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/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

Mediaite

DeSantis Calls Out County GOP for Continuing to Support Candidate Accused of Child Sexual Assault - The Palm Beach County Republican Party dropped its support for a candidate who is facing charges for molesting a child. The post DeSantis Calls Out Count...
World Socialist Web Site

Zohran Mamdani’s “Strategy to Combat Antisemitism”: A capitulation to Zionism and the capitalist oligarchy - Mamdani's "Strategy to Combat Antisemitism" embraces the narrative used to slander opponents of the Gaza genocide as antisemites.
Wolf Street

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Re-Spikes to 12.2%, Far Worse than Financial Crisis Peak. End of Extend-and-Pretend Looms - The dictum morphs from “Survive till ’25” (when low interest rates were supposed to return) to “Sell at today’s price, or the lender will.”
Raw Story

'Where are you shopping?' Dr Oz's grocery claims met with disbelief on Fox News - The Trump administration Medicare and Medicaid administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, made a claim about grocery prices on Fox News — but even far-right host Laur...
Futurism

Anthropic Reports User to the Police - Watch what you tell Claude. The post Anthropic Reports User to the Police appeared first on Futurism.
Workers World

Abolish the death penalty now! - [image: Abolish the death penalty now!] Houston The death penalty is a crime. It is legalized torture by the government. The death penalty must be abolishe...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Says His Political Entity Will Now Pay For TV Ads Rather Than Taxpayers - Donald Trump said that his super PAC MAGA Inc. would now pay for advertisements that the White House has run at taxpayer expense and stirred an outcry amon...
Progressive.org

No Land to Stand On - An excerpt from pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil’s new book.
Courthouse News

Judge scraps Trump challenge to in-state tuition for immigrant students in Virginia - The federal government claimed the Virginia Dream Act created a residency requirement that benefitted noncitizens living in Virginia at the expense of out-...
Election Law Blog

“Facing Backlash, Trump Says His Super PAC Will Pay for Taxpayer-Funded Ads” - NYT: President Trump reversed course on Monday and announced that his super PAC would now pay for the television ads promoting him that have been airing ...
Ballot Access News

Tennessee Republican State Senator Endorses Independent Gubernatorial Candidate - On September 3, Tennessee State Senator Janice Bowling, a Republican, endorsed independent gubernatorial candidate David Hatley. See this story. Senator Bo...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Russia's Putin reiterates nuclear threat against NATO - Editor's note: this story was translated from the original VOA Russian article. Russian President Vladimir Putin has renewed his threat to use “all weapons...
Alternet

Tillis claims Republicans in Congress could stop Trump — but are too scared - Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Monday that many Republicans in Congress oppose President Donald Trump's policies and might under ...
Salon.com

Trump says U.S. is “looking strongly” at alleged Russian plague case - A 28-year-old lab technician's could be a highly fatal disease but a cause of death has yet to be released
The Verge

Gemini Call for Me might tell your mom you’re running late - Google may be expanding its "Call for Me" AI feature beyond business calls so you can use it to send messages to friends and family. Android Authority repo...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump approval ratings plummet to new low, polls show - President says ‘I’m doing great’ despite polls showing 32% approval rating and loss of support from 2024 voters Donald Trump’s approval ratings reached a...
Angry Bear

Simply Put - In the early days, murder and theft were the more common means of acquiring wealth. Wealth being the goose that laid golden eggs. All the wealthy need ...
Vox

Trump’s plan to buy votes, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Houston Public Media

Mayor Whitmire’s administration withdraws ‘immigration law enforcement’ related grant after secret application - The administration had quietly submitted the application without council approval despite fierce debate.
San Antonio Current

Mexico’s Fresh Bowl & Co. chain to make U.S. debut with San Antonio store - The build-your-own-bowl concept will open in Stone Oak on Saturday, Oct. 17. The post Mexico’s Fresh Bowl & Co. chain to make U.S. debut with San Antoni...
Slate

Just One GOP Justice Needs to Flip for Big Oil to Face Climate Accountability. Welp. - The Supreme Court officially began its new term on Monday morning with oral argument in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.
San Antonio Report

City scraps plans for parking garage as part of Project Marvel improvements in 2027 bond - Working with TxDOT, the City of San Antonio trimmed its infrastructure wish list for the 2027 bond and the sports and entertainment district. --------------...
Crooked Timber

Experiments on Exploitation - I am sharing this from Benjamin Ferguson and Roberto Veneziani, with thanks (I will be back to post myself soon, apologies for the long radio silence): We ...
The Week

6 lavish homes in Mexico - Featuring a Spanish European–style estate in Mexico City and an eight-bedroom overlooking the Gulf of Tehuantepec
Texas Standard

Oil theft is a growing concern in Texas. Here’s how it happens - Sarah Stogner, a district attorney out in West Texas, is calling for leaders to crack down on the practice.
Mother Jones

Is Hollywood Finally Turning Against Tech Oligarchs? - Big Tech is back on the big screen—but its bosses might not be thrilled. This fall, Hollywood will release four movies on tech executives: Luca Guadagnino’...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT’s leaders are putting the university’s academic strength at risk, Austin American-Statesman, October 1, 2026 - *Friends:* *Jason Brownlee’s important commentary in the Austin American-Statesman on the restructuring underway at UT Austin calls attention to a fact t...
ArcaMax

The central question of power in America - Behind this election’s dominant issue of affordability lies the record concentration of wealth at the top of America. The richest 0.001% of Americans — a h...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Glasstire

Big Buddha Magic: A New Mexico Travelogue - Back in March I inquired with a stranger on the internet. The inquiry was made out to Catherine Czacki (sort of pronounced like tchotchke) in response to...
Novara Media

Green Party Declares Zionism IS Racism - The Green Party conference has backed a controversial motion that classifies Zionism as a form of racism, revealing some stark divisions within the party. ...
Common Dreams

Supreme Court Considers States’ Ability to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies Accountable for Climate Deception and Harms - The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in the case of *Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County*. The case, which was heard by ...
The Daily Poster

He Botched The Epstein Files. Now He’s Trump’s Intelligence And AI Lead. - The same man who improperly published names of Epstein’s potential victims will oversee the nation’s spy network and artificial intelligence policy.
IVN

35 Million Americans Didn’t Move. Their Congressional Districts Did. - More than 24 million voters will cast ballots in new congressional districts they didn't move to, as nine states redrew maps in 2025 ahead of the 2026 midt...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Deep State Tribunal - *President Trump told Time that he regrets appointing Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. He said they ...
Mondoweiss

Israel is rewriting the Palestinian curriculum in East Jerusalem to erase Palestinian identity - [image: A Palestinian school in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem is closed while on strike on September 19, 2022, in protest against a new Israeli-imposed cu...
Capital & Main

A Rising Sea and the Toxic Tides That Could Be Unleashed - There's been progress in cleaning up L.A.’s ports, but they remain the region’s biggest polluter — and residents feel it most acutely. The post A Rising...
Bonddad

Economically weighted ISM indexes for October show a broader, but even more inflationary, expansion - * - by New Deal democrat* I think if I ever decided to cut back my online writing about the economy to the bare bones, it would be two posts a month....
OpEd News

Three years that changed the world and more - Three years of accelerated genocide will be marked 7 October. The murderous campaign to ethnically cleanse our country still goes on. The satellite images ...
Texas Observer

It’s Time for the Catholic Church to Distribute the Loaves - I was 7 years old the first time I put on the vestments. White surplice over red cassock, the fabric stiff and foreign against skin that was more accusto...
Independent Political Report

Maryland Third Party Candidates Decry Exclusion From Sole Gubernatorial Debate - *This article was originally published by Maryland Matters on October 5, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Any views expresse...
Rallblog

Trump in Denial About Looming Catastrophe | 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 ET. Today we...
First Draft

Irked In October - Our monthly exercise in vexatious venting about irksome things.
The Texas Signal

Candidates Make Final Moves Across Texas - Nathan Johnson is the latest candidate to unveil a political ad in the closing weeks of an election cycle going down to the wire in Texas
The Conversation

2026 midterms could be the end of Pennsylvania’s split legislature, with effects on affordability, election reform, marijuana and more - Pennsylvania has a split legislature, and both chambers are up for grabs in the 2026 midterms.
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Infatuation With Naming Stuff Has One Major Advantage - [image: Mark Zuckerberg, Jen-Hsun “Jensen” Huang, Donald Trump, Elon Musk] What's in a name? In the case of the presidential rebrand of "artificial intelli...
Rewire

Americans of All Ages Want More Federal Help With Childcare Costs. Gen Z Most of All. - New polling from The 19th and YouGov found that support for child care spending was particularly strong among Gen Z, reflecting how affordability shapes th...
Dorf on Law

The Biggest Damn Fool Mistake: Trump and the Roberts Court - Today the Supreme Court opens its October 2026 Term, though the idea of a term with a beginning and an end is mostly ceremony now. In the shadow docket e...
The Smirking Chimp

The Central Question of Power in America -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Rep. Lizzie Fletcher - While I’ve been a longtime supporter of Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, this year is the first time I’ve had the pleasure of voting for her, as I was moved from CD18...
ProPublica

How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours - The post How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours appeared first on ProPublica.
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
NPR's Health Shots

From floating saunas to clinical trials: How heat might help mental health - While scientists have a decent understanding of how sauna and other forms of heat exposure exercises our cardiovascular system, they know relatively little...
Environment Texas

RELEASE: Gas power plant proposals surging, new interactive map shows - Proposals for grid-connected natural gas power plants have tripled since early 2023, driven largely by rising power demand for data centers. The post REL...
jobsanger

Texas Is A State Republicans Cannot Afford To Turn Blue -
Informed Comment

Hormuz: As Global Gas Crisis Unfolds, Qatar extends Force Majeure - Nor is the Strait of Hormuz likely to become less strategically important any time soon,
Liberation News

Family of Tierra Walker, killed by Texas abortion ban, sues attorney general Ken Paxton - Texas's abortion ban is killing women.
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 04, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 04, 2026 by Tony Wikrent Impeaching Trump Won’t End the Rolling Coup. The Root Has a 250-Year Plan. Republic...
Greg Palast

Kumbaya Killers. What’s so funny?The “horseshoe” theory will kick us in the a** - I used to think the “Horseshoe Theory” was horsesh*t. The ”horseshoe” theorem is that, like the two far ends of a horseshoe, extremists of the political Ri...
The Progressive Wing

10/4 – 10/5 News Roundup & Open Thread - 800 Texans in deep-red Longview, TX showed up to demand change, save our Texas public schools and secure the American Dream. More news, videos, candidat...
The Grayzone

‘Last American hostage in Gaza’ Edan Alexander was not US citizen, source says - The Trump administration took the unusual step of negotiating directly for the release of captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander on the grounds that he was a...
LareDOS

Journey, the movie – an indie immigrant-themed film shot partially in Laredo premiers Oct. 2 at Alamo Drafthouse; four screenings through Oct. 4 - Assistant producer Karen Gaytan and other local crew and cast on hand for Q & A Oct. 2 and 3
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GOOD FOR WHAT AI'S YA EDITION. - *These guys are local!* This week has been, as is now customary under Tubby II, a cavalcade of horrors, and perhaps the most illustrative horror was the ...
slacktivist

LBCF: Fire-breathing Martians - We were promised that the Two Witnesses would literally breathe fire. But then they don't literally breathe fire. I am disappointed.
Project Censored

Banned Books Week 2026 – Protect The Right To Read - Featuring Marshall Romero
The Militant

Havana event discusses Cuba, Africa independence struggle - HAVANA — The contributions of Cuban internationalist volunteers to African liberation struggles, and the lessons of those experiences, were highlighted at ...
Debunking Christianity

If Devout Christians Don’t Love Reading the Gospels… - *How do they feel about the letters of Paul?* Many years ago, I met a devout Catholic woman who bragged—during out first meeting—that she had seen the B...
Two Party Opera

The Little Magician - Read More
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The United States of Enshittification: AI and the Flattened Future - The purpose isn’t progress. It’s profit for less.
Progressives Chat

‘VoteHub’ Tracks 2026 Democrats’s Path to U.S. Senate Majority - The website *VoteHub* recently captured my attention. I had come across plenty related tweets on X. It is a site which tracks electoral chances (using th...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
The AltWorld

The National Security Scam - The National Security Scam The post The National Security Scam appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Alas, a Blog

Everyone Knows Elections Are Rigged - In June of 2026, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked by CNN what evidence there is to prove election fraud in California: JOHNSON: It stinks to hig...
Ecosophia

Notes on Magical Geography - As my regular readers know well, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to my commentariat to nominate and vote on the topic for the fifth ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Our Political Economy and Theirs - What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy...
Krebs on Security

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hac...
Idavox

A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict in Pennsylvania - When flyers started showing up around York, PA proclaiming “White Power,” folks there wanted to... The post A Familiar NJ Fascist Tries to Cause Conflict...
Edinburg Politics

With CD players all but eliminated from new cars, Congress set to save A&M radio in vehicles from same fate, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - FEATURED, CENTER: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, appears at a press conference regarding Trump Accounts on Monday, August 31, 2026 at the AT&T Hotel in Austin. On...
The Rag Blog

JAMES RETHERFORD / Noel Godin: The Art of the Tart - By James Retherford / The Rag Blog / September 24, 2026 “Entartons les pompeux cornichons!”(”Let’s pie the pompous windbags!“)—Noël Godin (1945-2026) ”Some...
TalkLeft

Wednesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here is a new one, all topics welcome. I missed writing about September 11, Rosh Hashanah, the Emmys and the New York Fash...
Seeing the Forest

Midterm Election Worries - I’m a bit worried about how Trump’s offer of $5,000 will move a few “low-information” voters. We on the list are well-informed and overestimate what other ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears - GOP still favored, but just barely The post The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears appeared first on Sabato's Crystal Ball.
Campaign for America's Future

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

JUR-712 Minami Kojima นี่อาจจะเป็นการแข็งตัวครั้งสุดท้ายในชีวิตของฉันแล้ว -
Earth 911

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

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

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

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
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...
The Mind Unleashed

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Skeptophilia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
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...
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...
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...
One People's Project

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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
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...
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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
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

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Brains and Eggs

Monday, March 22, 2010

The freedom to be screwed

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