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

Al Jazeera English

Can Russia broker a new US-Iran deal? - Russia’s nuclear expertise, close ties with Tehran and negotiation experience could give Moscow an edge as a mediator.
Infidel753

I voted -- plus a few political odds and ends - I dropped off my ballot at the county drop box on Wednesday morning. No problems -- no federal goons or other miscreants lurking about (the drop box I us...
Land Destroyer

US Cannibalizes Its Proxies and Itself as War on Multipolarism Expands - *September 29, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - For decades, the US has leveraged its many client states as extensions of its own military, economic, finan...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian establishment exploits violent attack on MP to demonise political opposition - The political and media establishment has preempted any investigation of the motivations of Monday’s horrific incident.
jobsanger

Taxes Need To Be Raised On The Rich -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3424: Anne Nott Brigman - Episode: 3424 Anne Brigman brings a wild new dimension to the early years of photography. Today, Anne Brigman's photographs.
Portside

‘Palestinians Face Far Worse Consequences Every Day,’ Says Brad Lander After Release From IDF Custody - ‘Palestinians Face Far Worse Consequences Every Day,’ Says Brad Lander After Release From IDF Custody Mark Brody Thu, 10/22/2026 - 01:01
naked capitalism

How’s Your Crapification? - Before following the various US/Western hegemony-defending conflicts became a large task when done properly, we’d occasionally quiz readers on the conditio...
Informed Comment

US pulls some Personnel from Riyadh Embassy as Houthi Drones Kill 3 - Drones slammed into the King Fahd Airport at Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, killing one person and injuring eight, some critically.
Political Wire

Peter Thiel Breaks with Trump Over Iran War - “Billionaire technology investor Peter Thiel said he’s skeptical of the U.S. war with Iran and does not believe the United States should have launched it, ...
Workers World

PDF of October 22 print issue - [image: PDF of October 22 print issue] Download the PDF Books or bombs? Student uprisings go global! Boston Indigenous Peoples’ Day “From Turtle Island to ...
The Hill

Tiffany, Crowley tangle in only Wisconsin governor's debate: 3 takeaways - Democrat David Crowley and Republican Tom Tiffany faced off in their first and only debate in the race to succeed retiring Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D). C...
Courthouse News

Interfaith group’s lawsuit against pro-Palestinian protesters will proceed, federal judge rules - A federal judge largely denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit accusing pro-Palestinian protesters of disrupting interfaith worship events in San Diego County.
Raw Story

MAGA billionaire caught on tape ripping Trump’s ‘mistakes’ in rare rebuke: report - One of President Donald Trump's wealthiest and earliest backers privately turned on one of the administration's biggest decisions, according to a newly s...
Techdirt.

Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & It’s Absolute Trash - Alright, I don’t quite know what to make of what Epic Games is doing with this AI-driven nonsense, but it’s not great. I’ve spent a bit of time trying to a...
See You In 2020

Jewish ethno-narcissism, modern settler-colonialism, & the contradiction DSA’s politics can’t reckon with - If we’re going to defeat the Judeophilic ethno-narcissism that pervades far too many “pro-Palestine” spaces, we’ll need to discredit the ultra-leftist v...
Alternet

Anderson Cooper struggles to keep straight face thru Trump obsession supercut - CNN anchor Anderson Cooper managed to maintain his composure Wednesday night as newsroom editors served up an excruciating supercut of President Donald T...
Popular Resistance

The World Rises Up Against The US Neoliberal Order - The current protests against economic distress and deteriorating social and material conditions in several countries stem from one issue: the global neol...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Ilhan Omar says US agents seized 17 items in raid designed to ‘freak’ her out - Democrat, in first interview since pre-dawn raid, denies immigration fraud and says ‘I have a legal right to be a member of Congress’ The Minnesota congr...
Mediagazer

Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg says the White House told him he is no longer the print pool reporter on Thursday, after Trump snapped at him on Tuesday (Max Tani/@maxwelltani) - Max Tani / @maxwelltani: *Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg says the White House told him he is no longer the print pool reporter on Thursday, after Tr...
Deadline Politics

White House Correspondents’ Association Decries Trump Team’s “Retaliation” After POTUS Lashes Out At Reporter - UPDATED: White House Correspondents’ Association President Jacqui Heinrich said that the Trump administration was engaged in retaliation by blocking a jour...
The Week

Flores, Indonesia’s ‘priest island’ - As the Catholic Church struggles to serve its faithful, a small island in the world’s largest Muslim nation offers hope
Antiwar.com

Trump Finds Out! Washington Is the War Capital of the World - Part 1 In case you are ever tempted to feel sorry for Trumpy – now might be the time. We are referring, of course, to the current shrill crescendo of attac...
The Verge

YouTube says it isn’t testing hiding the dislike button - On Tuesday, I published a story about how YouTube appeared to be testing hiding the dislike button on videos, with at least two users on X sharing screensh...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the top 14 things to do in Houston this weekend - If you wanna get in the spooky, cinematic spirit before Halloween pops off next weekend, on Thursday, Kefita Coffee will screen the cult vampire flick *Ganj...
Ballot Access News

Boston Globe Runs Four Opinion Pieces on Question Three, the Top-Two Primary - The Boston Globe has four op-eds concerning Question Three, the top-two primary. Two are in favor and two are opposed. They are behind a paywall. The piece...
Axios

Democrats accuse Trump of using prosecution threats to pressure election officials - Democratic groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday, accusing it of using unfounded voter fraud claims to muscle its way into how states run election...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration asks justices to allow border wall construction to continue - The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, asking the justices to allow it to resume construction of its border wall ...
The Greanville Post

Its Freikorps Time! Together with the organized dissipation of revolutionary energy - RB—The national police forces mirror the para-military groups, a mass of working and lower middle class recruits lead by those aligned with the interests o...
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy is here to help this fall and winter - SPONSORED: For some households, energy costs can add another challenge to an already tight budget. CPS Energy has resources that can help. -----------------...
Crooked Media

The Elitism of American politics - The post The Elitism of American politics appeared first on Crooked Media.
Texas Standard

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let Big Bend border wall construction continue - The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow construction on border walls and other barriers across the Big Bend region of West Texas to c...
Claytoonz

Vivek Loves Pedos - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 13 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, ple...
IVN

Tres candidatos estatales respaldan a los votantes independientes frente a los operadores de los partidos - Una campaña respaldada por líderes demócratas y republicanos busca derogar la primaria no partidista y dejar fuera a los independientes. Pero tres candidat...
Eschaton

FALL FUNDRAISER DAY 1 EVENING EDITION - Venmo! Or Paypal! Or Patreon! Thanks to all!
Vox

Russia released a US prisoner. What did they get out of it? - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Futurism

Frontier OpenAI Model Exposes Stunning Exploit That Leaves Millions of Web Servers Open to Attack - The internet is in peril. The post Frontier OpenAI Model Exposes Stunning Exploit That Leaves Millions of Web Servers Open to Attack appeared first on Fu...
Wolf Street

The Unloved 20-Year Treasury Bond Sells at 5.47%, Highest Auction Yield since… (1986*) - The bond market has come to grips with these 5%-plus yields and settles in.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

US adds wrongful detention warning to China travel advisory - The U.S. State Department has added a wrongful detention warning to its travel advisory for mainland China, cautioning that Americans face a serious risk o...
Election Law Blog

“Ahead of Midterms, Elena Kagan Says the Supreme Court Is Undermining Voting Rights” - Time: Liberal Justice Elena Kagan has accused the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of undermining democracy and creating a more polarized electorate...
slacktivist

Grifters of the Lost Ark (again) - The "search for Noah's ark" is a scam. It's always a scam. It has always been a scam. So treat the next one as almost certainly also a scam.
Slate

A Republican-on-Republican Fight Is Consuming the Midterms - Trump simply cannot help himself.
memeorandum

Ralph Norman: 'My family is not going to vote for Darline Graham' (Sarah Davis/The Hill) - Sarah Davis / The Hill: *Ralph Norman: ‘My family is not going to vote for Darline Graham’* — Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday he's keeping...
San Antonio Current

South Texas House candidate Brandon Herrera says kittens should be sent to Chinese restaurants - The latest unearthing of an offensive remark by the San Antonio-area Republican comes as a poll shows him tied with Democrat Katy Padilla Stout. The po...
Mother Jones

AI Helped Find a Critical Bug Affecting Huge Swathes of the Internet - Newly announced vulnerabilities could affect broad swathes of the internet after being discovered by teams of cybersecurity professionals—with heavy AI ass...
The Daily Poster

Ken Salazar Is Campaigning Against A Tax On People Like Ken Salazar - Obama’s former interior secretary is using workers and right-wing spin to attack a tax measure that could cost someone earning his former salary an extra $...
Mediaite

Trump WH Battle With CNN Continues, Leaving No Pool TV Coverage For Latest Event - President Donald Trump's administration has continued to block CNN's White House access, explicitly violating a temporary court order. The post Trump WH ...
Angry Bear

A picture is worth a thousand words, cont’d - “Mortgage applications have continued their downward slide even as mortgage rates ticked down for the first time in months.” mortgage demand vs rates The...
Mondoweiss

Resisting uprooting in the West Bank - Israeli settlers are blocking, assaulting, and robbing Palestinian olive harvesters. For some 100,000 families in the West Bank who rely on the harvest for...
Discourse

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Endgame (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: A vibe check from the Texas early voting frontlines, Bari Weiss (reportedly!) going after Abdul El-Sayed, and against spoilers!!!
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Have to Demand Better: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Ian Welsh

The World Continues To Seek Alternatives To American Tech - As I’ve been writing for a long time now, as the US abuses its power, other nations move away from it. For example: NEW: Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan and Indone...
Bracing Views

What Does America Value? - War and Weapons, or Schools and Hospitals? BILL ASTORE OCT 17, 2026 The one quote I know from Joe Biden is show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you v...
Progressive.org

The Power of Kneeling - By refusing to make his act of protest personal, Colin Kaepernick’s kneel became replicable for people across the country to express political dissent.
Glasstire

Eighty Ceramic Artists to Gather in Gruene for the 34th Annual Texas Clay Festival - The Texas Clay Festival returns to the Gruene Historic District of New Braunfels for its 34th year, running on Saturday, October 24, and Sunday, October ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Inside the Conservative Takeover of the University of Texas, by Forrest Wilder, Texas Monthly - *Friends:* *The conservative takeover of the University of Texas is well underway, and Forrest Wilder’s powerful Texas Monthly investigation lays bare ju...
The NM Political Report

‘No corporation is too powerful’: New Mexico wins massive $25B ruling against Meta - [image: Attorney General Raúl Torrez speaks at a press conference Friday after Jurors in state District Court found Friday that Meta Platforms Inc., former...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

#MAGAInYourBathroom ad blister Republicans for 'creepy' focus on trans people and public bathrooms - From *LGBTQNation: * The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young ...
El Paso Matters

False pamphlets causing backlash and confusion, Texas transgender rights group says - The mailers, sent by an organization formed last month in Wyoming, implicate a Texas transgender rights group that says it was not involved. The post Fa...
Novara Media

Labour Approve Jackdaw Gas Field - Labour have approved the controversial Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea. Plus: A deep dive into the conditions which created the riots that have engulfed...
Church and State

Can NAD+ supplements help us age more healthily? Here’s what the science shows - One molecule in particular, NAD+, has attracted growing interest, with claims it can boost energy, improve vitality, slow ageing and even help us live longer.
First Draft

Donald Is His Own Body Man - Donald Trump: Insult Comedian and Ass-examiner-in chief.
Consortium News

Craig Murray: ‘France Has Never Been Richer’ - Riot and rebellion are acts of extremely high risk and they are a sign of an epidemic sweeping the Western world — an epidemic of billionaires. By Craig Mu...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: He's never seen them quite so happy! - *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2026* *Also, an apparent ongoing decline: *Dear persons! This site covers the mainstream press corps' various organs. Nathan Pemb...
The Root

Janet Jackson’s Fire New Hairdo Sparks Praise—And A.I. Speculation Online - Janet Jackson has always been fly and beautiful. But a now-viral social media post of her latest look has people questioning whether she's real or A.I.! ...
Sludge

The Democratic Fundraiser Opening Doors for Big Tech - Helen Milby raises money for the New Democrats, runs a nonprofit connecting tech executives with Congress, and advises the industry-backed Chamber of Progr...
Capital & Main

Jan. 6 Election Deniers Are Back on the Ballot - From California to Florida, Republicans who backed Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election are running for office. The post Jan. 6 Election Deniers ...
WhoWhatWhy

As Discontents Flare Up, Fascists Feed on the Flames - [image: People protest, Paris, 2026] Will violence, disorder, and chaos play into the hands of France’s far right? As Discontents Flare Up, Fascists Feed ...
Environment Texas

NEW REPORT: PFAS contamination in Texas’ rivers, bayous - The post NEW REPORT: PFAS contamination in Texas’ rivers, bayous appeared first on Environment Texas.
ProPublica

Colorado Marijuana Regulators Failed to Protect Consumers From Potential Contamination, Audit Finds - The post Colorado Marijuana Regulators Failed to Protect Consumers From Potential Contamination, Audit Finds appeared first on ProPublica.
NPR's Health Shots

New human data hints at psychedelics' potential to combat inflammation - Lab studies have shown that psychedelics like psilocybin can lower inflammation and may be protective for a range of illnesses. Now, researchers are publis...
Undernews

Most Americans support democracy - *Jennifer Rubin - *As the recently-released 17th American Values survey (a mammoth sampling of 5200 adults) reveals, we have a pro-democracy, reality-...
Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today - Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix ...
Dissent Magazine

Psychedelic Muskism - Half a century since the start of the war on drugs, psychedelics are now proffered by Silicon Valley not as a threat to American capitalism but as its sa...
Liberation News

The Midterm Curse Proves the Two-Party System is a Dead End - The growing desire across the country to defeat Trump and his billionaire agenda is righteous. But what will a “blue wave” in the midterm elections actuall...
Texas Observer

Why Aren’t Texas Democrats Talking About Abortion? - In a deeply personal 60-second ad aired in September ahead of the state’s midterm elections, Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa share...
Ecosophia

Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster Revisited - Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits a...
Salon.com

Jalen Hurts shows the price of being unapologetically Black - The Eagles quarterback's health crisis exposed a double standard that goes far beyond the NFL
Bonddad

The inflationary expansion is still expanding, and is likely even more inflationary - * - by New Deal democrat* There were a couple of reports last week about the manufacturing sector that I didn’t cover then. Let’s take a look at them...
DeSmogBlog

Oil Industry Consultant Joins Climate Denial Group Run by Tory Peer - Kathryn Porter, a consultant to the fossil fuel industry and a prominent critic of emissions reduction policies, has joined the UK’s foremost climate sci...
Scheerpost.com

‘I’d Like to Report a Theft’: Sanders Mocks Corrupt Trump’s Anti-Fraud Tipline - Jake Johnson Common Dreams “A man inside our government illegally spent nearly $22 million in taxpayer dollars on bogus campaign ads praising himself,” Sen...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: Will & Nancy - Will Johnson is an American cartoonist, notable as one of Ernie Bushmiller’s assistants on his daily ‘Nancy’ strip. He worked on the series from the late 1...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Launches Official Weekly Newsletter - The Libertarian Party has launched a new weekly newsletter called The Spark, which it says will feature news from the national party and state affiliates...
The Conversation

Offering cash for votes is quite common – but here’s why it doesn’t work - Money or other material benefits are often not enough to override a voter’s preferences and partisanship.
Rallblog

France “Doom Loop”: Really? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime • France’s “Doom Loop”: Populist protests explode across France as investors dump...
Duck of Minerva

Huntington wasn’t wrong. He just wasn’t right - Big ideas often get watered down when tested empirically. Scott Appleby’s masterful Ambivalence of the Sacred—which includes deep, rich discussions of reli...
Democracy Now!

"When the Bubble Bursts": Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Reclaiming Democracy from AI Oligarchs - We’re joined by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors of the book *End Times Fascism*, for a wide-ranging conversation on the multitrillion-dollar globa...
The Progressive Wing

10/21 News Roundup and Open Thread - Early voting continues to be very good for the Dems.
ArcaMax

All of Trump's Men: Don't Blame Them - WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn't matter who the president was because the U.S. government wa...
Space City Weather

Sunny and mild weather continues, clear skies will afford good views of the Orionid meteor shower - In brief: Houston’s pleasant, fall-like conditions will continue at least through the weekend, with mostly sunny skies and moderate humidity levels. Our cl...
Common Dreams

Apple Bans “Nudify” Apps, A Massive Victory for Survivors - UltraViolet, a leading national women-led gender-justice organization responsible for numerous impactful victories against sexual predators and tech-faci...
Rewire

‘Love Is Blind’ Contestant Corrects Myths About Later Abortion - In a refreshing twist, a Season 11 cast member dispelled common anti-abortion talking points. Did you happen to hear a swell of exhausted sighs last week? ...
Dorf on Law

Reflections on the Ruination in France - The recent spasm of nihilistic violence in France will almost certainly have terrible consequences, including, not least, the election of Marine Le Pen n...
The Smirking Chimp

Putin Has Trump Right Where He Wants Him -
Off The Kuff

November 2026 Day Two EV totals - Here are a couple of headlines from Day One of early voting: More than 42,000 vote on first day of early voting in Bexar County, up 32% from 2022, and El P...
Grist

Town leaders chided residents for warning of flash floods. Then, the river took two children. - After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding. Officials w...
High Country News

‘We come from people who work the land’ - #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region. The post ‘We come from people who work the land’ appeared first on High ...
Two Party Opera

French Student Protests - Read More
Trivial Knot

We’re back - FTB was down for about a week. Bluehost seems to have issues getting its database in order, and every so often convinces itself that FTB’s true owner is t...
OpEd News

The Emperor Has No Gas: Trump's War, Putin's Diesel, and the Hecklers at the Gate - Trump's approval rating is running on empty, hecklers are disrupting his rallies, gasoline prices are climbing, and Putin's diesel cannot rescue his Iran w...
Brad Blog

Virginia Voting to Restore Felon Voting Rights; Trump DOJ Creating ‘Felons’ to Undermine California Voters: ‘BradCast’ 10/20/2026 - On today’s BradCast: As voters in one state vote to re-enfranchise voters to correct a century-and-a-half old wrong, our sore loser President is dragging l...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

No Kings, No Threat - 14 x 18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb They’re burnin’ down the house in Paris and, meanwhile, here in Shithole USA, people at the “No Kings” even...
Earthworks

Hearings Spotlight Human Rights Impacts of Canadian Mining throughout Latin America - Representatives from six communities dealing with the impacts of Canadian mining projects in Latin America will testify in a hearing held by the Inter-Am...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Invitation to My Sentencing Hearing - On Monday, October 26, I will return to the court where I was originally acquitted to be sentenced for a crime I didn’t commit. The public and press are co...
Socialist Alternative

Far Right Gains In Brazil Elections: How Can It Actually Be Defeated? - On October 4, the Brazilian far right won its most decisive triumph since the country’s military dictatorship in 1988. Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL) ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The House: 28 Rating Changes Push Number of Seats at Least Leaning to Democrats Past 218 - Nearly 30 House rating changes push the number of seats at least leaning Democratic into the 220s, and we can see Democrats ultimately at least getting c...
NORML

Poll: Candidates’ Views on Cannabis Policy Will Play a Role in Voters’ Decisions This November - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterms: Two Weeks Out - Effective with this topic’s publishing date…we are two weeks out from the general election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Here are some of my t...
Seeing the Forest

Oligarchs Are Using Social Media To Destabilize Democracies - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Social media and other information o...
Crooked Timber

Turns out the Melbourne Mint was about Gold for India - Last week I was in the Public Records of Victoria (PROV) looking at records of the Melbourne mint. My substack about the Sydney mint by rights should come ...
The Grayzone

Exclusive: FBI subpoenas pro-Palestine activists over Israeli weapons plant disruption - Two US-based activists have been ordered by the Department of Justice to testify in mysterious grand jury proceedings, even after they served two months ...
Project Censored

A Spotlight on School Book Bans - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down and speaks to Kasey Meehan, Director of Freedom to Read at PEN America. They dis...
Alas, a Blog

The Implications Have Become The Monster - This is just an in-joke for me (and for you folks), but I’m pleased by the store sign in panel one, which is blocked by both a telephone pole and a word ba...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part I - From whence come the industrious people? Why spend months reading Marx’s so-called ‘notebooks’ in Theories of Surplus Value, Part 1 (TSVI) when you coul...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

$100 Million ICE “Intelligence” Program is a Domestic Secret Police Agency in the Making - Administration that has ordered agencies to target activists and nonprofits would hire “intelligence” agents within ICE to identify “threats” and investiga...
The Texas Signal

Early Voting Starts In Texas - Even though it has been a generation since Texas has elected a Democrat to a statewide office, the potential for a flip in one or several races seems highl...
Debunking Christianity

Edward Babinski's Foreword To "Why I Became An Atheist" - I've decided to publish whole chapters from my books. I may eventually publish them all, certainly a bunch of them. The goal will be to publish one chapter...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
The AltWorld

Will Saudi Arabia bow to Trump and ask the Israeli army for help with the Yemeni Houthis? - Why not engage in dialogue with them while excluding Arab and Muslim opportunists? We were not surprised […] The post Will Saudi Arabia bow to Trump and ...
Field Negro

"The Art of The Steal. " - The following is from the website of Representative Laura DeLauro who represents the3rd District of Connecticut. "Pay to Play: Trump’s Record of Corrup...
MintPress News

Iran’s Covert Missile Strikes Revealed, US Threatens MOAB Attack & The Arab-Israeli Plot Exposed - Iran releases the shocking claim that it killed 200 US Soldiers in its strikes on bases in Jordan alone, provoking a denial from CENTCOM and threats to u...
Lowering the Bar

Again I Warn Thee: Fleeth Not by Water - [image: suspect stepping into water]Because this somehow still seems to be necessary.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: COMMIES AND MUSLIMS, WHO CARES, OH MY EDITION. - *A melody you can play with* Hate to be optimistic but the midterms are looking good. Here’s a glimpse of what the opposition is offering, courtesy of th...
The Militant

Meetings worldwide protest spread of Jew-hatred, attacks - It’s been three years since Oct. 7, 2023, when Gaza-based Hamas thugs — trained, financed and armed by Tehran — swarmed into Israel and carried out the wor...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/16/2026 - 21:46 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
LareDOS

When everything looks like a nail, odds are you are using the hammer for the wrong job - Every new tool is sold with the dazzling promise of abundance enjoyed in leisure
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Unlimited Hangout

EP003: The Unlimited Hangout Podcast - The Bitcoin-Dollar - In this episode, Whitney and Mark discuss their actual (and often misrepresented) views on Bitcoin and stablecoins and how both are due to be used in tande...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Avedon's Sideshow

Knowing it was gone - A colorful September morning in Glastonbury, by Michelle Cowbourne. It's been back in the news that Netanyahu knew, and didn't tell his security people. J...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Edinburg Politics

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Brains and Eggs

Friday, June 18, 2010

Ignorance isn't bliss

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