Brains and Eggs: Sunday Evening Funnies

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

Undernews

Best and worst energy efficient states - *WalletHub* today released its report on 2025’s Most & Least Energy-Efficient States,,, To gauge the financial impact of doing more with less energy — t...
Futurism

Trump Admits He Got Jabbed With Multiple Vaccines That His Allies Say Are Poison - Wait a second... why would he do that? The post Trump Admits He Got Jabbed With Multiple Vaccines That His Allies Say Are Poison appeared first on Futuri...
The Verge

SteelSeries’ refreshed Nova 7 gaming headset gets a big battery life boost - SteelSeries is launching the second generation of its popular Nova 7 wireless gaming headset today, with support for real-time audio control and a massive ...
SCOTUSblog

Callais, originalism, and stare decisis - Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Justice Amy ...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend County commissioners pass new voter map after months of redistricting debate - The new voter map passed 3-2 along party lines, with Republican members of the commissioners court voting in favor of it.
Al Jazeera English

Why has Dutch government taken control of China-owned chipmaker Nexperia? - Semiconductor firm Nexperia is owned by Chinese parent company Wingtech.
Bracing Views

Should Senior Military Officers Consider Resigning? - Several Coordinated Resignations Based on Principle Could Make a Difference BILL ASTORE OCT 07, 2025 Should senior military officers consider resigning? Th...
Daily Dot

“We can’t even send our loved ones cards”: An American in France says she’s unable to send letters home to the USA - [image: american cant send letters from paris to usa] An American woman living in France goes to the post office to send a couple of letters to friends a...
Salon.com

Thanks to Trump and the Supreme Court, we’re facing a legal emergency - Thanks to SCOTUS, Trump is now a president with few legal — or constitutional — constraints
memeorandum

Trump cabinet members blame upcoming 'No Kings' protests for prolonging shutdown (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today) - Sarah D. Wire / USA Today: *Trump cabinet members blame upcoming ‘No Kings’ protests for prolonging shutdown* — President Trump's Treasury and Transpor...
The Hill

Coast Guard to get paychecks amid shutdown - U.S. Coast Guard service members will receive paychecks during the government shutdown, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Mo...
Raw Story

Ominous sign flagged in Supreme Court case: 'Rarely do justices order new arguments' - The U.S. Supreme Court will hear new arguments in a voting rights case after they were unable to reach an agreement on the issue in its previous session....
Ian Welsh

Revisiting Original Sin and Identity Politics In the Age of Woke Backlash - It’s our annual fundraiser. We’ve raised a little over $6,845 from 61 people in the last thirteen days, out of our goal of $12,500. If you’re a regular rea...
The Week

Taking the low road: why the SNP is still standing strong - Party is on track for a fifth consecutive victory in May’s Holyrood election, despite controversies and plummeting support
Eschaton

The World is Flat - I don't really know what's happening here, but imagine "Bolivia Takes Control Of US-Owned Chipmaker." BRUSSELS — The Dutch government has granted itself t...
Rewire

Kavanaugh Voted To Overturn ‘Roe’—But His Words Could End Up Helping to Protect Abortion Access - Opinion: Abortion advocates should weaponize the Supreme Court justice's *Dobbs* decision to ensure patients can still get out-of-state reproductive heal...
ArcaMax

Happening Here: Trump-Ordered Indictments Put Us in Tyrant Territory - In 1940, then U.S. Attorney General Robert Jackson gathered the nation's federal prosecutors in the Justice Department's Great Hall to remind them of the s...
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “There’s a lot of weak Republican men and they’re more afraid of strong Republican women. So they always try to marginalize the strong Republican women tha...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half - Entire offices erased at health agency in Friday move before Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error More than a thousand employees at t...
Mediagazer

Instagram overhauls the app for teen users with age-gating, including showing age-appropriate content to Teen Accounts by default, guided by PG-13 movie ratings (David Ingram/NBC News) - David Ingram / NBC News: *Instagram overhauls the app for teen users with age-gating, including showing age-appropriate content to Teen Accounts by defau...
Techdirt.

6 Former Surgeons General Across 6 Administrations Publicly Warn Of The Danger Of RFK Jr. - Six former Surgeons General have gotten together to publicly pen an opinion piece in the Washington Post about the dangers of RFK Jr. The post is fairly lo...
Mediaite

Biden Commends Trump for Getting Gaza Deal ‘Over the Finish Line’ - Biden publicly commended Trump for getting a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas “over the finish line.” The post Biden Commends Trump fo...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “L.A. for Sale” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou catch you up after the long weekend, begi...
Space City Weather

Could a real fall front finally arrive next week? - In brief: Today’s post discusses the difference between ‘humidity’ fronts we’ve had so far this fall, and a stronger front that ushers in colder air. We th...
Election Law Blog

Fusion Voting Before the NJ Supreme Court - In New Jersey, a new political party called the Moderate Party is challenging the state’s ban on fusion voting. The New Jersey Supreme Court is currently...
Mother Jones

The Shutdown Will Worsen Hunger—Which the Trump Administration Just Stopped Tracking - This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The federal government shutdown is stretchin...
Axios

AI will fuel populism and power shifts, JPMorgan Chase says - A new report from JPMorgan Chase warns that AI will shake up global alliances, stoke fresh populism and change the rules of war in the century ahead. *W...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Administration Identifies Huge Threat to Affordable Food Supply: Itself - [image: Farmworkers, pick strawberries, Fort Valley, GA] Hidden deep in the Federal Register, Donald Trump’s own Department of Labor has admitted that the ...
Vox

The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV - How often, on average, do you forget to take your daily meds? For me, it’s about twice a week. And that’s for something as low stakes as a vitamin D supple...
San Antonio Report

Listen: Why the future of San Antonio’s water looks different - [image: SAWS President and CEO Robert PuenteGuests speaks during the ceremony to unveil a new mural honoring the Yanaguana River by local artist Cruz Ortiz...
naked capitalism

Links 10/14/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘Confused’ and ‘Befuddled’ Trump Told To Sit Back Down Because It Wasn’t His Turn To Speak -
Skeptophilia

Loose genes - In the course of writing *Skeptophilia* for nearly fifteen years, I thought I'd run into every purveyor of woo out there. I was wrong. Somehow, I missed...
Daily Cartoonist

ICE Boosts Lalo Alcaraz’s Presence - Southern California cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz has been at the forefront fighting ICE jackbooted tactics. From The Los Angeles Daily News (or here): Pen in ha...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Isaiah Martin - Next up for the special election in CD18 is Isaiah Martin, who like Amanda Edwards had filed to run in the 2024 primary while then-Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ...
Crooked Media

Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Olivia Plath) - The post Lovett or Leave It Presents: Bravo, America! (with Olivia Plath) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Slate

Help! Years Ago, I Found My Mom’s Diary. It Forever Transformed My Relationship With My Dad. - Now she's finally told me the truth.
American Prospect

Democratic Senators Probe ‘Apparent Neglect’ of Detained Flotilla Activists - It took the State Department four days to assess the well-being of American citizens apprehended by Israel for participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Scheerpost.com

From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US - One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
ProPublica

A Year Before Trump’s Crime Rhetoric, Dallas Voted to Increase Police. The City Is Wrestling With the Consequences. - by Rebecca Lopez and Jason Trahan, WFAA ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as ...
Grist

A Michigan town hopes to stop a data center with a 2026 ballot initiative - Local officials see millions of dollars in tax revenue, but more than 950 residents who signed ballot petitions fear endless noise, pollution and higher el...
Dissident Voice

Scott Ritter: A Palestinian Victory! - Scott Ritter: “… what everybody’s forgetting is that the basic terms of this deal are the same terms that Hamas has been laying out since October 7th. An...
High Country News

On not letting go of the past - How do we embrace the new and still hold on to the things that shaped us? The post On not letting go of the past appeared first on High Country News.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 14 October 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Halloween video post, click here.] Ma...
The Root

Professor: Black People Who Attend White Churches May Be In Danger And Not Know It - We know about the evils of white Christian Nationalism. But if you are Black and attend a white church, you may still be in danger. Read more...
Earth 911

Trick or Eco-Treat: Halloween Candy Quandary - With Halloween approaching, many of our readers want to avoid contributing to the problem of... The post Trick or Eco-Treat: Halloween Candy Quandary app...
Consortium News

Gaza Takeover: The Easy Way, or the Hard Way - All Trump’s deal does is hand total victory to Israel. Arab states are key to whether Hamas capitulates, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consor...
Counterpunch

Understanding Public Lands ‘Management’ and Other Hallucinations of Nature - Forest genocide is not new. Its cumulative detrimental effects now threaten our terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. A warming planet and extended regiona...
Portside

New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others To Do the Same - New Mexico Is Providing Free Childcare for All. It’s Time for Others To Do the Same Mark Brody Tue, 10/14/2025 - 01:54
jobsanger

The Black Unemployment Rate Is Rising Fast -
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Inquiry highlights financial ties between building union and big developers - Incolink, a worker entitlement fund jointly controlled by the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union and Master Builders Victoria, has handed ...
Popular Resistance

The US Is Frighteningly Close To A Military Invasion Of Venezuela - The Venezuelan government recently requested action by the United Nations because it has good reason to believe that an attack is imminent. To understand...
Informed Comment

“Ah, my Belovéd, fill the Cup that clears:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:20 - Stanza no. 20 in in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám celebrates wine as a means of escaping lingering shame and the dr...
OpEd News

Oct 14: Nat'l Day of Remembrance - The U.S. Senate passed a resolution to recognize October 14, 2025, Charlie Kirk's birthday, as a National Day of Remembrance.--We can remember whoever we w...
Trivial Knot

Deconversion Narrativization - It’s said that the world is made of stories. But, if that were true, why is translating a personal experience into a story so lossy? Invariably, you must c...
Alternet

'Desire for retribution': Expert details how to bring 'Trump and his thugs' to justice - *We are witnessing lawlessness* on a scale none of us has seen in our lifetimes. It’s so bad that over the weekend, even Kamala Harris was forced to admi...
Progressive.org

When History Repeats Itself - Marla A. Ramírez’s ‘Banished Citizens’ documents the forced removals of Mexican American citizens in the twentieth century.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'MAGA falls for fake Turning Point halftime performing list (which refers to present measles outbreak)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs - *The fact that so many MAGA nuts actually believed this fake list of performers for Turning Point's Halftime show is typical and funny. But the list als...
Antiwar.com

Evaluating Trump’s Claim that Ukraine Can Win the War - “Ukraine,” U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on September 23, “is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back.” He came to this com...
The Greanville Post

GARLAND & LAITH MAROUF: MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH – NO FUTURE FOR “THE COLONY” - GARLAND NIXON—In this comprehensive dialogue between Garland Nixon and Laith Marouf, the discussion centers on the recent conflict involving Palestine and ...
Courthouse News

Can’t sue over unenforced ordinance - TACOMA, Wa. — An apartment complex in Tacoma, Washington, sued the city over a voter-approved ballot initiative intended to regulate the rental housing mar...
Workers World

Nobel Committee awards peace prize to warmonger - [image: Nobel Committee awards peace prize to warmonger] The Norwegian Nobel Committee reached a new low on Oct. 10, selecting Venezuelan reactionary polit...
Reform Austin

Texas Youth Camps Say New Safety Rules Could Force Closures - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas youth camps say they may be forced to shut down due to the high cost of complying with ne...
Ballot Access News

Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, Hires an Outside Attorney to Defend Texas Open Primary Law - On October 9, Jane Nelson, Texas Secretary of State, notified the U.S. District Court that she does not agree with the Texas Attorney General about whether...
See You In 2020

Russia’s anti-fascist fight, Palestine’s resistance, & how the KKE works to hinder both of them - *One of the biggest problems in today’s socialist politics is crude economism, as advanced by Greece’s KKE and its affiliated orgs. This is the problem ...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
CultureMap Houston

Classical music meets digital art at Houston orchestra's immersive soirée - Houston’s ever-adventurous chamber orchestra, *ROCO*, kicked off its 21st season — aptly dubbed *The Season of the Senses *— with a soirée that hit all the...
Deadline Politics

Media Outlets, Ranging From The Atlantic To Newsmax, Refuse To Sign New Pentagon Press Policy - Media outlets ranging from The Atlantic to CNN to Newsmax have so far said that they do not plan for their correspondents to sign a new Pentagon press poli...
Texas Standard

Israeli security guard with family in Houston released from Hamas captivity - Eitan Avraham Mor, who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, was among 20 surviving hostages who were freed Monday. A Houston-based relative of Mor’s was...
Wolf Street

The Huge US Bond Market and the US Dollar Blow Off the “Debasement Trade” - The bond market has taken the opposite bet, and the dollar has strengthened.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio’s No Kings 2.0 protest scheduled for this Saturday could break records … again - San Antonio will join more than 2,500 locations worldwide in holding another No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18 — a demonstration against President D...
Church and State

Our Constitutional verities are vanishing along with chances for saving Planet Earth - Our Constitutional verities are vanishing under Trump, but their loss may prove to be irrelevant as extinction looms sharply ahead.
slacktivist

At least that’s what I’ve read - What's Franklin hiding? Plus various interfaith lights shining in the dark and some vintage VOL.
Daily Howler

MONDAY: Mississippi's miraculous scores! - *MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2025* *Mississippi's children: *There was a time, for quite a few years, when we loved sifting through the reading and math scores f...
The AltWorld

Waiting on images of abject submission that don’t appear - Continued U.S. ‘dominance’ requires striking out in multiple directions, because the unidirectional war on Russia unexpectedly has […] The post Waiting o...
Independent Political Report

Green Candidate Lily Benavides Launches 21-County Write-In Strategy in New Jersey Governor’s Race - Green Party candidate Lily Benavides has announced a 21-county strategy to promote her write-in campaign for New Jersey governor, after being denied ball...
The Conversation

Supreme Court redistricting ruling could upend decades of voting rights law – and tilt the balance of power in Washington - A case being argued at the US Supreme Court could undo one of the last remaining protections for minority voters in a Civil Rights-era voting law.
The Texas Signal

Just How Weird Is Houston Heights - “The Heights used to be weird because there were a lot of artists, musicians, and other interesting people living there,” he said. “Now it’s weird because ...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
First Draft

The Anti-Woke Should Go Back To Bed - A bitter, angry movie about commoners daring to challenge the elite over sexual assault is not the morality tale its producers believe it is.
Mondoweiss

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war - [image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump in the Knesset on Monday, October 13 2025. (Photo: Haim Zach, GPO)]In a spe...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Johnson's Great Society and the Power of Imaginative Policy by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Johnson's Great Society and the Power of Imaginative Policy* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 13, 2025* *Join me in revisiting President Lyndon...
Sludge

Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide - With $26.7 billion in approved Israel arms sales since October 7, 2023, Boeing stands out as a top beneficiary of the Gaza war.
Angry Bear

New and improved! - Earlier this year, my wife traded her 2003 Pontiac Vibe (manual transmission, window cranks) for a 2024 Hyundai Elantra. The Elantra not only has electri...
DeSmogBlog

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist - As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new en...
Glasstire

Meadows Museum Announces Publication Award & Major Exhibition - The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, housing among the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside ...
Project Censored

US Military Power, Media Messaging, and Grassroots Strategies - In the first part of the program, cohost Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show US marine veteran Matthew Hoh to talk about the realities vs. the st...
NPR's Health Shots

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows - Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
The Progressive Wing

10/13-10/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - The shutdown continues…more news, videos, and of course, your comments after the jump.
Discourse

Gaza Still Needs You - This fight is not over.
Second Nexus

People Share Bombshells Their Therapist Dropped That Totally Changed Their Perspective - I love therapy. If only I could afford it regularly. When I was consistent with my sessions, I learned so much. I learned about life as a whole and my...
El Paso Matters

Harmony El Paso’s Class of 2025 sees record class size decline from eighth-grade cohort - An El Paso charter school system’s most recent graduating class lost nearly a third of its students between middle school and their senior year. The pos...
Bonddad

Tabulations of state level reports indicates 228,000 initial claims, 1.938 million continuing claims last week - * - by New Deal democrat* Among the economic data that is not being reported due to the federal government shutdown are initial and continuing jobles...
Democracy Now!

"We Survived the Night": Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History - To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled member o...
Dorf on Law

For Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Classic on What and When to Celebrate - Today is what the federal government calls Columbus Day and what some states (like New York in virtue of a 2021 gubernatorial proclamation) and localitie...
Debunking Christianity

Do You Know God? -
The Daily Poster

How Ticketmaster Made It Impossible To Sue Them - Your legal rights are being stripped away by the ticket company's new terms-of-use agreement.
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Smash and Grab' Toons - Helpful context... • Trump 'border czar' Homan accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents • US offers up to $50k bonus for would-be ICE deportatio...
Unlimited Hangout

The Glenn Beck Podcast - The Glenn Beck Podcast.
Common Dreams

A Beacon Of Hope and Woke Bullshit - Citing the value of “keep(ing) the flame of democracy burning," the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado fo...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTIFA VS. PRO-FA EDITION. - *Just nice.* According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organiz...
ExChristian.Net

Bentham's "Not Paul, But Jesus" Revisited - By William Walter Kay BA JD JEREMY Bentham was born in 1748 unto a line of London lawyers. His father amassed a fortune flipping real estate. England’s yo...
WAWG Blog

Authoritarian Capitalism and Authoritarian Fascism - These examples show that authoritarian capitalism can coexist with a relatively modest ideological veneer, whereas authoritarian fascism embeds a deep, o...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump - Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
MintPress News

Social Media Spies Exposed: Profiles Vanish After MintPress Report - After MintPress exposed ex-CIA and FBI officials working at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, many deleted their profiles and erased incriminating evidence....
Earthworks

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
The Militant

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Capital & Main

It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. In Small-Town Texas, Clean Water Is Elusive. - Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind. The post It’s Brown And Burns Your ...
Krebs on Security

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS - The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. ...
Dissent Magazine

Close Attention - An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
NORML

Major Alcohol Producer Links Cannabis Legalization to Sales Decline - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
Seeing the Forest

The Real AI Question: Who Benefits? - Here’s a different question about AI. Suppose it does what is promised, and does greatly increase productivity, and does bring all kinds of benefits. Who w...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
The NM Political Report

NM’s vaccine shake-up: Governor acts to set independent immunization standards amid CDC turmoil - [image: A bill that temporarily allows New Mexico to formulate its own immunization policy was signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. ] [image: ...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Texas Observer

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting - On September 24, a gunman shot at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, killing two immigrants, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and...
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map - Earlier this week, Utah Republicans proposed a new House map that includes two new competitive seats. It is one of several that a judge will consider ahe...
Crooked Timber

Delighted to be proved wrong - A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice mi...
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Principal Symbol - Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers’ Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
Two Party Opera

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The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
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...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
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...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
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...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Mind Unleashed

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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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...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Novara Media

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
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...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
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...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
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...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
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
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
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...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
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, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
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

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
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...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
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....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
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 ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
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

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

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