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

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

Courthouse News

Trump can’t revive CNN suit - ATLANTA — The Eleventh Circuit rejected President Trump’s attempt to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN over its use of the phrase “Big Lie” to desc...
Daily Dot

“It’s a lifestyle”: How the quarter-zip sweater became a Gen Z identity shift, especially for young Black men - [image: 3 panel: Left: Young Black man in a blue quarter-zip Polo sweater. Middle: Young Black man in a red tracksuit and face mask standing and holding ...
Political Wire

Chuy García Was the First to Sign Aide’s Ballot Petition - “Rep. Chuy García (D-IL) has denied purposely clearing a path for his chief of staff to take his seat without facing a primary, but a document filed with I...
Raw Story

House votes to release Jeffrey Epstein files - The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted 427-1 to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and send the discharge petition to the Senate in a move aime...
Mediagazer

Forbes launched an AI-powered dynamic paywall on November 14 to help drive subscriptions; print and digital subscriptions make up 9% of its commercial revenue (Jessica Davies/Digiday) - Jessica Davies / Digiday: *Forbes launched an AI-powered dynamic paywall on November 14 to help drive subscriptions; print and digital subscriptions make ...
Salon.com

House passes resolution demanding Epstein files release - The resolution passed by a near unanimous vote, but it faces a tougher road in the Senate
Scheerpost.com

Epstein Survivors Speak Ahead of House Vote - Lawmakers and Epstein victims held press conference.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump and Mr Bone Saw stage love-in as Saudi’s $1tn wipes the bloody slate clean - In the Oval Office the US president dismissed the murder of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying: ‘things happen’ Mohammed bin Salman visit – live updat...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Thoughts on the results of the November 4 elections - Image from Pix4Free.org. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2025 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-F...
memeorandum

Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say (Spencer Chrisman/WBTV-TV) - Spencer Chrisman / WBTV-TV: *Nearly 21,000 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students absent from school on Monday, officials say* — Unclear if students were absen...
World Socialist Web Site

Labour “left” prostrate as UK Starmer government rolls out fascistic anti-immigration policy - Despite talk of a “revolt” against the Labour leadership over the measures, which include ending the permanent residency status of refugees, less than two ...
The Week

Dick Cheney: the vice president who led the War on Terror - Cheney died this year at the age of 84
CultureMap Houston

Houston nonprofit marks 45 years with puppies, piano, and powerful moments - There was skyline sparkle, Steinway serenades, and soft puppy paws at this year’s Home Safe Home Gala, as *Aid to Victims of Domestic Abuse* (AVDA) celebra...
Futurism

Passenger Alarmed When Tesla Robotaxi “Safety” Driver Falls Completely Asleep at the Wheel - "The beeping is what woke him back up." The post Passenger Alarmed When Tesla Robotaxi “Safety” Driver Falls Completely Asleep at the Wheel appeared firs...
Houston Public Media

University of Houston’s Pi Kappa Phi chapter shutters after hazing allegations - The university says it was informed by the fraternity's national headquarters that the UH chapter would be closed after an investigation.
Undernews

Age groups most representd in Congress - [image: Image] Via Right Pulse News
San Antonio Current

Driverless ride-hailing service Waymo to begin carrying passengers in downtown San Antonio next year - Autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo will begin ferrying San Antonians around downtown next year in its self-driving cars, company officials said Tuesd...
Mediaite

Mexico’s President Shoots Down Trump’s Threats of Bombing Her Country - Trump also threatened Colombia with strikes and doubled down on his military actions against alleged drug smuggling boats from Venezuela. The post Mexico...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Trump’s Falklands Temptation - In 1982, the Falklands War rescued Margaret Thatcher from political collapse and turned her into a wartime icon. But the deeper lesson of that conflict is ...
Consortium News

Escalating the Escalation - Greg Grandin provides a short history of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. By Greg Grandin TomDispatch Today, Dona...
The Daily Poster

Dissecting The Epstein Files With Julie K. Brown And Rep. Ro Khanna - Two of the biggest players in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal explore the latest revelations — and the bombshells yet to come.
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - November 18, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump's embattled Acting Director of FEMA resigns; U.N. ...
Techdirt.

DOJ Memo Says It Won’t Prosecute US Troops No Matter How Illegal Trump’s Boat Strike Program Is - Not content to simply deport as many South American migrants from this country as possible, the Trump administration leaned into its lies about the latent ...
Election Law Blog

Breaking: Federal Court on 2-1 Vote Blocks Texas from using new Congressional Gerrymander for 2026 Midterms, Requires Using 2021 Maps (Link to ruling) - Texas Tribune: Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-jud...
Axios

Trump with MBS on Khashoggi: "A lot of people didn't like" him - President Trump said "a lot of people didn't like" journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a Tuesday meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS)....
Liberation News

Outrage at the UN: Gaza resolution tramples Palestinian sovereignty - A real peace plan would start with the full and permanent withdrawal of Israel from all of Gaza.
Ballot Access News

Three-Judge U.S. District Court Enjoins New Texas U.S. House District Boundaries - On November 18, a 3-judge U.S. District Court enjoined the new Texas U.S. House district boundaries. The vote was 2-1. The decision is by U.S. District Cou...
The Verge

Apple’s custom Wi-Fi chip gives the iPhone 17 a notable boost, according to speed tests - Ookla has found that Apple’s custom N1 networking chip that integrates the Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread radios in the iPhone 17 family “delivers a clea...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Says ABC Should Lose Its Broadcast License After Getting Irate Over Reporter’s Questions About Jamal Khashoggi Murder, Jeffrey Epstein Files - Donald Trump called for ABC to lose its broadcast license after he grew irate at correspondent Mary Bruce after she asked Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin S...
NPR's Health Shots

Trump administration shares new moves to dismantle more of the Education Department - Some of the responsibilities the administration aims to move were explicitly assigned to the U.S. Education Department by Congress, raising questions about...
Progressive.org

Trump’s Dangerous War on Drugs - Whenever we have waged a war against another country with the pretense of drugs, it has spilled over into the lives of Americans.
Al Jazeera English

‘Not going to happen’: Sheinbaum dismisses Trump threat of Mexico strikes - The US president had previously suggested his military could strike land-based cartel targets in Mexico.
The Hill

Court blocks new Texas congressional map - A panel of federal judges in Texas on Tuesday blocked the state's new GOP-favored House map from being used ahead of the 2026 midterms, dealing a blow to R...
San Antonio Report

Downtown church hosts vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance - The event at Travis Park United Methodist Church will honor the memory of the transgender people killed in acts of anti-transgender violence. -------------...
Independent Political Report

United States Pirate Party Adds Clean Water Plank to National Platform - The United States Pirate Party has added a clean water plank to its national platform, calling for water to be treated as a human right and protected res...
Second Nexus

Trans TikToker Goes Viral With Simple Explanation After Stranger Asks What 'Nonbinary' Means - In a world where it seems that everyone is angry all the time and assumes the worst of people around them, it can be refreshing to see two people have a ...
Slate

I Finally Found a Career I Love. The Physical Toll Might Force Me to Quit. - I wish there was a solution.
Mother Jones

Trump and Johnson Are Still Seething Over the Epstein Vote - After months of MAGA infighting and an unusual Republican break with President Donald Trump, the GOP-controlled House on Tuesday is expected to overwhelmin...
Duck of Minerva

Bullies, Follies, and Decadent Orders: Constructing Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern - On November 1, 2025, President Donald Trump threatened to end all U.S. assistance to Nigeria and — if he deemed it necessary — launch a military attack aga...
The Greanville Post

The ACLU Has Become “Caricature” of Left-Liberal Culture - GLENN GREENWALD—The video presents a critical examination of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), highlighting its dramatic transformation from a pri...
NORML

Police in These Eight States Made Over 100,000 Marijuana-Related Arrests in 2024 - [image: A hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in front of a person in hadncuffs][image: A hand holds a very small bag of marijuana in front of a per...
Common Dreams

Cloudflare Outage Is a Reminder of Our Over-Dependence on Small Number of Tech Giants - A major outage at internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare today disrupted access to numerous websites, public services, and AI tools worldwide. The i...
Capital & Main

Future of Special Education at Risk, Teachers Say, as Trump Moves to Cut Staff and Programs - Special education teachers fear the Trump administration’s funding cuts and layoffs will unravel progress for millions of students with disabilities. The...
Bonddad

August factory orders rebounded from early summer lows - - *by New Deal democrat* As with yesterday, the good news is that important official economic data is being reported again. The bad news is that it ...
Eschaton

Welp - Here we are again. LONDON, Nov 18 - Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said no company would be unscathed if the artificia...
WhoWhatWhy

The World Has Got the Measure of a Corrupt President - [image: President Donald Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud] Paying off Trump is the price of doing business in and with the United Sta...
Dissident Voice

The Highest Form of Democracy: The Grassroots Campaign of Yves Engler - The farce of Western regard for democracy has been revealed in several countries. Well known are the machinations of the Democratic National Commission t...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #05: Staring Into the Epstein Files Abyss - Katherine Krueger joins us to root through latest doc dump on the political elites' favorite convicted child sex offender
Texas Standard

UT-Austin silent on Trump compact as deadline approaches - Most other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes.
Crooked Media

The American Tragedy w/ Brandon Terry - The post The American Tragedy w/ Brandon Terry appeared first on Crooked Media.
Glasstire

Curanderismo Cultural: Maritza Bautista’s Celebration of Laredo & Transition to Marfa - In South Texas, curanderismo has long offered not only remedies but a framework for restoring harmony within communities — healing that is as social and ...
Rewire

Artificial Intelligence Told These Women To Divorce Their Abusive Husbands - Should we trust relationship advice that comes from AI? The post Artificial Intelligence Told These Women To Divorce Their Abusive Husbands appeared firs...
The Texas Signal

Special Elections Set In Texas - Abbott’s runoff announcement caps a long and winding road for the historic Harris County congressional district
Vox

One of the world’s most influential philanthropies is changing its name. Here’s why it matters. - Over the past decade, Open Philanthropy has been the rare philanthropic shop with both the resources and the rigor to make a dent in some of the world’s bi...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court’s new voting case will test its supposed nonpartisanship - Justice, Democracy, and Law is a recurring series by Edward B. Foley that focuses on election law and the relationship of law and democracy. Please note ...
Texas Observer

The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas - Gu was looking forward to his first semester as a master’s degree student in philosophy at the University of Houston in August. The 22-year-old, who aske...
El Paso Matters

Dallas ISD administrator named sole finalist for EPISD superintendent - Brian Lusk, deputy superintendent of academics and transformation at Dallas ISD, has been named the sole finalist to become the next superintendent of t...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Engelhardt, A President Delivering Us to World's End? - When I began TomDispatch in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, believe me, the world did not look good. But I guarantee you one ...
Daily Howler

BACKLASH: Hall said he doesn't like Gutfeld's work! - *TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2025* *But he never said why: *Who the heck is Colby Hall? We thought you'd never ask! Hall is the founding editor of Mediaite.co...
Dorf on Law

Ascertainability at Birth is Not a Requirement for Suspect Classification Status - In January, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in *West Virginia v. B.P.J. *and *Little v. Hecox*. The cases present the question whether state la...
Ian Welsh

Is China Going To Win The Humanoid Robot Race & End Capitalism As We Know It? - Elevated from Comments. Piece by KT Chong China is now entering the next phase of its economic-growth engine — humanoid robots. And just like with EVs, the...
First Draft

Pitching Pennies - Eliminating the one-cent coin raises more questions than you might think. Peer into the future and call it in the air.
Democracy Now!

Kumi Naidoo on U.S. Skipping COP30, Why Rich Nations Must Pay a Climate Debt, Gaza, Sudan & More - As *Democracy Now!* broadcasts from the COP30 U.N. climate summit, we speak with Kumi Naidoo, the longtime South African human rights and environmental jus...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Broken Bits - On another “Where do we begin?” day, we’ll start with what was yesterday’s Deflocked, which is somewhat unremarkable, since cartoonists have been pointing ...
The NM Political Report

$120 million in cuts to New Mexico colleges, universities targeted DEI, energy - [image: Navajo Tech Univ graduation, 2023] [image: Navajo Tech Univ graduation, 2023] Restrictions to student aid and scaled back research grants could a...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Israel’s Discreet Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Is Israel furtively indulging in slow-motion ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa and...
Space City Weather

Houston likely to set record highs in November. Please clap. - In brief: There is a lot of uncertainty in the forecast, but we can be confident of unseasonable heat through Thursday, and then the likelihood of some sho...
ArcaMax

Panicked POTUS: The Flailing of a President - It's a pretty reliable rule of thumb that when President Donald Trump calls something a "hoax," it's true. He insists that the strong indication, which see...
The Root

This New Orleans Black Man Who Spent 30 Years in Prison Elected in Historic Runoff Election - Calvin Duncan became a legal expert while in prison for a murder he did not commit. Now, he's made history after a surprising New Orleans election. Read ...
Infidel753

Asking for help for this dog - Fellow blogger Johnny Profane at AutisticAF, whose posts I have sometimes linked here, is requesting donations for his dog's medical emergency. I'm sure a...
The Smirking Chimp

White House Mocked Over Complete Failure To Sell Trump’s Sham Marriage on Social Media -
Skeptophilia

The old gods - My M.A. is in historical linguistics, focusing particularly on northern European languages and how they interacted in (relatively) recent times. (While ...
Claytoonz

Surprise - 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 Pa...
Off The Kuff

CD18 runoff set for January 31 - Mark your calendars. Gov. Greg Abbott has set Jan. 31 as the date of the special election runoff for Texas’ 18th Congressional District, meaning the Housto...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
ProPublica

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation - The post The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation appeared first on ProPublica.
Angry Bear

The art of no deal - Trump screwed his farm belt voters with his China tariffs. While China had been a reliable buyer of American soybeans, it retaliated by buying Brazilian ...
Grist

How the shutdown broke America’s food chain — and what happens next - Cash-strapped farmers, gaps in the public safety net, and food inspection backlogs that could reshape who eats what in the years to come.
High Country News

Yellowstone protects wolves. What happens when they leave the park? - [image: wolf] Crossing what’s an arbitrary boundary for wildlife, an apex predator becomes prey. The post Yellowstone protects wolves. What happens when ...
Earth 911

Green Roof Policies Are a Growing Trend: 2025 Update - In 2009, the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario, passed the first law in North America... The post Green Roof Policies Are a Growing Trend: 2025 Update ap...
Counterpunch

How the Rightwing has Used AI and Influencers to Make Up an Anti-Government Movement in Mexico - "Down with communism," they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and in...
jobsanger

It's To Trump's Shame That He Refused To Feed Poor Americans -
Informed Comment

The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-Apartheid - Such a shift would be consistent with the Israeli far-right's redemptionist dreams of Jewish supremacy and Greater Israel
Wolf Street

Another Sign that a Major Rethink of the Size of the Fed’s Balance Sheet Is Gaining Momentum - Warsh, on the shortlist for Fed Chair, advocates for more QT, a smaller balance sheet, and lower short-term rates, in sync with Bessent.
The Progressive Wing

11/17-21 News Roundup and Open Thread - Some mid-November news.
Alternet

Pro-Trump commentator says White House 'denying reality' of high prices - President Donald Trump's administration is not taking high prices seriously enough, according to one conservative commentator. In a Monday night post to ...
Popular Resistance

The Legal Basis For And US Violations Of Our Right To Health Care - The United States was scheduled for its regular review of its human rights violations by the United Nations Human Rights Council on November 7, but it re...
Workers World

Migrants, yes! ICE, no! - [image: Migrants, yes! ICE, no!] Ever since Trump unleashed his fascistic Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) thugs earlier this year, especially in ...
Portside

This Week in Peoples’ History, Nov 19–25, 2025 - This Week in Peoples’ History, Nov 19–25, 2025 Jonathan Bennett Mon, 11/17/2025 - 20:02
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Teachers allowed slurs and food to be hurled at gay student, alleges one of three lawsuits filed against Catholic high school' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - *Catholic Teachers Allowed Slurs and Food Hurled at Gay Student, New Lawsuit Alleges* - *And this is just one of three lawsuits against the school:* *...
Mondoweiss

UN Security Council approves Trump’s Gaza ‘peace plan,’ green-lighting U.S.-Israeli control of Gaza’s future - [image: Security Council adopts resolution 2803 during the UN Security Council meeting on November 17, 2025, approving U.S. President Donald Trump's "peace...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s Ploy at the UN Is American Imperialism Masquerading as a Peace Process - The Trump administration is pushing an Israeli-crafted resolution at the UN Security Council (UNSC) this week aimed at eliminating the possibility of a Sta...
Socialist Alternative

Building The Movement For Socialism In The Age Of Trump 2.0: Socialist Alternative Convention 2025 - Over a weekend in early November, more than 250 socialists gathered in Maryland for the 2025 Socialist Alternative Convention. Our members traveled far fro...
Church and State

Good reasons for feeling helpless? Any solutions? - I remain confident that Trump’s record has reached a new level of immorality that even the dullest among us, may vote correctly.
Edinburg Politics

Mayor Omar Ochoa calls on Edinburg leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly to recruit businesses with high-paying jobs in technology, healthcare, and advanced trades” - Newly-elected Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa is calling on the city’s leadership at all levels “to swing for the fences in economic growth, working tirelessly t...
Environment Texas

Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to clean up plastic pellets across the state - Staff and coalition partners help stage four events in Dallas, San Antonio, and Galveston The post Environment Texas hosts a ‘Texas Sized Nurdle Hunt’ to...
Earthworks

Putting the Just Transition into Practice at COP30 - by Lauren Pagel and Jan Morrill This week, negotiators at COP30 have an opportunity to make history by addressing the … The post Putting the Just Transi...
Greg Palast

Lumberjack Trump - The US housing market is melting. Trump’s solution: 50-year mortgages instead of 30-year loans. As an economist, I can tell you 50 years or 30 years don’t ...
DeSmogBlog

Overhauled EU Climate Law Faces New Threat from Consultancy Giants - This investigative work had been supported by the Centre for Investigative Journalism The European Parliament voted on Thursday (13 November) to signific...
Sludge

Trump Invests in Media Merger His Administration Controls - Days after the Ellison family expressed interest in buying Warner Bros. Discovery, Trump bought up to $1 million in its debt. He is now reportedly pushing ...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: November 2025 - I’m later than usual with this link roundup. Not apologizing, just observing. Last month, on The Asexual Agenda, I published “From definitions to motivati...
Project Censored

News that Didn’t Make the News: Atrocities in Sudan and Regional New Abuse - We start this week off with news that didn’t make the news from Sudan. Researcher and analyst Mosaab Baba joins us to contextualize the recent atrocities...
The AltWorld

The Proximate Aspect with Pepe Escobar - Brazilian writer and geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar’s interview on Al Mayadeen’s The Proximate Aspect dives straight into […] The post The Proximate A...
The Conversation

White nationalism fuels tolerance for political violence nationwide - Active white nationalist groups operate in all but two U.S. states. Researchers have found that there’s a strong association between holding white national...
Crooked Timber

Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace - If you want to know more about how the current form of capitalism is undermining (a thick conception of) democracy, and what can be done about this, then y...
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
slacktivist

We’ll think of something funny when we write your epitaph - Any kind of heaven every body doesn't get in Wont seem like a heaven to me
ExChristian.Net

God, The Ultimate Abusive Spouse - *By MTC ~ * The "relationship" Christians have with their deity and wish for others to seek as well, is claimed to be one of pure love, benevolence, and d...
The Grayzone

The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits - In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein....
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Edition - Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least...
See You In 2020

The anti-fascist fight’s current limitations, & the actions the workers must undertake to overcome them - Russia’s war against the U.S.-installed Kiev Nazi regime has gotten far, but for it to be completed, the world’s workers must take their struggle much f...
Bracing Views

Nuclear Force “Recapitalization” - An Abomination of the English Language BILL ASTORE NOV 12, 2025 Just when you thought the assault on the English language couldn’t be more severe, I came a...
Reform Austin

Opponents Tried to Spin an Escort Scandal—Talarico Shut It Down Immediately - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… James Talarico, Democratic Texas state representative and U.S. Senate candidate, has drawn atte...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies - *Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies* *by* *Angela Valenzuel...
Alas, a Blog

Blame Immigrants! - As many people have written, one way powerful people and institutions stay in power is by scapegoating immigrants. Dick Dowdell sums it up well: When wages...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
The Militant

Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract - RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EPSTEIN IS THE MONSTER AND THE CREATOR EDITION. - *Robert Christgau told us about these guys.And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!* A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw somethi...
LareDOS

No more fat Generals and Admirals, No more Beardos! - Hegseth's comedic arrogance: In Vietnam he would have made a very ineffective platoon leader and kept in the rear
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/14/2025 - 06:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispanic and Asian Voters Shifted, and a Place Where Politics May Still be Local - Deeper analysis of the VA/NJ 2025 contests, as well as two House rating changes The post Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispani...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel - The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Changing Discourse, Our Unconscious Society, Neo-Nazism, and More - I answer subscriber questions and get into the topics you want to talk about
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Seeing the Forest

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Brains and Eggs

Friday, June 18, 2010

Ignorance isn't bliss

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