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

Futurism

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis - "They straight up took my data and used it against me to capture me further and make me even more delusional." The post Man Who Had Managed Mental Illnes...
Eschaton

War Off For Now -
The Hill

Johnson claims vindication after Trump says he won't take Greenland by force - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday claimed vindication after learning that President Trump has ruled out acquiring Greenland by U.S. military ...
Raw Story

Trump touts mysterious 'framework' of a deal for Greenland - President Donald Trump claimed to have a "framework of a future deal" regarding Greenland without saying whether it would become part of the United State...
memeorandum

'A Piece of Ice for World Protection': Trump Demands Europe Cut Deal on Greenland (Wall Street Journal) - Wall Street Journal: *‘A Piece of Ice for World Protection’: Trump Demands Europe Cut Deal on Greenland* — The president warned that he won't forget if...
Axios

Trump backs off Greenland tariff threat based on new "solution" - President Trump announced on Wednesday that he would not follow through on his threat to impose tariffs on eight European allies on Feb. 1 over their opp...
Common Dreams

President Trump ‘brought let them eat cake economics to Davos’ with WEF speech — Oxfam - In response to President Trump's speech at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Nabil Ahmed, senior director of economic justice at Oxfam America, sai...
Courthouse News

Greenland releases ‘crisis’ guidelines as Trump threat looms - Work on the brochure, titled "Prepared for Crises — Be Self‑Sufficient for Five Days," began last year and includes advice about hunting and stockpiling fo...
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
Mediaite

Barron Trump ‘Saved’ Woman’s Life With Heroic Call to Police as She Was Being Attacked - A woman testified in English court Barron Trump "saved" her life when he found out she was being beaten by a jealous man and immediately called the polic...
Vox

The Supreme Court is likely to hand Trump a rare loss on the Federal Reserve - The Supreme Court’s Republican majority ordinarily believe that President Donald Trump is allowed to fire virtually anyone who works for a federal agency. ...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court appears inclined to prevent Trump from firing Fed governor - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared likely to leave Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, on the job while her challenge t...
The Week

15 years after Fukushima, is Japan right to restart its reactors? - Balancing safety fears against energy needs
Mediagazer

ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in "collaboration" with its Eleven Music AI model (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in “collaboration” with it...
Salon.com

“We would be frankly unstoppable”: Trump dances around Greenland threats at Davos - The president spoke of Greenland with the noncommittal menace of a mobster at the World Economic Forum
Second Nexus

Piers Morgan 'Blames Trump' After Needing His Hip Replaced Following Painful Accident At London Restaurant - There's no shortage of things to blame Donald Trump for these days, including hip fractures, if you're British broadcaster Piers Morgan, at least. Morga...
Slate

I Thought We’d Reached the Easy Stage of Parenting. Now My Wife Wants to Risk It All. - I can't do it.
Deadline Politics

Michele Tafoya, Former Sports Reporter, To Run For U.S. Senate Seat In Minnesota - Michele Tafoya, former sideline reporter for NBC Sports’ Sunday Night Football, announced that she is running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota. Ta...
Wolf Street

Pending Home Sales Plunge across the US. Midwest Sees Worst Sales on Record, Northeast 2nd Worst - For the US overall, worst sales for any December on record. The housing market took a bad turn, from already low levels.
The Verge

Samsung Galaxy S26 battery pack leak points to Qi2 charging support - It looks like Samsung is preparing to launch a new Qi2 battery pack for the upcoming Galaxy S26, which is rumored to support the upgraded charging standard...
Houston Public Media

City of Houston braces for ‘bone-chilling’ winter storm with 12 warming centers, ‘all hands on deck’ - City officials encourage residents to stay off the roads and winter-proof their properties ahead of expected freezing weather.
San Antonio Report

Spurs PAC, County Judge & DA races: 6 biggest takeaways from campaign finance reports - At every level of government, heated primaries are being fueled primarily by just a handful of big donors. ------------------------------ Spurs PAC, County ...
San Antonio Current

Ted Cruz reportedly spotted leaving for Southern California as winter storm heads toward Texas - [image: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is weighing another presidential run.] Social media users pounced on Cruz, who faced withering criticism for fleeing to Cancun ...
Political Wire

CBS News Veers Toward Dysfunction - Variety: “Ten people familiar with the workings of CBS News say the Paramount Skydance unit is veering toward dysfunction, with a management team led by Ba...
NPR's Health Shots

Global buzzwords that will be buzzing in your ear in 2026 - Will it be a year of "fractured resilience"? Or "pragmatic empathy"? Will "MOUs" be the next global health strategy? Are we in a new age of "decolonization...
Mondoweiss

Energy drinks, cigarettes, and Molotovs: Inside the lives of Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank - [image: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in Hebron, January 21, 2022. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images)]Meet the generation of you...
Election Law Blog

“Armies of lobbyists helped Big Tech rack up victories during first year of Trump’s second term” - New analysis from Issue One: Indeed, a new Issue One analysis of the latest federal lobbying disclosures shows that eight of the largest tech, artificial...
The Daily Poster

Trump Banned Institutional Homeownership — Except This Kind - Corporate landlords are already leaning into a key “build-to-rent” loophole in Trump’s investment ban on single-family homes.
Dorf on Law

How Does Trump Choose What Counts as a Group to Punish? - Donald Trump and his enablers regularly punish large groups of people for the perceived sins of one person, or at most the sins of a much narrower set of...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Snow, ice and subzero temperatures to sweep across US this weekend - The storm will stretch 2,000 miles from south-west to east, disrupting travel and threatening power outages A vast winter storm is set to descend across ...
CultureMap Houston

3 Houston neighbors hustle onto top 100 list of U.S. career hotspots - Houston has already proven to be a major hub for business, and now three of its neighbors –* Pearland*, *League City*, and* Sugar Land* – are rising up amo...
Techdirt.

Rand Paul Only Wants Google To Be The Arbiter Of Truth When The Videos Are About Him - Just a year and a half ago, Senator Rand Paul sponsored a bill that would make it illegal for federal government employees to ask internet companies to rem...
Infidel753

The Greenland crisis - Trump's sudden eruption of befuddled neo-imperialism toward Greenland has the potential to be the most damaging episode of either of his terms as presiden...
Al Jazeera English

Canada detains Israeli ex-soldier and comedian over Gaza complaint - Israeli comedian and former soldier Guy Hochman was detained in Toronto after complaints over his conduct in Gaza.
The Texas Signal

Spotlight On Texas Special Elections - Early voting begins today, January 21, and runs through January 27, in two special elections with national implications
Undernews

Abortion Bans Have Increased Pregnant Women’s Risk of Dying - *Newsweek - *Abortion bans across the U.S. are increasing the health risks faced by pregnant women, according to new research that highlights how pregnancy...
Bonddad

Stale data watch: construction spending for October — more “green shoots”? - - *by New Deal democrat* Originally housing permits and starts through December were supposed to be updated this morning, but that has now been put ...
Dissident Voice

Why Are Chronically Low-performing Charter Schools Renewed? - The easy answer is greed, profit, and kickbacks. But how are such actions undertaken so frequently? One of the most fundamental rationales put forward de...
Texas Standard

5 years before Anthony Johnson Jr.’s death, indicted guard watched another man get knelt on in jail - KERA News has identified another man who died after a Tarrant County jailer knelt on him. The federal government has cautioned against kneeling on handcuff...
Daily Howler

COGNITION(S): Applebaum takes it up a notch! - *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2026* *Her latest suggestion ignored: *Yesterday, on* Deadline: White House*, the *Atlantic's* Anne Applebaum kept floating a gen...
Mother Jones

The Canadian PM’s Davos Speech Is Unmissable in a Time of “Rupture” - President Donald Trump famously doesn’t like to read. And if his increasingly frequent public naps are any indication, his attention span is only getting s...
Novara Media

How Do I Know My Boyfriend Has Never Hurt Another Woman? - [image: A woman looks into the distance as a man lies in bed topless]In a society that puts profit before people, it’s hard not to feel broken-hearted. Lan...
Socialist Alternative

Jan. 23 Strike Against ICE! What To Expect & Where To Take Action - IN MINNESOTA A 10 AM protest is being organized at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport against the use of the airport for ICE deportations. Airports...
naked capitalism

The World is in Water Bankruptcy, UN Scientists Report – Here’s What That Means - Water bankruptcy does not just happen gradually, then suddenly, but also with the prospect of violence.
Glasstire

Finding Artistic Identity in Midlife: Waco Sculptors & Neighbors Janie Stine LaCroix & Andrea La Valleur-Purvis - Sculptors Janie Stine LaCroix and Andrea La Valleur-Purvis are neighbors who both have garage studios in their homes in Woodway, a suburb of Waco. Though...
The Root

The Root Exclusive: Shaq’s Masterclass On Business Success - Shaquille O'Neal explains how he has found success on every level. Here is his formula! Read more...
The Progressive Wing

1/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - The rest of Bernie on The Late Show and More news/videos/etc. in the comments!
First Draft

Cities Church Wasn’t Chosen By Accident - It is an obvious example of the Christian Nationalism that is poisoning our government and conservative Christianity
El Paso Matters

EPSO performs, Tom Lea exhibit opens, more things to do this week - From a two-night symphony program and a new Tom Lea exhibition to hikes, street dedications, opera and BTS news, here’s what’s happening around El Paso....
ArcaMax

How to Punish a President? - High noon: And I dream of President Donald Trump's punishment for 2026 acts alone. Minnesota suffers ugly violence on its streets while NATO faces his thre...
WhoWhatWhy

Scientists Ramp Up Project to Reverse Ecological Destruction on Galápagos Island - [image: science, biodiversity, ecological destruction, Galapagos Islands, flagship bird, brujo flycatcher] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by...
Countercurrents

At Least Three Journalists Killed on Duty in Direct Israeli Attack in Gaza - Gaza (QNN)- At least three Palestinian journalists working for the Egyptian Committee for Gaza Relief were killed on Wednesday while on duty in central Gaz...
Democracy Now!

NYC Nurses' Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line - The largest nurses’ strike in New York City history has reached its 10th day, as negotiations stall. Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are fighting for a ...
The Conversation

From ancient Rome to today, war-makers have talked constantly about peace - “When they make a wasteland, they call it ‘peace,‘” wrote the Roman historian Tacitus, in a turn of phrase that a classics scholar says has been relevant f...
Rallblog

Coup! | 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...
Angry Bear

Badly Treated White People - Another place I subscribe to is “Kareem Takes on the News.” I can always find an interesting opinion being offered up by the former college and professio...
Space City Weather

Houston now very likely to experience a hard freeze this weekend, with the potential for freezing rain and icy roads - In brief: In today’s post we go in depth on the timing, and potential impacts of a winter storm this weekend. Before then we also have a widespread chance ...
Scheerpost.com

Labeling Kidnapping a ‘Capture,’ Media Legitimate Violation of International Law - It’s misleading to use language like “capture” and “arrest,” which evoke the US upholding the law, to describe heavily armed US forces taking Maduro prisoner.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Hump Day Revisited - It’s getting really hard to avoid politics on Hump Day, but, then again, everything Roz Chast does is political in the wider, sociopolitical sense. It’s ge...
Earth 911

Five Consumer Goods Companies Proving Circular Business Models Work - The global economy faces a challenge with circularity. The Circularity Gap Report 2024 from the... The post Five Consumer Goods Companies Proving Circula...
The Smirking Chimp

Memo to Europe: Remember Neville Chamberlain -
Skeptophilia

Remembrance of things past - Almost all of us implicitly trust our own memories. Experiment after experiment, however, has shown that this trust is misplaced. Even if you leave out pe...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Letitia Plummer - Next up for Harris County Judge is another familiar name, Letitia Plummer. Plummer stepped down from Houston City Council last year after announcing her ca...
ProPublica

Alaska Lawmaker Calls for Hiring More Prosecutors, Public Defenders to Reduce Extreme Delay in Criminal Cases - The post Alaska Lawmaker Calls for Hiring More Prosecutors, Public Defenders to Reduce Extreme Delay in Criminal Cases appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

The consequences of Trump’s war on climate in 7 charts - Seven snapshots reveal how climate rollbacks altered the trajectory of U.S. energy, environmental protection, and economic security.
Duck of Minerva

What’s with all the racism? - I’ve been wanting to write this post for some time. But every week just brings more bad news. More terrible examples. In November last year, the Dutch gov...
High Country News

‘My history is a blip’ - #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region. The post ‘My history is a blip’ appeared first on High Country News.
Crooked Media

Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion - The post Greenland Prepares for Trump Invasion appeared first on Crooked Media.
jobsanger

Trump Is Trying To Give Putin What He's Wanted For Decades -
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Bipartisan deal exploits Bondi shootings to impose expanded “hate crime” laws - The Labor government’s bill allows for the outlawing of political groups and imprisonment of their supporters on the false basis that opposition to the ong...
Ian Welsh

Carney’s Speech Transcript + Comments: Time For the Truth & For the Middle Powers To Align - I think this is worth posting in full. Once again Carney and Canada are moving faster than any of America’s vassals, which is fascinating because Canada is...
Informed Comment

Dr. King would be Standing beside All Who are now Standing up for Our Democracy - A member of the Freedom Movement reflects on Dr. King's legacy in our perilous times
Counterpunch

Morons and the Inner Soul of the American People - In December of 1783, George Washington resigned his commission as Commander-in-Chief and returned to his beloved Mount Vernon. He was one of the wealthie...
See You In 2020

Gen Z supports Palestine’s resistance, and this will translate into a new mode of revolutionary politics - The reaction towards Palestine’s holocaust is creating a new political paradigm, one that will bring the anti-Zionist cause to victory if we guide it in...
Alternet

Melania now lives at Mar-a-Lago — but stays far away from Trump: report - First Lady Melania Trump now shares Mar-a-Lago with her husband again, though she's keeping her distance from President Donald Trump even when he's back ...
Brad Blog

Trump Admin's Endless Waste, Fraud, Abuse on Voting, at DOJ, by DOGE: 'BradCast' 1/20/2026 - Today on BradCast: I don't care what he says, no President has the power to cancel American elections. Period. Even if that definitive statement of fact is...
Trivial Knot

Estimating true ratings - If you take a rating website, say IMDB, or Goodreads, and you sorted items purely by review scores, the stuff that would float to the top would be pretty o...
Claytoonz

Melania, The Movie - 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...
Workers World

Minneapolis unity vs ICE terror - [image: Minneapolis unity vs ICE terror] Minneapolitans have called a work stoppage for Jan. 23 with the theme of “ICE OUT of Minnesota/A Day of Truth and ...
Consortium News

Jeffrey Sachs: The US-Israel Hybrid War Against Iran - Understanding hybrid war tactics helps to explain why Trump’s rhetoric oscillates between threats of war and phony offers of peace. By Jeffrey D. Sachs and...
The Greanville Post

REPOST: Chinese Economy Is Growing More Slowly. So What? - HUA BIN—The brutal reality is China must focus completely on winning the hard power competition with the US. The best outcome is of course winning without ...
The Grayzone

Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ads from Atlanta influencer recruiting Iranians for Mossad - Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of adver...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Notoriously biased judge upholds drag ban claiming drag is the same as 'blackface'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs - Federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is known for making rulings conveniently unfavorable to LGBTQ people. The recent ruling against drag shows is the latest. ...
Portside

At a Seattle Port Rocked by Tariffs, There Were 70 Jobs for 600 Workers - At a Seattle Port Rocked by Tariffs, There Were 70 Jobs for 600 Workers Greg Tue, 01/20/2026 - 19:29
Democracy Chronicles

Iran’s Upheaval and the Test of Global Resolve - The Iranian people have never been this resolute in their objective, which is toppling the regime. The regime has already fallen in the minds of the public.
Antiwar.com

The Changing Face of Regime Change - The most disturbing lesson from the 2014 Maidan Revolution in Ukraine that has been well-learned by the various intelligence agencies in this business is t...
Ballot Access News

Steve Hilton, One of the Two Leading Republican Candidates for California Governor, Says Top-Two Has Been an Abject Failure - Steve Hilton, one of the two Republicans with an active campaign for Governor of California, spoke in San Francisco on January 20. In his remarks, he said,...
Texas Observer

‘Black Bird Redemption Song’: A Fort Worth Artist’s Work on Confinement, Freedom, and Fred Rouse - The rolling grounds of the UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum near Austin’s Barton Springs are dotted with bronze pieces, their patinas letting them almo...
Popular Resistance

The Chris Hedges Report: Trump’s Gaza ‘Peace’ Plan - Lawlessness has been a common theme characterizing the events of the first weeks of the year. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, the ...
Church and State

When Will the US House Impeach Trump So the US Senate Can put Trump on trial? All Are Gutless!! - Trump’s decision to distance himself from NATO allies represented a pivotal moment, one that is unlikely to be reversed anytime soon.
slacktivist

Recent reads (1.20.26) - Two stories about single-building cities (one can float, one can flush), the rocks we eat, and Mississippi and Alabama being Mississippi and Alabama.
The NM Political Report

Punitive damages emerge as flashpoint in latest malpractice reform push - This story originally appeared at New Mexico In Depth, and is republished with permission as a part of our mission to bring readers the best in independ...
Discourse

An Important and Exciting Update About Discourse Blog - Why we decided to go all-in on our podcast and what it means for the blog going forward.
Independent Political Report

LNC Releases List of 2026 Credentials Committee, Platform Committee Members - The Libertarian National Committee has released a list of members who will serve on the party’s 2026 Credentials Committee, along with a partial list of ...
Capital & Main

The Rio Grande Was Once an Inviting River. It’s Now a Militarized Border. - Since Trump returned to office, dozens of environmental, wildlife and public access rules have been waived to make way for the border wall. The post The ...
Rewire

Trials Show Successful Ballot Initiatives Are Only the Beginning of Restoring Abortion Access - “Ballot measures are not the silver bullet," Center for Reproductive Rights senior counsel Amy Myrick said. The post Trials Show Successful Ballot Initia...
Seeing the Forest

There Is No Line - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy If you think there is a line Trump will cross and lose his supporters...
Environment Texas

2026 Program Agenda - Environment Texas’ program priorities for 2026 include stopping plastic pellet pollution, expanding wind and solar energy, saving the bees, creating wild...
DeSmogBlog

As the UN General Assembly Turns 80, Can Ordinary Citizens Change How the World Is Governed? - On Saturday, 17 January, world leaders gathered at Westminster Central Hall to mark the 80th birthday of the U.N. General Assembly. The same room where i...
Project Censored

Corporate Complicity: A Whistleblower and the Eject Elbit Campaign - This week, were covering two things youll never hear about on corporate media - or if you do, theyll be demonized: whistleblowers, and targeted boycott m...
The AltWorld

Washington’s War on Iran: The Importance of Defending Information Space - The US has demonstrably continued its war on Iran through the execution of long-laid plans aimed at […] The post Washington’s War on Iran: The Importance...
Liberation News

Honor King’s radical legacy: Defend the Civil Rights revolution, fight for socialism! - [image: Leaders of the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom marching. Photo: Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images]On March 18th, 196...
Greg Palast

Kings or Slaves? - Those who cannot choose their own leaders, who are forced by violence to bend to authority, are slaves. In America, we still have, for a moment, a choice: ...
Idavox

J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback - Ever since Jake Lang was pardoned by Trump for assaulting police officers on Jan. 6,... The post J6 Nazi Meets Minneapolis: A Reportback appeared first o...
Ecosophia

A little further offline than usual - Well, that was an entertainment I didn’t need. As I think most of you are aware by now, I’m relocating, and going through the usual shuffle of changing pho...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

America Is Rapidly Collapsing as Trump Creates His New World Order - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: East Street - [image: East Street]
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Are there signs of serious problems in the economy? - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / January 17, 2026 The following is a version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM by Michael Meeropol, Professor Emer...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - I just dropped the House Negro Power Rankings. So now it's only fair that I acknowledge the Field Negroes holding it down in these divided states of Am...
Progressive.org

It’s a Police State in Minnesota - Minnesota is experiencing a state-wide police riot backed by the full authority of the federal government.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FRAUDS ON PARADE EDITION. - *24 years? Really?* I was grateful, in this grim and gloomy week, for the laughs afforded by Evan Mandery’s story in Politico, “They Wanted a University ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces free event featuring acclaimed artist Tim Gonchoroff and archaeologist Edward Gonzalez-Tennant - Event at historic Treviño-Uribe Fort is free and open to the public
The Militant

Montreal protest: ‘Hands off Venezuela!’ - MONTREAL — Some 100 people came out to a picket at the U.S. Consulate here Jan. 11 defending Venezuela’s sovereignty and opposing Washington’s threats to a...
MintPress News

The Regime Change Machine Is Turning on Iran Again - From NGO casualty counts to diaspora propaganda, the same forces that destroyed Iraq and Syria are exploiting unrest inside Iran. The post The Regime Cha...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Taxpayers Will Fund Dozens of Private Schools that Openly Discriminate, by Josephine Lee, Texas Monthly, Jan. 13, 2026 - *Friends:* *In a deeply reported investigation for the Texas Observer, staff writer Josephine Lee reveals that Texas’ newly enacted school voucher program...
Debunking Christianity

1. Horrendous Suffering 2. Catastrophic Superstitions 3. A Vicious God - *Christian theology is shattered by these three factors* For centuries, the devout—determined to preserve and protect their faith—have ignored reality....
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/16/2026 - 03:25 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Bracing Views

Making Armageddon Great Again - A Mushroom Cloud, A Smoking Gun BILL ASTORE JAN 15, 2026 Recently, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featured a fiction contest: “Write Before Midnight...
NORML

Study: Cannabis Beverages Associated With Reduced Alcohol Consumption - [image: a cannabis leaf sits atop a canned drink][image: a cannabis leaf sits atop a canned drink]"These consistent findings provide support for the noti...
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...
Progressives Chat

Trump Part II: One Year Later - Next Tuesday, January 20, 2026, will mark one year since *Donald Trump* returned to office. I am not going to write an assessment on Trump Part II, becau...
Edinburg Politics

Legislative luncheon in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, featuring Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Sen. Adam Hinojosa, will showcase city’s $14 million Edinburg Arts, Culture and Events Center - Key state issues affecting the Rio Grande Valley will be discussed in Edinburg on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, by Sen. Adán “Adam” Hinojosa, R-Corpus Chris...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
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 ...
Unlimited Hangout

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

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

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

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Brains and Eggs

Monday, March 22, 2010

The freedom to be screwed

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