ‘have a tough time’ holding Texas House majority in November - [image: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks during the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s annual policy summit at the AT&T Executive Hotel & Conference Center in Aus...
The Week

Bondi to defy House Epstein subpoena - Democrats and some Republicans criticized Bondi for the move
memeorandum

Sasse details cancer battle in new interview: 'Death is something we should hate' (Max Rego/The Hill) - Max Rego / The Hill: *Sasse details cancer battle in new interview: ‘Death is something we should hate’* — Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) detailed his ...
Texas Observer

How Teach for America Helped Set Up James Talarico’s Political Rise - Fifteen years ago, in May 2011, dozens of newly inducted Teach for America (TFA) corps members gathered at Trinity University in San Antonio to prepare f...
Houston Public Media

Artemis II astronauts take questions while 178,000 miles away from Earth - Speaking with reporters from aboard the Orion spacecraft, the four crew members called their experience singular and said it’s forged a bond between them t...
Common Dreams

Humanitarian Scorecard: Six Months In, Gaza Ceasefire is Failing - The Trump administration’s Gaza ceasefire plan – as endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 – is failing, according to a progress scorecard relea...
SCOTUSblog

Legislative history lives on – in secret - Clear Statements is a recurring series by Abbe R. Gluck on civil litigation and the modern regulatory and statutory state. Rumors of the textualist trium...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Blaming the Left for Genocide - Britain’s former Prime Minister shows there’s no price to be paid for engineering mass slaughter in the service of Western empire. Which is why those crime...
naked capitalism

Psilocybin Mushrooms Are Going Mainstream, but Scientific Research and Regulation Lag Behind - Less is known about psilocybin mushrooms than you might think even as their popularity and potency of products like edibles rises.
Bonddad

Recessionary signals in February personal income and spending, but some bright spots as well - * - by New Deal democrat* Personal income and spending are among the most important monthly indicators of all, because they give us a detailed look a...
Deadline Politics

ABC News Names Jon Schlosberg As Executive Producer Of ‘This Week With George Stephanopoulos’ - ABC News has tapped Jon Schlosberg to serve as executive producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Schlosberg, who will be based in Washington and ...
WhoWhatWhy

What’s in the Ceasefire Deal? No One Seems To Know - [image: Iran, Kharg Island, Sunset] What's in the ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran (and maybe Israel)? Nobody seems to have any clue, which is w...
Independent Political Report

United States Transhumanist Party Endorses Drew Bingaman for Pennsylvania State House - The United States Transhumanist Party has endorsed independent candidate Drew Bingaman in Pennsylvania’s 108th House District, becoming the second nation...
Democracy Now!

Can Gulf States Rely on U.S. Security Guarantees? How the War Empowers Iran & Remakes the Region - As Iran destroyed energy facilities and infrastructure in all six of its Persian Gulf neighbors and blocks their shipments of oil through the Strait of Hor...
The Hill

Iranian president: Continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon would render ceasefire talks 'meaningless' - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that Israeli strikes on Lebanon are violations of the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran and “r...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Neither Erase Nor Enshrine: Toward a Collective Memory Beyond César Chávez, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., April 9, 2026 - *Neither Erase Nor Enshrine: Toward a Collective Memory Beyond César Chávez* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.April 9, 2026* *I offer this reflection wit...
The Progressive Wing

4/9 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
First Draft

The Madman Theory - Is there method to Trump's madness? No, he’s just crazy and stupid.
Novara Media

Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan an Abject Failure, Say Humanitarian Groups - The Trump ceasefire plan for Gaza has been judged a serious and consistent failure by a progress ‘scorecard’ released today by major humanitarian organisat...
Techdirt.

Musk, Bezos, Both Cry To Trump’s FCC In Bid To Dominate Satellite Broadband - Elon Musk is desperate to dominate the Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband market. So is Jeff Bezos. And now the two billionaires are engaged in prox...
ArcaMax

Big Tech's Ugly Data Centers Finally Meet the Opposition - It appears that folks living in the gently rolling farmland of southwestern Ohio don't want a 2-million-square-foot data center plopped down the road from ...
Political Wire

JD Vance Gets His Big Moment Leading Peace Talks - Bloomberg: “It’s the biggest moment yet of JD Vance’s vice presidency.” “The VP (who has been conspicuously quiet for much of the Iran war) is suddenly cen...
The Root

New Black Bridgerton Cast Has the Internet Shook In the Best Way! - There's about to be a whole lot of Black excellence in 'Bridgerton' season 5 thanks to a handful of new faces. And folks online can't get enough! Read mo...
Space City Weather

Houston’s weather to turn warm and muggy for quite awhile now - In brief: In today’s post we discuss how Houston is about to settle into a persistently warm and muggy pattern for at least the next week, and probably lon...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Republicans Need Their Situation to Improve. Right Now, Trump isn’t Helping - While it would not be accurate to say Donald Trump’s approval rating is collapsing, he has suffered additional erosion since launching attacks on Iran at...
The Smirking Chimp

The Nixon Trick Trump Is Using Didn’t Work for Nixon Either -
Dorf on Law

AI Legal Research and Thoreau's Warning - During my Federal Courts class earlier this week, a student asked me a question about a point I had made that appeared to contradict a sentence in the ca...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- a sound in the woods - Yeah, it's a (old) cell phone ad, as you'll see at the end. But the Japanese are generally more classy about these things.
Scheerpost.com

A New Homelessness Strategy Is Sweeping California - By Marisa Kendall, CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Maybe the way out of California’s homelessn...
Countercurrents

Crop Diversification Brings Economic and Nutritional Security to Farmers - Today, the entire world is grappling with the adverse effects of climate change, and marginal farmers stand at the very front of this crisis. Unpredictable...
Skeptophilia

Wry eye - Have you been experiencing itchy eyes lately, and had your eyelids turn an odd pinkish color? You may want to see your ophthalmologist and ask about tre...
Rallblog

Dire Strait | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Blame Game - Venables makes an important point: It’s not over. It’s not clear where we are now, but it is clear that all the same players are still present, and there’s...
Alternet

Conservative scholar: Trump's new threat crossed a line America can't recover from - President Donald Trump may have called a ceasefire with Iran but he has still “gravely damaged the US,” according to the senior editor of a conservative ...
Off The Kuff

Lawsuit filed over ban on smokable hemp - To be expected. Texas hemp industry leaders and advocacy groups have sued the state to block new regulations that eliminate natural smokeable hemp products...
Crooked Media

Breaking Trad - The post Breaking Trad appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

What Is the Binary Equivalent to the Base-10 Number 100? - Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for April 8, 2026.
ProPublica

They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud. - The post They Needed Treatment for Drug Addiction. The Company They Turned to May Have Used Them to Commit Fraud. appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

How to make a high-deductible health plan and HSA work for you - If you chose a cheaper health plan, you may be stuck with some hefty medical bills until you meet your deductible. Here's how to get the most out of your p...
Portside

Pediatricians File To Unionize - Pediatricians File To Unionize Ray Thu, 04/09/2026 - 04:47
Grist

In Nebraska, wildfires are turning cattle ranching into a tricky business - Nearly a million acres in the state have burned this year. One expert calls it ‘a new kind of wildfire era.’
Crooked Timber

Extreme wealth concentration — as strong as ever - A journalist from the Wall Street Journal wrote to me a week ago to ask what the numbers that I use in the opening pages of my book Limitarianism would loo...
High Country News

Tribal leaders reflect on a year of uncertainty — and possibility - Federal turnover and policy shifts have forced Indigenous communities to adapt. The post Tribal leaders reflect on a year of uncertainty — and possibili...
Earth 911

Efficient Dishwashers for Tiny Kitchens - Washing a full load of dishes by hand can use up to 27 gallons of... The post Efficient Dishwashers for Tiny Kitchens appeared first on Earth911.
The Daily Poster

Why Is AI Afraid Of This One Guy? - Big Tech’s problem child is running for Congress — and AI super PACs are spending big to stop him.
Seeing the Forest

What Can Be Done? - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. America’s “system” brought THIS to the world. What can be done and h...
Counterpunch

Israel Moves Toward Executing Palestinian Children - According to Israel’s new death penalty law, Palestinian children, like adults, could, in practice, find themselves facing the gallows. This might take s...
jobsanger

The Massive Wealth Inequality Threatens U.S. Democracy -
Informed Comment

Israel Revives Plan to Occupy or Annex South Lebanon - Israel’s periodic incursions into southern Lebanon have meant that Lebanon has struggled to assert sovereignty over its own territory
Workers World

Money for child care – Not for War! - [image: Money for child care – Not for War!] No Kings protest, Cleveland, March 28, 2026. Entrenched in a war of his own making, President Donald Trump ann...
Brad Blog

'V' for Victory?: Chaos, 'Ceasefire' Politics and Iran With the Upper Hand: 'BradCast' 4/8/2026 - We pick up today where we left off at the tail end of The BradCast yesterday, as the President of the United States proved once again to the world to be a ...
Popular Resistance

Iran To Boycott Islamabad Talks With US If Israeli Strikes Persist - The Islamic Republic of Iran has told Pakistani mediators that it will not attend the talks with Washington in Islamabad this week unless there is a ceas...
Election Law Blog

More thoughts on Riverside - Justin here. Rick has helpfully offered an analysis of the less-than-paper-thin evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the recently unsealed warrants in Rive...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Author of Finnish study on trans youth has ties with anti-trans 'medical' group SEGM & history of anti-trans activism - The credibility of a controversial Finnish study on trans youth by Riittakerttu Kaltiala (seen here speaking at a 2023 conference held by anti-trans 'medi...
Antiwar.com

Coming Soon – Federal Red Ink Barfing Skyward Like You’ve Never Seen - Self-evidently, the news has been overwhelmingly focused on Washington’s current endeavor to unload $200 billion of imperial destruction upon Iran and its ...
Claytoonz

Trump Wins - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
CultureMap Houston

These are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend - Things may get a bit damp this weekend.
Wolf Street

Home Prices in the Largest European Countries Range from Housing Bubbles to a Market that Fell back to 2010 - Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Romania, Czech Republic, Finland, Portugal, Slovaki...
Texas Standard

Texas hemp companies sue over smokable cannabis ban and higher fees - Companies seek immediate pause of rules, accusing Texas regulators of effectively banning smokable products, raising fees beyond what’s allowed and sideste...
slacktivist

Dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right - What a decline in Rapture belief might mean for US foreign policy. Plus: Reporters, please stop saying that Samuel Rodriguez speaks for anyone other than S...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Nan Levinson, The War in Iran as International Terrorism - A couple of wars ago, when I gave readings from my book War Is Not a Game, I sometimes tried to liven things up by asking the audience to guess which of th...
Ian Welsh

The Twin Pillars of the Interregnum of Unreality Are Under Stress - Last Fall, I posited that the US and greater West are in the grips of an Interregnum of Unreality that began when Barack Obama successfully papered over th...
The NM Political Report

CYFD ‘in crisis:’ AG files lawsuit after 14 child deaths tied to agency failures - [image: Attorney General Raúl Torrez released a report Wednesday and filed a lawsuit in Santa Fe District Court seeking to bar CYFD from using confidential...
Church and State

Crazy Trump threatened now defers illegal Iran’s attacks but offers no Strait opening! - Trump brushed off concern that his threat to bomb infrastructure would violate the Geneva Conventions.
The AltWorld

Will Trump Kill “a Whole Civilization“? - Will Trump Kill “a Whole Civilization“ ? The post Will Trump Kill “a Whole Civilization“? appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Capitalism: 404 - 12×18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first got the word going around that the Citibank building in Dubai had been bombed, my first thought ...
Glasstire

MARKA27 Censorship Protest Billboard Appears on UNT Campus - A mobile billboard appeared on the campus of the University of North Texas (UNT) campus on Tuesday, April 7, with images of artworks by Victor “MARKA27” ...
Socialist Alternative

Iran Ceasefire—Trump’s Biggest TACO - Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to return” risked becoming a horrific r...
MintPress News

Inside the U.S. F-15E Rescue Cover-Up: Contradictions, Costs, and a Failed Mission in Iran - Behind The Headlines – The F-15E rescue Iran operation, sold by the Trump administration as a ‘biblical’ triumph, stands exposed as one of the most costl...
Capital & Main

As Shrinking Colorado River Imperils California Agriculture, Data Centers Seek More Water - Imperial Valley’s only water source continues to decline due to overuse, drought and climate change, leaving industries and residents grappling with the ...
The Conversation

Presidential words can turn the unthinkable into the thinkable − for better or for worse - For years, Donald Trump’s rhetoric has relied on insult, ridicule, threat and contempt. But the scale of violence in his words during the first week of Apr...
World Socialist Web Site

Court proceedings begin in Greece over 2023 Tempi rail crash deaths - The crime at Tempi has discredited all the main bourgeois parties. One of the main chants at demonstrations is: “Syriza, PASOK, New Democracy, this crime h...
Angry Bear

The consequences of mafia style bust-outs and military belligerence for interest rates - – by New Deal democrat While there isn’t any big economic news today, there certainly was action overnight in response to the latest TACO. As I type thi...
El Paso Matters

El Paso police, sheriff report decline in serious crime in 2025 - Serious crimes reported to El Paso police and the sheriff’s office declined in 2025, reflecting a broader national decrease after pandemic-era increases...
Ballot Access News

Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Victory Expands “Liberal” Majority on that Court - I put Liberal in quotes, because it does not mean Classical Liberal here, but it is further repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. Here is t...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Age of American Humiliation is Here - We're waking up today in a new and stupider world.
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Moon is Full - 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 ...
Daily Howler

ILLNESS: "Who talks like this?" the gentleman said! - *WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2026* *We think we have his answer:* Yesterday morning, President Trump offered this post on Truth Social: *Truth SocialDonald J. ...
Earthworks

Colorado State Action to #CutMethane - This blog is part of a series covering methane regulations at the federal and state level. Read our first blog, … The post Colorado State Action to #Cut...
Duck of Minerva

The Scripts We Perform: Militarized Masculinity and the Gendered Order - Over the past month, U.S. President Donald Trump has shifted from misogynistic jabs to full‑scale performances of militarized authority, an evolution entir...
Rewire

Women’s Health Surgeries Reimbursed at Lower Rates, Doctors Say - A decades-old system for calculating insurance reimbursements can undervalue gynecological operations, delaying patient care and increasing out-of-pocket...
Texas Environmental News

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Progressive.org

The Reverend Jesse Jackson’s Sporting Life - The way Jackson carried himself in the sports world offers lessons progressives would do well to remember and carry forward.
See You In 2020

Iran’s war of resistance, the anti-imperialist axis, and the next fight the working class is tasked with - As the American workers experience an economic apocalypse from our government’s war on Iran, we must connect this to the larger battle that our class is...
Environment Texas

Houston’s multi-family recycling pilot shows a path forward. Now the City must scale it up. - New results highlight both the promise of expanding recycling access and the urgent need for dedicated funding to reduce landfill waste and serve a growi...
Dissent Magazine

[EVENT | May 14] Decline and Fall: Know Your Enemy and Revolutions - A live podcast event.
NORML

North Carolina: State-Appointed Advisory Council Calls on Lawmakers To Legalize and Regulate the Adult-Use Cannabis Market - [image: North Carolina marijuana laws][image: North Carolina marijuana laws]"The status quo is not an option. The Council agrees that a well-regulated ma...
Krebs on Security

Russia Hacked Routers to Steal Microsoft Office Tokens - Hackers linked to Russia's military intelligence units are using known flaws in older Internet routers to mass harvest authentication tokens from Microsoft...
Discourse

Trump's Genocidal Threats Can't Hide the Fact that He's Losing This War (w/Rafi Schwartz) - Plus: Pam Bondi's ouster, who we think Trump will fire next, and Jenna Bush Hager's book club
Bracing Views

Trump Threatens Mass Murder Yet Again - W.J. Astore Preventing Mass Death Isn’t a Partisan Issue BILL ASTORE APR 07, 2026 From Trump’s Truth Social Account: This is madness. Unhinged madness. Ima...
The Grayzone

Senior BBC Iran reporter exposed as opposition activist - After a top reporter at the BBC drew outrage for publishing a quote demanding Iran be nuked, she’s been revealed as a dedicated regime change activist wh...
Trivial Knot

Rock Paper Scissors and variants - Rock Paper Scissors is a game where two players simultaneously pick one of the three things in the title. Rock beats Scissors, Scissors beats Paper, Paper ...
Greg Palast

Trump, the Pirate of Hormuz - It was a mere 500 years ago that Europeans realized that the Strait of Hormuz was a trade choke point, when Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque seized...
The Texas Signal

New Exhibit Explores Connection Of Good Medicine And Art - Dr. Jayasimha “Jay” Murthy is both a Houston pulmonologist and artist. His latest exhibition is "World: Photographs," a collection of about a dozen of Murt...
The Greanville Post

Test from NH - Good Day. This is a test page created by NH side to see contents…
Liberation News

Declaración del PSL: Por qué Trump fracasó en su guerra criminal contra Irán – y por qué no podemos ceder ahora - Ante la firmeza del pueblo iraní y la indignación del mundo, la administración Trump se ha visto obligada a dar un paso atrás, al menos por ahora, ante el ...
Project Censored

Networks of Resistance: From Lebanon to College Newsrooms - First up, journalist Afeef Nessouli joins the show to talk about the situation in Lebanon, and how corporate media deliberately flattens and dehumanizes ...
Alas, a Blog

Don’t Call Them Concentration Camps! - This comic is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: What’s a better challenge than drawing a period piece? Drawing a period piece where the reader is supp...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Educators on why Social Studies Rules - With the Texas State Board of Education poised to massively overhaul K-12 social studies curricula this year, we want to take a step back and spotlight t...
The Militant

Refuse strikers remain defiant despite fine on union - BIRMINGHAM, England — “We will not be pushed aside,” strike leader Danny Taylor told an enthusiastic crowd of hundreds of striking refuse workers at the At...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE EDITION. - *The original orchestrations are grand, but this is just irresistible.* Pam Bondi’s departure is meaningless — Tubby has a huge crabbucket of equally loat...
Lowering the Bar

Still Illegal to Drive (a Horse) Under the Influence in Kentucky - [image: riding a horse backwards]One of the few states where this is pretty clear.
Sludge

How Trump’s Former Digital Guru Is Shaping AI Narratives About Iran for Israel - After the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran, a network run by Trump’s former digital chief Brad Parscale began publishing AI-optimized content aimed...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales to help fight decision by Trump Administration to cut $7.4 million from HOPE for Small Farm Sustainability in the Valley - The non-profit Holistic Organic Practical Education (HOPE) for Small Farm Sustainability, headquartered in Harlingen, on Monday, March 30, 2026 announced t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Socialist

Roger Williams Net Worth 2026: The $74.66M Auto Dealer’s Fortune - Table of Contents The Foundation: Williams Auto Group’s Enduring $34.2 Million Value and Legacy Real Estate Empire: A $33 Million Portfolio Rooted Deep in ...
Debunking Christianity

The World’s Most Dangerous Cult Continues to Thrive - *The Catholic church qualifies for this title* Is it really fair to call Catholicism a cult? Or does this reflect my growing up in a mostly Protestant ...
LareDOS

Laredo Center for the Arts vandalized: the violent disarray of so tranquil a place for the arts bespoke a disconcerting rage - Person of interest in custody
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 3, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio April 3, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/03/2026 - 04:37 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
TalkLeft

Pam Bondi Fired, Todd Blanche to Replace Her - The rumors are true. Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi. Todd Blanche, one of his personal lawyers from his criminal trial in New York and a former federal...
The Rag Blog

JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity - By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Jan Lance...
DeSmogBlog

Eight Things You Should Know About Reform’s Policy Chief James Orr - James Orr, until recently a relatively obscure academic theologian, now ranks among Reform UK’s most influential politicians, having been appointed as th...
Progressives Chat

The 2026 MLB Season Begins - The new 2026 Major League Baseball season is now in its first full week. I was sorry Milwaukee Brewers, which has been in only one World Series, as the A...
Consent Factory, Inc.

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - The House Negroes have been very active of late. As a result, the House Negro power rankings have to be constantly updated. Here goes. 10. *Tim Scott:...
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Unlimited Hangout

Technate, Ohio: How Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein Built The Silicon Heartland - Ohio has become the new destination for Big Tech data centers and AI infrastructure. The state owes much of its rapid transformation into the so-called "...
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
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...
Two Party Opera

Fireside Chats - Read More
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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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