Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 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

Al Jazeera English

Myanmar’s military junta chief joins Bangkok summit in rare trip abroad - General Min Aung Hlaing is under multiple global sanctions and is also wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity.
ArcaMax

Musty Old Words - "Last words" used to be a popular concept. The idea was that, at the moment of your death, you were supposed to say something meaningful. They said the las...
The Week

Diana Henry picks her favourite books - The food writer shares works by Claire Keegan, Molly O'Neill and Richard Yates
naked capitalism

Another Trump Big Lie: “Reciprocal Tariffs” - Further discussion of the delustions and misrepresentations of the Trump tariffs.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

April 3, 2025 Update on the Crucial Work of Texas AAUP and Texas AFT in the Texas Legislature - *Friends,* *I can't say enough about the excellent leadership we have in Texas fighting the good fight for higher education, meaning the right to learn, ...
Counterpunch

The Fire This Time - we are witnessing a form of ideological cleansing—a scorched-earth assault on critical consciousness. Education, both public and higher, is under siege, ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Democrats decry reported dismissal of NSA director Tim Haugh - Dismissing Haugh, who headed the US Cyber Command, puts the country at risk at a time of ‘unprecedented cyber threats’, congressional Democrats say Top c...
Common Dreams

A Disaster Of Idiocy: So This Penguin Came Up To Me - Flaunting "the peculiar Trumpian stupidity," the mad king's giddy "liberation" of the global economy - by witlessly slapping tariffs on every country exc...
jobsanger

America Created The World Trading System - Trump Just Burned It All Down -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1346: 1900 - Episode: 1346 The World’s Work magazine shows what we were thinking a century ago. Today, a magazine looks at the century past, and the one to come.
First Draft

Friday Catblogging: The Calico Stretch - Meow from Claire Trevor.
Daily Dot

‘This is the first time I’ve used this’: Woman turns on Maytag dishwasher. Then she sees smoke coming from it - [image: Screenshots from Tiktok user @lizzycayer of a smoking dishwasher.] A dishwasher is not an appliance you'd expect to catch on fire, but it happene...
World Socialist Web Site

European Union threatens retaliation against Trump tariffs - US-Europe ties are suffering a historic breakdown, and a trade war is being set into motion that threatens unprecedented attacks on workers in America, Eur...
memeorandum

Head of National Security Agency and Cyber Command Is Ousted (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times) - Julian E. Barnes / New York Times: *Head of National Security Agency and Cyber Command Is Ousted* — No reason was given for the removal of Gen. Timothy...
Informed Comment

A Do-it-Yourself Kit for Defeating Trumpism: Because the Mainstream Politicians Won’t - Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Republican Administration’s edicts – imposed by broligarchs President Trump and Elon Musk – ...
Courthouse News

Developers of massive California housing project contest environmental concerns - A lower court initially ruled that Los Angeles County's environmental impact report for the project failed to fully analyze the greenhouse gas emissions, e...
Mediagazer

In a new lawsuit, the trustee for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment's bankruptcy case says ex-CEO Bill Rouhana neglected "the most basic corporate duties" (Janko Roettgers/Lowpass) - Janko Roettgers / Lowpass: *In a new lawsuit, the trustee for Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment's bankruptcy case says ex-CEO Bill Rouhana neglecte...
Antiwar.com

Europe’s Misguided Interventions - Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. At last week’s Paris meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’, Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron congrat...
Crooked Media

Trump Tariffies The Markets - The post Trump Tariffies The Markets appeared first on Crooked Media.
Deadline Politics

Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights Restored Following Justice Department Attorney’s Firing - The U.S. Justice Department has reportedly reversed its decision not to reinstate Mel Gibson‘s gun rights following a 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor. T...
Raw Story

'We’ve made a mistake': Trump’s trade war sends GOP into frenzy - WASHINGTON — Fear, trepidation and loathing are now, seemingly, America’s top exports. Just ask Senate Republicans. A day after President Donald Trump sl...
Mediaite

‘This Is Economic Vandalism!’ CNN Host Removes Shoe While Tangling With Scott Jennings - CNN International host Richard Quest mixed it up with network commentator Scott Jennings over President Donald Trump's tariffs. The post ‘This Is Economic...
The Hill

Luna says Johnson called her to discuss proxy voting strictly for new moms - Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) called her to discuss the possibility of allowing proxy voting only for new moms after Pr...
Techdirt.

Trevor Milton Lists All Of The Cozy Relationships With Trump That Definitely Didn’t Lead To His Pardon - We chronicled the implosion of the company Nikola and the fall from grace of its CEO, Trevor Milton, for years. If you don’t recall the story, Nikola was b...
Political Wire

Trump Ousts Head of the National Security Agency - “The director of the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, the National Security Agency, was fired Thursday,“ the Washington Post reports. “Gen...
San Antonio Report

As Republicans and Democrats pour money into San Antonio mayor race, self-funding candidates fight to keep up - Manny Pelaez and Clayton Perry are fronting their own money to keep up with Democrats boosting Gina Ortiz Jones and GOP-backed Rolando Pablos. -------------...
See You In 2020

This genocide can only be ended through class struggle, & alt media is leading the people away from this - Above: Service Employees International Union members march against the Palestinian genocide; photo by Purple Up for Palestine How come speaking truth to...
Wolf Street

Fed Balance Sheet QT: -$33 Billion in March, -$2.24 Trillion from Peak, to $6.72 Trillion, Lowest since May 2020 - Fed’s assets-to-GDP ratio dropped to 22.6%, first seen in 2013. Quantitative Tightening has shed 25% of total assets from peak.
Popular Resistance

Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Impoverishing Tariffs - U.S. President Donald Trump is trashing the world trade system over a basic economic fallacy. He wrongly claims that America’s trade deficit is caused by...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's best chef, restaurant, and more revealed at 2025 Tastemaker Awards - Here are the winners of the *2025 CultureMap Tastemaker Awards*. These bars, restaurants, and individuals represent the best of Houston’s culinary scene, a...
Alternet

'Appalled': Ex-prosecutors reveal how this Trump official has 'butchered' DOJ’s credibility - Former federal prosecutors are up in arms over the nomination of Ed Martin for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin, who is currently servi...
Workers World

Linking the struggle at home and abroad: Remembering the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - [image: Linking the struggle at home and abroad: Remembering the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ] Credit: abcnews.go.com The following updated artic...
Election Law Blog

“US Senate confirms Trump loyalist to lead Justice Department civil rights unit” - Reuters: The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Jus...
Grist

FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs - In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced it plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Commun...
Brad Blog

'Mob Boss' Trump's Global Trade Sanctions Tank U.S., World Markets: 'BradCast' 4/3/2025 - Who coulda foreseen it? Oh, yeah. Everybody in the world other than the idiot who did it and his weird cult followers working desperately to justify it tod...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Ford Motor Credit Company, LLC vs Jose Fonseca Arevalo on March 27 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Deborah C. S. Riherd and Ford Motor Credit Company, LLC against Jo...
The Verge

Superman’s latest trailer introduces his team of robot assistants - Though Superman is clearly going to get the living daylights beat out of him at some point in James Gunn’s upcoming DC Studios feature, the movie’s latest ...
Undernews

Just the facts - [image: Image] Via Louis KC This is what the country’s actual tariffs are on the US vs what the White House claimed. In case anyone was wondering.
The Greanville Post

FAFO: Musk Brand Suicide - ROGER BOYD—The reality is that Tesla is not even a leader in the field of autonomous driving, while Musk keeps making outrageous statements about its capab...
Portside

Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going To Work How He Thinks They Will - Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Going To Work How He Thinks They Will jay Thu, 04/03/2025 - 20:41
Axios

Scoop: Stephen Miller's Senate GOP marching orders on tariffs, judges - White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller brought a one-two combo to his old Senate stomping grounds on Thursday, according to Senate aides. *Why ...
Salon.com

"I don't care about my 401k today": MAGA writes off chaos as Trump tariffs roil markets - Kellyanne Conway touted the "positive reaction" to tariffs, citing an auto company that has just announced layoffs
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Hot Mess Mace - a look back at Nancy Mace's embarrassing transphobia as charges against advocate she accused of assaulting her are dropped - When Congresswoman Nancy Mace had a pro-trans advocate arrested for merely shaking her hand, she faced a huge onslaught of social media ridicule such as t...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 4, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio April 4, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/04/2025 - 05:05 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
The Texas Signal

How A Film Incentive Bill Cruised A Senate Committee Vote - The Texas star power of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson helped advance a bill meant to increase film and television incentives in the state
Progressive.org

Spurred by Trump, Israel’s Invasion of Syria Looms Permanent - As most of the country was celebrating the fall of the Assad regime, Israeli troops entered Syria for the first time in fifty years.
Rallblog

Surprise Casualties in the War of Words Over anti-Semitism - Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism? Before Hamas attacked Israel, American voters had not arrived at a consensus. They hadn’t thought much about it. Asked whe...
Rio Grande Guardian

Vicente Fox to speak in Brownsville as part of RGV StartUp Week - The former president of Mexico will give an address titled: "How Border Entrepreneurs can Overcome the Current Political Climate." The post Vicente Fox t...
Claytoonz

Reciprocal Penguins - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Vox

Why it feels like 2007 again - In February, a group of men on a sports talk show casually spread a salacious and untrue rumor about the sex life of a teenage girl on national television,...
Slate

Elon Musk Tried and Failed to Buy the WI Court Race - His money was no match for rising liberal rage.
Second Nexus

Teacher Reveals Bizarre 'Thank You' Gift Options School District Offers For 10 Years Of Service - You know that feeling of having to laugh because otherwise you'll cry? Well, there will never be a more reasonable response than that when it comes to si...
Eater Houston

Where to Enjoy Dinner, Drinks, and Live Entertainment in Houston - [image: People stand while watching two men perform on stage.] No dull dinners or drinks here. | Matchless Exposure Here’s where to jam out to jazz, roma...
Mondoweiss

Senate rejects Sanders effort to block Israeli weapons sale as war on Gaza widens - The Senate has rejected a pair of resolutions from Senator Bernie Sanders aimed at blocking weapon sales to Israel.
Eschaton

Concerning - 😂 European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform X for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit co...
Futurism

Space Tourists Startled to Discover That From Space, Antarctica Looks Pretty Much Like You'd Expect - After becoming the first humans to fly over the Earth's poles in space, a crew of private astronauts — or space tourists — report that the world's southe...
NPR's Health Shots

On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts - Federal health agencies have to slash their spending by more than a third, on top of the 10,000-person staffing cuts.
El Paso Matters

NorthEaster Parade, El Paso Zoo Eggstravaganza, egg hunts, carnivals fill April events calendar - Looking for Easter egg hunts and other things to do in and around El Paso this spring? We’ve got you covered with our events list. The post NorthEaster ...
The Root

This Black Chick-Fil-A Employee Got Shortchanged For Her Company Scholarship, Then Something Amazing Happened - The power of social media is strong. Even though a Black Georgia college student received a solid amount of money in a scholarship from Chick-fil-A, many...
Reform Austin

Democrats Threaten Legal Action Over Abbott’s Delay In Special Election - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Democratic leaders are ramping up pressure on Texas Governor Greg Abbott to call a special elec...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: We all should "tremble for our country"... - *THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2025* *...when the fellow keeps saying this: *We've log recommended pity for* the person*—for the tragic loss of human potential. T...
Texas Monthly

He Corrected a Grave Injustice in Dallas Eviction Courts. Now Some Lawmakers Want to Stop Him. - Mark Melton’s work defending tenants against illegal evictions was valuable and cost-efficient, but it has upset the wrong people.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico incentivizes attorneys, doctors to take on workplace injury cases - [image: Photo of the State Capitol aka Roundhouse] By Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico Starting on June 20, a new state law may help workers in New Mexico...
Texas Standard

What is a carne asada and what can you expect if you’re invited? - Tortillas, sides, or a six-pack are a few things on the list of what to bring – just don’t come empty handed!
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / POLITICS OF MEDICINE / They are trying to hide the future cuts to Medicaid - This caricature of Donald Trump was adapted by DonkeyHotey from a Creative Commons-licensed photo from Michael Vadon’s Flickr photostream. By Michael Meero...
The Daily Poster

Trump Lets “Good” Banks Hide Their Bad Fees - Last year, credit unions were forced to disclose the billions they made charging their members unnecessary junk fees. Now Trump is once again hiding their ...
American Prospect

Tariffs, Schmariffs - Today on TAP: Trump rewards the real offshorers with trillions in tax cuts.
Bud Kennedy

In ‘largest red county’ in U.S., Tarrant Democrats struggle with cash, candidates | Opinion - For once, some Democrats are being careful with money. So naturally, that comes as a shock. The low-profile Tarrant County Democratic Party made headlines ...
Dissent Magazine

The Degradation of Big Law - By intimidating and disarming potential sources of legal resistance, Trump weakens one of the last institutional barriers standing between his administra...
Lowering the Bar

Lawmaker Wants to Regulate Self-Checkout Lanes - [image: self-checkout line]Unfortunately not to regulate them out of existence.
Capital & Main

Gas Operator Fined $1.9 Million for Damaging Wetlands Is on Trump’s ‘Fast Track’ Approval List - Fracking operation is among more than 600 controversial projects the president wants to expedite to combat the nation's 'energy emergency' The post Gas O...
Consortium News

Getting the UN Involved in Ukraine - A legally-acceptable peacekeeping force can only be set up through the auspices of the United Nations Security Council and that would mean both sides of th...
Discourse

What's the Longest Filibuster You Could Do? - Let's take our bodies and imaginations to the limit.
SCOTUSblog

Nonprofits urge justices to leave judge’s reinstatement of federal employees in place - [image: Nonprofits urge justices to leave judge’s reinstatement of federal employees in place] [image: Nonprofits urge justices to leave judge’s reinstatem...
Liberation News

Fight to free Mahmoud Khalil exposes the black hole of Louisiana’s ICE jails - The ruling elites fashion the Deep South as a ground zero for repression, but Southerners know we are ground zero for resistance.
The Conversation

How a lone judge can block a Trump order nationwide – and why, from DACA to DOGE, this judicial check on presidents’ power is shaping how the government works - Do court-imposed nationwide injunctions, which stop policies for everyone across the country, give too much power to a single judge? Or do they protect imp...
Sludge

SpaceX Poised for Massive Profit From Pentagon Rocket Initiative - The Pentagon announced next steps in a program that could see SpaceX Starships being used to transport cargo and troops around the globe.
WhoWhatWhy

Mixed Woodlands Help Temper Extreme Weather, Study Shows - [image: climate crisis, global warming, weather extremes, heatwaves, mixed woodlands, new study] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our edito...
Infidel753

Frequently-confused words - A few years ago, I wrote this post in an effort to help fellow bloggers with words which I often see confused with each other on the internet. Many peopl...
Ballot Access News

Connecticut Ballot Access Bill Advances - On March 27 the Connecticut Joint Government & Elections Committee Passed SB 1156. It allows a minor party that had polled at least 1% of the vote for a st...
NORML

Ohio: Governor’s Proposed Doubling of Marijuana Sales Tax Nixed - [image: Ohio marijuana][image: Ohio marijuana]NORML has consistently lobbied against the proposed hikes, arguing that increasing taxes will unduly burden...
Project Censored

“All Governments Lie”: Why We Need a Radical and Independent Free Press Now - If the Government makes a mistake, the newspapers will find out and the problem may then be fixed. But if freedom of the press were lost, the country wou...
Mother Jones

South Carolina Attacked Planned Parenthood. Will SCOTUS Let Patients Fight Back? - Perhaps what was most significant in the debate at the US Supreme Court Wednesday morning, during oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atla...
Dissident Voice

WEF Update - According to three Australian university academics: “We argue that, contrary to the WEF prediction, an owner-less future would not be a happy one for ind...
Bonddad

Economically weighted ISM manufacturing + services on the cusp on yellow caution flag - *- by New Deal democrat* Because manufacturing is much less important to the economy than in the decades before the Millennium, the economically wei...
Glasstire

The Orange Show Releases the Schedule for its 2025 Art Car Festival Parade - The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art has shared a lineup of art car-related events taking place in Houston from April 10 through 13. This year marks ...
Daily Cartoonist

A Duke’s Mixture of Comics Items - With cartoonists Carol Lay, Ali Fitzgerald, Andrea Beizer, Bill Bettwy, Colleen Doran, G. B. Trudeau, Paul and Brad Anderson, Jeff and Bil Keane, Larry Lie...
Democracy Now!

ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan - We speak with New York Immigration Coalition President Murad Awawdeh about a mother and three children who were swept up in an ICE raid not far from the ho...
Texas Observer

The Lawless Border Wall - In February, bulldozers carved long straight lines, uprooting trees and scraping the earth bare, near the South Texas communities of Salineño and Roma, t...
Space City Weather

Windy and warm, as Houston’s weather turns a little more unsettled through Saturday - In brief: Houston is continuing to see exceptionally warm weather this week, and we’ll also experience ongoing windy conditions. There will be a very sligh...
Angry Bear

manufacturing and construction are almost right at the juncture between expansion and contraction - February construction spending: nominal vs. real makes all the difference – by New Deal democrat Since the turn of the Millennium, a downturn in manufac...
DeSmogBlog

Hedge Fund Boss Paul Marshall Bet Big on Elon Musk Before Trump’s Election - Right-wing media owner Paul Marshall bought a large stake in Elon Musk’s company Tesla prior to the U.S. presidential election, DeSmog can reveal. At the...
Dorf on Law

How to Break a Judiciary, Part 2: Difficult Working Conditions - *Guest Essay by Alyssa King* In yesterday’s first installment in this series, I located the Trump administration’s assault on the courts and the bar in t...
The Smirking Chimp

Elon Musk’s Wisconsin Invasion: Democracy’s Turning Point or the Next Step Toward Autocracy? -
Skeptophilia

Woof - I was discussing the alleged phenomenon of hauntings with a friend of mine, and he said, "There's one thing I've always wondered. Some people believe that...
Off The Kuff

Another lawsuit threatened for CD18 - File away, I say. Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Wednesday that House Democrats will “very likely” sue if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues to hold of...
ProPublica

Utah Ex-Therapist Scott Owen Sentenced to Prison for Sexually Abusing Patients - by Jessica Schreifels, The Salt Lake Tribune This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribun...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Liberation Day: This Boy Could Fuck Up Boiling Water - [image: Trump’s Liberation Day: This Boy Could Fuck Up Boiling Water] So, Trump’s tariffs are out. He claims they’re half of what each country tariffs the...
Scheerpost.com

Jeffrey Sachs: Trump’s Absurd Trade Policies Will Impoverish Americans and Harm the World - America’s trade deficit is a measure of the profligacy of America’s corporate ruling class, more specifically the result of chronically large budget defici...
High Country News

The horses and mules that moved mountains and hearts - [image: Workers adorn Leatherman the mule with a Forest Service beanie.] Forest Service stock animals are indispensable to trail work on public lands in t...
Earth 911

How To Cut Your Summer Energy Bills - Do you dread opening your summer electric bills? If you’re like many U.S. residents and... The post How To Cut Your Summer Energy Bills appeared first on...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid: The Ideological Foundations of White Working Class Republicanism - While the state of the economy was likely an important factor in the 2024 presidential election and other recent contests, discontent over economic condi...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Live Conversation With Sarah Kendzior - Sarah Kendzior and I discuss her new book The Last American Road Trip, the state of America, and what we must fight for.
slacktivist

Honk and holler as we go - The tariffs are coming and, along with them, the exemptions and exceptions made possible by kickbacks, bribes, and payoffs to the administration.
Rewire

Introducing… Executive Dysfunction! - Meet *Rewire News Group*’s antidote to the current mess in Washington, D.C. The post Introducing… Executive Dysfunction! appeared first on Rewire News Gr...
LareDOS

TAMIU’s Harmony Across Borders performance features Dr. Fritz Gechter, Dr. Yu-Mei Huang, and Dr. Xiaohu Zhou - April 5 concert free and open to the public; 3 p.m. at Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall
Church and State

For $1,000 a MAGA preacher says God will be “an enemy to your enemies” + you get 6 more blessings - Send Paula White, who is a friend of Trump, $1,000 and the Lord will shower you with seven must-have “supernatural blessings”.
Ecosophia

Parsifal: The Solution Assessed - As we saw two weeks ago, Richard Wagner’s last opera Parsifal makes use of most of the same symbols as The Ring of the Nibelung, and thus provides a mordan...
Reveal

Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A White female doctor, wearing glasses, a gray jacket, and blue scrubs, sits at her desk. Children's hand drawings hang on the wall.] Hospitals ro...
The Disorder Of Things

Governing the Feminist Peace: From Institutionalism to Ecology - This second contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Nicole George at the University of Queensland. Nicole is Associate Pro...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Jagged Bomb - I’m going to the East Bay Origami Convention this weekend! I’ll be teaching this model. I specifically designed the model in order to teach it. Normally,...
Idavox

Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A White Supremacist, to Shoot ‘N—–’ After Incident At Free Concert - All they told her was that she could not be in a certain part of... The post Philly Area Woman With a History of Terroristic Threats Declares She is A Wh...
The AltWorld

Reality Is Not a Participant in the War Planning and Foreign Policy Discussions - How do we reconcile this: The Deep State Has Used the NY Times to Announce Its Withdrawal […] The post Reality Is Not a Participant in the War Planning a...
The Grayzone

British intel sought to silence West’s top Russia academic, leaks reveal - Leaked documents show UK intelligence operatives grooming British politicians to silence academics expressing skepticism of London’s Ukraine proxy war ef...
Duck of Minerva

Big Man, Big Heart - This a crosspost from Saideman’s Semi-Spew. This week, we found out that Brandon Valeriano died. It is quite gutting as he had such a terrific spirit, and...
Bracing Views

Surprise! Institute of Peace in Shutdown - W.J. Astore Meanwhile, Institute of War Is Going Full Throttle Surprise! America’s Institute of Peace (USIP), admittedly a think tank that is neither that ...
nonsite.org

The Man Who Would Be King: Method in Trump’s Madness, Contradictions in Trump’s Method - Trump can meet the expectations of those looking for a hard line on immigration and can grant his corporate backers the tax cuts and deregulation they gree...
Crooked Timber

Property, recognition, and the temporalities of life. Reading Kopenawa and Albert’s The Falling Sky. Words of a Yanomami Shaman from the perspective of economic philosophy - What is it that people desire when they desire riches? It may seem strange that once all basic needs are fulfilled, individuals would continue to strive fo...
Earthworks

A String of Tailings Dam Failures Shows the Urgency of Putting Safety First - The past two months have seen catastrophic failures at mine waste storage facilities on three continents. The post A String of Tailings Dam Failures Show...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of Selena - Monday, March 31, 2025 marks the 30-year anniversary of the murder of popular and Grammy-winning Tejano singer *Selena Quintanilla-Pérez*. Born April 16,...
Krebs on Security

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack - In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? - Under the current circumstances, the answer clearly appears to be NO; however, only those checking more reliable sources would know this, since mainstre...
Debunking Christianity

An Interesting Documentary on Northern-Irish Monarchism - R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) is a Presbyterian Philosopher whom I like to listen to. He mentions the German word for: Enlightenment, which is: ‘Aufklärung’. ...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
The Progressive Wing

3.29-31-4.4 Open Threads - Hello everyone. 🙂 The interesting news down here is the two Special House elections. The one in my area is Weil vs. Fine. The other one (which is also wor...
The Militant

Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’ - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest prote...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CULTURE WAR IS A WAR ON CULTURE EDITION. - *A blast from the pissed. (RIP Sandman.)* Woke up this morning and, dammit, it was still Nutsy Nazi Time in the former United States of America. Tubby sq...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
OpEd News

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
The Socialist

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

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

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
Two Party Opera

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
BEYONDbones

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Reading the Pictures

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
Green Pages News

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

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
Robert Reich

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

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
Right Wing Watch

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

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
Dos Centavos

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

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

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

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

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

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

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

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

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

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

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

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

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

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

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

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

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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