Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Fed-up GOP senator teaches Trump fans basic civics as rabid MAGA accuses him of ‘treason’ - A Republican senator was forced to defend himself Monday after MAGA supporters accused him of “treason” for carrying out a routine Senate duty. Sen. Ted ...
The Verge

Alienware’s budget-friendly QD-OLED is discounted for the first time - While memory and storage prices are still high, there are still good discounts on other gaming-related hardware. Take Alienware’s AW2726DM, for example. De...
San Antonio Current

Internet users roast Ken Paxton’s outfit choice for San Antonio block walk - Social media users are ripping Ken Paxton, Texas’ Republican attorney general, for rocking a $41,000 watch during a San Antonio campaign stop this Satur...
Mother Jones

What the Deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos Tells Us About the State of MAGA - Before last week, Milo Yiannopoulos was one of the most noxious, divisive, and broadly unpopular far-right figures in the country, having whittled down his...
Space City Weather

Tropical Depression forms in northern Gulf, with heavy rain and flood risks inbound for Houston - In brief: A tropical depression is heading toward the upper Texas coast, and will bring heavy rainfall into the region on Tuesday and potentially Tuesday n...
Al Jazeera English

Firecracker factory blast in India kills 8 children - Videos reveal demolished houses and desperate rescue efforts after third such blast at a firecracker factory in August.
Mediagazer

The FTC and 20+ state AGs plan to sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal) - Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: *The FTC and 20+ state AGs plan to sue Amazon for allegedly making tens of billions over seven years by manipulating...
Eschaton

You'll Be Long Dead, Elon - I suppose one day we might have wackiest of the futuristic scifi technologies. Our brains uploaded into the "cloud." Sentient nanobot clusters powered by,...
Futurism

Google Maps Rival Surges In Popularity After It Refuses to Rename Lake Ontario - "We are aware that Lake Ontario is being correctly labeled on our map." The post Google Maps Rival Surges In Popularity After It Refuses to Rename Lake O...
Techdirt.

Would The Next George Floyd Video Survive Meta’s New Teen Safety Rules? - Earlier this year, one of the smartest internet rights people around, Heather Burns, suggested the “Darnella Test” regarding any kind of “kid safety” rule ...
Consortium News

On The Road To International Anarchy - If the U.S. attack on the ICC succeeds, Lawrence Davidson says it will send the international community back to an era that brought on two world wars and k...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: A Trump Scampire Bank With No Capital and A Dem Party With No Values Beyond Crushing the Left - Trump has somehow managed to make his stablecoin scampire even worse by bringing in the UAE, the Dem zio-centrist establishment is going all-in on war with...
Slate

In the ’90s, This One Thing Made Nights In Feel More Special. We Can Get It Back. - This week’s challenge will help you get back in touch with your taste.
The Week

‘It’s rare to meet a moment when the risks of a scientific breakthrough are so clear’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
The Hill

Watch live: Trump makes announcement on drug pricing - President Trump will make an announcement Monday afternoon tied to his efforts to make healthcare more affordable — after insurance prices skyrocketed when...
Daily Cartoonist

Fred Fordham Wins Hugo Best Graphic Story - The 2026 Hugo Awards Ceremony was held this weekend at LAcon V with winners announced across 21 categories. The winner of this year’s Best Graphic Story or...
World Socialist Web Site

UK Prime Minister Burnham U-turns over Thames Water nationalisation - Burnham’s retreat confirms the real character of his government: a continuation of the profit‑driven order that has looted public infrastructure for decades.
The Daily Poster

614 Reasons To Tax The Rich - CEOs at the lowest-paying corporations made roughly 614 times more than their median worker in 2025.
IVN

Alaska Is Voting on More Than Ranked Choice Voting. It’s Voting on Who Gets to Vote - Alaska voters will decide whether to repeal their nonpartisan election system, which could allow political parties to shut out 60% of voters registered as ...
Undernews

Trump regime blocks some journalists from major meeting - *AP * - The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world's most powerful countries, the lates...
Vox

Welcome to the September issue of The Highlight - A fledgling “loneliness economy” is booming on the back of warnings about just how bad loneliness can be for us — “comparable to smoking up to 15 cigarette...
Salon.com

HBO’s “Lanterns” illuminates a familiar double standard - John Stewart's origin story mirrors every Black kid raised for greatness, then denied it
Election Law Blog

Michigan Ballot Measure Proponents Seek Supreme Court Emergency Review of State Decision to Keep Voting Measure Off the Michigan Ballot - Via Chris Geidner comes this petition filed with Justice Kavanaugh seeking an injunction pending appeal on an extremely tight turnaround: The Michigan Bo...
El Paso Matters

How Clint ISD holds strong reserves as other El Paso school districts struggle - Clint ISD adopted a balanced budget and the highest tax rate allowed without an election, while maintaining strong reserves and investing into facilitie...
Bonddad

The post-pandemic affordability crisis and the election of 2024 - * - by New Deal democrat* There are times when there is little new economic data of import, and not too much else to say. At other times, the import ...
Texas Standard

As Texans’ electricity costs soar and temperatures rise, a public health crisis brews - This is the first installment of “Powerless,” a series from Public Health Watch examining how rising temperatures and skyrocketing electricity costs are pl...
Independent Political Report

New Mexico Forward Party Makes Its Case for Ballot Access Before a Federal Judge - *This article was originally published by Source New Mexico on August 28, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed ...
memeorandum

Nepal floods death toll tops 900, as number of missing nearly doubles to more than 4,200 (Rudy Chinchilla/NBC News) - Rudy Chinchilla / NBC News: *Nepal floods death toll tops 900, as number of missing nearly doubles to more than 4,200* — Rescuers continue to struggle ...
Novara Media

Burnham Criticised for Promoting Sainsbury’s Unpaid Work Placements - Andy Burnham has drawn criticism for promoting an unpaid work experience scheme by Sainsbury’s. The prime minister last week announced the supermarket chai...
Daily Howler

RAGE AND WAR: Goldberg imagines a new civil war! - *MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 2026* *Rage of Laura Loomer:* Has the United States *(E pluribus unum*) somehow become two different nations, one Red and the other o...
Common Dreams

Trump Administration Sued for Approving ‘Forever Chemical’ Pesticide Trifludimoxazin - Center for Food Safety, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network North America have sued the Trump administration ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Honored to Join the AAUP Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom as a 2026–2028 Fellow - *Honored to Join the AAUP Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom as a 2026–2028 Fellow* *Friends:* *I am delighted to share that the American Associ...
Angry Bear

Is AI intelligent? - What happens when Claude talks to Claude? Peak AI. Click the link and find out! Two chat bots talk to each other The post Is AI intelligent? appeared fir...
Mondoweiss

Gaza’s archaeological heritage was destroyed in Israel’s genocide. These volunteers are trying to salvage it from the rubble. - As Israeli strikes leveled museums and 5,000-year-old sites across Gaza, volunteers dug through the rubble by hand to save what they could. Meanwhile, loot...
Scheerpost.com

Why Solidarity Is Vital To Freeing Imprisoned Human Rights Defenders - Mandeep Tiwana and Susan Marx Waging Nonviolence A global campaign proves that ordinary people can free political prisoners through the simple act of stand...
Rallblog

Hegseth Warned by US Experts to Stop Iran War | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
First Draft

The Gret Stet Of NDAs - The tech overlords cometh to Louisiana. The Nerd Reich is nigh.
The Conversation

Trust is a behavior, not a credential – and that explains the Rodgers-Fauci divide - Viewing trust as behaviors, not feelings, can help explain why some heed Aaron Rodgers’ advice over Dr. Fauci’s – and what experts can do about it.
Alternet

Living in a fantasy: Trump’s biggest liability isn't his lies - President Donald Trump’s greatest political liability is not simply his dishonesty or stubbornness, but his delusion, writes The New Republic's Michael T...
Axios

Why bonds are the most important market in the world - The bond market is growing more interesting lately — and that's concerning. *Why it matters: *The $160 trillion global bond market is like the plumbing i...
Dorf on Law

When Will Trump Try to Change "New Mexico" to "New America?" - Residents of Albuquerque, Sante Fe, and other parts of New Mexico should count themselves lucky that Donald Trump is so ignorant that he is probably unaw...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

House Democrat to launch challenge to Trump’s ‘Lake America’ order – US politics live - Debbie Dingell plans to introduce her ‘Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act’ today following president’s latest escalation in US-Canada trade war - C...
Two Party Opera

The Caroline Affair - Read More
The Smirking Chimp

Who’s Nuts? -
Off The Kuff

Grand jury coming soon for the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo case - Good. Harris County prosecutors plan to bring witnesses to the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo before a grand jury “very soon,” District Attorney ...
San Antonio Report

Texas says high school police certifications don’t show student ‘readiness’. San Antonio districts disagree. - Texas says high school police certifications don't demonstrate career "readiness" for life after graduation. San Antonio schools disagree. ----------------...
ProPublica

The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave. - The post The Trump Administration’s Plan for Protecting Consumers? Politely Ask Companies to Behave. appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

Why too many women are prescribed antibiotics for UTIs they don't have - A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammat...
Grist

When ocean temperatures increase, so does child malnutrition on land - Researchers are just discovering this troubling consequence of climate change, but they still don't know why it happens.
Crooked Media

Is SCOTUS Letting Trump Meddle in the Midterms? - The post Is SCOTUS Letting Trump Meddle in the Midterms? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 31 August 2026 - If an image is hard to see or read, right-click and open the link in a new tab for the full-size version. [For the link round-up, click here.] ...
ArcaMax

Clarence Page: Thank you, Dolly Parton, for your music, good humor and public service - Since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I am told, I was not surprised to hear Dolly Parton say in an interview that she once entered a “Dolly P...
jobsanger

Trump Is Engaged In A Conspiracy Against The Constitution -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3404: Correspondence Schools - Episode: 3404 The rise and fall of ICS, The International Correspondence School. Today, International Correspondence Schools.
Informed Comment

Highest Gasoline Prices ever in Aug., as US-Iran Tit for Tat Strikes Continue - In March-May 2026, Americans paid nearly $60 billion more to fill up their tanks than they did the previous year
Mediaite

Search Launched for 15 Missing People After ‘Significant’ Flash Floods at Grand Canyon - A massive search has been launched for 15 people believed to be missing after "significant" flash floods swept through Grand Canyon National Park in Ariz...
Popular Resistance

Hakeem Jeffries And Jared Kushner Meeting Reveals Ugly Truths About US Politics - According to the New York Times, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held an undisclosed, i.e. secret, meeting with Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-i...
Ballot Access News

Governor Kathy Hochul Will Be on Working Families Party Line, as well as the Democratic Line, for Governor of New York - You can at least read part of the story on politicopro.com. This is important, because if Hochul earns at least 2% of the total vote for Governor on the Wo...
Antiwar.com

Qusra Is Just a Warning: Israel’s Blueprint for the West Bank - If you want to understand the bleak future awaiting the occupied West Bank, do not look away. Just pay attention to the events unfolding in the small Pales...
Idavox

The Hate Wasn’t Great: Racist Bands Get Canceled All Summer Long - They always say that if you don’t like a band and what they say in... The post The Hate Wasn’t Great: Racist Bands Get Canceled All Summer Long appeared ...
Deadline Politics

Your Move, Mr. Governor: CA Post Production Tax Incentive Bill Passes State Senate; Moves To Newsom’s Desk - State support for the contracting L.A. film and TV industry is now in the hands of California Governor Gavin Newsom and some (hoperfully) very creative acc...
Portside

Sunday Science: NASA’s Roman Telescope Leaves Earth To Chart the Stars - Sunday Science: NASA’s Roman Telescope Leaves Earth To Chart the Stars Ira Sun, 08/30/2026 - 18:21
Claytoonz

Where’s The Beef…From? - Read the blog on my Substack. There are 65 days left until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donat...
Courthouse News

Roger Federer brought to tears during his induction into International Tennis Hall of Fame - Federer was inducted along with Mary Carillo, a broadcaster and former player, who was presented by Hall of Famer Billie Jean King.
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 30, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – August 30, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War on voting Judge Talwani’s Most Recent Order On Voting By Mail – It’s Long, It’s C...
The Root

Doug E. Fresh, Sway Calloway Want Black Americans to Take Control of Their Heart Health - A panel of hip-hop legends, a former sports star, and medical professionals spoke to raise awareness of a rare heart condition. Read more...
Campaign for America's Future

How Do We Stop a Coup? We Organize - Just like you, there are many people in this country who want to save our democracy. And if we organize, we can, Many of us in the United States are asking...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings - Here is your latest house Negro power rankings. 10. *Sage Steele: *Sage says basketball coach Doc Rivers sent her a direct message (DM) about her pol...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘Loony’ Toons - …IN MEMORIAM… …Coming This Christmas… * * * As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: “With editorial cartooning increasin...
The AltWorld

Iran Has DESTROYED U.S. Hegemony – Limits of American Power Exposed - Elijah J. Magnier is a political analyst and a veteran war-zone correspondent with over 35 years of […] The post Iran Has DESTROYED U.S. Hegemony – Limit...
Greg Palast

I’m ready to give up. How about you? - Since that moment when George W. Bush Jim-Crowed his way into the White House, I’ve been on the racist “vote suppression” beat. “Vote suppression” — a poli...
WhoWhatWhy

It Will Take Decades To Repair the Damage Donald Trump Is Doing Right Now - [image: Donald Trump, Mark Carney, G7 Summit, Alberta, Canada] While Donald Trump claims to put "America First," the damage he is doing to the internationa...
The Progressive Wing

8/30-31 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, tweets, etc. in the comments.
Political Wire

Inside Trump’s Plan to Take Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches - “President Trump spent months declaring his ouster of Venezuela’s leader had secured the country’s oil for America. When U.S. energy companies resisted inv...
The Greanville Post

Amb. Chas Freeman: Crumbling on All Sides: The Staggering Reality of Israel’s Multi-Front War - DW—In this video (0:05), Ambassador Chas Freeman and host Nima Alkhorshid discuss recent geopolitical developments and international tensions. The conversa...
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $797 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. 10-Year Treasury Yield Hits 4.73%, 30-Year Yield 5.22% - Warsh moved the needle on Friday, while Bessent’s Hocus-Pocus Shows 1-3 fizzled.
CultureMap Houston

2 Houston universities declared best for 2027 and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, including national accolades for two local universities and some exciting resta...
See You In 2020

Hasan’s condemnation of Hamas, the futility of “debating” Israelis, & Gen Z’s anti-colonial mission - This is part of the book I’m writing, which will be called “When Tears Can’t Save Them: Why the pro-Palestine movement failed to stop a holocaust, & how...
Bracing Views

Tony Greenstein on “The Most Important Half-Hour of My Life” - Anti-Zionism as “Terrorism” BILL ASTORE AUG 28, 2026 Until today I’d never heard of Tony Greenstein and his battle against being falsely accused by the Bri...
Progressive.org

Trump Administration’s War on DEI in Universities Closes Off Students’ Learning Opportunities - Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink.
Avedon's Sideshow

And a heart all plated with chrome - This picture of Craggy Gardens in the Blue Ridge Mountains was posted by M Meerkat (@kackbro.bsky.social) here. "NYT's Embarrassing Anti-DSA Meltdown: D...
Seeing the Forest

Warning To Politicians – People WILL Wake Up About Climate Crisis - As heat waves and storms and drought get worse and worse it is inevitable that the public WILL wake up to what is happening with the climate. And when they...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter–August 2026 - Censored Press News Allison Butler, author of The Judgment of Gender, spoke to AP’s Deepti Hajela about the absence of nuance in the body and beauty stan...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to consider ban on transgender persons in the military - The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on whether a ban on transgender service members in the military violates the Const...
MintPress News

“Beyond Critical” US-Israeli Munitions Depletion Revealed As Iran’s Response To D-Day Begins - The United States is confronting a severe strategic crisis characterized by critically depleted air defense munitions and newly confirmed, extensive dama...
Church and State

How close are we to successfully editing genes in human embryos? - We can now create human “primordial germ cells”, the precursors to eggs and sperm, from embryonic stem cells.
Glasstire

Remembering Houston Photography Dealer John Cleary - Although John Cleary, the founder of John Cleary Gallery, passed away less than 20 years ago, many people to whom I mention his name have no idea who he ...
Counterpunch

People Power w/ Norma Hashim & Dr. Nazari Ismail of BDS Malaysia - Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Norma Hashim and Dr. Nazari Ismail from the Hashim Sani Center for Palestine Studies at Universiti Malaya in Kuala ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Another Problem With AI-Assisted Police Reports: Companies Can Have Incentives to Distort Their Content - Police Companies Could Train Their AI to Hide Use of Their Products or Make Them Look Good
OpEd News

TrumpRepubloFascism: Review and Update, Continued - This column continues my discussion/review of what I entitle "TrumpRepubloFascism." In my column for next week I will discuss in some detail my proposal fo...
Liberation News

Workers in Joslin, IL are fighting back against Tyson’s mass layoffs - On August 13, Tyson announced the mass layoff of over 2,500 workers in a plant located in Joslin, IL. This announcement to the workers came without notice,...
NORML

What I Learned From My Summer With NORML - [image: interns][image: interns]NORML Summer ‘26 Intern Ben Bailey shares his takeaways on his semester at NORML. The post What I Learned From My Summer ...
Workers World

From Palestine to the U.S.: Solidarity vs racist oppression and occupation - [image: From Palestine to the U.S.: Solidarity vs racist oppression and occupation ] The State of Israel admitted Aug. 19 that the Israeli military was inv...
Texas Observer

Corpus Christi Withholds Water to Wetlands While Lifting Restrictions on Lawns - Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the ...
Debunking Christianity

The Gospel Authors Tried So Hard to Prove Resurrection - *But they took a totally wrong approach—and failed totally* Whenever an event or episode is reported in *only one gospel*, we have every right to be sus...
Democracy Now!

"The Lion King" in Quechua?: New Film "Runa Simi" Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive - Experts estimate that a language is lost every two weeks — and that half of the world’s 7,000 spoken languages could be lost by the end of the century. Que...
slacktivist

LBCF: Is the pope Catholic? - Wherein we learn that Tim LaHaye begrudgingly allows that Pope John Paul II, unlike most Catholics, may have been a Christian.
Rewire

Our Top Feminist Films, Podcasts, Concerts, Books, and Articles of 2026 - If you’re looking to learn a thing or two about abortion law, Rewire News Group’s legal correspondents have some ideas. To document the rollback of reprodu...
High Country News

What the new rules for a shrinking Colorado River mean for tribal nations - ‘None of us is in the exact same situation.’ The post What the new rules for a shrinking Colorado River mean for tribal nations appeared first on High C...
Crooked Timber

Gold and Myth in the Australian Blue Mountains - At the end of a glorious day hanging out at galleries, antique shops and the pub with friend and historian Matt Allen we walked to the station at Blackheat...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 28, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio August 28, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/28/2026 - 06:48 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Capital & Main

Starbucks Removes Drink Powder that Baristas Say Was Making Them Sick - Workers have reported headaches, coughing, sneezing, sore throats and hives after using the powder. Their union says the company has not addressed the he...
The NM Political Report

Torrez sues feds to obtain records of DEA operation allowing fentanyl to be distributed across New Mexico - [image: Raúl Torrez] New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico against the U...
Environment Texas

Wind and solar produce 22% of nation’s electricity in first half of 2026 - Clean renewable energy sources like wind and solar continue to grow across America The post Wind and solar produce 22% of nation’s electricity in first h...
Dissent Magazine

What’s Left of The New School? - Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But wha...
Trivial Knot

The aspiration of homeownership - In my last post, I was talking about our search for a new apartment. For the record, my motivation was that I hadn’t written much lately, so why not write ...
Sludge

Private Equity Execs Bankroll Super PAC Backing Moulton vs. Markey - Partners at major private equity and venture capital firms wrote the largest checks to Advance Progress, which is working to unseat Sen. Ed Markey in the S...
The Texas Signal

Law Banning Certain Drag Shows Unconstitutional - This is the second time that Judge David Hittner ruled Senate Bill 12, which passed in 2023 in the Texas legislature, was too broad for enforcement
Krebs on Security

Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia - Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating th...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Keeping It Classy: A Revised Model for Forecasting Seat Swing in Midterm Senate Elections - The growing connection between presidential and Senate results has given Republicans a structural advantage in Senate elections, but the Senate is still ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

BOOM! Federal judge strikes down 2023 Texas anti-drag show law as unconstitutional - Fantastic news out of Texas! From *NBC News:* A federal judge in Texas struck down a 2023 state law Tuesday that sought to restrict drag shows, ruling ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The American Illusion is Over: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Texas Freedom Network

What is Christian Nationalism? - While first coined in the 1940s, over the past decade, Christian Nationalism has become increasingly more common in American discourse. You might have re...
Ecosophia

August 2026 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...
LareDOS

Laredo-born Josephine Sacabo showcases her internationally recognized body of work with THE RIGHT TO DREAM – regreso a mi pueblo - Homecoming retrospective opens August 28, 6 p.m., at TAMIU FPA Gallery
Edinburg Politics

Terrence Howard, an Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur, honored with city proclamation for his surprise visit to Edinburg, reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED FROM LEFT: Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa, Academy Award-nominated actor, recording artist, and entrepreneur Terrence Howard, and Edinburg First Lady L...
Media Lens

4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’ - If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting fro...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Look Cool; Vote DSA - 12 x 18 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.8mb It’s all in the name – Democrats first, Socialists second (if at all). If you want to see what the DSA is rea...
Socialist Alternative

Nolan Wells Should Have Turned 19: We Demand Answers - On July 6 on the coast of Horn Island, Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black student in Mississippi, was found dead facedown on a beach. After his body was fou...
The Militant

Organize, build protests to demand US hands off Cuba - 1,000s attend events in Cuba to back its nat’l sovereignty HAVANA — Thousands of people across Cuba paid tribute to the revolution’s central leader, Fidel ...
Discourse

What If We Kissed at Karen Bass’ ‘Do Not Park Here’ Sign? (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Thanksgiving wins, that Jon Ossoff video, that Oliver Larkin video, and boy oh boy, that miserable Karen Bass video
Lowering the Bar

Parking Company Apologizes to Formerly Dead Woman for $80 Ticket - It also agreed to waive part—but not all—of the fee.
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / LABOR / Time to Consider a Four-Day Workweek - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / August 20, 2026 Mike Meeropol, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Western New England University, comments on Juliet B...
The Grayzone

ADC files federal lawsuit against DHS and CBP over unconstitutional targeting of Max Blumenthal - The ADC is suing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin over the government’s seizure and attempted forensic search of Max Blumenthal’s phones after returned fro...
Unlimited Hangout

How “Argentina’s Elon Musk” Is Bringing Technocracy To Patagonia - Javier Milei’s administration has been showcasing Patagonia to Silicon Valley executives, culminating in OpenAI’s ‘Stargate Argentina’ announcement. The ...
Duck of Minerva

The Pedagogical Legacies of the Pandemic - Did the pandemic durably change our pedagogy in International Relations (IR), or were pandemic-induced changes only temporary measures with which we have s...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialist Caucus of the GPUS Hosts August 2026 Steering Committee Election - The Young Ecosocialist Caucus Steering Committee is holding an election for five positions: Caucus Co-chair Green Party US National Committee Delegate Gree...
Earthworks

Golden Gifts, Sweetheart Deals, and Demands for Investigations - The Trump Administration’s corruption and self-dealing went on full display during the August 7 Critical Minerals Roundtable at the State Department. Th...
Texas Environmental News

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Progressives Chat

Fifty Five - Sunday, August 16, 2026 marks my 55th birthday. I now am able to get a Senior Discount at what few establishments offer a Senior Discount to customers w...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: UP SHIT GULF WITHOUT A PADDLE EDITION - *It's good.* Does this seem a bit weird to anyone: Tubby fucks up the Reflecting Pool and demands innocent people be arrested and charged for the damage,...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s Strictest Plastic Packaging Rules Change Shopper Expectations - In 2028, you might notice subtle changes in your grocery runs. Fruits are in cardboard... The post Guest Idea: California Recently Finalized the Nation’s...
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - I'm taking a longer break from daily blogging than I anticipated. Until I return, here's a new open thread.
Democracy Chronicles

Whether or Not They Get the Picture - I reflect on the Trump administration, democracy, public institutions, inequality and the growing determination of ordinary Americans to reclaim their coun...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2026 - Walmart had at least eight more shootings in July 2026 with one of them fatal where a suspect who had allegedly fired one or more shots and the officer ...
Texas Monthly

The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Memory Hole - I’m beginning to think something is wrong with my memory. It’s strange, the feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s not like I have amnesia or anyth...
Alas, a Blog

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Land Destroyer

China’ Long March 10B Rocket Closes Gap on Space Launch Capabilities - *July 21, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - On July 10, 2026 China successfully launched a payload to orbit and recovered the first stage booster of its Long ...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

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

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

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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....
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

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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...
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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Sunday, February 21, 2010

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