Brains and Eggs: Saturday 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

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

The Guardian (U.S. news)

‘He’s the real thing’: Longley feels Chicago connection as Josh Giddey brings Bulls back to the big time | Jack Snape - Three-time NBA champion senses ‘weird deja vu’ as his former side returns to playoff contention with a fellow Australian critical to the resurgence Luc L...
Raw Story

'World turned upside down’: Top MAGA allies bewildered by Trump’s whiplash - President Donald Trump's move to cast out loyalist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and appear to embrace New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, ha...
Political Wire

Comey Prosecution on the Ropes - “The federal prosecution of former FBI director James Comey is teetering after a series of missteps, a sign of broader challenges ahead for the Justice Dep...
memeorandum

How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms (Tim Zadorozhnyy/The Kyiv Independent) - Tim Zadorozhnyy / The Kyiv Independent: *How Steve Witkoff pushed Ukraine sympathizers out of White House, and led the US into Russia's arms* — U.S. Sp...
Futurism

Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life - "These are not random oddities. They are fingerprints of Earth's earliest history." The post Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to t...
Salon.com

Work is “optional” and irrelevant money: Musk’s creepy utopian dream - Utopians say technology will end scarcity, questions remain on accessing things machines can't create from thin air
Al Jazeera English

G20 leaders adopt new declaration, even as US boycotts summit - World leaders broke with tradition and quickly adopted a new declaration at the start of the G20 summit.
Mediaite

Bill Maher Bristles When Killer Mike Says America Leaning Toward ‘White Male-dom’ - Bill Maher bristled when Killer Mike made a political prediction based on the premise that "America is leaning toward White male-dom." The post Bill Mahe...
The Hill

Losing access — and losing hope. Congress must protect non-intoxicating hemp - Congress has quietly inserted a provision into the spending bill that would ban the entire hemp industry, taking away a much-needed option for millions of ...
The Verge

Sony’s entire DualSense lineup is $20 off, including the limited edition models - Black Friday isn’t here quite yet, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from kicking off an excellent holiday promo, which runs through December 18th. The ongoing ...
Axios

Fractious UN climate talks end with no direct push on fossil fuels in deal - UN climate talks in Brazil are wrapping up Saturday with a push to help move nations away from fossil fuels, but the deal lacks explicit mention of the C...
Dissident Voice

What are Canadian military learning from genocidal apartheid state? - Canadian forces are learning from the génocidaires, directly assisting the US/Israeli occupation of Gaza, and will likely help build a colonial Palestini...
OpEd News

The UN has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza - Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dra...
Bracing Views

Sedition! Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal! MTG Resigns! Gaza Peace Deal! - Thoughts on a busy week of news BILL ASTORE NOV 22, 2025 It’s been a busy week of news. Here are four items that stood out. A group of Democratic members o...
Slate

There’s Only One Reason I’m Not Going Down On My Husband Anymore. I Can Never, Ever Tell Him. - Instead, I'm going on a sex strike.
Scheerpost.com

62 Years Later: Revisiting JFK’s Assassination Through Edward Curtin’s New Book - Today, the 62nd anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we are publishing a chapter from Edward Curtin’s new book, “At the Lost and ...
Trivial Knot

Colorblind glasses - What if you and I see different colors? Like when I see red, it’s the same as when you see blue and vice versa? A classic Deep Thoughts thought experiment ...
Eschaton

America's Worst Humans - Sarah Hurwitz
Daily Cartoonist

The Illustrated Guest Jumbler 2025 Profiles - The annual Guest Jumbler Week with six cartoonists, all syndicated comic strip artists this year, taking over for the regular creators David L. Hoyt and Je...
Courthouse News

Brazil’s ex-president Bolsonaro arrested over alleged plot to avoid 27-year prison term - Brazilian authorities say Jair Bolsonaro was taken into custody on suspicion of planning to evade the 27-year sentence he faces for leading a coup attempt,...
Mediagazer

A look at The Atlantic's AI bot blocking strategy, which involves a scorecard to determine which scrapers generate traffic and subsequent conversions (Sara Guaglione/Digiday) - Sara Guaglione / Digiday: *A look at The Atlantic's AI bot blocking strategy, which involves a scorecard to determine which scrapers generate traffic and...
Daily Dot

“Enough is enough”: Creator says pro-ED culture is back thanks to Hollywood’s Ozempic obsession in a video with over 6 million views - [image: Woman looking into the camera. Text overlay reads, "Pro-ana culture is back."] TikToker Ashe Wright (@yourdashofashe), a self-described “lifestyl...
San Antonio Report

Pearl gets new cocktail bar with intriguing name from James Beard-nominated owner - Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin's new cocktail bar pays homage to the unseen immigrant influences that shape American food culture. ------------------------------ Pe...
Undernews

Your unpredictable editor - *Sam Smith - *Given a birthday party coming up and a visit by one of my two sons, Undernews service may be less than normal through November 26.
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: A word was missing on Fox & Friends Weekend! - *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2025* *But also, what Lincoln once said:* A treasured word was (almost) completely missing from this morning's *Fox & Friends Wee...
San Antonio Current

Trump’s policies risk Texas’ new solar and battery projects - [image: A battery storage complex and substation stores energy produced by renewable sources.] Two-thirds of Texas’ future solar and storage developments ...
Reform Austin

Musk Responds After Billie Eilish Calls Out the “Future Trillionaire” - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Elon Musk and Billie Eilish briefly clashed online this week after the singer used her Instagra...
Mother Jones

RFK Jr. Wants You To Know He’s Personally Responsible for Anti-Vax Misinformation on CDC Website - In an interview published Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the New York Times that he’d personally directed the CDC to put a new page on the agency’s web...
WhoWhatWhy

In Topsy-Turvy World, Trump Drives MTG from Congress and Embraces Mamdani - [image: Trump, Mamdani] In a political environment in which almost nothing can shock us anymore, Donald Trump's embrace of Zohran Mamdani (D) and the resig...
Glasstire

Follow the Scent of Smoked Brisket: How to Approach the Austin Studio Tour - Smoke rose from a black iron barrel barbecue in a front yard on Austin’s East Side on a November Saturday afternoon. Though several excellent barbecue jo...
Grist

Tehran’s water crisis is a warning for every thirsty city - Why Iran’s capital is running out of water — and why it won’t be the last.
Election Law Blog

“Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning. Here’s what to know about her five years in Congress” - AP News reports Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning her office to spare her district an ugly primary fight after her fall from Trump’s grace. The Atlanta-...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Big Lube Gets Blocked - Landlords are defanged, another candidate wins on affordability, and oil changes stay cheap.
Angry Bear

Employer Health Benefits Survey for 2025 - This is a good take by KFF on Healthcare Insurance in the United States. It is a bit long; but, it is worth spending a few minutes to read. It can be a v...
ArcaMax

The Death of the Landline Will Kill You - When you visit Mark Twain's house in Hartford, Connecticut, you may be told about his telephone. It was one of the first phones in the country, so he could...
naked capitalism

Links 11/22/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

‘That’s When the Teeth Come Out’: Michael Cohen Reveals How Trump Could Turn On Mamdani -
Vox

The 2 men fueling Sudan’s civil war - President Donald Trump announced that the US would intervene to end the civil war in Sudan. This promise came at the request of the Saudi crown prince Moha...
Skeptophilia

Mental maps - Picture a place you know well. Your house, your apartment, a park, a church, a school. You can probably imagine it, remember what it's like to wander aro...
Crooked Media

Zohran Mamdani’s Offline Campaign - The post Zohran Mamdani’s Offline Campaign appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

SCOTUS puts temporary pause on redistricting ruling - This is just until they can make a ruling. Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alit...
The Root

Megan Thee Stallion Gets Emotional During Testimony Against Blogger - In an emotional testimony, the rapper revealed the mental and financial toll of years-long cyberstalking, deepfake exploitation, and online attacks conne...
Infidel753

Link round-up for 22 November 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o For those who didn't see this last Saturday -- my e-mail address has chan...
The Week

Hitler: what can we learn from his DNA? - Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator is the latest documentary to posthumously diagnose the dictator
Informed Comment

India Plans 2.45 Gig Solar Park + 5 GWh Battery in Rajasthan, so why drag its Feet at COP30? - even the right wing Hindu nationalist government of India has ambitious plans to transition to green energy
jobsanger

Trump Wants To Execute Democrats For Asking Military To Follow The Law And Constitution -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1475: Evariste Galois - Episode: 1475 The tragic tale of Evariste Galois. Today, let’s tell the remarkable tale of Evariste Galois.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: Going Mobile - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
World Socialist Web Site

Mass layoffs escalate in US healthcare industry - This is part of a wider jobs massacre, with US employers announcing 1.1 million jobs this year alone.
Deadline Politics

Bill Maher Once Again Hits Back At “Childish” Larry David, Defends Trump Dinner - Bill Maher concluded the Season 23 finale of Real Time by once again hitting back at Larry David and defending his dinner with president Donald Trump. Whil...
Techdirt.

Clown Show: CDC Website Changed To Suggest Vaccines May Indeed Cause Autism - I knew this was coming but this still is absolutely maddening. In all of our coverage of RFK Jr., particularly since his vile appointment and confirmation ...
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | November 21, 2025 - Friday Nite Videos | November 21, 2025 barry Fri, 11/21/2025 - 22:21
Alternet

'That's when the teeth come out': Michael Cohen reveals how Trump could turn on Mamdani - President Donald Trump hosted New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Friday, where the two had an unpredictably amicable photo-op...
Crooked Timber

Musk’s last grift - The US is one big grift these days: the Trump Administration, traditional and social media, corporations, crypto, financial markets are all selling some ki...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TRUMP EMBRACES SOCIALISM EDITION. - *Where they spend their se-molians / Just to watch those cre-olians /Skippin', hippin′, doin' the uptown lowdown. (Chick Webb!)* The week was strange; f...
Popular Resistance

Palestinians Will Not Let The Genocide Kill Their Hopes - In the United Nations’ Humanitarian Situation Update #340 on the Gaza Strip (12 November 2025), there is a section on the distress experienced by more th...
Texas Standard

Supreme Court temporarily restores Texas’ new congressional map - The administrative ruling is a first step before the court decides whether to pause the use of the 2025 map, drawn to increase GOP seats in the U.S. House,...
Ballot Access News

Texas Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Reinstate New U.S. House District Boundaries - On the evening of November 21, Texas asked the U.S. Supreme Court to restore its new U.S. House district boundaries. Here is the filing. The other side was...
SCOTUSblog

Texas asks Supreme Court to allow it to use redistricting map struck by lower court as racially discriminatory - Texas came to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking the justices to clear the way for it to use a new congressional map intended to increase the chances th...
Alas, a Blog

Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: As a cartoonist in the internet age, I’m really lucky to have access to drawing tutorials as well as...
Workers World

Solidarity with Indigenous struggles: National Day of Mourning - [image: Solidarity with Indigenous struggles: National Day of Mourning] The United American Indians of New England posted the following statement on their ...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Breaking Out of Media Group-Think - The Western media’s failure to report the reality of Gaza didn’t start on Oct. 7. It’s always been like this. Here’s why journalists won’t tell you the tru...
The Greanville Post

Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: The West Is LOSING Control - DW—This discussion, dated November 20th, 2025, features Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson analyzing the deteriorating economic and geopolitical situation in...
See You In 2020

The workers movement must defeat the KKE’s push to insert labor Zionism into pro-Palestine politics - The Communist Party of Greece (KKE), and its affiliated orgs, are working to normalize Zionism within the workers movement. The KKE made this clear two ...
ProPublica

Senators Launch Inquiry After a White House Official Intervened on Behalf of Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation - The post Senators Launch Inquiry After a White House Official Intervened on Behalf of Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation appeared first on ProPub...
CultureMap Houston

3D-printed Houston housing project cements a more affordable future - Houston is putting itself front-and-center to help make sustainable, affordable housing a reality for 80 lucky homeowners in a scalable housing community t...
Ian Welsh

Larry Summers Being Awful Has Little to Do With Jeffrey Epstein - After three decades of creating ruin and disaster across the globe, Larry Summers is finally being pushed from the lofty heights of power and prestige. The...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Illinois Raises Privacy Concerns Over State Digital ID System - The Libertarian Party of Illinois has come out against the state’s new digital identification system, arguing that the program threatens privacy rights a...
Wolf Street

Credit Card Delinquencies, Balances, Burden, Credit Limits, and Collections in Q3 2025 - Despite all moaning and groaning and sour feelings in consumer land, credit card delinquency rates improved further.
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—November 2025 - Censored Press News Project Censored and The Censored Press published State of the Free Press 2026 on November 11, 2025. Responding to a wave of attacks ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso Zoo Director Joe Montisano resigns after months on administrative leave - The zoo director had been on paid administrative leave since mid-September, following his involvement in multiple controversies including two lawsuits, ...
Discourse

Gaza Fundraiser of the Week: Winter Blankets for Families - Help keep people warm as the temperature plunges.
The Militant

Author Boualem Sansal released from prison in Algeria - In a victory for human rights, 81-year-old prize-winning Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal was released from imprisonment Nov. 12 and flown to a hospital in...
Mondoweiss

Israeli airstrike on Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13 young boys, - [image: Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in 2023 during clashes between rival factions, September 8, 2023, Sidon, Lebanon/ (Photo: © PPI via ZUMA Press Wire/APA ...
The Texas Signal

Historic El Paso Tramway To Reopen With New Upgrades - The beloved tramway that used to dot the El Paso sky will (eventually) be making a comeback
Environment Texas

More of our coast threatened by offshore drilling under new proposal - Here’s how the new draft offshore drilling plan puts more of America’s coastlines at risk The post More of our coast threatened by offshore drilling unde...
Second Nexus

Fans Are Hilariously Losing It Over How Bad 'Frankenstein' Star Jacob Elordi's Handwriting Is - *Euphoria*’s most problematic heartthrob, Jacob Elordi, has many talents: being tall, *his bathwater,* looking tall, abs, towering over furniture, starri...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

What the Dictator Wants: The Normalization of Violence and Oppression - Trump is openly calling for the execution of his political enemies. We've stepped into a new chapter of this crisis
Capital & Main

Seven Years Into Gov. Newsom’s Tenure, California’s Housing Crisis Remains Unsolved - Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows. ...
The Conversation

Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands - A majority of service members understand the distinction between legal and illegal orders.
Texas Observer

Loon Star State: Trump’s Derangement Syndrome - To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Tru...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Rust on the Midterm Iron Law? Voter Expectations for 2026 - In the early parts of the Trump administration, citizens were skeptical that Democrats could retake the House or Senate, but more recent surveys indicate...
NPR's Health Shots

Can vaping help wean people off cigarettes? Anti-smoking advocates are sharply split - Many think it's a dangerous ploy by the tobacco industry. But some say, with millions of deaths each year attributed to smoking cigarettes, it's the lesser...
Rewire

After Abortion, Some People Report Worsening Mental Health. It’s Not About Regret, Experts Say - The feelings of depression may come from hormonal and physical changes that can follow pregnancy's end, but researchers say more research is needed. The ...
Common Dreams

Adaptation Finance Low-Balled, Glaring Omission of Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels in New COP30 Text - The annual UN climate talks, COP30, are entering their final hours after a fire briefly shut down the venue yesterday. Early this morning, the COP Presid...
Bonddad

October existing home sales, prices, and inventory continue to show slow progress towards rebalancing - - *by New Deal democrat* Although the government shutdown is over, most data points - including all having to do with housing - have not been update...
Space City Weather

Houston is stringing together 80-degree days like the Texans defense strings together sacks - In brief: A cool front today will bring a smattering of showers or a few thunderstorms to Houston, followed by continued warm but slightly less warm weathe...
NORML

Promoting Compassionate Cannabis Policies for Vulnerable Youth - [image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it][image: a father holds up a cannabis joint and asks his teen son about it]NORML ...
MintPress News

Saudi Arabia just said NO to Israel & the US | Sharmine Narwani - Sharmine Narwani joins Mnar Adley to unpack Saudi Arabia’s rejection of US and Israeli pressure, Israel’s escalating regional attacks, and Yemen’s growin...
Democracy Now!

"Inviting the Arsonists": Indian Climate Activist Slams Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at U.N. Climate Summit - Nations are struggling to reach a final text agreement at the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. Decisions are made by consensus at COPs, requirin...
Debunking Christianity

Why We Shouldn’t Pay Much Attention to the Sermon on the Mount - *Do the devout read it much anyway—and take it seriously? * When we hear the words, *Sermon on the Mount*, we might be tempted to think it’s the pinnac...
Duck of Minerva

Here We Go Again: Why American Presidents Can’t Resist Regime Change - The U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean is confusing the MAGA faithful. With rumors swirling of an imminent operation to topple Venezuela’s Nicolas Madu...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “End Game in Ukraine?” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On the “DeProgram” show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, a high-leve...
DeSmogBlog

Exclusive: COP30 PR Agency Edelman Lobbied Presidency to Favour Fossil Fuel Client - This story was co-published with Intercept Brasil. Public relations giant Edelman lobbied the Brazilian hosts of the COP30 climate summit to choose one o...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: The Biggest Boots - Climate change is a global problem, one that requires leaders to step up to the... The post Earth911 Inspiration: The Biggest Boots appeared first on Ear...
slacktivist

LBCF: Lunch with Dad - Chloe's mother was "devout" -- meaning she regularly warned her about the imminent one-world government, quizzed her on the seven bowls and seven seals of ...
Dorf on Law

Is Religion a Suspect Classification Independent of the First Amendment? - Earlier this week, I summarized and linked to the amicus brief on behalf of myself and nine other constitutional law scholars in the transgender athlete ...
The NM Political Report

Arctic Frost payout repeal put on ice, frustrating Heinrich - [image: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks on the floor of the Senate (C-SPAN)] [image: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich speaks on the floor of the Senate (C-SPAN...
High Country News

Reno’s Gay Rodeo is back - Nearly 40 years after an armed sheriff, anti-LGBTQ activists and a judge’s order shut down the Gay Rodeo Finals, this year the riders came home. The po...
Church and State

Sliding Into Despotism - We have all witnessed Trump’s assaults on our democracy, but they come so fast we may have trouble keeping up with all of them.
Counterpunch

Bolsonaro Arrested and Jailed in Brasilia - Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been arrested and is currently being held in a heavily guarded state room with a private bathroom...
Brad Blog

President of United States Calls for Killing Democratic Officials: 'BradCast' 11/20/2025 - It's our last BradCast today before our Thanksgiving break. And, frankly, it was a very different show than the one I went to bed last night pondering for ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Everybody's crying justice, just as long as it's business first - Here's a picture of my Second Life avatar in a sexy gown, just to spice things up. I hope no one's forgotten that *Common Dreams* is about as close as you...
Antiwar.com

The Genesis of Israeli Ultra-apartheid - On November 10, the Israeli parliament passed the first reading of a bill to impose the death penalty on Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israeli...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 21, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/21/2025 - 05:11 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Progressive.org

The High Cost of Escaping Torture - U.S. asylum seekers now must pay new fees despite financial hardship.
Krebs on Security

Mozilla Says It’s Finally Done With Two-Faced Onerep - In March 2024, Mozilla said it was winding down its collaboration with Onerep -- an identity protection service offered with the Firefox web browser that p...
Liberation News

3 lies we’re being told about Venezuela - Hand in hand with the billionaire-owned mainstream media, the U.S. government is spreading dangerous lies to justify a military invasion of Venezuela with ...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Donald Trump was not invited to Dick Cheney's funeral. He did, however, sign the Epstein bill. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Anti-LGBTQ Congressman Clay Higgins the only vote against Epstein files release' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs - Clay Higgins *All about anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Clay Higgins, the lone vote against Epstein files release *- *While I can't, as of now, find anything where...
The Grayzone

Mexico’s ‘Gen Z rebellion’ exposed as viral right-wing plot - Presented as a spontaneous youth-led uprising against corruption, violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs a...
Lowering the Bar

First Alleged Space Crime … Didn’t Happen - [image: AI image of a burglar on the ISS]And when it does it won't look like this.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Latino Conservatism - The Rise of the Latino Far Right is Less about a Political Shift and More About an Emotional Realignment: An Analysis of the Emotional Architecture of Lati...
LareDOS

TAMIU Practicum Seminar students host exhibit opening reception Thursday, Nov. 20 - Public welcome to opening reception and exhibit
Ecosophia

Situationism: Where Domination Ends - The two interludes just past strayed some distance from the writings of the Situationists, the little clique of avant-garde Marxists in mid-20th century Fr...
Greg Palast

Epstein and Larry Summers. Palast Investigates - Palast tears open the newly uncovered emails between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein — emails in which the very-married Summers leans on the convicted pr...
Web of Debt

Why New York City Needs a Public Bank - We will build a city-owned bank — not to serve shareholders, but to serve you. A bank that invests in housing, in transit, in climate resilience. A bank th...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / COMMENTARY / Sleeping Giant: 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...
The AltWorld

Power deals in Iraq - Iraq’s 2025 elections have reshaped the political landscape, leaving major blocs scrambling to build alliances in a […] The post Power deals in Iraq appe...
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...
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.
The Progressive Wing

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

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Two Party Opera

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American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Field Negro

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

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Countercurrents

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

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

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

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
The Disorder Of Things

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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