Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Mediaite

‘Typical Russian Lies’: Zelensky Trashes Putin’s Claim That Ukraine Launched a Drone Attack On His House - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hit out at Vladimir Putin for trying to "undermine" Sunday's peace talks with President Donald Trump. The post ‘Ty...
Raw Story

Zelenskyy laughs as Trump claims Putin wants Ukraine to “succeed” - President Donald Trump sparked widespread disbelief — and open laughter from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — after claiming Sunday that Russia ...
The Verge

Turn your PC into a Super Nintendo with Epilogue’s new USB dock - After announcing and teasing its design well over a year ago, Epilogue's new SN Operator will finally be available for preorder starting tomorrow. Like the...
Ballot Access News

California Politics Commentator Dan Walters Again Discusses California Top-Two’s Strange Effect on Gubernatorial Race - Dan Walters, the dean of California politics commentators, has again written a Cal Matters column on how the top-two system could result in a gubernatorial...
Salon.com

MAGA’s circular firing squad intensifies - MAGA's true believers are realizing that Trumpism is about spectacle over substance — and they're angry
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump to meet Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago amid concerns over progress on fragile Gaza truce plan – live - The Israeli prime minister left Israel on Sunday on his fifth visit to see Trump in the US this year *Benjamin Netanyahu* is expected to tell *Donald Tru...
Daily Dot

“Our plans were just trashed”: MrBeast’s “Boys vs Girls” gaming competition narrative challenged by female participants - [image: mrbeast boys vs girls minecraft competition controversy] A recent MrBeast gaming video drew criticism after several female participants outlined ...
Slate

Slate Pears Game 135: Dec. 29, 2025 - Today's puzzle has six pears.
Al Jazeera English

Boxer Anthony Joshua injured in deadly car crash in Nigeria - British boxer Anthony Joshua was injured in a car crash in Nigeria that killed two people, police say.
The Week

What will the US economy look like in 2026? - Wall Street is bullish, but uncertain
Mother Jones

Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Says He Acted to “Speak Up” for Election Deniers - The man who allegedly planted two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the January 6 Capitol riot told investigators after his arrest earlier thi...
Eschaton

Remarkably Incurious - I actually don't think we need to have full knowledge of presidential health, constantly updated. That idea seems to be part of the general misguided and a...
Consortium News

Gaza’s Yellow Line: Where Israel’s War Rages On - Palestinians stranded by newly drawn boundary question when they can return home, writes Shaimaa Eid. By Shaimaa Eid in Gaza Declassified UK CN at 30 Despi...
Election Law Blog

WSJ Editorial: “MAGA’s Latest Stolen 2020 Election Theory; This blunder by Fulton County, Ga., isn’t what Trump’s allies claim.” - WSJ Editorial: Elections are supposed to run by the book, and Fulton County’s blunder is bad for public confidence. Yet so are Mr. Trump’s constantly shi...
Bonddad

Regional Fed manufacturing indexes suggest 2025 trends are slowly abating - - *by New Deal democrat* Although the federal government shutdown has been over for a month and a half, most of the data that has been released has ...
San Antonio Current

Turmoil in ’25: 10 stories that dominated San Antonio’s news cycle this year - [image: Flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country in July.] Floods devastated the Texas Hill Country, voters approved a a publicly financed NBA stadi...
Political Wire

MAGA Is Eating Itself - The Economist: “The strain on MAGA has been growing for months, accelerated by Kirk’s murder and the Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files. ...
Capital & Main

Editor’s Picks: Capital & Main’s Standout Stories of 2025 - A selection of some of our most memorable, revealing and impactful journalism of the year. The post Editor’s Picks: Capital & Main’s Standout Stories of ...
Common Dreams

Burgum’s Offshore Wind Halt of Questionable Legality - The Secretary of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) abrupt cessation of all leases for major offshore wind electric generation facilities under const...
Daily Howler

THE SQUALOR(S): Squalor Red and Squalor Blue! - *MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025* *Our nation's dueling squalors:* Jeffrey Epstein died in prison, right there in New York City. He was found dead in his priso...
Texas Standard

Indigenous groups fight to save rediscovered settlement site on an industrial waterfront in Texas - Flanked by a chemical plant and an oil rig construction yard, the site at Donnel Point may be the last of its kind on this stretch of coastline, now occupi...
Courthouse News

China holds military drills around Taiwan simulating ports blockade - Beijing's military released a poster about the drills showing "arrows of justice" — one engulfed in flames — raining down on a geographical outline of Taiwan.
The Conversation

The ‘sacred’ pledge that will power the relaunch of far-right militia Oath Keepers - Founder Stewart Rhodes says he will relaunch the group, serving as an important outlet for thousands of members who have felt lost since his imprisonment, ...
The Hill

Rob Reiner’s great American legacy outshines Trump's vitriol - The energy that radiated from the center of Reiner’s being touched many lives.
NPR's Health Shots

From chess to a medical mystery: Great global reads from 2025 you may have missed - We published hundreds of stories on global health and development each year. Some are ... alas ... a bit underappreciated by readers. We've asked our staff...
memeorandum

Donald Trump in his own words - the year in racism and misogyny (Melissa Hellmann/The Guardian) - Melissa Hellmann / The Guardian: *Donald Trump in his own words - the year in racism and misogyny* — The president has increased the amount of invectiv...
SCOTUSblog

Skrmetti and birth equality (Part V): How the case should have been analyzed - Brothers in Law is a recurring series by brothers Akhil and Vikram Amar, with special emphasis on measuring what the Supreme Court says against what the ...
Dissident Voice

Jacques Baud and the EU/NATO Censorship Architecture - If Baud, then we are all potential targets now! Jacques Baud’s case is mind-boggling. A Swiss citizen, a former NATO-, OSCE- and UN-related colleague and...
Houston Public Media

Why holiday fun, food and alcohol can be bad for your heart if you’re not careful - The rate of heart attacks in Texas and across the country reach their highest peak in December and January. A Texas cardiologist explains.
Glasstire

In Memoriam: 2025 Obituaries in Glasstire - As we approach the end of 2025, Glasstire recalls the lives and legacies of those who have passed away. Houston lost several longtime artists who influen...
Scheerpost.com

Klarenberg Was Right! Israel Sparks Somalia Fury Over Somaliland - By Joshua Scheer Somalia has condemned Israel’s unprecedented recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state, warning of a threat to territorial integrity ...
Mediagazer

In 2025, several books saw audiobook sales outperform hardcovers, even as digital audiobook growth slowed to 1% through October after 2024's ~24% jump to $1.1B (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street ...) - Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: *In 2025, several books saw audiobook sales outperform hardcovers, even as digital audiobook growth slowed...
Futurism

Public Rejoices as Porsche Releases Beautiful Ad Not Made Using AI - What a concept! The post Public Rejoices as Porsche Releases Beautiful Ad Not Made Using AI appeared first on Futurism.
Democracy Now!

Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump's Current Border Commissioner - An HBO documentary, *Critical Incident: Death at the Border*, premieres tonight that examines the alleged cover-up of the murder of Anastasio Hernández Roj...
Space City Weather

Back to reality for a couple days, but 2026 is likely to begin on a warm note too - In brief: Houston is back to more classic December fare today, with low clouds, a gusty wind, and temps in the 40s. We’ll have a couple chilly nights tonig...
First Draft

New Year’s Irresolutions? - Of MAGA maggot New Year's resolutions.
Techdirt.

Brendan Carr Says Destroying Consumer Protection, Media Consolidation Rules, And Corporate Oversight Will Be Great For Everyone - Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr was recently hauled before Congress to discuss his numerous, often illegal abuses of FCC authority. The hearing mostly fixated ...
Texas Observer

Our Most-Read Stories of 2025 - Web traffic is a fickle thing, but online readership numbers do at least give us at the Observer a sense of what stories are making a splash with a bigge...
El Paso Matters

Back to the Bowl: What to know for the ASU-Duke Sun Bowl rematch - The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, now in its 92nd year, is as much of the fabric of El Paso as the sun in the Chihuahuan Desert sky and the Star on the Mount...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Doing Unto Others - As Christmas season fades, Ramirez asks if there are no prisons, and if the workhouses are still in operation. Scrooge at least conceded that his taxes — h...
Countercurrents

NAPM calls upon state governments to roll back factory law amendments requiring workers to slog for more than 8 hours in a day! - 29th Dec, 2025: Recently, several states across India have amended their labour/factory legislation to allow working hours beyond 9 hours a day for adult w...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Dandelion Energy CEO Dan Yates On How Geothermal Leasing Could Transform Home Heating and Cooling - Read a transcript of this episode. Subscribe to receive transcripts. Amazingly, the same Congressional bill... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Dande...
WhoWhatWhy

What He Said: How Russ Shed Some Light on a Very Challenging Year - [image: Russ Baker. CEO, WhoWhatWhy] Stock up on the antacids before visiting this buffet of my spiciest columns of 2025. What He Said: How Russ Shed Some...
Vox

10 of the best Vox stories of 2025 - As we wind toward the end of the year, Vox is taking a look back with some of our best stories of 2025. To build this list, I took recommendations from my ...
The Root

N.Y. Man Stabbed to Death on Christmas While Covering a CVS Shift He Was Never Scheduled to Work - 23-year-old Edeedson Cine, of Long Island, covered a co-worker's CVS shift on Christmas Day at the last minute. But he never made it home. Read more...
naked capitalism

Links 12/29/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

The Reckoning -
Skeptophilia

Race to the bottom - The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like "virtue" or "...
Off The Kuff

Fifth Circuit upholds award for Harvey reservoir flooding - A bog deal. Homeowners whose properties were damaged in 2017 by Hurricane Harvey floodwaters upstream of the Addicks and Barker reservoirs in west Houston ...
San Antonio Report

‘To me, non-binding means non-binding’: Jones readies for next round on Spurs arena - Now with more experience under her belt, the mayor is preparing to take another swing at the issue when negotiations return to City Hall. ------------------...
ProPublica

Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous - The post Medical Examiners Warn That Controversial Lung Float Test Could Be Dangerous appeared first on ProPublica.
Axios

YouTuber Nick Shirley gets FBI response to Minnesota fraud probe - Nick Shirley, a MAGA-friendly YouTuber, lit up X during Christmas week with video reports from Minnesota alleging massive fraud in government-funded chil...
Angry Bear

The downside of semaglutides - GLP-1-based therapies for obesity have been transformational. The benefits are undeniable, and the risks for most people are negligible. These drugs belo...
High Country News

Cascades frogs vanished from Lassen Volcanic National Park in 2007. Now, they’re back. - [image: An adult Cascades frog floats among aquatic vegetation.] With careful site selection and antifungal baths, scientists are staging a frog comeback ...
Rallblog

I’m Right Here - Hundreds of thousands of STEM workers who have graduated with professional science and math degrees and have substantial tech experience are unemployed i...
Counterpunch

Gaza as the Last Moral Frontier against Israel’s Policy of Annihilation - Three dominant narratives contend for the future of Gaza and occupied Palestine, yet only one is being translated into consequential action: the Israeli ...
jobsanger

Trump Is Trying To Put His Name Or Image On Everything -
Portside

Sunday Science: Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Fire-Making - Sunday Science: Archaeologists Find Oldest Evidence of Fire-Making Ira Mon, 12/29/2025 - 00:52
Wolf Street

IPO Bloodletting after “Pop” in 2025: Venture Global, CoreWeave, Figma, Klarna, Bullish, Circle Internet, Navan, Firefly, Fermi… - Medline is one of the exceptions, after seven trading days.
Informed Comment

2025 Climate Good News: Sustainables met all new Demand, EVs 25% of New Car Sales, Global Heating Projections fell to 2.8º C. - The most significant green energy good news stories we covered in 2025
World Socialist Web Site

Stop Trump’s mass immigrant roundups! - Under conditions of bipartisan complicity, the Trump administration is building a domestic gulag system of mass detention, rendition and deportation. This ...
Popular Resistance

Understanding The Relationship Between Zionism And Fascism - Despite the mutual admiration of Zionists and fascists, both historically and in the present, it is generally considered unhelpful to characterize Zionis...
The Greanville Post

The Proof is in the Pudding: A Few Comments on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics - GARY OLSON—The Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded in Shanghai in July 1921. At its inception the CPC had only 50 members (100 million today) and ca...
Antiwar.com

How Reporting Facts Can Now Land You in Jail for 14 Years as a Terrorist - Reprinted from Jonathan Cook’s Substack: The moment the British government began proscribing political movements as terrorist organizations, rather than ju...
Deadline Politics

Rob Reiner’s Absence From New York Times “Lives They Lived” Explained; 2025 In Memoriam Featured Diane Keaton, Angie Stone & David Lynch - EXCLUSIVE: It’s now that time of the year when In Memoriam lists are being compiled and posted commemorating those who passed in 2025. For New York Times r...
Alternet

'Horrible racist': Trump official slammed for using Christmas special to bash immigrants - Top Trump White House aide Stephen Miller on Friday elicited disgust after he said that a beloved Christmas television special reminded him of his own pe...
OpEd News

Trump's Push into Fusion Nuclear Power - The Trump family is now directly investing in atomic energy. Its money-losing Truth Social company has become part-owner of a major fusion nuclear power en...
The Grayzone

Western intelligence lawfare op plotted illegal sting on EU fraud office, leaks reveal - After The Grayzone exposed CIJA – the Western gov’t-funded regime change outfit – for collaborating with al-Qaeda and its allies in Syria, files show the...
Liberation News

Corporate interests are driving Colorado River to near-collapse - The Colorado River is on the verge of collapse, potentially threatening the water supply of 40 million people.
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 28, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 28, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Howie Klein (February 20, 1948–December 24, 2025) Thomas Neuburger, December 25, 20...
Reform Austin

Jeff Bezos Could Bring $1 Billion Blue Origin Campus—and 2,200 Jobs—to Central Texas - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The post Jeff Bezos Could Bring $1 Billion Blue Origin Campus—and 2,200 Jobs—to Central Texas a...
Mondoweiss

Understanding the relationship between Zionism and Fascism - [image: Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir takes part in a march in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2022. (Photo: Jeries Bssier / APA Images)]Despite the mutual admi...
Undernews

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration -
Debunking Christianity

Announcing the First Draft of the Cover To My Last Book: - As I said it's just the first draft. I love the concept. You can read the Preface, Blurbs, Contents and Introduction to "God and Horrendous Suffering" 2nd...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Many Happy Returns' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- the real shithole country - The truth behind the gleaming photos and propaganda statistics. 2:42 to 4:38 is a skippable ad.
Claytoonz

Sleepy Ratings Trump - 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...
See You In 2020

The KKE seeks to wreck solidarity with Venezuela’s resistance. We must save the workers movement from this scheme. - William Z. Foster and his movement once faced a parallel situation to the one that communists are confronted with today. One where amid new escalations ...
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
CultureMap Houston

Austin restaurant chain bowls over River Oaks and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including restaurant openings and a major acquisition for MFAH. Plus, where to ...
Workers World

Demand clemency for Gia Abigail Valentina! - [image: Demand clemency for Gia Abigail Valentina!] By Arm the Dollz Gia Abigail Valentina is a transgender woman who has been incarcerated for over twenty...
ArcaMax

The Lazy Left - Through the '60s, when I was a single-digit child, people knew that revolution was hard. Those who committed to revolutionary change understood that the el...
The Daily Poster

Did That Really Happen In 2025? - Test your knowledge of consolidation in the frozen potato market, new national security directives, and other issues from the past year that really matter.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THROW THAT YEAR IN THE GARBAGE CAN EDITION. - *[no caption]* This Friday I’m not going long (nor early, neither!) with ‘Round-the-Horn, because I’m on vacation. Yes, both this and *Roy Edroso Breaks...
Independent Political Report

IPR Interview: Randall Terry Reflects on Arrest, Divorce, and a Life of Protest - The following is a transcript of an interview with 2024 Constitution Party presidential nominee Randall Terry. In it, Mr. Terry addresses his recent arre...
The AltWorld

What has the UN done for Palestine except help Zionism colonise it? - For decades, the UN has been the epitome of hypocrisy, bleeding into awareness when it comes to […] The post What has the UN done for Palestine except he...
Progressive.org

Telling Sy Hersh’s Story - A new documentary casts harsh light on government secrecy, failed media oversight, and public backlash.
Church and State

Trump’s REIGN now fading but will his corruption ever be punished? - Trump’s deteriorating metal condition implies that we have a man entering dementia, which of course will continue to be hidden by his staff.
slacktivist

LBCF: Boutros Boutros Carpathia (cont’d.) - The scene depicting the Antichrist's big speech at the United Nations shows that "Left Behind" does not understand anything about oratory, writing, the UN,...
Democracy Chronicles

An Intelligent Decision: Engaging the Greens and the Progressive Democrats - The Republican Party and corporate American take over of the Democratic Party obviously is the issue. This duality has been the source of our nation's suff...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Holiday Listener Mailbag: Audio From A Collapsing State - For the holiday season let's go through some reader questions
Duck of Minerva

Do you want a religious war? Because this is how you get a religious war - And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said;“For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Thanks fo...
Rewire

I Am a Reproductive Justice Reporter. These Are My Favorite Stories from 2025. - Plus, what *RNG* will cover in 2026—and how you can support our journalism. The post I Am a Reproductive Justice Reporter. These Are My Favorite Stories ...
TalkLeft

Merry Christmas Eve 2025 and Open Thread - Christmas Eve is the single, quietest night of the year. The world seems to shut down, from stores to movie theaters to restaurants and even food deliver...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #09: [REDACTED] Has an AI Girlfriend????????? - Caitlin joins us for the final episode of 2025 and boy is it a doozy!
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

"The Vision of the Vanquished": Knowledge Europe Destroyed—and that the U.S. Power Structure Still Fears, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *"The Vision of the Vanquished": Knowledge Europe Destroyed—and that the U.S. Power Structure Still Fears* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 24...
Second Nexus

Jesse Watters Just Revealed Trump's Real Motive For Building A White House Ballroom—And It's Peak Trump - Fox News host Jesse Watters told a Turning Point USA crowd that MAGA Republican President Donald Trump is building his golden ballroom as a monument to h...
Ecosophia

December 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Environment Texas

Will Congress pass a bill to fund more wildlife crossings? - 2026 will be important year for the future of wildlife crossings The post Will Congress pass a bill to fund more wildlife crossings? appeared first on En...
Land Destroyer

A New Space Race Above Earth May Determine Who Prevails Upon It - *December 24, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - In early December 2025, private Chinese aerospace company, LandSpace, test-launched its Zhuque-3 rocket. The...
Crooked Media

Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Dorinda Medley) - The post Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Dorinda Medley) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Dorf on Law

A War on Christmas Classic - We here at *DoL *are enjoying the holidays, so I'm posting the following classic column from a little over a year ago. It originally ran under the headli...
Dissent Magazine

*Dissent* in 2025 - Our most read articles this year.
NORML

Federally Funded Survey: Teen Marijuana Use Continues Historic Decline - [image: group of teens having fun walking down the street][image: group of teens having fun walking down the street]"Sensational claims that adult-use le...
Grist

What happens when disaster recovery becomes a luxury good - As federal services deteriorate, a patchwork of private companies is taking their place — for better or for worse.
The NM Political Report

What Alex Uballez discovered about Albuquerque politics (and himself) running for mayor - “To move to a world in which so much operates off of power, off of money, off of favors and relationships that circle around power — to see it up close i...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Would you be gay for an hour for one billion dollars, Nancy Mace is so unpopular & other holiday news briefs - * Editor's note* - *Some folks may see the above video as offensive, but I disagree. It's from the Facebook group All African LGBTQ We Have Rights Too a...
The Texas Signal

The New Laws Of Texas - Many of these new laws represent a mix of hot button issues, like restricting access to reproductive health and bathroom use based on sex and not gender id...
The Progressive Wing

12/22-28 News Roundup & Open Thread – Plus Holiday favs Tunes - Hello! Still plenty of news swirling. Later in the week, we can post our fav holiday tunes on Xmas Eve and Xmas day. Join us in the comments below the jump.
DeSmogBlog

How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next - There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by...
Avedon's Sideshow

Stop all the firing and the fighting - Look, it's manifestly obvious that bombing small boats making local transit in the Caribbean is unjustifiable and no one should have to explain it, but ...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s Push For “Peace” in Ukraine—A Nightmare For European Capitalism - Almost four years after the Ukraine war began, Western imperialism is in disarray. European governments, not least in Kyiv, are in panic, scrambling from o...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Hebron Road - [image: Hebron Road]
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
The Militant

US hands off Venezuela! No to US economic war against Cuba - In a sharp escalation of threats against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, U.S. military forces seized a large oil tanker carrying cru...
Sludge

Musk-Linked ‘Dark Money’ Group Got a $75 Million Anonymous Donation - A new 990 obtained by Sludge reveals the large anonymous donation to Building America's Future, which in the past has been used to keep Elon Musk's politic...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
Krebs on Security

Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review - The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to add...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025 - Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Wo...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

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

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
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...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

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

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

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

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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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