Brains and Eggs: The freedom to be screwed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

If You Think MAGA Journalism Is Bad Now, Just Wait (Andrew Egger/The Bulwark) - Andrew Egger / The Bulwark: *If You Think MAGA Journalism Is Bad Now, Just Wait* — Things are going great in the ICE standards department. In a wild a...
The Verge

The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations - Lawsuits seeking damages from Google's illegal ad tech monopoly are piling up following the Justice Department's successful antitrust case. Vox Media, The ...
Grist

These Finnish homes are being heated by a surprising source: bitcoin - Can the reuse of crypto mining’s waste heat redeem its carbon footprint?
Slate

My Wife Asked My Permission to Sleep With Her Best Friend. I Thought My Saying No Would Be the End of It. Oh Boy. - This has all gone on for far too long.
Techdirt.

Prosecutors Flee DOJ After Being Told To Investigate The Murdered Woman, Not The Murderer - Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad daylight....
Courthouse News

Justices nix double conviction in fatal shooting case - The high court’s ruling settles a dispute between the appellate circuits over whether Congress intended to authorize cumulative punishments for the same co...
Mediaite

ICE Agent Who Fatally Shot Renee Good Suffered Internal Bleeding After Encounter, Officials Claim - Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding as a result of the encounter, officials ...
Scheerpost.com

President Trump Urges Iran Protests To Continue, Says ‘Help Is on Its Way’ - The president also said he cut off contact with Iranian officials.
The Hill

Hochul backing legislation allowing NY residents to sue ICE officers - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) backed legislation to allow individuals to sue Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers during her State of the St...
Raw Story

We're missing this key detail about the killing of Renee Nicole Good - A small detail has stayed with me from the video of Renee Nicole Good being shot to death in Minneapolis by ICE officer Jonathan Ross. In the video, she’...
Salon.com

“A treaty violation”: Oglala Sioux president demands release of tribal members detained by ICE - President Frank Star Comes Out called the tribe's sovereignty "not conditional"
Deadline Politics

Fox News Promotes In N.Y. And D.C. Leadership Teams; Doug Rohrbeck Named Exec VP, Tommy Firth Named Exec VP Of Digital Editorial Team - Fox News Media has promoted Douglas Rohrbeck to executive vice president of Washington news and politics and Tommy Firth was named to a new role of executi...
Futurism

Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of “Stranger Things” - Some watchers are wondering why the "Stranger Things" finale didn't live up to expectations and are now blaming OpenAI's ChatGPT. The post Duffer Brother...
Consortium News

Mock Strategy - The Trump administration’s NSS represents the sort of hodgepodge you get when nobody oversees and coordinates the document’s drafting. By Michael Brenner T...
Daily Dot

Trump flipped off a Ford worker who shouted his frustrations over the Epstein files. Now, the suspended employee says he has no regrets - [image: donald trump middle finger to ford worker] President Donald Trump traded insults with an auto worker during a visit to a Detroit Ford plant on Tu...
Axios

Trump's new push for lower rates - Interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve aren't coming fast enough for President Trump. He's imposing policies to try to achieve easier money through ...
Mondoweiss

Ras Ain al-Auja, the latest Palestinian village in the West Bank wiped off the map by Israel - [image: Palestinian Bedouin residents of Ras Ain al-Auja dismantle their homes as Israeli settlers forcibly expel them from their lands, January 2026. (Pho...
Election Law Blog

“MAGA Thinks Maduro Will Prove Trump Won in 2020” - Yvonne Wingett Sanchez for The Atlantic: In the days after American commandos raided Nicolás Maduro’s compound and whisked him out of Venezuela, Mike Lin...
Mediagazer

CNN signs a non-exclusive deal to stream video podcasts from Lemonada Media, including titles featuring Hasan Minhaj and Mandy Patinkin, on the CNN app (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter) - Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: *CNN signs a non-exclusive deal to stream video podcasts from Lemonada Media, including titles featuring Hasan M...
Political Wire

Venezuelans Say Machado Should Lead Country - A new AtlasIntel poll finds a majority of Venezuelans want María Corina Machado to lead their country, contradicting Donald Trump’s claim that the oppositi...
NPR's Health Shots

What's behind this country's dramatic drop in the number of new orphans? - A new study offers good news from Uganda — although the cuts in U.S. aid cast a shadow over the reduction in deaths of parents from HIV/AIDS.
Eschaton

ICE For Thee Not For Me - Many Dems are coalescing around this incoherent message which will have them on defense, instead of offense. So you want to stop ICE in your city but als...
Daily Howler

NOW TOO MUCH FOR US: "Gestapo," Joe Rogan said! - *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2026* *We'd be slow to go there:* "Back out of all this now too much for us?" That's the way the fellow named Frost began his dif...
The Daily Poster

Shadow Contractors Are Training ICE’s Attack Teams - ICE is spending big on firearms, munitions, and politically connected weapons training firms to further militarize its forces.
San Antonio Current

Beware the motives of Joe Rogan and others who dismiss the importance of activism - [image: "Behavior is very contagious to young impressionable people," Joe Rogan recently opined on his podcast.] Mass movements often compel elected offic...
Progressive.org

Anguish and Anger in Minneapolis - As the community reels from the loss of Renée Nicole Macklin Good, ICE agents continue their campaign of terror.
The Week

Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mine - The country’s natural landscape makes the task extremely difficult
Dissident Voice

When Authoritarians Play Victim, It Is an Admission of Violent Intent - Francisco Goya’s The Third of May 1808 Fascists and various authoritarian personality types have a proclivity for playing the victim. Anyone who calls in...
SCOTUSblog

Presidential rhetoric and Supreme Court nominees - Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Pro-Israel group Betar to end New York operations after inquiry finds ‘violent conduct’ - State attorney general found far-right group harassed ‘Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish New Yorkers’ New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, ann...
Al Jazeera English

Uganda faces mounting calls to end internet blackout before elections - Amnesty International says internet blackout 'especially alarming' as election campaign 'marred by massive repression'.
Second Nexus

Ilhan Omar Effortlessly Drags Elon Musk After He Parrots Easily-Debunked Conspiracy About Her - Minnesota Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar called out billionaire Elon Musk after he claimed erroneously that Somalis are being brought illegally to ...
Sludge

GOP Leader’s Family Buys xAI Stock Days Before Pentagon Integration - House Republican Conference chairwoman Lisa McClain disclosed the purchase made just days before the Pentagon announced a major integration with xAI.
CultureMap Houston

John Mellencamp dances into Houston on new greatest hits tour - One of America’s most beloved singer-songwriters is coming to Houston. John Mellencamp will bring his Dancing Words Tour — The Greatest Hits to the Cynthia...
Vox

Trump’s EPA is setting the value of human health to $0 - The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the doll...
Houston Public Media

Houston could see 500,000 visitors for the World Cup, officials say - The projected influx for seven international soccer matches this summer is the equivalent of Houston’s population increasing by 20% over the course of thre...
Undernews

ICE is aimed at race not immigration - *Thom Hartmann - *Across 220+ years, during revolution, civil war, global war, and even the attack on Pearl Harbor, American presidents systematically avo...
naked capitalism

Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats - How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.
Glasstire

Review: Cody Barber’s “Moiré Work” at Wrong Gallery, Marfa - Some people don’t know why they visit Marfa. Some come for the mysterious Marfa lights; some come for the photo ops; some come because they love minimali...
Bonddad

Monthly retail sales sharply higher in November, but flagging YoY real sales spell further trouble - * - by New Deal democrat* Real retail sales, one of my favorite broad-economy indicators, was updated through November this morning, making only one ...
Mother Jones

ICE’s Violence Is “By Design” Under Trump - After a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis last Wednesday, Trump administration officials were quick ...
First Draft

The Religious Left Acts - The coverage of the ICE brutality across the country has mostly omitted stories of faith leaders confronting this serious government overreach.
El Paso Matters

Miffy visits La Nube, Zuill Bailey opens El Paso Pro-Musica Chamber Music Festival - From Miffy’s special visit at La Nube to Zuill Bailey’s festival opener, here’s a guide to culture and civic events across El Paso in the coming days. ...
Democracy Now!

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes - When Becky Pepper-Jackson started middle school, she wanted to join her school’s track and field team. Like many girls her age, she was excited to make new...
The NM Political Report

Bregman: A call to action for Gov, Legislature this session - Sam Bregman is the 2nd Judicial District Attorney in Bernalillo County. He is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2026. Learn more...
The Conversation

South Florida’s Brightline has highlighted an old problem – every year for the past decade, 900 pedestrians were killed by trains - Railway safety has vastly improved for motor vehicles, but reducing the risk of collisions with pedestrians is much trickier.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
ArcaMax

Freed From Trump's Yoke - President Donald Trump, with his brash, blaring mouth and devouring huge McDonalds lunches, is the ugly American -- the ugliest ever. He's hurt the country...
Rallblog

What Happens on Epstein Island Stays on Epstein Island | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Hooray for Hump Day - There’s so much truly awful, frightening stuff going on that taking a day off to be silly seems, well, absolutely necessary. Maybe it’s the residual Yippie...
WhoWhatWhy

‘Gifted’ Dogs Learn Words Just Like One-Year-Olds, Study Finds - [image: science, nature, neurology, gifted dogs, word comprehension, labels, learning study] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors o...
Dorf on Law

A Cloudy Transgender Athletes SCOTUS Argument With a Possible Silver Lining - Even after roughly three and a half hours of oral argument in the two SCOTUS cases involving state bans on transgender females' participation in girls' a...
The Root

Zoe Saldaña Is Now the Highest-Grossing Actress of All Time! Here’s How She Made Her Millions - Move over Scarlet Johansson, Zoe Saldaña is now the most successful actor of all time. Let's take a look at how she got there! Read more...
The Smirking Chimp

Could This Be What the End of a Would-Be Dictatorship Looks Like? -
Common Dreams

Fossil fuel phaseout urgent as 1.5°C target likely to be passed by 2030 - A new report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service shows that 2025 was the third hottest year on record, marking the first time that a three-year peri...
Skeptophilia

Life in the middle - I first ran into the fine-tuning argument around twenty-five years ago when I read astrophysicist Martin Rees's wonderful book *Just Six Numbers*, in whi...
Media Lens

Venezuela – ‘War Is Peace’ - After declaring his second presidential victory on 6 November 2024, Donald Trump said of his first term: ‘You know, we had no wars for four years. We had n...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Theresa Courts - Next up in CD38 is a first-time candidate, Theresa Courts. Courts is a school counselor who was a teacher for seven years before getting her Master’s in Ed...
San Antonio Report

‘He needed my voucher vote’: Campos says her dog bill was held up as bargaining chip - Among Gov. Greg Abbott's cutthroat tactics surrounding school vouchers, one San Antonio Democrat said he offered to "un-veto" her bill. --------------------...
ProPublica

A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. - The post A Pregnant Woman at Risk of Heart Failure Couldn’t Get Urgent Treatment. She Died Waiting for an Abortion. appeared first on ProPublica.
Countercurrents

Why the US Must Absolutely Not Force Regime Change in Iran - Multiple things can be true at once. The Iranian people are engaged in a legitimate popular struggle against an entrenched political elite that has failed ...
Alternet

You could be next — and all of us need to realize this - If agents of the federal government can murder a 37-year-old woman in broad daylight who, as videotapes show, was merely trying to get out of their way, ...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
High Country News

6 takeaways from our public-lands grazing investigation - Subsidies prop up ranching, grazing degrades the land and politics underpin the system. The post 6 takeaways from our public-lands grazing investigation...
Crooked Media

Iranian Regime Massacres Protesters, Will Trump Respond? - The post Iranian Regime Massacres Protesters, Will Trump Respond? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

Six Points to Navigate the Turmoil in Iran - Iran is in turmoil. Across the country, there have been protests of different magnitudes, with violence on the increase with both protesters and police f...
World Socialist Web Site

After Venezuela, Trump targets Iran—the imperialist rampage escalates - The Trump administration is preparing an imminent militarily attack on Iran, in the next stage in a regime-change operation aimed at returning the Middle E...
jobsanger

There's No Longer Any Doubt - Trump Is A Fascist -
Ballot Access News

Alaska Independence Party, the Third Largest Political Party in Alaska, Votes to Dissolve Itself - Here is the story from the Anchorage Daily News. Thanks to Scott Kohlhaas for letting us know. … Continue reading →
Informed Comment

The Inevitable Transition in Iran - Economic grievances are now directly tied to the functioning and political structure of the Islamic Republic itself
Crooked Timber

Utilitarianism: it all went wrong with Sidgwick - As part of my critique of pro-natalism, I’m looking at the philosophical foundations of the idea. Most of the explicit discussion takes place within the fr...
Brad Blog

Things Getting Weirder and Weirder as Trump Keeps Losing and Losing: 'BradCast' 1/13/2026 - Some of the weirdness has been completely predictable, if not to many of his duped supporters. Some of it is a surprise. All of it underscores, yet again o...
Workers World

Coast to coast protests condemn ICE murderers - [image: Coast to coast protests condemn ICE murderers] People came out in massive numbers in numerous cities with little advance notice to protest the kill...
The Texas Signal

The Legal War Against Immigrant Aid In Texas - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a broad campaign of investigations and lawsuits against nonprofit organizations that provide humanitarian ai...
Claytoonz

Free Iran - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Popular Resistance

How Veterans In Labor Have Joined Fight Against Trump - In the U.S., seventeen million people, across multiple generations, have a shared personal identity based on their past military service. About 1.3 milli...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, January 2026 Edition - Microsoft today issued patches to plug at least 113 security holes in its various Windows operating systems and supported software. Eight of the vulnerabil...
Portside

Israel, From Genocide to Self-Destruction - Israel, From Genocide to Self-Destruction Judy Tue, 01/13/2026 - 19:40
Texas Observer

ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court - In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel...
Antiwar.com

A Century of American Imperialism, Culminating in Venezuela - The US government under Donald Trump has already continued building on the imperial legacy of his predecessors. With less than a year in office, his admini...
The Greanville Post

ICED - P. EDWARDS—The story that she tried to run over him was a demonstrable lie, proven by his, and other, body cameras of the ICE unit. It was made immediatel...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Invited Christian Nationalism Into Every Public High School. We Should All Be Alarmed. - By Felicia MartinPresident & Executive Director, Texas Freedom Network Texas crossed a dangerous line in the separation of church and state that should a...
Independent Political Report

Conservative Party of New York State Chair Pushes Back on Hochul’s State of the State Address - The chair of the Conservative Party of New York State denounced Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2026 State of the State address, accusing the governor of worsening a...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Alaska Senate Race Comes Onto the Competitive Board with Peltola’s Entry - Mary Peltola’s (D) entrance into the Alaska Senate race gives Democrats another credible target, even as Republicans remain favored to hold the seat. Th...
Church and State

The Global Catholic Church is Losing Members Because of the Clerical Sexual Torture of Children - The Catholic Church has created a global catastrophe through its careful maintenance of a system that has allowed clergy to abuse children.
Wolf Street

Bad-Joke Housing CPIs, Absurd Health Insurance CPI Still Marr Today’s CPI Report, Repress Year-over-Year CPI Inflation - My frustration is boiling over. This is very serious. A lot depends on halfway accurate CPI inflation readings.
slacktivist

The lumpers, the splitters, and me - The "evangelical definition wars" are, in part, a debate between "lumpers" and "splitters." This gets awkward -- and personal -- because the gatekeepers ar...
Texas Standard

THC, transgender treatment and abortion: Texas Supreme Court cases to watch in 2026 - Texas’ highest civil court is set to hear and rule on cases dealing with several hot-button issues, including hemp, gender-affirming care and the state’s b...
Novara Media

Donald Trump Tells Iranian Protesters “Help Is on Its Way” - Donald Trump has again signalled US intervention in Iran, and an Iranian security official has estimated the death toll from ongoing protests to be 2000. P...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #10: COUP TALK (w/Jack Crosbie) - Cros returns to get into the huge mess in Venezuela and Minneapolis
Project Censored

Illegal Gold Rush Strips 140,000 Hectares from the Peruvian Amazon - A new report published by Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) and its Peruvian partner organization, Conservación Amazónica, found that 140,00...
Angry Bear

September and October housing construction consistent with government shutdown recession, but also the possibility of “green shoots” - – by New Deal democrat On Friday housing permits, starts, and units under construction were finally reported for the first time in four months, since Se...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: January 6, Five Years Later - Matt and Sam talk to Robert Draper about his reporting from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and how the Republican Party “lost its mind” in the months th...
Debunking Christianity

The 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" is now available as PAPERBACK book!!! - That's right, finally! The 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" is now available as a PAPERBACK book!!! Be one the very first readers to get it....
Capital & Main

Straight Out of Project 2025: Trump’s Immigration Plan Was Clear - The president denied involvement in the far right game plan, but he has followed it like a script. Here’s what might be next. The post Straight Out of P...
Rewire

Women and Children Are Being Digitally Undressed on Social Media - X users are asking the platform's AI chatbot, Grok, to create sexualized images before new legal protections take effect. The post Women and Children Are...
The Progressive Wing

1/13-19 News Roundup & OT - The European National Banks, as well as the Bank of England, sense an economic threat by Drumpt. Come join us for the conversation after the jump.
Space City Weather

Cooler skies and drier air will prevail through the weekend; also an early look at Texans playoff weather - In brief: Houston will continue to see cool and dry weather through the weekend. There are some slight rain chances today, but most of what’s on radar appe...
Earth 911

5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners - Eating for the planet doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor or satisfaction, and it can make a... The post 5 Delicious Low-Carbon Dinners appeared first on Ear...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 13 January 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Synthetic Dream Foundation video, click her...
The Grayzone

Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs - As deadly riots burn Iranian cities, Western media ignores the shocking wave of violence, turning instead to US government-funded NGOs for data. The one-...
Liberation News

Washington’s war on sovereignty and development in Venezuela - [image: Mobilization in Venezuela calls for the return of Maduro from US captivity]The war on Venezuela is a war on the very idea that the people of the Gl...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

''Deranged lunatic' - Trump Administration continues to smear Renee Good's name' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - Renee Good moments before she was shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. *Leavitt: Renee Good Was “Deranged Lunatic” Terrorist* - *Renee Good's death in Minnes...
Socialist Alternative

Iran’s New Wave of Revolt - Crisis Sharpened By New Threats Of War From Trump & Netanyahu The latest protest movement in Iran, which began on December 28, has spread to all 31 provinc...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Attack On Defense Contractors & The Fed - This is another case of Trump doing the right thing in theory. From Matt Stoller: Trump also issued an executive order to ban buybacks, dividends, and cap ...
Environment Texas

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 - 25 years of wildlife, recreation, outdoor sports and clean water The post The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 appeared first on Environment Texas.
NORML

Multiple States Facing Marijuana Legalization Repeal Threats in 2026 - [image: A person's arm is shown handcuffed in front of cannabis plants representing marijuana criminalization][image: A person's arm is shown handcuffed ...
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
Idavox

Connecting the Dots on ICE Murders & Violence - Terror sent to the Twin Cities is federal overreach designed to destabilize and provoke confrontation.... The post Connecting the Dots on ICE Murders & V...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The War is Already Here: Glimpses From the Second Civil War - All the hand-wringing and forecasting needs to end. We are smack-dab in the middle of the Second American Civil War
Duck of Minerva

How To Review Efficiently and Fairly - Instead of Dry January, I’m going review free for January after having nearly 80 review requests last year. My New Year’s resolution was to have a healthie...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
Field Negro

The Trump Distraction Machine. - This character in the White House is doing everything in his powers to change the storyline and narrative from Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files. Th...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A 'Kent State Moment'—When Power Gaslights What We Can all See With Our Own Eyes, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - * A 'Kent State Moment'—When Power Gaslights What We Can all See With Our Own Eyes* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 10, 2026* *There are mome...
See You In 2020

The Zionist right took on the role of the liberal technocrats, & now it must face the storm that they set in motion - When the Zionist right took on the role of the liberal technocrats, it inherited the unprecedented mass backlash that the liberals set this country up f...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: January 2026 - This month, the ace journal club discussed a quoiromantic manifesto, translated from Japanese! Probably not the easiest read if you don’t have prior famil...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Resistance Solidarity - Washington – the gangster-in-chief posing as global policeman – refuses to accept any limitations on its actions. If legal authorities, whether domestic or...
Democracy Chronicles

How the U.S. and the U.K. Frame Religion Differently - Watching the news in both countries, I have realised that the media does more than just report reality; it constructs facts from opinion and instructs audi...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOUR LYIN' EYES EDITION. - *Some trippy shit right here.* Just a week after we all hoped for better days in the new year, an ICE officer murdered a young woman in Minneapolis and, ...
The Militant

Tetrosyl workers in UK strike against bosses’ move to cut wages - ROCHDALE, England — After five days of strike action at Tetrosyl’s warehouse and distribution operation here, north of Manchester, some 80 workers are dete...
MintPress News

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders - Kidnapping heads of state is not a Trump innovation. It is American tradition. The post From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign...
DeSmogBlog

Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’ - Senior figures in Reform UK have been developing close connections to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an authoritarian, monarchic state with vast fossil ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/09/2026 - 03:22 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Edinburg Politics

As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, combat veterans Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Col. Frank Plummer honored by the City of McAllen at Valley’s iconic Veteran’s War Memorial of Texas - FEATURED: Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, during his tour of duty as a U.S. Marine combat squad leader in Vietnam from 1966 through 1968, and Col. Frank Plu...
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...
The AltWorld

American Conservatives Are Disgusting Frauds - After spending days enthusiastically applauding Trump’s freakish act of imperialist aggression to oust the president of Venezuela […] The post American C...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
LareDOS

Here on the river’s edge as the water, like time, slips past. Here is the promise of the long view and the close look. - Here, where quiet drowns out the distant rancor of fearmongers, we might, instead, be good neighbors.
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Bracing Views

Gangster Capitalism - The Donroe Doctrine of Regional Dominance, Obedience, and Theft BILL ASTORE JAN 04, 2026 There are at least 30 trillion reasons why the Trump administratio...
Two Party Opera

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Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
Greg Palast

When Venezuela’s de facto President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM - It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
Seeing the Forest

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

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Earthworks

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Brains and Eggs

Monday, March 22, 2010

The freedom to be screwed

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