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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Week

The Southern Ocean is holding in a ‘burp’ - The heat from the past can affect the future
Counterpunch

Rightwing Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump’s Golden Dome - Over the past several months, the editorial board of the Washington Post has moved steadily to the right, endorsing greater defense budgets, the use of...
Al Jazeera English

Afghan earthquake survivors face winter cold after deadly quakes - Villagers in Kunar province brace for harsh winter without proper shelter or clothing following devastating earthquakes.
Portside

Mamdani’s Victory Is a Rebuke to the Failed Strategies of the Democratic Party - Mamdani’s Victory Is a Rebuke to the Failed Strategies of the Democratic Party Mark Brody Thu, 11/06/2025 - 01:40
ArcaMax

The Test for a Conservative Court - Is the Supreme Court really a conservative court, bound by conservative principles of statutory construction and judicial review, or is it President Donald...
memeorandum

South Africa Probes How Citizens Ended Up Fighting in Ukraine (Antony Sguazzin/Bloomberg) - Antony Sguazzin / Bloomberg: *South Africa Probes How Citizens Ended Up Fighting in Ukraine* — South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered a probe...
jobsanger

Democrats Must Embrace Both Moderates And Progressives -
World Socialist Web Site

The political and class issues in Mamdani’s victory in New York City - The election of Mamdani reflects growing social anger and opposition to Trump—aspirations that Mamdani’s program cannot address.
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3337: Claude Bernard - Episode: 3337 Claude Bernard's important medical science, horrifically achieved. Today, let's meet a problematic scientist.
The Verge

Canon adds a 32-megapixel sensor and 7K video to the new EOS R6 Mark III - Canon is announcing the EOS R6 Mark III camera, its latest jack-of-all-trades full-frame mirrorless model for both stills and video. The new camera has a 3...
naked capitalism

Health Advocates Call for a Federal “Reboot” in Addressing Ultra-Processed Foods - The debate over ultra-processed food is becoming more intense. But has any real progress been made in discouraging consumption?
Informed Comment

Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture - Tomer-Yerushalmi freely admits to leaking the video to expose the serious nature of the crimes she was investigating,
Mediaite

Gobsmacked Former Obama Adviser Says ‘I Agree With Every Word That Marjorie Taylor Greene Said’ - David Axelrod, who served as a senior adviser to former President Barack Obama, found himself in the "astonishing position" of agreeing with Rep. Marjori...
Grist

No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse - An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
The Hill

Two arrested in NJ terror probe in wake of Michigan Halloween plot - Two men have been charged in connection with an alleged ISIS-inspired terrorist plot planned in Michigan, acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba s...
Courthouse News

FAA reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 ‘high-volume’ markets during government shutdown - United, Southwest and American all said they will try to minimize the impact on consumers as they cut their schedules to comply with the order.
Techdirt.

USPTO To Re-Examine Recently Approved Nintendo Patent - Well, this is actually pretty fascinating. We’ve been discussing the somewhat bizzare patent lawsuit Nintendo is waging against PocketPair in Japan for som...
Raw Story

'Awkward': Conservative analyst reveals how Trump's tariff case could blow up in his face - Conservative analyst Ben Shapiro argued on Wednesday night that the Supreme Court is putting President Donald Trump "in an awkward position" over his key...
Political Wire

Trump Rips Zohran Mamdani’s ‘Dangerous’ Speech - President Trump was not thrilled with Zohran Mamdani’s (D) victory speech on Tuesday night, with the commander-in-chief blasting the next mayor of New York...
Axios

Trump teased as possible first FIFA Peace Prize winner - A new peace prize will be awarded at the World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 5 that recognizes "exceptional actions for peace and unity," soccer'...
Mediagazer

Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it handled ~$100M in trades on the mayoral race that day, calling it for Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet (Alex Heath/Sources) - Alex Heath / Sources: *Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it handled ~$100M in trades on the mayoral race that day, calling it for Mamdani 36 m...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
Crooked Media

Is Trump About To Lose His Trade War? - The post Is Trump About To Lose His Trade War? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Popular Resistance

China Surprised The US: Round One Goes To Beijing - In this episode, KJ Noh joins India & Global Left to break down the real meaning of the recent Xi–Trump talks — beyond the headlines. We explore why Chin...
Scheerpost.com

How America Left Their Own to Die in the ’73 Chilean Coup (w/ John Dinges) | The Chris Hedges Report - John Dinges dives deep into the real story of two American journalists who were killed in Chile in the aftermath of the CIA-backed military coup of Salvado...
The Greanville Post

Donald Trump’s extended 60 Minutes interview - CBS—Norah O’Donnell sat down with President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss U.S.-China relations, Venezuela, Israel, the government shutdown, immi...
Krebs on Security

Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List - For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare's public ran...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: supreme court examines president’s global tariffs - Conservative justices expressed skepticism of the strength of the Trump administration’s position – key US politics stories from 5 November 2025 The cons...
Brad Blog

TEAM BLUE TRIUMPH! Dems Win Everything Everywhere All at Once: 'BradCast' 11/5/2025 - We've covered a lot of Election Nights on The BradCast over the years. But it's difficult, if not impossible, to remember one where Democrats (and anti-GOP...
Undernews

The election - *Republicans **filed a lawsuit *on Wednesday morning challenging California’s newly approved House maps, hours after voters signed off on a ballot measu...
Workers World

Mamdani wins: a step toward fight-back - [image: Mamdani wins: a step toward fight-back] Zohran Mamdani’s supporters celebrate his mayoral victory in Brooklyn, New York, Nov. 4, 2025. That Zohran ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Journalist says that 188 Republican and Christian leaders have accused of sexually abusing kids this year (so far) - *While the far right falsely paint drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ community as 'groomers,' journalist Evan Hurst has identified 188 Christian...
Consortium News

VIPS MEMO: What Wider War in Venezuela Would Bring - Russia, and possibly even China, would feel obligated to enhance military support in response to a missile, air, or even drone strike on sovereign Venezuel...
Wolf Street

Household Debts, Debt-to-Income Ratio, Delinquencies, Collections, Foreclosures, and Bankruptcies of our (not so) Drunken Sailors in Q3 2025 - The long-defaulted federal student loans were pulled out of the forbearance closet.
Ballot Access News

Forward Party Wins Partisan Election in South Carolina - On November 4, Georgetown, South Carolina, held an election for Mayor and City Council. The election was a partisan election. Forward Party nominee Jay Doy...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - Judging by all the various *holiday*-*related* *light* *shows* that’ll be happening this weekend, we are officially in what is now known as “Mariah season.”
Daily Cartoonist

Around the Comic Strip Scene - Returns Note that regular Gil Thorp artist Rachel Merrill has returned to the strip this week, not to universal acclaim. The GoComics Newsletter informs us...
Election Law Blog

“Republicans Swiftly File Lawsuit in Bid to Block California’s New House Maps” - NYT: The lawsuit filed on Wednesday accuses California of violating the Constitution “when it drew new congressional district lines based on race, speci...
Antiwar.com

Venezuela’s Oil, US-Led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics - The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco...
San Antonio Report

In Memoriam: Virginia Margaret “Perny” Shea - Virginia Margaret “Perny” Shea July 27, 1957 – October 24, 2025 Virginia Margaret “Perny” Shea, beloved wife, daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, and fr...
The NM Political Report

Trump nominates former New Mexico Rep. Steve Pearce to lead Bureau of Land Management - President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated former New Mexico Congressman and former Republican Party Chair Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Man...
SCOTUSblog

Trump’s tariffs: from dollars to donuts - Security around the U.S. Supreme Court building is amped up a bit this morning, almost as if somebody really important was planning to attend. President...
Salon.com

“You must be held accountable”: Mamdani gears up for ICE showdown - The mayor-elect of New York City campaigned against ongoing ICE actions in the city
Vox

The end of free tax filing, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Liberation News

Uprising topples Madagascar government - On October 17, a military coup ousted the former president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina following a mass protest movement
Deadline Politics

Zohran Mamdani’s Media Savvy Helped Make Him New York’s Next Mayor, But Will He Give The Struggling Film & TV Biz A Boost? - New York City’s newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani is many things to many people, but in entertainment circles he is seen as a genuine child of showbiz. Hi...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio police officer in custody on charge he illegally planted tracking device - SAPD Officer Richard Boyle was placed on administrative duty while the department conducts an investigation into the matter. The post San Antonio polic...
Futurism

Andrew Cuomo’s Extensive Use of AI Made His Campaign a Toxic Joke - Andrew Cuomo's campaign embraced AI — and it made him a toxic laughingstock, while Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory. The post Andrew Cuomo’s Extensive U...
slacktivist

Trying not to make this blog all Nazis all the time - But as much as I'm trying to talk about other things, the steady flow of Nazis in the news continues.
WhoWhatWhy

FIFA Creates Consolation Peace Prize – First Recipient Is a Total Mystery - [image: Trump and Infantino] Donald Trump may have lost an election on Tuesday, but we have an inkling that he might be in the running for FIFA's new peace...
Mother Jones

My Night With Sliwa Superfans - The number one thing everyone at the Curtis Sliwa election night watch party could agree on was loving Curtis Sliwa. The number two thing was hating Andrew...
Daily Dot

27 of the best memes and jokes about Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral win - [image: Left: Squidward looking through grate meme, with SpongeBob and Patrick labeled "New York" and Squidward labeled "The rest of the USA." Right: Zoh...
Slate

MAGA’s Reaction to Mamdani’s Win Is a Dark Sign of What’s to Come - Powerful Republicans are turning to old forms of bigotry.
Reform Austin

Uvalde’s Long Road to Recovery After the 2022 School Shooting - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Three years after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, survivors continue to s...
Environment Texas

Court upholds national furnace efficiency standards - Efficiency standards for gas-powered furnaces reduce pollution by reducing energy waste The post Court upholds national furnace efficiency standards appe...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: As election day drew near, it turned into 5-on-none! - *WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025* *Charlie Hurt gets it wrong:* Those were solid Democratic victories in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races. W...
Mondoweiss

Zohran Mamdani represents a historic turning point for American Muslims and all advocates for Palestinian freedom - [image: Zohran Mamdani and supporters march over the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on November 3, 2025. (Photo: https://x.com/zohrankmamdani)]For Americ...
Second Nexus

Matt Gaetz Gets Hit With Brutal Community Note After Sparring With GOP Rep. Over Real 'Conservatism' - While feuding with his fellow MAGA Republican, Texas Representative Dan Crenshaw, former Florida GOP Representative Matt Gaetz got slammed with a brutall...
Bracing Views

War and Rumors of War - Dick Cheney Is Dead BILL ASTORE NOV 04, 2025 War and rumors of war dominate the headlines. Venezuela. Nigeria. Iran. Somalia. A “new Cold War” involving Ru...
El Paso Matters

After years of delay, El Paso ISD moves to finish Don Haskins PK-8 roof, resolve subcontractor payment issues - After years of delays and unpaid bills, El Paso ISD is wrapping up roof work at Don Haskins PK-8, potentially resolving a dispute over payments tied to ...
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 4 of 4) - Death comes for us all. We are outlived, as Barkandji man Woddy Harris would have it, by Mother Nature, who holds us in something that I think he would lik...
Independent Political Report

Liberal Party USA Poised to Gain Recognized Status in Pennsylvania After Superior Court Race - The Liberal Party USA appears positioned to gain recognized political party status in Pennsylvania after its candidate for Superior Court, Daniel Wassmer...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Veneer is Gone: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We see politics for what they are now: a battle between the wealthy few and the rest of us
OpEd News

No, You Can't "Cite AI" like a Scholarly Source - Generative AI is not a stable reference, it is not a scholarly source, it is not an authority, and it is not accountable. For these reasons and more, "citi...
NPR's Health Shots

A declaration of famine is rare. It's now happened twice in 2025, this time in Sudan - Famine declarations are relatively rare. But the leading international authority on hunger crises this week declared that regions of war-torn Sudan face ca...
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s Historic Victory: Full Steam Ahead To Fight Trump & The Democratic Party Establishment - In a truly historic victory, self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has defeated hated former governor Andrew Cuomo to become mayor of New York...
Alternet

House speaker complains as Dem rep interrupts presser to accuse him of 'lying' - A Democratic member of Congress interrupted Speaker Mike Johnson during his outdoor press conference on Wednesday, denouncing his “lies” and demanding th...
Progressive.org

SNAP Is Vital to the Nation’s Well-Being - Investing in people through food assistance, health care, and education strengthens our democracy and ensures that everyone can live with dignity.
Capital & Main

The David vs. Goliath Story of a Ranching Family and an Oil Giant - They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t. The post The Davi...
Bonddad

ISM services index rebounds, indicating moderate expansion, but with stagflation - - *by New Deal democrat* With the shutdown of the official government sources, along with the regional Fed indexes, the ISM manufacturing and servic...
The Daily Poster

New York’s Sore Winners - Congressional Democrats from the Empire State are less than enthused about New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Texas Standard

Local funding and spending initiatives meet varying fates from voters across Texas - Bids to raise property taxes in Austin, expand emergency services in rural North Texas, and clear the way for a new San Antonio Spurs arena were all on the...
Texas Observer

My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don’t Like - On October 17, Texas Christian University announced it would close its Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) dep...
The Root

Why We Shouldn’t Trust Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Sudden MAGA Reversal - No one expected MAGA-suporting Marjorie Taylor Greene to ever defy President Trump, but now, she's making her dissent known. Read more...
Dissident Voice

Portugal’s Fight over the Muslim Veil - Portugal, long admired for its tolerance and moderate social fabric, has taken a shocking and regressive turn. The country’s parliament has recently appr...
NORML

Marijuana Arrests Comprised Nearly Half of All Drug-Related Arrests in Over a Dozen States in 2024 - [image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against three tiny buds][image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against t...
Ecosophia

Why The Left Can’t Meme: A Second Interlude - The exploration of the no-ego ego trip and its relevance to contemporary culture a few weeks back has implications that reach far. The discussion that foll...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Dem Wave Hits Virginia, New Jersey, and Elsewhere; a Dozen House Ratings Shift in California Following Approval of New Dem Map - Democrats enjoyed a strong election performance last night. Aside from wins in New Jersey and Virginia. Prop. 50 will pass in California, which has promp...
Dissent Magazine

Zohran’s Promise - The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward ...
Discourse

We Got a Hot Mayor - Zohran Mamdani won. We seized the hot future that we deserve. And the uggos better be afraid.
Glasstire

Bookended: The Art of Theft - From caper novels to blockbuster films, art crimes seem to find their way into fictional storylines quite often. From that standpoint, they might be some...
MintPress News

Fatema Al Harbi: The Arab Working Overtime to Defend Israel’s Genocide - Fatema Al Harbi built her career defending Israel’s actions in Gaza, partnering with Israeli intelligence-linked groups and spreading propaganda that whi...
Ian Welsh

Mamdani Represents A New Era Of Political Conflict - As everyone’s probably aware, Mamdani, a brown muslim social-democrat who has promised, among other things, to open city grocery stories, make transit free...
First Draft

A Triple Moment of Zen - A death, a string of victories, and a sandwich.
Democracy Now!

"Epic Night for Democrats": Party Wins Races Across the U.S. in Voter Rebuke to Trump - We get an overview of how Democrats won big across the United States in Tuesday’s elections, with Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of *Bolts*. Democratic ...
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “The War for the Democratic Party” - Live 9 am Eastern and Streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou tell you what the Democrats’ elections sweep mean...
The Conversation

Zohran Mamdani’s transformative child care plan builds on a history of NYC social innovations - Mamdani’s child care plans could set an example for other policymakers to follow, as Democratic and Republican voters say child care costs are a major prob...
Space City Weather

Warming trend on tap for Houston ahead of a sharp, short front this weekend - In brief: Houston’s forecast remains more or less the same, with warming days and nights heading into the weekend, followed by a sharp cooldown on Saturday...
Infidel753

The election - I suppose I need to say something about this. The two major disasters yesterday were expected, even inevitable, but that doesn't make the disappointment ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Tokenization of Environmental Assets & Ecosystem Services - With forests and seas on the map, tokenization of natural capital is redefining the world’s... The post Guest Idea: Tokenization of Environmental Assets ...
Dorf on Law

The Constitution in Crisis: The Supreme Need for Justice Robert Jackson's Legal Realism - Donald Trump is asserting more executive power than any President since the Civil War. He would likely not only agree with that assessment but be proud o...
Angry Bear

U.S. Manufacturing Can Be the Foundation of Economic Strength and Innovation - Brief rundown on how manufacturing has evolved over the past 40 years. Moving from solely Labor to less Labor at a higher value. One worker at a CNC mach...
The Smirking Chimp

The Daily Chimp for Wednesday, 5 November 2025 -
Skeptophilia

Chasing uselessness - Occasionally I run across something so weird it's almost charming. This happened just yesterday, and has to do with a topic I've looked at here at *Skept...
Off The Kuff

November 2025 election results: Local and state - Quick hits here, as I was up past my bedtime… All 17 constitutional amendments were on the path to passing. Most of them merited a No vote, but once these ...
Seeing the Forest

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

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley. - The post Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

The fallout from Ruby Ridge - Disillusionment pushes Jess Walter’s characters to the brink in his new novel ‘So Far Gone.’ The post The fallout from Ruby Ridge appeared first on High...
Common Dreams

To the Long Hopeful Query, Is He Dead Yet? Yes. - Variously dubbed Darth Vader, the Prince of Darkness and "one of the most evil people to exist in modern history," Dick Cheney, the lying, blood-stained ...
See You In 2020

The “Jewish question” is a psyop by finance capital, crafted to distract from Marxism’s scientific mission - Our ruling class is boosting the JQ to try to offset the massive pro-communist turn which America’s younger generation is headed towards. The objective ...
LareDOS

Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard - Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
Church and State

Which Gospel Is the Worst of the Four? - There is the formula for the success of cults and religions: Don’t ask for evidence: just believe what we claim to know about god(s).
The AltWorld

Los liberales sueñan con la censura global - En Estados Unidos, los representantes del Partido Demócrata, con la ayuda de sus socios, quieren controlar los […] The post Los liberales sueñan con la c...
Rewire

Let White People Be the Face of Trump’s Hunger Crisis—Opinion - Black suffering has never moved this country to act. Maybe seeing white families skip meals will finally make us admit that food insecurity isn’t fate—it...
The Texas Signal

Election 2025: What To Watch - Here’s a roundup of some of the hottest, most bizarre, and interesting races in the lone star state taking place today
Black Agenda Report

Z!0nIsm and Race in the White Empire | w/ Gerald Horne & Ajamu Baraka - Z!0nIsm and Race in the White Empire | w/ Gerald Horne & Ajamu Baraka bareditors Wed, 11/05/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Progressive Wing

November 4-7 News Roundup and Open Thread - Election Day 2025 is here.
DeSmogBlog

Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises - When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he bro...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Unity Walk—Friday, Nov. 7th in collaboration with the National Day of Action against the Trump Compact for Higher Education - *The Unity Walk in collaboration with the National Day of Action against Trump's Compact for Higher Education is happening this coming Friday. You ...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Project Censored

The Weight of Humanity: Gaza, Academia, and Acts of Solidarity - In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiograph...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Debunking Christianity

The First Pages of "God and Horrendous Suffering, 2nd Edition" - This is a final draft of my Preface, Blurbs, Contents, and Introduction to the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" at Academia.edu. CLICK HERE! E...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Planning For The Nakba Is A Matter of Public Record! - The Nakba was a premeditated crime to commit mass murder, ethnic cleansing and massive theft of land to create Israel, and there are plenty of public re...
Lowering the Bar

Okay, It Seems to Have Been Pretty Successful - If it happened at all.
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
The Militant

The working class needs to take political power! - Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City ...
Idavox

VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi - To the right, Bela played a role that was far, far scarier than Dracula. The post VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi appeared first on ...
Unlimited Hangout

Report Impersonation - Report Impersonation.
Reading the Pictures

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

Senate Panel Advances Wildfire Bill Slammed as Timber Industry Giveaway - Its bipartisan congressional sponsors say the bill, the Fix Our Forests Act, is an important step toward reducing catastrophic fire risk.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Green Pages News

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

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

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
Campaign for America's Future

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

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

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

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

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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 ...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
WAWG Blog

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

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

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Progressive Army

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

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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