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

Al Jazeera English

Kenya arrests suspect in duping men to fight for Russia in Ukraine war - Arrest in Ethiopian border town follows Kenyan intelligence report of more than 1,000 citizens trafficked for war.
The Verge

Google takes control of ‘Android of robotics’ project in quest for physical AI - Google is folding Alphabet's AI robotics "moonshot," Intrinsic, into the company after five years as an independent unit. The move marks a strategic shift ...
Off The Kuff

UT/Texas Politics Project: Crockett 56, Talarico 44 - Adding it to the poll pile. Dallas U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett has a double-digit lead over Austin state Rep. James Talarico in the final days of Texas’ Sen...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Hillary and Bill Clinton to testify in House’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation - Hillary Clinton to testify Thursday from their home in Chappaqua, while Bill Clinton will speak to panel friday Hillary Clinton will testify before congr...
Salon.com

Early vote turnout in Texas outpacing past elections, fueled by Democratic primary voters - Turnout during the first week of voting exceeded the same period for the past two presidential elections
The Hill

Slater’s departure at DOJ signals new era for antitrust under Trump - The abrupt departure of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) top antitrust enforcer is raising questions about the Trump administration’s approach to major an...
Eschaton

Morning - Thunder Thursday
Mediaite

Stephen Colbert’s Cold Open Mocks DOJ’s Missing Epstein Files With a Classic, If Unlikely, ‘Explanation’ - The comedian's show opened with a mock DOJ political intermission offering what it called a “perfectly sound explanation” for the lost files. The post St...
Raw Story

New revelations show the end is near for Trump's Epstein defense - For close on 20 years, the American public has been promised the truth about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. For close on 20 years, that promise has been broke...
ProPublica

Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories - The post Seized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their Stories appeared first on ProPubl...
Axios

Trump didn't endorse them, but they're acting like he did - Republican candidates snubbed by President Trump for primary endorsements have found a workaround: Act like he endorsed them anyway. *Why it matters: *Tr...
Slate

The A.I. Free For All In Schools - An A.I. expert joins to talk about the highs, lows, and inevitabilities of ChatGPT and the like in schools.
Grist

Ski resorts are increasingly reliant on snowmaking. But at what cost? - As the climate changes, mountains and nordic facilities have begun relying more on energy and water-intensive machine-made snow.
naked capitalism

Pets Are Expensive and Shelters Are Packed. Advocates Say Mamdani Should Help. - A proposal to fund spay and neuter surgeries plus low-cost vet clinics and pop-up food pantries seeks to keep pets with their families.
Mediagazer

A Hong Kong appellate court overturns fraud convictions against Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a rare legal victory for the prominent pro-democracy activist (The Guardian) - The Guardian: *A Hong Kong appellate court overturns fraud convictions against Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, a rare legal victory for the prominent pro...
High Country News

The Colorado River rift abides - States’ stalemate persists as Lake Powell races toward de facto deadpool. The post The Colorado River rift abides appeared first on High Country News.
Dissident Voice

Biblical Writ and Christian Zionism: Mike Huckabee, Tucker Carlson and Israel - It was good of Mike Huckabee, US ambassador to Israel, to come clean with the witchery and superstition that marks the Bible. When a text advocating geno...
The Daily Poster

The Court Disarmed Trump’s Tariff Weapon. Who Will Pay? - The Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal. Now comes the messy question: Who will pay — and who gets paid back?
ArcaMax

1 Hour and 47 Minutes - It clocked in as the longest State of the Union speech in history. Probably the only prize it could win? Nastiest? Most theatrical? Maybe. Full of Trumpism...
Countercurrents

Heightened Security Situation in Pakistan - The recent attack on two Rescue 1122 ambulances in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, marks a tragic and shameful moment in Pakistan’s ongoing struggle with violen...
Counterpunch

ICE Brings the War Home - Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulled over several cars in Eagle County, Colorado. They took the people away in handcuffs, acco...
memeorandum

Trump Administration Withholds $259 Million in Medicaid Funds From Minnesota (Chris Cameron/New York Times) - Chris Cameron / New York Times: *Trump Administration Withholds $259 Million in Medicaid Funds From Minnesota* — Vice President JD Vance said that the ...
Portside

U.S. Will Offer Embassy Services in a West Bank Settlement for the First Time - U.S. Will Offer Embassy Services in a West Bank Settlement for the First Time Mark Brody Thu, 02/26/2026 - 01:16
jobsanger

Trump Illegally Grabbed Our Wallets And Refuses To Give The Money Back -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 2562: Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics - Episode: 2562 Paul Samuelson and the textbook Economics. Today, a book that helped educate the world.
Workers World

PDF of February 26 issue - [image: PDF of February 26 issue] Download the PDF Emergency call: No U.S. war on Iran! WW Statement Stop the U.S. attack on Iran! Editorial Workers owed 1...
Informed Comment

17,000 Unaccompanied Orphans in Gaza, in World’s Biggest Orphan Crisis - The reason Gaza has this monstrous number of orphans is that the Israeli government killed their parents, including their mothers
World Socialist Web Site

Palestinian Nerdeen Kiswani files civil rights lawsuit against Zionist Betar USA under Ku Klux Klan Act - Kiswani’s suit alleges that the violent far-right group has been targeting her for over a year, including by supplying her name to the Trump administration...
Daily Cartoonist

Dave McGill -RIP - Engineer, professor, and cartoonist Dave McGill has passed away. David John (Dave) McGill October 1939 – February(?) 2026 From the obituary: Dave’s career ...
Techdirt.

The Pokémon People Care About IP More Than Anything Else, Including Human Life - It will only take a few moments perusing all the headlines of posts we’ve done on the collective group that owns the Pokémon properties to know that they r...
Political Wire

State of the Union Ratings Plunge - Donald Trump’s longest-ever State of the Union address drew 27.8 million viewers across seven broadcast and cable outlets, preliminary Nielsen data showed,...
Alternet

'We will not kneel': Republican launches defiant challenge to Trump - Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist who advised President George W. Bush and the 2008 presidential campaign of Arizona Sen. John McCain, accused Ameri...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

UT's restructuring makes Texas less inclusive and more divided, by Alicia Perez-Hodge - * Friends:* *I urge you to read this opinion on the dissolution of Mexican American and Latino Studies (MALS) at UT written by a highly respected member ...
Courthouse News

Mother of 12-year-old killed in Nebraska plant explosion sues wood pellet producer - Hayven Danielson was one of three killed, along with her younger sister and her father, at Horizon Biofuels in Fremont, Nebraska, last year.
Claytoonz

MAGA Bubble - 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...
Brad Blog

The State of the Union is ... Insane. So is Trump: 'BradCast' 2/25/2026 - As insane as it was, as you may have guessed, we're talking about Tuesday's night State of the Union Address on today's BradCast. But I can say with confid...
WhoWhatWhy

An Analysis of Trump’s ‘Gotcha’ Moment Fox News Will Replay Endlessly - [image: 2026 State of the Union] Republicans celebrated a moment during the State of the Union address when Donald Trump appeared to have caught Democrats ...
Crooked Media

Texas Republicans Return To Islamophobia - The post Texas Republicans Return To Islamophobia appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

The Indian women trawling the worst of the internet to train AI - Moderating AI content can empower women in rural communities – but traumatise them too
The Root

Check Out Black Celebrity Influencer Hannah Bronfman’s Fly NYC Pad - Lifestyle influencer Hannah Bronfman and her husband Brendan Fallis turned a former warehouse space into a warm NoHo loft for their family. Read more...
Ballot Access News

Federal Election Commission Issues Updated Chart Showing Congressional Candidate Filing Deadlines - The Federal Election Commission routinely issues charts showing the dates of congressional primaries, and the filing deadlines for congressional candidates...
Election Law Blog

“Trump’s Push for Election Power Raises Fears He Will ‘Subvert’ Midterms” - Shane Goldmacher and Nick Corasaniti at NYT: “Beginning on his first day in office and continuing for the past year in plain view of the American people,...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend - We’re just a few days away from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, but Houstonians can get into the cowboy spirit this weekend with the World's Champion...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Donald Trump's SOTU, Sage Blair, and 'sex transitioning operations for minors' - Hoping to draw attention away from his disastrous poll numbers and piss poor performance as president, Donald Trump used a small portion of his recent St...
The NM Political Report

Bregman polling: Epstein stories lowered Haaland support in Dem. gov primary - [image: Sam Bregman] Columnists in NM Political ReportPat Davis is the founder and publisher of NM Political Report, City Desk ABQ and the nm.news network...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
Antiwar.com

ICE Brings the War Home - Originally appeared at TomDispatch Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers pulled over several cars in Eagle County, Colorado. They took t...
San Antonio Report

Adam Grant to headline Trinity’s 2026 Cameron Lecture - SPONSORED: Get your free tickets for an evening filled with rethinking, unlearning and staying open to better ways of doing things. ------------------------...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Goes Off On Robert De Niro Over Comments At Counter State Of The Union Event; Actor Said He Felt “Betrayed By My Country” - Democrats’ counterprogramming to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address didn’t get nearly the attention as the big event, but the president himself took...
The Texas Signal

Legal Challenges For Texas Muslim Organizations - In the past several months, Paxton and his office have been quite busy filing lawsuits against developments with ties to the Islamic community
Mother Jones

Trump May Force Banks to Demand Your Papers. Survivors of Abuse Will Pay. - The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would compel banks to collect citizenship information from customers, new and existing, who...
San Antonio Current

Adair Kitchen makes its much-anticipated San Antonio debut - [image: Adair Kitchen spent months refurbishing an shuttered Jim's Restaurant that served the Broadway corridor for 50 years.] The Houston-based restauran...
Vox

One big takeaway from Trump’s SOTU, 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 ...
Wolf Street

Credit Card Delinquencies, Balances, Burden, Credit Limits, and Collections in Q4 2025 - Despite the wailing about tapped-out, struggling and cracking consumers, the credit card delinquency rate dropped to multi-year low.
Progressive.org

Why the Rent-Control Movement Is Growing - The only way to overcome the real estate industry is to have a unified, people-power rent-control movement.
Popular Resistance

The World Needs To Stop Singling Out Israel, By Holding It Accountable - Last week Conservative firebrand and talkshow host Tucker Carlson held an interview with Mike Huckabee who currently serves as the U.S. ambassador to the...
Futurism

Intriguing New Smartphone Design Features a Small Robot Arm - It's like a mini Wall-E that can fit in your pocket. The post Intriguing New Smartphone Design Features a Small Robot Arm appeared first on Futurism.
NPR's Health Shots

Here's what Trump didn't say on health in his speech - In his State of the Union address, President Trump avoided health topics that he spoke of last year, including abortion and cancer. He also didn't mention ...
Socialist Alternative

Fight Trump’s Attacks On Voting Rights - The midterms may seem far off, but Trump is already launching a full-scale assault on voting rights for working people. His regime is putting forward ridic...
Scheerpost.com

‘Arsonist as Fire Chief’: Fed Appoints Wall Street Lobbyist to Key Bank Oversight Role - By Jake Johnson for Common Dreams The Federal Reserve board has quietly appointed a prominent Wall Street lawyer and lobbyist as the central bank’s directo...
Second Nexus

Blizzard Reporter Caught Off Guard When Interview Snowballs Into Rant About Predatory Landlords In NYC - A New Yorker delivered an unexpected State of the Union when asked about the “nostalgia” of the recent blizzard that hit the Northeast. As a reporter st...
Church and State

Donald Trump makes the worst speech of his career. Is it politically fatal? - The majority of voters disapprove of the way President Trump is approaching every single one of his priority issues.
Dorf on Law

Trying to Make a Modicum of Sense Out of Trump's "I Can Destroy It, So Why Can't I Tax It?" Nonsense - In "Trump's Almost Completely Bonkers Reaction to the Tariff Ruling," Professor Dorf bent over backwards to provide arguments that could justify adding t...
OpEd News

West Bank violence continues as Israel aims to annex Christian sites - This article talks about the latest developments in Palestine and the suffering of the Christian Palestinians by the Israeli government new resolutions
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: Aliyah Rahman, in D.C.! - *WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2026* *Marimar Martinez as well:* We plan to return to the State of the Union address—mainly, to the state of the union itself—s...
Novara Media

Poll Shows CRUNCH By-Election Is Three-Horse Race - Reform, Greens and Labour, neck and neck in by-election Plus: We speak to one of the six Palestine Action members acquitted by a jury, and Trump’s showdown...
The Greanville Post

The Changing Nature of War - MS—The video features a detailed and wide-ranging discussion on the evolving nature of warfare, with a focus on technological advancements, nuclear weapons...
Rallblog

Trump Has Good Reasons to Cancel the Midterms - Will there be another election? Americans have asked that question before, and when they did, the reassuring answer has always landed on a variant of “wh...
Consortium News

Jeffrey Sachs to Trump: Give Back the Tariff Money - The White House and Congress can and should provide relief to American families who bore the costs of these illegal tariffs. The administration has the res...
Independent Political Report

A Different Direction for Granite State Politics: Hope from the Constitution Party of New Hampshire - *This article was originally published by A.J. Kierstead on February 23, 2026, in New England Take and is republished here with the express permission of...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Enough with this Fascist Mess: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Sludge

DCCC Rakes in Millions From Palantir Lobbyists as Protests Target the Company’s ICE Surveillance Tools - A new FEC filing reveals the House Democrat campaign arm's latest Palantir lobbying firm fundraising haul.
Texas Standard

AG Ken Paxton sues more out-of-state providers for allegedly shipping abortion pills to Texas - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing more out-of-state providers for allegedly shipping abortion medication into Texas. Paxton’s office announced the...
Idavox

ICE is silencing the children of migrant children - There’s a reason why Trump didn’t mention I.C.E. all that much during his State of... The post ICE is silencing the children of migrant children appeared...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Texas Observer

A New Age for Houston Politics? - Among the youngest cohorts of voting age, there’s a running online joke that they “should’ve been” buying real estate or investing in Bitcoin decades ago...
SCOTUSblog

Justices send litigation about tainted baby food back to state court - Yesterday’s decision in The Hain Celestial Group v Palmquist resolves a technical problem about what to do when district courts make a mistaken ruling ab...
Undernews

Progressive presidential candidates - *Pete Buttigieg* *Kamala Harris* Gavin Newsom *Alexandria Ocasio-Corte*
El Paso Matters

Opinion: To solve El Paso’s drunken driving problem, start with evidence - To meaningfully reduce DWI, El Paso must first better understand the problem. The post Opinion: To solve El Paso’s drunken driving problem, start with ...
Capital & Main

Colorado’s Oil and Gas Industry Is Vastly Underestimating Methane Emissions - Watching from the sky, researchers find planet-warming pollutants leaking into the atmosphere are undercounted by at least two times. The post Colorado’s...
Bonddad

Per Prof. Edward Leamer’s forecasting method, a yellow flag “Recession Watch” is warranted - * - by New Deal democrat* In a landmark paper almost 20 years ago, UCLA Prof. Edward Leamer wrote that “Housing IS the Business Cycle.” In that paper...
The AltWorld

The Golden Corridor, BRICS and Iran’s New World Order - Pepe Escobar: The Golden Corridor, BRICS and Iran’s New World Order reveals how the Golden Corridor and […] The post The Golden Corridor, BRICS and Iran’...
Glasstire

A Different Kind of Trash: An Examination of “Aquarius Rising” by Natalie Melendez - The sun was setting, and a chill stung in the air as a group of people (many wearing jean jackets) gathered outside the Marfa Country Clinic smoking ciga...
Mondoweiss

‘We own Gaza now’: Inside an Israeli interrogation room at the Rafah border crossing - [image: A group of Palestinians arrived at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis after arriving Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, February 22, 2026. (Photo:...
Ian Welsh

Western Elites Are Making A Play For Eternal Oligarchy - We have a very odd spectacle right now: Anthropic’s CEO has said the US government cannot use Anthropic products if they will not guarantee that they won’t...
First Draft

Donny Teavee Has His Moment - Trump is sick, mentally and physically. He had no interest in policies and instead chose to glory in violence.
Rewire

This Pill Treats Postpartum Depression. So Why Don’t More People Take It? - Some 500,000 new parents are diagnosed with PPD each year. Far fewer take Zurzurvae, the first drug specifically designed to treat the condition, three y...
Democracy Now!

“Lies, Gaslighting and Maligning”: Rep. Adelita Grijalva Boycotts Trump's Speech - “I couldn’t in good conscience sit there and listen to Trump go on and on with what we knew was going to be hours of lies, gaslighting and maligning the ve...
Ecosophia

February 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
The Conversation

Why US third parties perform best in the Northeast - Many Americans are unhappy with the two major parties but seldom support alternatives. New England is an exception.
Liberation News

Trump’s rambling can’t hide the real State of the Union: the working class is fighting back! - Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address painted a portrait of a floundering politician, a sorry excuse for a leader, and a classic bully -- beating his c...
Democracy Chronicles

Karl Marx: A Pillar of Democratic Theory in the Age of Inequality - By integrating economic analysis with political philosophy, Marx expands democracy’s horizons and urges modern societies to build systems where all can ope...
NORML

Mainstream Media’s New Era of Reefer Madness - [image: A reefer madness stylized illustration of a man holding a cannabis flower and smoking a joint surrounded by large plumes of marijuana smoke][image...
Space City Weather

After a windy Wednesday, Houston will experience a torrid Thursday, before a splendid Saturday - In brief: Winds will really kick up on Wednesday as the onshore flow gets going, and this will lead to very warm conditions on Thursday. A weak front will ...
Earth 911

The Earth911 Rain Garden Installation Guide - When it rains, water runs off your roof, driveway, and sidewalks, picking up fertilizers, oil,... The post The Earth911 Rain Garden Installation Guide ap...
Angry Bear

What is college for? - My parents were both college grads. My dad was an MIT-trained chemical engineer. My mom had a bachelor’s degree in psychology. After she finished college...
The Smirking Chimp

Five Volatile Moments From Trump’s 2026 State of the Union Speech -
Skeptophilia

Off the charts - Way back around 1910, Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung and American astronomer Henry Norris Russell independently found a curious pattern when they did ...
See You In 2020

The attempt to sell AOC’s imperialism to Gen Z, & the solidarity movement that can break this psyop - The post-Covid generation’s break from Kamala Harris over Gaza must precipitate a break from AOC over all of her pro-imperialist positions. Waging this ...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
Crooked Timber

Imperia: A European Culture Story, Part 2 - Some Americans have been talking about our shared European culture lately! As CT’s resident American-in-Europe, I feel I must respond. So, here’s a Europ...
Earthworks

What is a Water Quality Certification and Why Does Air Products Need One? - Over the holidays, Air Products pushed through a public comment period for something called a Water Quality Certification, a necessary … The post What i...
The Grayzone

NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence - The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, i...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #16: The DNC's Secret 2024 Autopsy, Kash Patel at the Olympics, and War With Iran (w/Katherine Krueger) - Also: Wuthering Heights and the East Coast blizzard!
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

One-Party Dominance in the States: Only a Few Have Party Diversity Among Their Statewide Officeholders - In 41 of the 50 states, every statewide executive office is held by the same party—a striking indicator of the scope of political polarization today. In ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 24 February 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the "Brokeback of the Dead" video, click here. ...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
Project Censored

Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation - First up, Medea Benjamin joins the show to debunk a whole lotta US propaganda about Cuba. Having just returned from the island nation, Medea explains the...
Environment Texas

House of Representatives to vote this week on bill to gut energy efficiency standards - Bill would hand the executive branch new powers to attack existing efficiency standards and create roadblocks to future updates. The post House of Repres...
The Progressive Wing

2/23-24 News Roundup and Open Thread - Starting the week up here with plenty of snow.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Leaving MAGA Behind - Matt and Sam talk to writer Pedro L. Gonzalez about his break with MAGA and the New Right.
Common Dreams

For Now A Prince. How Long Till A (Fake) King? - The arrest of the U.K. rapist formerly known as Prince, and the echoing, trans-Atlantic edict that no one is above the law, lay ever-barer America's "tru...
Alas, a Blog

History, Rhyming - The title is a reference to an aphorism that’s often mistakenly attributed to Mark Twain: “History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes.” Like many pe...
Bracing Views

Why We Fight Wrongful Wars - Ours Not to Reason Why BILL ASTORE FEB 22, 2026 If you’re looking to “your” military to resist wrongful wars, you’re looking in the wrong place. I should k...
LareDOS

During Saturday’s international Abrazo Ceremony, community members of los dos Laredos deployed giant banners on both sides of Río Grande, declaring “NO BORDER WALL!” - Kayakers with “KEEP THE RIVER FREE” signs paddled downriver as the historic “hug” of goodwill took place
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: A TARIFF-IC REVERSAL EDITION. - *A little spring for your step.* Tubby got defied by the usually compliant U.S. Supreme Court on tariffs, which just goes to show that in this country a ...
Krebs on Security

‘Starkiller’ Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA - Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abu...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas’ Ten Commandments Law is in Court. Here’s Why TFN is Fighting SB 10. - By Calvin WarnerTexas Freedom Network Board Member Texas classrooms belong to all of us; to children of every faith, and of none. But when Governor Greg ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
MintPress News

The Dalai Lama – Epstein Connection - A prominent Epstein guest recalls meeting the Buddhist teacher at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion, scene of many of his most serious sex crimes. The post The...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! Build protests against US blockade - Cuban people, gov’t organize to defend their revolution Since late January, when Washington imposed a blockade on Cuba’s access to imported oil, the U.S. r...
Debunking Christianity

Convincing Evidence for a Real Jesus Still Can’t Be Found - *Close study of the Bible and other ancient texts isn’t helping* My very devout mother was born in southern Indiana in 1905. It was always a puzzle to ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
DeSmogBlog

Carney Government Knew Carbon Capture Was ‘Very Limited,’ Docs Show - When Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last November he would support a massive new oil sands pipeline to the west coast, he presented the deal as a w...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 20, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/20/2026 - 06:12 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Unlimited Hangout

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

Rubio’s civilizational appeals will backfire - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference demonstrated he is a better diplomat than Vice President J.D. Vance, although ...
Seeing the Forest

Colbert, CBS, FCC and Election Interference - Colbert stood up to the FCC and the new CBS. This is good. But what we’re seeing here is not really a story of the little people overcoming the boot on the...
Greg Palast

Jesse Jackson: My Reverend, My Brother - For 50 years, we fought side-by-side and sometimes fought face-to-face. He's the only man, other than my dad, I've ever kissed. A year ago, when I kissed h...
Field Negro

The Field Negro Power Rankings. (FNPR) - 10. *Joy Reid:* She dropped down a little bit. But she is still out here contributing important social commentary and capturing the zeitgeist of our t...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: The 'OCCK’ Begins - February 15, 1976—which was fifty [50] years ago from this blog topic’s publishing date—also fell on a Sunday. It turned out to the beginning of a seria...
TalkLeft

Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...
The Rag Blog

ROXANN WEDEGARTNER / BOOK REVIEW / From the Octagon: People, Places, News, Views by Allen Young. - By Roxann Wedegartner / The Rag Blog / February 14, 2026 Royalston, Maine, resident, author, and journalist, Allen Young, is at it again. His latest book, ...
Moron Majority

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

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Trivial Knot

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Brains and Eggs

Monday, March 22, 2010

The freedom to be screwed

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