Brains and Eggs: Ignorance isn't bliss

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Deadline Politics

RFK Jr. Hosts New YouTube Cooking Show - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long been an adventurous eater. Now, he’s taking his taste buds on tour. The Secretary of Health and Human Services has launched ...
Axios

Tim Cook says Apple may charge for AI Siri - Apple hinted Thursday that heavy users of its revamped Siri may have to pay for access. *Why it matters: *It's the first time that Apple has confirmed it...
Political Wire

Trump’s Effort to Gut Education Rebuked by Senators - “The Trump administration’s bid to dismantle the Education Department was rebuked on Thursday by the Senate education committee, which approved a bipartisa...
memeorandum

Senate education committee blocks parts of Trump's Education Department breakup (Mackenzie Wilkes/Politico) - Mackenzie Wilkes / Politico: *Senate education committee blocks parts of Trump's Education Department breakup* — The Senate education committee approve...
Crooked Media

The Battle For Massachusetts’ 8th District - The post The Battle For Massachusetts’ 8th District appeared first on Crooked Media.
Liberation News

Six months later, the lessons of January in Minnesota cannot be forgotten - The only language the ruling class understands is the language of power - the strike, the shutdown, and militant mass mobilization
Alternet

Insiders fear top aides are hiding the truth from Trump - Republican insiders are increasingly nervous that President Donald Trump is living in ignorance, even as he conducts a major war that he started and tram...
Mediagazer

Filing: Anne Sweeney has resigned from Netflix's board after more than 11 years; the company noted her departure is not due to any disagreement (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Todd Spangler / Variety: *Filing: Anne Sweeney has resigned from Netflix's board after more than 11 years; the company noted her departure is not due to ...
Al Jazeera English

Security camera shows ‘Russian missile’ exploding in Poland - Security camera video shows the moment a suspected Russian missile exploded inside Poland.
NPR's Health Shots

After Fauci Senate hearing, experts worry about 'chilling effect' on public health - The accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci, once the nation's leading infectious disease expert, have some experts worrying that these events may further er...
Mother Jones

Can Opposing Data Centers Help Progressives Win? - When Donald Trump came to Michigan last week to speak at a General Motors vehicle-testing facility, he likely expected to find a friendly crowd. That wasn...
Election Law Blog

Watch Video of My Interview with Patt Morrison on American Democracy, the Midterms, and the Supreme Court - Watch here as part of the “America at a Crossroads” series: The post Watch Video of My Interview with Patt Morrison on American Democracy, the Midterms, ...
The Daily Poster

He Left The GOP. Now He Has A Warning For Democrats. - A lifelong Republican left his party in 2016. Ten years later, he says Democrats are making the same mistakes — and the end result could be worse than Dona...
Mediaite

BREAKING: GOP Senator’s Daughter Slaps Restraining Order On Ex-Husband and Current Congressman - Sen. Bernie Moreno's (R-OH) daughter has filed a restraining order against her ex-husband, Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) whom she has accused of domestic abuse....
Capital & Main

SoCal Cities are Placing Homeless Shelters in Polluted Industrial Areas - Officials are turning to industrial and manufacturing zones to site shelters — and avoid public pushback — a Capital & Main review of 30 cities found. T...
Futurism

Almost the Entire Country Is Drowning in Cases of Explosive Diarrhea - So much for "under control." The post Almost the Entire Country Is Drowning in Cases of Explosive Diarrhea appeared first on Futurism.
Novara Media

Is Sitting Down Terrorism Now? - Steven Methven reports from a Defend Our Juries protest during which multiple people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism, seemingly for just sitti...
Eschaton

Biden's Failed First Two Years - Related to this, the big untold story of the Biden administration is how he enraged a bunch of B-listers who believed it was their turn to have status an...
Slate

Harvard Fought Trump’s Abuses. Yale May Fold. I Think I Know Why. - Seeking to set a new course for the conservative movement, J.D. Vance in 2021 declared war on institutions of American higher education.
naked capitalism

Logotherapy in an Age of Frustration: Finding Meaning Through the Creative Act - Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy offers a path to meaning through creative action, even in a world shaped by frustration
MintPress News

Iran’s Shock Strike Strategy Against US Assets Opens Multiple Fronts - While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the regio...
The Hill

Democrats demand answers 6 months after ICE pledge on body cameras - Democratic lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee hammered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to deliver on a pledge to equip i...
The Texas Signal

Data Centers Meet Their Skeptics - In nearly every corner of Texas, bipartisan activists are voicing their disapproval of data centers
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Did the GOP win the redistricting wars? - *THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026* *That's what the Cook Report says: *We Blues! Our tribunes keep stressing the president's approval numbers. Pleasingly, those ...
Independent Political Report

Iowa Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate Plans to File Appeal in Ballot Removal Case - *This article was originally published by Iowa Capital Dispatch on July 29, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expresse...
Courthouse News

Macao’s first national security case raises concerns over fairness a year after arrest - Prior to his arrest, Au Kam San remained a rare voice who regularly criticized government measures and political development, although many considered his ...
CultureMap Houston

These 2 Houston neighbors are the hottest ZIP codes to move to in 2026 - A new migration report has reaffirmed Texas as one of the hottest destinations for movers during the first half of 2026, and two Houston neighbors — *Katy*...
Undernews

Middle East - *NY Times - *Investigators believe a cyberattack this week on dozens of municipal water systems in Minnesota was probably the work of Iranian hackers, ac...
Bracing Views

Golden Dome as a Golden Boondoggle - And Perhaps a Golden Ticket to Nuclear War BILL ASTORE JUL 29, 2026 Golden Dome, President Trump’s ambitious dangerously escalatory missile defense shield,...
Mondoweiss

The new settler-led security doctrine driving Israel’s onslaught on the West Bank - [image: Settlers attack the Palestinian village of Urif, outside of Nablus, April 30, 2013. (Photo: Nedal Eshtayah/APA Images)]A new Israeli security doctr...
Salon.com

Your magical burnout cure is in this Miyazaki film - "Kiki's Delivery Service" is a family movie that holds practical magic for adulthood
ArcaMax

Who's to Blame When Parents Choose Not to Vaccinate Their Young? - What is the death count under Donald Trump? We're not talking about loss of life in his war with Iran. We're not talking about natural deaths by aging or u...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Uncertainty shrouds Blanche’s nomination to be Trump’s next attorney general as key Republicans postpone vote – live - Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis had demanded further assurances about the settlement of Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service - ...
Daily Cartoonist

Joe Kubert School Now Part of County College of Morris - Jay Edwards for WRNJ reports that the Joe Kubert School, famous for teaching future professional comic artists the ways and hows of that career, has been i...
Ballot Access News

Iowa Libertarian Party Will Appeal Decision on Gubernatorial Ballot Access - The Iowa Libertarian Party plans to ask the Iowa Supreme Court to restore its gubernatorial nominee to the ballot. See this story. … Continue reading →
SCOTUSblog

Completing the picture of the court’s criminal law term - As a resource for court observers interested in criminal law, this column completes (together with my prior column) my listing of criminal law and relate...
Glasstire

Texas Woman’s University Celebrates 125th Anniversary with Public Art Commission - Texas Woman’s University in Denton will celebrate its 125th anniversary with a new large-scale public art commission by Bianca Beck, an artist based in P...
Greg Palast

Trump bombed…the audienceHe killed it at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner - I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the W...
The Root

Honoring Late Great Essence Magazine Pioneers Who Shaped the Golden Age of Black Culture - The author honors the legacy of several late Essence pioneers whose contributions to Black culture remain unforgettable. Read more...
Ian Welsh

Capacity v.s. Desire: What I Got Right & Wrong At The Start of the Gaza Genocide - Regular readers will remember that I thought the resistance could defeat Israel over the genocide in Gaza. Iran, Syria, Iraqi militias, Hezbollah and Ansar...
Raw Story

'Can they deliver?' Frantic Trump turns to tech bros as weapon stockpile dwindles - President Donald Trump faces a critical weapons shortage as his war with Iran continues — and now he's turning to an unlikely source for help: tech bros....
Rallblog

- Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Techdirt.

Trump Republicans Are Destroying Decades Of Policy Progress On Affordable Broadband - Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Universal Service Fund (USF) applies a small surcharge on traditional phone lines to fund broadband expansion to unser...
WhoWhatWhy

Fauci Hearing Serves as a Testament to Senate Dysfunction - [image: Anthony Fauci, donating plasma] Wednesday's Senate hearing with Anthony Fauci was a disgrace for all involved. What could have been a valuable lear...
Texas Observer

ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley - As thousands of people from all over the United States came to the Laguna Madre area this past weekend to watch SpaceX’s latest launch in South Texas, ma...
The Week

The TikTok PM: has Andy Burnham cracked it with his comms? - There are many positives to the new media strategy, but also fears about where it leads the country
Space City Weather

Heat continues, with a slight chance of rain showers this weekend - In brief: In today’s post we discuss high pressure, and what impacts the region might see from a weak front that will move in from the northeast this weeke...
Earth 911

Reducing Waste: Your Citizen-and-Voter Playbook - Our ability to reuse, repair, and recycle is determined in city halls, state capitals, and... The post Reducing Waste: Your Citizen-and-Voter Playbook ap...
OpEd News

Dr. J.W. McCray's Open Letter to Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders On Behalf of Every Elderly Arkansan with Dementia - Guardianship Abuse and the Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable Elderly are central themes at the 14th Annual Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival on Cap...
Dorf on Law

Was Dr. Fauci Entitled to Invoke the Fifth Amendment? - In response to a subpoena, yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Citing the fa...
Angry Bear

Quote of the day - But we seem to have decided this is just how AI works: the technology is so amazing that it requires this kind of mutual leverage with no floor beneath i...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Huge Hidden Upward Redistribution -
Off The Kuff

Greg Abbott would really like everyone to stop talking about data centers already - Gina Hinojosa is talking about them. Gina Hinojosa, the Democrat running for governor, on Thursday called on Gov. Greg Abbott to halt all data center const...
ProPublica

Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed. - The post Andy Beshear Set Out to Make Drug Treatment Widely Available in Kentucky. Fraud and Abuse Followed. appeared first on ProPublica.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Thirteen House Rating Changes Toward Democrats as Seat-by-Seat Assessment Better Aligns with Our November Expectations - We’re revamping our House ratings this week, which has the effect of bringing the number of seats at least leaning to each party to rough parity after re...
Grist

These psychedelic images reveal what your weather app isn’t telling you - Equipped with some fancy technologies, Grist goes on a journey across Portland, Oregon to chart the nuances — and inequalities — of urban heat.
High Country News

What’s destroying Utah’s monuments - The administration wants to open 3 million acres to mining claims and oil and gas leasing at the expense of the landscape. The post What’s destroying Ut...
Infidel753

Meditation #20 -- a number to the sky - Though many years have passed, I still remember The day you came, no troll could desecrate The time we had, the light, the long aliveness The end, when my d...
The AltWorld

Yemen, Russia, Iran & the Next Phase of the West Asia War | EP 140 P-2 - In Part 2 of Episode 140 of the Kianistan Podcast, Vanessa Beeley and Ehsan Safarnejad continue their […] The post Yemen, Russia, Iran & the Next Phase o...
Common Dreams

Desperately Seeking Scapegoats - Killing The Messenger Dept: Somehow going still lower, Republicans - aka "you absolute fucking pieces of shit" - just hauled Dr. Anthony Fauci into a Sen...
Consortium News

US Merges Wars in Eurasia, West Asia - M.K. Bhadrakumar says that by linking the wars in Iran and Ukraine, the U.S. opened a theater of conflict around the Caspian Sea. By M.K. Bhadrakumar India...
World Socialist Web Site

Public defenders strike in New York City and Detroit; Will Lehman, socialist candidate for UAW president, calls for unified walkout - More than 500 public defender workers are now on strike in New York City and Detroit, in an expanding rebellion against poverty wages, healthcare cuts and ...
jobsanger

Trump Has Crashed Hard Against Some Real Limits -
Counterpunch

Will the 2028 Elections be a Repeat of 1876-1877? - The post Will the 2028 Elections be a Repeat of 1876-1877? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Informed Comment

Houthis aim for Red Sea Tolls, May have hit Ship in Egypt - The Houthis who control 80% of the Yemeni population are studying a plan to collect tolls from ships on the Red Sea transiting the Bab al-Mandeb
Workers World

PDF of July 30 issue - [image: PDF of July 30 issue] Download the PDF Protests say NO to U.S.-Israel war on Iran U.S. gov’t terrorists weaponize subpoenas vs. the left Editorial:...
Brad Blog

Are Republicans — Elected or Otherwise — Really on the Verge of Turning on Trump?: ‘BradCast’ 7/29/2026 - There is a lot to try and make sense of on today’s monthly-ish BradCast roundtable with two of our favorite panelists, featuring just a bit more disagreeme...
Portside

Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’ - Capitalism’s ‘Metabolic Rift’ Geoffrey Wed, 07/29/2026 - 22:20
The Greanville Post

Larry Johnson: Russia’s Naval Blockade of Odessa & Ukraine’s Attack on Iranian Ship - GD—Maritime Attacks Impact Regional Oil Exports and US Interests:Ukrainian strikes on Russian Black Sea port ships also cripple Kazakhstan’s oil exports vi...
The Grayzone

Nicaragua banned US-sponsored coup leaders from elections, sparking corporate media meltdown - In his national address on July 19, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega stated that when the country’s next elections take place in 2027, none who promote...
Popular Resistance

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Mental Health Crisis Deepens - According to a July 29, 2026 article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, two women Israeli soldiers have died by suicide in the past two days. The Israeli ...
Antiwar.com

Bedouins With A-Bombs - Washington has opened talks with Saudi Arabia to consider nuclear capability for the desert kingdom. The Americans and Saudis insist they are only discussi...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Don't blame Fauci for the COVID pandemic. Blame Donald Trump. Here are the receipts. - In March 2020, Trump told reporter Bob Woodward that he was deliberately downplayed the dangers of COVID. Earlier today, Senate Republicans held a hearin...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2026 - Censored Press News We’ve been researching and writing State of the Free Press 2027, to be published by The Censored Press in December. The 2027 yearbook...
Claytoonz

Getting Batty with the Fifth - Read the blog on my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Verge

Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year - Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft C...
Houston Public Media

Drivers going to Galveston face I-45 lane closures, extended detour starting Aug. 7 - The most significant traffic changes will be short-term main lane closures from FM 519 to Tiki Drive and a reroute near Texas City that will be in place fo...
San Antonio Report

Councilwoman Misty Spears calls for District 9 public safety review - Misty Spears is calling for an in-depth public safety review in the wake of several high-profile crime incidents on the city’s North Side. -----------------...
San Antonio Current

Taiwanese bubble tea chain Gong Cha plans big San Antonio expansion - International bubble tea chain Gong Cha is about to suck up more Texas market share. The Taiwanese company said it’s inked a 50-unit franchise agreement...
Texas Standard

A glimpse of the future of Texas wolves in a Navasota sanctuary - For almost 25 years, the Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary in Navasota has advocated for wolves and wolfdogs. While extirpated from the state since the late 20t...
Discourse

Ascending to the Big Mar-A-Lago in the Sky (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Odyssey talk, choice moments from Lindsey Graham's funeral, checking in on Mitch McConnell, and exciting (derogatory) developments at 60 Minutes
IVN

The Democrat Is Out in Idaho Senate Race. Now It’s Independent Todd Achilles vs. Jim Risch - David Roth’s exit leaves Todd Achilles as the only serious challenger with the money to take on the three-term Republican incumbent.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Checks Have Come Due: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Wolf Street

Fed Holds Rates after “Good Family Fight” and 3 Dissenters, after Enormous Uncertainty in the Markets - Markets were left to their own devices for the first time in a generation after Warsh scuttled forward guidance as part of his Regime Change.
Seeing the Forest

Free Speech - Here’s a free speech question. Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his “Libtards” and “Econazis” were part of an organized, strategic effort...
Vox

Trump wants the Supreme Court to give him the unilateral power to rewrite election law - A court case involving President Donald Trump’s efforts to sabotage voting by mail reached the Supreme Court on Monday. The executive order at the heart of...
Idavox

If Haiti is too dangerous for American travelers, why is it safe enough for forced return? - We submit that as far as this government, that’s the point. This is regarding the... The post If Haiti is too dangerous for American travelers, why is it...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Bans on Lifesaving Program for People Who Use Illegal Drugs Violate the Americans with Disabilities Act - Syringe Service Programs provide access to crucial health services to people with substance use disorders. The ACLU is fighting against bans that limit the...
Socialist Alternative

Justice For Corey Ruiz—Fight Police Brutality With A One-Day Citywide Shutdown - On Wednesday, July 22, police in Madison, Wisconsin murdered a Black man named Corey Ruiz. Three officers held him down while a fourth shot him three times...
Ecosophia

A Tome of Forbidden Technologies - Once again we’re near the end of a month with five Wednesdays, and as regular readers of this blog know well, that means that readers got to nominate and v...
Bonddad

Has America become an “extractive economy”? The ‘tell’ of interest rates and inflation - - *by New Deal democrat* There is a quote, allegedly from Alexander Frazer Tytler over 200 years ago, but apparently actually originating in 1951 fr...
El Paso Matters

Podcast: Updates, news on data center projects in El Paso - A roundup on data center projects in our region and what to know as we enter late July. The post Podcast: Updates, news on data center projects in El Pa...
First Draft

WV’s History Rhymes In The Rain - WVians: stop voting for Republicans. They do not care about us, as the latest flooding disaster clearly shows.
Democracy Now!

India Unleashes "Massive Crackdown" on Youth-Led Cockroach Movement After Education Minister's Ouster - We go to New Delhi for an update on India’s youth-led, anti-government “Cockroach” movement. After weeks of street protests against Education Minister Dhar...
The Conversation

Better guacamole? How avocado import rules helped cut Mexico’s water pollution – it holds lessons for future US trade deals - Pressure from trade agreements can clean up sources of environmental harm, leading to cleaner rivers in the case of Mexico’s much-loved avocados.
Scheerpost.com

Five More Palestine Activists Face ‘Terrorist’ Sentencing - Defendants were not told that a criminal damage case could carry a terrorism connection until after they were found guilty, reports John McEvoy. A Palestin...
The Progressive Wing

7/29-30 News Roundup and Open Thread - Another rainy thundery night and day here. It’s the third time this month we will be getting 3-5 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. Well at least I don’t ...
Debunking Christianity

Bayes Theorem and Miracles: Three Cases Studies: - Philosopher Michael P. Levine writes a bit eccentrically about miracles but he also has some incisive things to say. For people who think David Hume’s a...
Rewire

How Washington State’s Sports Ballot Measure Will Impact All Girls - A ballot initiative to bar transgender girls from girls’ teams would require all girls to "verify" their identity.
Two Party Opera

Battle of the Bulge - Read More
Crooked Timber

Malware problem (fixed) - A number of commenters noted a malware problem with the site.It appears to be a well known attack called ClickFix. It’s now fixed, thanks again to Doctor M...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Would You "Press a Button" For Genocide, Or Anything else? - This, of course, sounds like an absurd question, but it was less than two years ago that Eytan Weinstein, the co-host of "Two Nice Jewish Boys" Podcast ...
Environment Texas

The Texas Gulf Coast needs a National Recreational Area - The bill would designate the Lone Star Coastal Region as a National Recreation Area, expanding recreational opportunities and creating lasting cultural a...
Progressive.org

Remaking Democracy - Authors Danielle Chynoweth and Elizabeth Adams discuss democracy as an engine of change.
slacktivist

Works of culture from age to age - Thou shalt have no other Gods than the God who sees and who centers "the outcast on her knees."
See You In 2020

Our post-2008 decline, the great male “dropout,” and a path forward through globalization’s ruins - One sign of hope for avoiding an American gender war is that the bulk of today’s “dropout” men are not motivated by gendered ideological zeal. They’re m...
The NM Political Report

Teen left at Mexico border becomes flashpoint in governor’s race as AG sues CYFD - [image: Deb Haaland, left, and Gregg Hull talk before a forum for gubernatorial candidates on April 28 in Rio Rancho. (Kevin Hendricks)] By Kevin Hendrick...
Church and State

My New Resolution - Salye was distraught over the condition of democracy in the USA. She made me realize that I need to be more active politically.
NORML

Federal Survey: Marijuana Use Continues Multiyear Decline Among Teens, Young Adults - [image: a teen girl holding school books looks disapprovingly at a teen boy offering her a joint][image: a teen girl holding school books looks disapprov...
Texas Environmental News

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LareDOS

LC’s much anticipated FlamencoFest offers hands-on workshops at all levels of skill - August 1 tablao performance: an intimate view of the exchange between dancers, singers, musicians, and its audience
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Sludge

Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires - James Carville's firm has been paid by American Bridge, a super PAC funded by billionaires who also bankroll groups fighting progressives in primaries—and ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Draining the Ogallala Aquifer for AI? Project Matador and the myth of limitless growth, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. & Luke Metzger, Exec. Dir., Environment Texas Research & Policy Center - *Friends,* *I’m pleased to share a newly-published article co-authored with Luke Metzger, executive director of the Environment Texas Research & Policy ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CIRCULATIN' LIKE CYCLOSPORA EDITION. - *I never knew it was him! Infectious, ain't it?* Sorry I missed last Friday -- my normally crowded week got further squeezed by birthday celebrations, wh...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb (Full title: “Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall With Off-Ramp Bouquet”) There’s something stiffening out there ri...
The Militant

Protests continue against ICE shootings in Maine, Houston - HOUSTON — “We are calling for a full, transparent, independent investigation into all of this,” Ronaldo Salgado, the son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, told a ...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 24, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio July 24, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/24/2026 - 04:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Land Destroyer

The Ukraine War is a US war on Russia - *July 16, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As the Western media continues shaping narratives depicting a growing divide between the US and Europe regarding...
Trivial Knot

Does everything have an explanation? - My husband described to me a version of the cosmological argument based on explanations. Everything in the world requires an explanation. Since the chain o...
Lowering the Bar

Florida Bans Unnaturally Posed Stuffed Baby Crocodilians - [image: baby crocodilian]Without expressly defining what "unnatural" poses they have in mind.
Texas Monthly

They Came to Protest ICE. On the Live Stream, Their Chants Were Drowned Out by a ‘Friday Night Lights’ Theme Song Knockoff. - In the aftermath of the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston City Council found a novel way to silence those who showed up to demonstrate.
Krebs on Security

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps - The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-o...
Earthworks

Victory! Louisiana Residents Defeat Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project - Residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have defeated plans for what could have been the largest carbon sequestration and storage project … The post Vic...
Duck of Minerva

Episode 1: Gates of the West - We're baaack!In the inaugural episode of the second season of Whiskey and International Relations...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, *Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It*.
Progressives Chat

Flashback 2016: Ds’s Rigged Primary - Wednesday, July 22, 2026 will be the 10th anniversary of the *Wikileaks*’s report about the Democratic National Committee having rigged their 2016 primar...
Democracy Chronicles

Statesmen, Not Escalation - As global tensions rise, the world needs diplomatic leadership, not political brinkmanship that risks widening conflict.
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature - So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is act...
Media Lens

25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran - This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a l...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health’s 2026 Resident and Fellow Graduation Ceremony produces physicians and pharmacists dedicated to providing healing, advanced health care, research, education, excellence, and compassion close to home - FEATURED: Dr. Jessica Guajardo Martin, Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), General Medical Education (GME), DHR Health, addresses medical residents, fe...
Alas, a Blog

Two Toms Talking Theology - This comic was drawn by R.E. Ryan, who did a great job rendering my silly version of Colonial America. In 2023, Senator Josh Hawley posted this quote, attr...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Field Negro

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Brains and Eggs

Friday, June 18, 2010

Ignorance isn't bliss

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