Brains and Eggs: Massa insanity

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

US State Department adviser wanted to boost French far-right leader Marine Le Pen (Eric Bazail-Eimil/Politico) - Eric Bazail-Eimil / Politico: *US State Department adviser wanted to boost French far-right leader Marine Le Pen* — Samuel Samson, a political appointe...
The Verge

M3gan 2.0 is a fun upgrade that’s a little too self-aware - Universal and Blumhouse's first M3gan feature came out of nowhere with a premise so ridiculous and campy that it was hard not to be at least a little intri...
Eschaton

Squid Game - Haaretz: Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites over the past month. Conv...
Al Jazeera English

Why is Mexico threatening to sue Elon Musk over SpaceX debris? - How debris from fourth SpaceX launch failure this year fell into Mexico; what is the danger of space debris generally?
Space City Weather

The sky may open up on parts of the Houston area again today with more pop up storms expected - In brief: Another round of localized heavy rain, street flooding, and lightning will be possible this afternoon somewhere near or just northwest of Highway...
Vox

A million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decision - The deadliest country in the world for young children is South Sudan — the United Nations estimates that about 1 in 10 children born there won’t make it to...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Briefing on Iran strikes divides senators as Trump pours fuel on tensions | First Thing - A partisan split was revealed as the president claimed the Democrats leaked a draft Pentagon report on the strikes’ impact. Plus, an exclusive interview ...
Techdirt.

Promises The ‘Trump Phone’ Would Be ‘Made In USA’ Lasted 1/100th Of A Scaramucci - Last week we noted how the Trump administration had cooked up a half-assed wireless phone company. Even calling it a phone company is generous: It’s basica...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio June 27, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 06/27/2025 - 17:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
The Hill

Mamdani 'not at all' worried Cuomo not dropping out - New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, the apparent winner of the Democratic primary, said he’s “not at all” worried about former Gov. Andrew Cuom...
ArcaMax

Saving Birds and Helping Humanity - Birds are dying at an alarming rate, and it's a warning sign to humans that the quality of our environments are getting worse. Bird populations are an ecos...
Mediaite

‘Hold On!’ CNN Anchor Bristles at Trump Fan Citing Fear of ‘a Muslim Mayor’ If Mamdami Wins - Abby Phillip objected when Trump fan Angie Wong cited "fear" of a "Muslim mayor" causing an exodus if Zohran Mamdani wins in New York. The post ‘Hold On!...
Houston Public Media

Pride parade losing sponsors (June 27, 2025) - On Friday's show: Organizers of this weekend's Pride festival and parade talk about the sponsorship funds they've lost as DEI and LGBTQ+ initiatives have c...
Scheerpost.com

Trump Is Setting the US Economy Up for Another Great Financial Crisis - Trump and tech capitalists like Elon Musk are trying to become kingpins of a largely unregulated financial system.
Raw Story

'You heard it here': CNN panel erupts in laughter over GOP analyst's Trump idea - A conservative analyst's idea had an entire CNN panel laughing early Friday morning. Conservative blogger and journalist Rob Bluey appeared on CNN ahead ...
Axios

Trump administration tries to oust the University of Virginia's president - The Trump administration has moved to oust University of Virginia President James Ryan because of a disagreement over the institution's diversity policie...
Political Wire

Maine Voters Don’t Like Susan Collins - A new Pine Tree State poll in Maine finds Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) at just 14% favorability and with an unfavorability of 57 percent.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Three Mystifying Mysteries - Today is the Big Day — the start of three Big Days — if you think the Bezos/Sanchez wedding is the event of the season. For my part, I’m mystified by the w...
Mediagazer

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times) - Michael Pooler / Financial Times: *Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to r...
Consortium News

NATO’s Obscene 5 Percent Pledge - Medea Benjamin responds to leaders of the Atlantic alliance setting a military-spending target for themselves so staggering it exceeds that of the U.S. By ...
WhoWhatWhy

Israel’s ‘Dirty Harry Moment’: How 12 Days Changed the Middle East Forever - [image: Israel, Dirty Harry moment] Former Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren reveals the “original sin” and decades-long miscalculation that led to this mome...
Daily Dot

“Aren’t aquariums tax-exempt?”: Viral Boca Raton jewelry store snafu sparks outrage - In a viral 10-second video, mom Kaurie Raye (@thekaurieraye) finds out that this Florida attraction isn't what it seems. Her video now has more than 4.6 ...
naked capitalism

Links 6/27/2025 -
The Week

No self-portraits: why art galleries are banning selfies - Priceless art has been damaged by visitors desperate to take a snap with star attractions, leading some galleries and museums to start fighting back
The Smirking Chimp

Supreme Court Bends Again to Trump’s Will -
Off The Kuff

Paxton minions hurl accusations at each other - What a nest of vipers the AG’s office must be. Several former and current top aides of Attorney General Ken Paxton are trading explosive accusations in leg...
Slate

Help! I’m a Professor. My Students Are Failing to Learn a Crucial Lesson at Home. - They’ve never done these basic things!
Mother Jones

The Other Reason MAGA Is Melting Down Over Iran - When President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Saturday that the United States had bombed three sites in Iran, he spoke to a MAGA-verse divided. ...
San Antonio Report

LGBTQ+ leaders celebrate wins, push for an even more inclusive San Antonio - The San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosted a luncheon where LGBTQ+ leaders from all sectors celebrated the city's progress. ---------------------------...
American Prospect

New Byrd Violations Threaten Trump’s Beautiful Bill - The parliamentarian kicked out a key Medicaid provision, part of a $587 billion rollback in spending cuts. Republicans don’t have good options to deal with...
Courthouse News

Contributor-Test-Post-2025-06-27 -
NPR's Health Shots

U.S. uninsured rates could resurge if Trump's budget bill passes - Millions could lose health insurance as the Trump administration and GOP-controlled Congress weigh major changes to the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid. "...
ProPublica

States Fear Critical Funding From FEMA May Be Drying Up - by Jennifer Berry Hawes ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrong...
Grist

A year after Helene, river guides in Appalachia are navigating a new world - The first tourist season since the storm reveals how much the river and livelihoods have changed.
High Country News

The Trump administration is asking park rangers to rewrite history - And some national park site staffers are pushing back. The post The Trump administration is asking park rangers to rewrite history appeared first on Hig...
SCOTUSblog

Announcement of opinions for Friday, June 27 - On Friday, June 27, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about op...
Crooked Media

Hot Zohran Summer - The post Hot Zohran Summer appeared first on Crooked Media.
Rallblog

Do You Have What It Takes? - ICE agents are despised for their brutal treatment of migrants and anyone who crosses them, acting like spineless cowards by hiding their identities. Who...
Counterpunch

Roaming Charges: After Midnight - + Trump mega-bombed a mountain in Iran and called it peace. Unfortunately, he didn’t bomb what was beneath the mountain. If anything. If the objective wa...
Election Law Blog

More evidence of the Trump mobilization of lower-frequency voters - The NYT headline is “If Everyone Had Voted, Harris Still Would Have Lost.” Which, of course, is impossible to know, unless you assume that demographics...
jobsanger

Marriage Equality Would Be In Danger If Obergefell Decision Is Overturned -
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: The World’s Oldest Kitten - Meow from Perry Mason.
World Socialist Web Site

Berlin judge, who ruled against the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei, to head secret service in Brandenburg - In November 2021, Presiding Judge Peters rejected the complaint filed by the Socialist Equality Party against the federal Interior Ministry and Verfassungs...
Informed Comment

The Assault on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: The US v. Canada - “These first few months [have resulted] in the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific and medical research, clampdown on any efforts promoting diversit...
Crooked Timber

The Protestant Work Ethic, Libertarianism, and the Welfare State - Many thanks to Hannah for her beautiful post on George Eliot’s Silas Marner and the evacuation of moral purpose from the Protestant work ethic. That resona...
The Greanville Post

MY COUNTRY, ’T’IS OF THEE… - PAUL EDWARDS—I was born American. I was taught to love my native land, and instructed in the reasons that I should. In youth, I was made to understand it...
Workers World

Iran’s stance on the right to self-defense - [image: Iran’s stance on the right to self-defense] Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi made the following statement to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (The New Arab...
Alternet

'Thank you for your attention to this matter': Senator trolls Trump on his own platform - Much as he did with Twitter in his first term, President Donald Trump has made Truth Social a primary tool for communicating with the world during his se...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Makes Legal Threat To CNN And The New York Times Over Their Reporting On Iran Intel Assessment - Donald Trump has again threatened news outlets over coverage he dislikes, this time The New York Times and CNN over their reporting on a preliminary intell...
Brad Blog

Thank You For Your Attention to This Matter: 'BradCast' 6/26/2025 - It's our last BradCast before we head off for a 4th of July respite next week. Which means we're trying to fit in a whole bunch of stuff into one single sh...
Portside

At a Bleak Political Moment, Zohran Mamdani Offers Hope - At a Bleak Political Moment, Zohran Mamdani Offers Hope jay Thu, 06/26/2025 - 21:17
Ballot Access News

Andrew Cuomo Won’t Remove His Name from November Ballot - Andrew Cuomo will not withdraw his name from the November 2025 New York city mayoral ballot, according to this story. He is on under the label “Fight and D...
OpEd News

Don't Mess with the Zohran (poem) - A reactionary poem about the ascension of Zohran Mamdani to the roof of taxi cabs in NYC. He's a Muslim!
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: Starvation And Profiteering In Gaza - There is not much more that can be said about the unfathomable levels of devastation the genocide in Gaza has reached. Francesca Albanese, the United Nat...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Senate parliamentarian order removal of gender-affirming care ban from Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs - *Senate parliamentarian orders removal of gender-affirming care ban from GOP reconciliation bill *- *I'm personally opposed to the bill in general bein...
Angry Bear

Jobless claims indicate employment market continues to weaken, but still not recessionary - – by New Deal democrat Jobless claims continue to tell us two things: (1) the jobs market continues to slowly weaken, but (2) it is not recessionary. Th...
The Grayzone

Funcionario de Trump: el director de la CIA “toma dictado” del Mossad sobre Irán - Un funcionario de la administración Trump le cuenta a The Grayzone que el Mossad israelí está usando al director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe y al jefe del ...
Antiwar.com

NATO’s 5% Pledge: An Obscene Betrayal of Global Needs - At this week’s NATO summit in The Hague, leaders announced an alarming new goal: push military spending to 5% of nations’ GDP by 2035. Framed as a response...
Progressive.org

Blaming Those Who Are Left Behind - In our inaccessible society, people have been misinformed about what it's like to live with a disability—and that's informing their decision on whether or ...
Salon.com

“They should be prosecuted!”: Trump blames Dems for Iran intel leaked to CNN - The FBI is investigating the origins of a leak related to the Iranian strikes, but Trump is blaming Democrats
Common Dreams

Free Press Mourns Bill Moyers - Bill Moyers, the esteemed journalist, presidential adviser and philanthropist, died on Thursday at age 91 in New York. In the early 2000s, Moyers played ...
CultureMap Houston

Derby glam takes over Houston at Bo’s Place’s signature fête - A rainbow of fascinators fluttered, linen suits caught the breeze, and guests sipped mint juleps as if *Churchill Downs* had taken a stylish detour through...
Undernews

- *Physician reveals what Kennedy gets wrong on vaccine safety*
The Militant

SWP holds int’l conference as conflicts, wars sharpen -
Wolf Street

The Corporate-Profit Explosion Stalls in Q1, on the Eve of the New Tariffs - In some industries, profits surged. In others, profits sagged. By major industry.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Futurism

WhatsApp Deploys AI, for Those Incapable of Comprehending Straightforward Messages From Their Friends and Family - AI Busy Bee WhatsApp is now offering AI summaries of text threads for those too lazy to read through their messages themselves. In a press release, the M...
San Antonio Current

Sixth Bexar County Jail inmate dies while in custody this year - A 36-year-old woman in custody of the Bexar County Jail has become its sixth inmate to die this year, KSAT reports. Joanna Ginez, who was initially booked...
Reform Austin

Ft. Worth Republican Files for Newly Vacant Senate Seat - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Fort Worth Republican Rep. Nate Schatzline on Wednesday announced that he is running to fill a ...
Dissident Voice

Depopulation - What and who is depopulation all about? The post Depopulation first appeared on Dissident Voice.
Second Nexus

Fox Host Slams Dem For Dropping An F-Bomb After Praising Trump For The Same Thing Just Minutes Earlier - Fox News host Emily Compagno was criticized after she praised Donald Trump's use of the "f-bomb" earlier this week before condemning Texas Democratic Rep...
Church and State

Will Trump’s Iran attack give him renewed power? - At this point, it would seem that Trump’s taking the action he did would greatly enhance his political status.
Rewire

TransMissives - Since 2022, more than 2,400 bills attempting to chip away at trans rights have been introduced across the United States, in both state capitols and in Wa...
Claytoonz

TACO Daddy - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Discourse

Zohran Mamdani's Win is Dividing His Enemies - The pragmatists will always play ball, while the ideologues pay the bills.
Texas Observer

Moonlighting Midland Prosecutor Means Freedom for Samuel Sanchez - Samuel Junior Sanchez had served around 15 years of a 75-year sentence for a violent road-rage incident and had seemingly exhausted all appeals when his ...
Liberation News

The sordid history of US intervention in Iran - Iran is seen by the U.S not as a country with people who have rights, but as a prize to be snatched.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico sues Air Force over PFAS contamination at Cannon AFB - [image: Firefighters with the 27th Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron test hose water pressure before an exercise Aug. 14, 2015, at Cannon Air Fo...
Ian Welsh

Does Zohran Mamdani Matter? - [image: Does Zohran Mamdani Matter?] So, Democratic Socialist (ie. has politics a 70s liberal would have agreed with, but is less racist) Zohran Mamdani h...
DeSmogBlog

Climate Activists Protest at London Headquarters of Global Ad Giant WPP - Climate campaigners turned out on Wednesday in London to occupy the lobby of UK-based communications giant WPP, demanding that the company stop working f...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

The Supreme Court Dealt A Blow to Trans Rights. Here's How to Take Action - Last week, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to trans youth, their families and the communities that support them. In a 6-3 decision, the Suprem...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Voters hate the bill when they know what's in it! - *THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2025* *Also, they don't know what's in it: *The zone is flooded every day—and the day of reckoning for the budget bill continues to d...
Dorf on Law

US Global Insanity, Preceded by Some Thoughts About Some Irish Icons - In my *Dorf on Law* column earlier this week announcing my very recent move to Ireland, I wrote: "Settling in will of course take some more time, but I w...
Project Censored

The Problem with AI War Games - Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions. Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-...
Mondoweiss

Mask off Maersk campaign pressures shipping giant to drop Israeli settlements - [image: A Maersk container being loaded to the Sealand New York container ship at the Port of Seattle on June 8, 2009. (Photo: Flickr/Bari Bookout)]In a wa...
The Daily Poster

Iran Regime Change, Brought To You By Dark Money - Neocon think tanks demanding that Trump overthrow Iran’s government — no matter the risks — are funded by anti-Muslim billionaires and fossil fuel fortunes.
The Root

Anna Wintour Exits Vogue While A Black Editor Awaits The Call - Black Editors Are Rising — Will Vogue Catch Up? Read more...
Texas Standard

City of Sugar Land buys historic district - Plans call for the redevelopment of the property once owned by Imperial Sugar, including the historic Char House.
Bud Kennedy

A year in jail for a THC snack? Texans are unhappy with Republicans | Opinion - Texans are sick of our elected officials. But probably not sick enough to get rid of any of them. We don’t like any of our state leaders, according to a … ...
Capital & Main

A Fear Pandemic Grips Safety Net Hospitals and Their Patients - With immigration raids on the rise, many in need of health care are choosing to remain at home. The post A Fear Pandemic Grips Safety Net Hospitals and T...
Sludge

Walmart, Nike, and Starbucks Say They’re Green, But Fund the Fight Against Climate Laws - The companies and others are helping powerful lobbying groups fight lawmakers' efforts to address climate change.
Environment Texas

Should you be worried about the ‘Insect Apocalypse’? - Insects are vanishing fast. Here’s why we should care and what we can do about it. The post Should you be worried about the ‘Insect Apocalypse’? appeared...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso’s future takes vision and collaboration - A unique collaboration of public and private partners is coming together to make the Deck Plaza a reality. The post Opinion: El Paso’s future takes visi...
Rio Grande Guardian

McAllen Mayor: Bridge crossings are down 25 percent - Mayor Javier Villalobos says the City of McAllen relies heavily on sales tax revenues. He says a reduction is going to have implications for the city's n...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging into a New 2024 Postmortem: Findings from Pew’s Validated Voter Study - Pew's validated voter study of 2024 just published -- what does it tell us, and how does it compare to other 2024 analyses? The post Digging into a New 2...
Bonddad

Jobless claims indicate employment market continues to weaken, but still not recessionary - -* by New Deal democrat* Jobless claims continue to tell us two things: (1) the jobs market continues to slowly weaken, but (2) it is not recessiona...
Glasstire

Top Five: June 26, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Roll the Windows Down Galleri Urbane (Dallas) June 21 –...
The AltWorld

Let Trump Save Us from War with Iran - The ongoing pundit discussions whether or not the US attack destroyed the three Iranian nuclear facilities, which […] The post Let Trump Save Us from War...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Supporters Prioritize Teacher Pay in Latest Education Survey - The Forward Party surveyed its supporters this week on where they believe the government should invest in the education system, with a majority of respon...
Democracy Now!

“Buy More U.S. Weapons”: "Daddy" Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries - President Donald Trump has returned to Washington after a NATO summit where leaders agreed to increase their military spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, more t...
The Conversation

Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds - Users on TikTok gravitate to networks of like-minded people, but right-leaning users tend to be in more tightly sealed echo chambers.
Skeptophilia

The feral child - A point I've made before, but one I think is absolutely critical to skeptics, is that sometimes we simply don't have answers -- and are forced to admit t...
Earth 911

3 Simple Earth-Friendly Summer Recipes - One of my favorite things about summer is the recipes it inspires with the bounty... The post 3 Simple Earth-Friendly Summer Recipes appeared first on Ea...
See You In 2020

Kash Patel’s war on dissent, & the “dissident” media figures who’ve sold him as an anti-establishment hero - The Kash Patel psyop has cost our social movements many months of extremely precious time in the fight against repression. It’s created hubris where the...
NORML

NORML Op-Ed: Debunking Cannabis Potency Myths - [image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower][image: a legal cannabis joint rests atop a cannabis flower]Unlike alcohol (which is readily ...
slacktivist

Stop asking the wrong question. Be a neighbor. - "The fundamental civic unit in this nation is neighbor. ... Are you prepared to see them treated this way?"
Texas Freedom Network

The Twenty-Two-Hour Hearing That Couldn’t Break Us: Texan Volunteers Fight for Democratic Process - By: Elva Mendoza and Erika Slaymaker Excitement and inspiration gave way to frustration, disappointment, anger, and aggravation. Calculations were made: ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Can Have Better: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The Mamdani victory is a moment of joy and a roadmap to the future
Socialist Alternative

Zohran Mamdani Stuns The Establishment In NYC Mayoral Primary - This is an initial statement by Socialist Alternative on the New York City mayoral election. We will publish a fuller analysis in the coming days. In a dra...
Ecosophia

June 2025 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...
alicublog

YOU SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS ARE BEYOND YOUR COMMAND. - Regular readers know I lived most of my life in New York and love it in the bittersweet way of exile. So the mayoral primary victory of Zohran Mamdani ...
ROAR Magazine

Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal - Proteção jurídica completa para apostadores desportivos no Frank Casino Portugal Table of Contents O que é a proteção jurídica para apostadores desportivos...
Earthworks

By Rewriting LNG Rules, Trump Could Further Endanger the Health and Safety of Americans - People who live with liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) plants and pipelines in their communities face significant risks to their health … The post By Rewrit...
Dissent Magazine

The Struggle Against Autocracy in Asia - An interview with Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of *The Milk Tea Alliance*.
The Texas Signal

Marking Three Years Of Dobbs - A storyteller summit convenes dozens of advocates in the reproductive freedom field from Texas and the nation
Bracing Views

The 12-Day War? - Israel, Iran, and the U.S. Theater of Death BILL ASTORE JUN 24, 2025 Last night, President Trump declared the so-called 12-Day War between Israel and Iran ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Sen. Juan Hinojosa successfully led efforts to require state and local governments to improve responses to public information requests or face consequences, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, received legislative approval for House Bill 4219, of which she was the Senate sponsor, that will ...
Media Lens

‘A Short Book About Ego… And The Remedy Of Meditation’ – An Extract - Introduction – The Machine And The ‘Horse Of The Apocalypse’ Today, Media Lens co-editor David Edwards is publishing his first solo book for 27 years, ‘A S...
Infidel753

The Israel-Iran war - Twelve days into the current hot war between Israel and Iran, a clearer picture is emerging, although the ultimate outcome remains murky. Israel's priorit...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
The Progressive Wing

6.23-28 Open Threads - Hola mes amigos y amigas, 🙂 When we hit over 100 comments on here (terrific!), we have to clear the Nest and make room for new OTs. Anywho, the two big b...
Nina Illingworth

Forever At Forever War With Iran - On Saturday night US President Donald Trump bombed Iran and put the entire world in peril, but America's forever war against Iran is already decades old....
LareDOS

USDA launches New World Screwworm (NWS) sterile fly facility near Mission to protect livestock and wildlife - Once eradicated in the 1960s, NWS now detected in Veracruz and Oaxaca, 700 miles from the U.S. border
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Trivial Knot

Coming out as political action - Coming out isn’t what it used to be. Literally, “coming out” has a rich history of different meanings. Originally it referred to young women coming of age ...
Lowering the Bar

Man Forced to Concede His Lawyer Is “Not a Real Person” - [image: you tube video of man's AI trying to argue appeal]Not much intelligence was displayed here, artificial or otherwise.
Debunking Christianity

Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? - *Theological humility would be admitting profound ignorance about god(s)* When I was in seminary, Boston University School of Theology, during the 1960...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Paola Ramos explores her book 'Defectors' about right-wing Latino voters | Horizonte - *Friends:* *Paola Ramos—journalist, MSNBC correspondent, and daughter of Univision anchor Jorge Ramos—offers a timely and provocative reflection on Latin...
MintPress News

The Caledonian Cousinhood: How the Zionist Movement Embedded Itself in Scottish Life - For well over a century, a small circle of Scottish Jewish families has funded and staffed a movement to defend Israel’s colonial project. This is their ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

World War III and Other Simulacra - And so the global-capitalist empire’s destabilization and restructuring of the Middle East continues. Yes, I’m referring to Israel’s “preemptive attack” on...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Greg Palast

The Only Thing Worse Than FEMA is NO FEMA - Last Tuesday, Trump announced plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season. As our investigations have shown, the only thing worse than FEMA ...
Democracy Chronicles

PHOTOS: At the Chicago “No Kings” Protest - These were people whom I would call the salt of the earth: coaches, teachers and nurses. The everyday people who love our country.
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2024: Biden Drops Out - This month marks one year since the presidency of *Joe Biden* was drawing to its effective close. The 46th U.S. president and 47th U.S. vice president an...
Krebs on Security

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs - Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platform...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
The Rag Blog

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Brains and Eggs

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Massa insanity

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