Brains and Eggs: Super 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

memeorandum

America, the Inessential Nation (Paul Krugman) - Paul Krugman: *America, the Inessential Nation* — On Feb. 28, 2025 Donald Trump berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, for what he claimed ...
WhoWhatWhy

Russia’s Descent Into Madness: Slowly, Then All at Once - [image: Vladimir Putin, 80th anniversary of Victory, Great Patriotic War] Putin didn’t seize a democracy — he hollowed one out. Twenty-five years inside Ru...
Political Wire

Trump’s Battle for Celebrity Validation - New York Times: “Seventeen months after he made that observation, Mr. Trump’s pop culture capital appears to be on the wane. And while many athletes and so...
Al Jazeera English

How the world failed a mother’s children, killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza -
The Smirking Chimp

Republicans Hemorrhaging Support in Key Red State As Trump Anchor Sinks Them -
Novara Media

Who Does Wes Streeting Think He’s Fooling on Gaza? - “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will hav...
ArcaMax

The Right Thing Costs You - "If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices, do the thing that's hardest," my pop used to tell me. "The right thing is always the...
Counterpunch

Walking the Migrant Trail - There is nothing like walking quietly with a group of committed people through the hot Arizona desert to bring home the deadly reality faced by migrants ...
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1583: Glide Bombs - Episode: 1583 Glide Bombs and the unrevealed Rohna disaster. Today, the weapon we didn’t know about.
World Socialist Web Site

Southern California chemical crisis was one warning too many: Millions are living inside a ticking bomb - The Garden Grove near-disaster exposes a bipartisan political consensus that consistently places corporate profit above the lives of working-class communit...
Mediaite

Motorist Captures Insanely Creepy Nighttime Video of Person in Halloween Mask Jumping in Front of His Car on Remote Road - A motorist in Massachusetts captured a wildly unsettling video of a person in a mask emerging from the woods and walking onto the road shortly before mid...
The Hill

Zelensky asks Putin to meet face-to-face, with US 'fully focused' on Iran - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday shared a letter asking Russian President Vladimir Putin for a face-to-face meeting while the U.S. remain...
Mediagazer

Thomas Pauken II, a US journalist who worked for Chinese state-run media, has pleaded guilty to working as an unregistered agent for China in the US (Josh Gerstein/Politico) - Josh Gerstein / Politico: *Thomas Pauken II, a US journalist who worked for Chinese state-run media, has pleaded guilty to working as an unregistered age...
Alternet

Ex-right wing influencer warns MAGA still a dangerous cult - A former top MAGA influencer still blasts the MAGA cult and the operators that drive the movement from the top. “The structure and the architecture of MA...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report June 5, 2026 - Black Agenda Report June 5, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/05/2026 - 07:46 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Courthouse News

Colorado River users continue to discuss conservation in drought-stricken year - Amid drought, climate change, and overuse, the amount of water flowing in the Colorado River has decreased while the number of people depending on it has n...
Portside

Wemby Is Going Down! - Wemby Is Going Down! jay Thu, 06/04/2026 - 21:14
Popular Resistance

Europe And The US At The Crossroads, Then And Now - By the end of World War 2 in Europe, that continent’s extremely violent self-destruction had killed tens of millions and wrecked many economies. Its poli...
Deadline Politics

Olivia Rodrigo Was “Enraged” By ICE Video Using Her Song: “So Deeply Disturbing” - After calling out the DHS last year for using her song, Olivia Rodrigo recently reflected on the experience. The 3x Grammy winner recalled feeling “enraged...
The Root

Angel Reese Is Living Her Best Life—and Dominating—in Atlanta - The two-time All-Star has found her perfect match in the ATL, anchoring the Dream’s frontcourt while embracing the city's vibrant energy. Read more...
Antiwar.com

War, Arrogance, and the Unraveling of US Power - The United States is not approaching collapse because it lacks power. It is approaching collapse because it has too often mistaken power for wisdom. Its ar...
Claytoonz

J6 Creepers - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Debunking Christianity

On Assessing McIntosh's Sophisticated Defense of Miracles - Do you want to read a sophisticated defense of miracles and an equally sophisticated rebuttal? The defense of miracles was written by Don McIntosh: LINK ...
The Verge

Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer - Valve now says that the delayed Steam Machine PC and Steam Frame VR headset are set to launch sometime this summer. In a Thursday blog post detailing its V...
Ballot Access News

Rhode Island Bill to Move Presidential Primary from April to March Moves Ahead - On June 2, the Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 2491. It moves the presidential primary from late April to early March. An identical bill ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT should restore Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Opinion-Editorial, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. & Emilio Zamora, Ph.D. - *Friends,* *I welcome you to read the op-ed that Emilio Zamora and I co-authored, published today in the Austin American-Statesman. We are grateful to th...
San Antonio Current

Wemby signals his politics as he’s spotted with dystopian novel 1984 at Finals - San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has sent recent signals about his progressive political views, even if he’s shared some of them in a subtle way...
El Paso Matters

Minnesota woman with large ovarian cyst released from ICE detention in El Paso - “Now that I know I'm going home, I think first of my family, of seeing my family again,” Andrea Pedro Francisco, who spent nearly four months in ICE det...
Daily Cartoonist

Marjane Satrapi – RIP - French-Iranian artist, author, and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi has passed away at the age of 56. Marjane is perhaps best known for her autobiographical graph...
MintPress News

Iran Inflicts U.S. Casualties, Halts Talks and Challenges Trump’s Authority in the Gulf - Following retaliatory strikes on U.S. bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, Iran has frozen contacts with American negotiators and expanded threats against both W...
Texas Standard

Here’s what officials are doing to stop the spread of New World screwworm in Texas - Officials are increasing trapping efforts, establishing quarantine zones and releasing millions of sterile flies after New World screwworm was confirmed in...
slacktivist

‘Where, exactly, this is all heading’ - Wherein we are told about the latest hot new trend among Gen-Z Christians: interviewing Tucker Carlson.
Consortium News

A Lawless System of Brutality - Andrew P. Napolitano on the torture-linked confession of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a lawless system of brutality that profoundly violates natural rights, t...
CultureMap Houston

Intimate Houston cocktail den stirs up a new omakase-style tasting - One of Houston’s most intimate cocktail bars is adding an even more premium experience to its offerings. *The Arc Room at Clarkwood* is a *reservation-only...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Slate

Is Graham Platner Too Messy to Flip Maine’s Senate Seat? - Some thought Graham Platner could be the future of the Democratic party. Now he's trying to get his campaign past another dumpster fire of his own making.
Futurism

Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds - The public's opinion on data centers has swung hard. The post Data Centers Have Become Shockingly Unpopular, Poll Finds appeared first on Futurism.
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy announces interim CEO Frank Almaraz after Rudy Garza’s exit - Frank Almaraz has served as chief operating officer for five months. It's his second time working with CPS Energy. ------------------------------ CPS Energy...
Wolf Street

Who Needs Bitcoin & Cryptos (-50%) amid the Semiconductor & Miracle IPO Mania? - Rotating from mania to mania?
The NM Political Report

New Mexico A.G. sues Kalshi, says popular prediction market app is illegal sportsbook - [image: Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed suit Thursday in Santa Fe against Kalshi, Inc. and KalshiEX LLC, alleging the New York-based prediction market p...
Salon.com

Noem faces new legal trouble over jet use - Noem’s use of government jets and use of a government Flickr account are facing new scrutiny
Environment Texas

Meet the educator helping fishermen use new, whale-safe fishing gear - Intractable problems can’t be solved until someone does. This World Ocean Month, we’re celebrating progress: getting ropeless, whale-safe gear into the w...
NORML

Alabama: Following Years of Delays, Patients Can Finally Access Authorized Medical Cannabis Products - [image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary][image: Medical Marijuana Dispensary]"Starting today, lawmakers, regulators, and licensed providers must begin puttin...
naked capitalism

Is Artificial Intelligence Social Evolution and Progress? - AI benefits are predicated on social progress. However, while societies constantly change, it is not always for the better
SCOTUSblog

Court rules against cell service providers over right to jury trial in FCC proceedings - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge by AT&T and Verizon to the constitutionality of the process that the Federal Communications Commission...
Axios

Federal inspector reports chokehold, pen stabbing at ICE facility - A surprise federal inspection found a prohibited chokehold, an officer who stabbed a detainee with a pen, and other issues that threatened health and saf...
First Draft

Don’t Cry For Me Argentina - Peter Thiel lights out for the territories.
Brad Blog

‘Green News Report’ – June 4, 2026 - Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!…(Or use “Click here to listen…” link below.) IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Trump Administration moves to dismantle crucial o...
Texas Observer

Can James Talarico Do Better than Beto? - Rock band logos stickered the walls and railings in the dim light of the Paper Tiger, the grungy San Antonio venue with a 1,000-person capacity that was ...
Common Dreams

Warner’s Continued Collaboration with Trump Threatens Democracy - After Bill Pulte’s appointment, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) has conspicuously failed to join the chorus of Democrats and Republicans calling for reforms to F...
The Daily Poster

Midterm Madness: Progressives Push Back Against Party-Approved Dems - The DCCC is picking favorites before voters have a chance to weigh in.
Election Law Blog

“Report: “Understanding How Proportional Representation Might Work in New York City”” - John Santucci: John Ketcham and I have a new report out today with the Manhattan Institute. In it, we show that the effective number of electoral parties...
Undernews

Hmm ... - *Republicans Against Trump - *Trump compared the UFC cage on the White House South Lawn to the Eiffel Tower and said he might keep it there permanently: ...
Vox

Trump’s attorney general pick has exactly one qualification - In May 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat, arrived at an ICE detention facility in his New Jersey city and asked for a tour. Though he was initially...
Raw Story

MAGA senator who championed voter fraud legislation busted for possibly illegal voting - One of President Donald Trump's top allies in the U.S. Senate has been busted for voting in a different state. AL.com's Kyle Whitmire has been doggedly p...
Dorf on Law

How Naive Are Oil Traders? - I do not pay much attention to day-to-day fluctuations in market prices for stocks, bonds, or commodities. Nonetheless, just by reading the regular news ...
The Progressive Wing

6/4 News Roundup and Open Thread - Heading back from a short trip to the Great Smokies.
Media Lens

Invitation To A Turkey Shoot – How To Debunk Climate Denial - We, of course, post on all kinds of emotive and controversial issues on social media: genocide in Gaza, the war of aggression on Iran, the weaponisation of...
Bonddad

Jobless claims virtually screaming for lower unemployment rate; is post-pandemic seasonality making a return? - - *by New Deal democrat* We are - maybe! - finally seeing some of the unresolved post-pandemic seasonality reasserting itself as to initial jobless ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Alarm as once-eradicated flesh-eating parasite found in calf in Texas - USDA confirms first case of New World screwworm in cattle in six decades, posing threat to livestock industry A flesh-eating parasite rarely seen in the ...
Democracy Now!

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Ada Ferrer on Cuba's Crisis, U.S. Sanctions and Family Separation - The Trump administration five months ago launched an energy blockade against Cuba, coming on top of the over six-decade-long embargo, the longest in U.S. h...
The Conversation

James Comey’s Instagram seashell post sits in a murky legal zone between protected political speech and criminal threat - What’s a true threat and what’s political hyperbole? A scholar of constitutional and criminal law looks at the charges against James Comey for an Instagram...
Ian Welsh

Character and Destiny - From 2012 to 2014 this blog’s project was a large number of pieces on ideology, and quite a few have been about character: how it is created by experience,...
Space City Weather

Houston’s stormy pattern continues for a few more days, but hotter weather is on the horizon - In brief: We discuss the high levels of atmospheric moisture in today’s post, and explain how widespread showers and thunderstorms are likely through Frida...
Mother Jones

Dismay as Trump Officials Move to Dismantle a Key Ocean Monitoring System - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration plans to dis...
Rallblog

Congress to Trump: Stop the War! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every weekday at 9 AM EST. Today we ...
Texas Monthly

I Had Spoiled Meat at a BBQ Joint. Here’s What Happened Next. - And more on the responsibility of the restaurant owner and the obligation of the customer if such a situation happens to you.
Mondoweiss

Here is why we sanctioned Hillel at the New School and why students everywhere should follow our lead - [image: Students participating in the "Hillel on Base" program. (Photo: Instagram/hillelatbaruch)]In May, the New School's Student Senate sanctioned its Hi...
Scheerpost.com

The Future Zionism Buried: How Anti-Zionist Jews Once Fought Oppression Without Colonizing Another People - Joshua Scheer This conversation strikes close to home. My grandmother was part of the Bundist tradition discussed here, a movement that offered a radically...
Off The Kuff

Checking in on HISD’s status - What have we gained and lost after three school years of the TEA takeover of HISD? The Chron did a deep dive. Houston ISD’s state takeover began three year...
ProPublica

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations - The post In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

No, rolling back these environmental rules won’t lower your grocery bill - The Trump administration is dismantling two EPA rules, promising cheaper groceries for struggling families. Economists and former officials say it'll only ...
Infidel753

The forgotten man - It's difficult to keep perspective on historical events while one is living through them. The events of the present moment always seem to be of epic sign...
See You In 2020

Liberal fascism, its effort to co-opt Marxism, and the next conflict inside the communist movement - At this stage, revolutionaries and reformists are fighting over who gets to define what working-class populist patriotism means. Until the recent past, ...
jobsanger

Broken Eggs Can't Be Mended - Democrats Must Develop A Plan For A Better Economy -
Informed Comment

Could Israel’s Wars Throw the Whole World into Chaos? - What began as Israel’s obliteration in Gaza now extends to Lebanon, Iran and the Gulf, thanks to US arms
The Rag Blog

AUSPOP / CULTURE / Retrospective of Underground Comix Pioneer Gilbert Shelton - By Austin Museum of Popular Culture /The Rag Blog / June 5, 2026 The Austin Museum of Popular Culture will launch its Retrospective of Underground Comix Pi...
LareDOS

Preview reception for YONKE EncontraDOS: June 4, Laredo Center for the Arts, 6 p.m. - On exhibit: creative ingenuity, humor, and resourcefulness of Gil Rocha and Ruben Luna
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Democratic senators strongly defend trans Americans and gender-affirming care during hearing - Democratic senators, such as Tim Kaine of Virginia, strongly defended trans Americans and gender-affirming care during a hearing on Wednesday On Wednesda...
Progressive.org

A Living Archive Of Lebanon - As Israel continues to bomb and occupy southern Lebanon, researchers and archivists are documenting the country’s history—and paving the way for reconstruc...
Church and State

Strong list of Trump crimes against democracy - The justices of the Supreme Court that he put in office are choosing bad solutions to favor him while better solutions are clearly available.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Olsen is seeking a system that's fair! - *WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2026* *We Americans aren't built for such work: *Yesterday, we discussed a perfectly sensible notion advanced by Henry Olsen. Writing...
Angry Bear

Minimum Wages and Unemployment - Does raising the minimum wage increase unemployment? An increase in the minimum wage can motivate more people to enter the labor market because they will...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Enough Fascist Enabling: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Speak Freely (ACLU)

‘Voting By Mail is My Lifeline’: Voter With Disability Shares Importance of Mail-In Voting - One voter with cerebral palsy shares how Trump’s executive order against mail-in ballots limits voting accessibility and keeps voters with disabilities out...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Judicial Committee Fills Remaining Vacancies - The Libertarian Party’s newly elected Judicial Committee members have filled the remaining five seats on the body, selecting a group of longtime party fi...
Glasstire

New Art Venues Open in San Antonio, Dallas & Richardson - New art venues have recently opened in central and north Texas, including The Junction Creative Collective in San Antonio, 7 Moons Media Studios in Richa...
Capital & Main

California’s Lithium Valley Dreams Meet Reality at the Only Restaurant in Town - How Vicky Hernandez and her customers at the Buckshot Deli & Diner in Niland view plans to turn Imperial Valley into a green energy hub. The post Califor...
Ecosophia

Sex, Politics, and Operation Dildo Blitz - I planned on posting an essay on a different subject today. In fact, I had another essay all written and revised, waiting for whatever fame and fortune a w...
Discourse

Scott Pelley...Welcome to the Resistance? (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Lessons in wearing sunscreen, Nick Bilton is now running 60 Minutes, Trump's 'Freedom 250' fest, and a CA gubernatorial primary preview
Bracing Views

Freedom of Speech But Without Any Say - BILL ASTORE JUN 01, 2026 I woke up this morning with a depressing reality in my head: Americans may have freedom of speech (be careful criticizing Zionist ...
Socialist Alternative

Netanyahu Escalates War On Lebanon, Gaza & West Bank - Netanyahu’s extreme-right government is escalating its war on Lebanon and Gaza. “Ceasefires” on April 17 and October 10 respectively have not stopped mass ...
Rewire

Days 366-500: Trump’s Complete Track Record on LGBTQ+ Issues - In the last 134 days, the U.S. president has continued his assault on the trans and nonbinary community. The post Days 366-500: Trump’s Complete Track Re...
The AltWorld

Podcast: Talkin’ About Dystopia, Paintin’ Medea Benjamin - Caitlin and Tim discuss this strange dark future we’ve all tumbled into and the things that make life worth […] The post Podcast: Talkin’ About Dystopia,...
The Week

Kirpans, sgian dubh and re-enactments: the exemptions to UK knife laws - It is illegal to carry most blades in public without a ‘good reason’ – although this can be open to interpretation
Earth 911

Guest Idea: How to Choose a Laundry Detergent That’s Better for the Planet - A single load of synthetic laundry can shed hundreds of thousands of plastic microfibers into... The post Guest Idea: How to Choose a Laundry Detergent T...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Top Spy Has One Job: Revenge - The post Trump’s Top Spy Has One Job: Revenge appeared first on Crooked Media.
IVN

In LA, Spencer Pratt Proves Anger with Democratic Party Leadership is Real - Spencer Pratt's campaign took off in LA, not because of his political leanings. It took off because he channeled voters' broad frustrations with City Hall ...
Techdirt.

Steam Sends Boilerplate Message To Gamemaker For Angering Russian Anti-LGBTQ+ Bigots - When Russia kicked off its war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine for completely made up reasons, there were global efforts to isolate Russia as a r...
The Greanville Post

The US A.I. Bubble Rendezvous With Reality - RB—The need for such colossal amounts of capital investment has also led to increasing levels of financial “innovation”, such as with Coreweave which buys ...
Sludge

Wes Moore Won't Say If He Took a Citigroup Bonus After the Bailout - The Maryland governor has now dodged the question twice.
Liberation News

Tennessee at the center of far-right assault on Black voting rights - The state GOP’s latest aggression against Black lawmakers and Black Tennesseans is a bold escalation — but this didn’t come out of nowhere. In fact, attack...
NPR's Health Shots

Why is Michigan loosening its rules for parents wanting to exempt kids from vaccines? - A decade ago, Michigan had high rates of parents not vaccinating their children, so it required them to attend an in-person education class to get an exemp...
Seeing the Forest

Two Short Videos For Today - 1964: Mario Savio’s “Bodies Upon The Gears” speech at a UC Berkeley student protest Warzone – The Sound of Revolution
High Country News

Elk herd habitat near Dinosaur National Monument to open for drilling - On June 16, the feds will open Colorado’s biggest public land sale in modern history, threatening wildlife and recreation. The post Elk herd habitat nea...
Workers World

Shut down Delaney Hall and all ICE detention centers! - [image: Shut down Delaney Hall and all ICE detention centers!] June 1. A workers’ hunger strike by 300 to 400 immigrant detainees at Delaney Hall Immigrati...
Web of Debt

The AI Revolution: Where Capitalism Meets Socialism: The Abundance Paradigm, Part 2 - Part 1 of this “Abundance Paradigm” series discussed predictions that artificial intelligence and robotics will in the relatively near future produce an ec...
Duck of Minerva

Dugin, the Ultimate Tradwife - Alexander Dugin is one of those figures who hover permanently in the discussions about Russian ideology, Eurasianism, empire, conservatism, and whatever el...
Dissent Magazine

[EVENT | June 29] America at 250: A Conversation with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, and David Waldstreicher - An online event in partnership with *Boston Review*.
Krebs on Security

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts - The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and mes...
The Texas Signal

A Brief History Of Pride In Texas - The June Pride month commemorates what is now known as the Stonewall uprising, an important moment in the history for LGBTQ liberation
Project Censored

History is Not Past: 250 Years of the US Project and Examining HondurasGate - First up, Dr. Gerald Horne joins the show to ring in 250 years of the US project - how is that going? Dr. Horne sets the record straight not only about w...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Sferica - I’m out travelling, but I brought some origami paper to fold. I got this model from the 5th Geometric Origami Convention, and folded it on the train. It’...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Martha Mitchell Dies - *Martha Mitchell* died at age 57 on [Monday,] May 31, 1976. The 50th anniversary of her death has just passed. Martha was a socialite who was also, when...
Crooked Timber

That time global capitalism converged on a town that now has pop.111 - Google maps said it would take 2.5 hours to drive from our place in the Blue Mountains to Hill End. Maybe we’re slow. And sure, we stopped to check out nea...
The Grayzone

Israeli authorities refuse to return massive trove of Oct 7 video. What are they hiding? - Israeli citizens wonder why the state won’t return October 7 footage it confiscated from them. The mother of an Israeli victim says authorities deleted v...
Campaign for America's Future

Es nuestra hora de defender la democracia - Nos están arrebatando el derecho a votar. Es nuestro deber restaurar la salud de nuestra democracia, mientras aún podemos. En una democracia sana, tenemos ...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: BEEN AWAY, WHAT'D I MISS? EDITION. - *You should be satisfied, but it ain't quite right .* A month between alicubi editions? So sorry! Been a busy, busy time, with surgery etc. Since I know...
Earthworks

Who Makes Hurricane Damage Worse? Insurers, Banks and Investors - The climate crisis is raising global temperatures, making hurricanes more likely to bring stronger winds, heavier rain, and more damage. But the fossil f...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Is George Jonas's Book "Vengeance" Mossad Propaganda? - Apparently even Google AI agrees that this book was propaganda to glorify the assassinations of terror suspects, although they don't attribute it to the...
The Militant

Build protests now to defend Cuba’s sovereignty! US hands off Cuba! - The following statement was released May 26 by Jack Barnes, national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party, on behalf of the party’s National Committee....
Edinburg Politics

Robert Peña, Jr., 58, former state legislative candidate, longtime Edinburg school board trustee, economic development leader, and veteran of Operation Desert Storm, passes away - Robert Peña, Jr., 58, a former Edinburg Democratic state legislative candidate, longtime school board trustee, economic development leader, and veteran of ...
Lowering the Bar

Good Reason to Kill #79: Disputed Seating at Kindergarten Graduation - "A kindergarten graduation turned violent today," but only for the parents.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Fun with Media Markets: A Cheapskate’s Guide to Investing in Competitive Races - Where can campaign dollars go the furthest? We look at 5 competitive Senate races and 10 competitive House races occurring in relatively small media mark...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
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...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Tap The Brakes - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb Trump taps the brakes…? “Taps the brakes”? JEEzus, they’re really breaking the Goofy Meter over at the Washin...
Idavox

Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-Wing’ as Terrorists, Akin to ISIL and Al Qaeda - Trump’s real enemy is not foreign. It’s you. Phil Mandelbaum, Unicorn Riot Contributor The White... The post Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-W...
TalkLeft

Memorial Day Open Thread - With gratitude to those who served and died, to our veterans still with us, and to those currently enlisted who are protecting our nation and allies and ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
Field Negro

The Field Negro news watch. - Here are some of my takes on a few of the most relevant news stories right now. I will start with the war in Iran. Mr. Trump announced last night th...
Land Destroyer

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - *May 7, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosper...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Texas Freedom Network

The Legal Chat: Constitutional Law Professor Breaks Down Texas’ Ten Commandments in Schools - It’s happening in real time. The Ten Commandments in schools is one of several legal challenges over religion that’s reshaping the national conversation ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Beast - So I tried to write a column about dog rape. I couldn’t do it. Despite my fear of losing the last of my Substack subscribers, going broke, getting evicted ...
Alas, a Blog

The Search - This strip is drawn by the awesome Mike Lawrence, who really went wild with the chicken fat! I wrote this strip two months ago, after coming across this st...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
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

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The Socialist

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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...
Texas Environmental News

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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

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Two Party Opera

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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...
Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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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 07, 2010

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