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

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

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

NPR's Health Shots

In 2024, COVID dropped from the list of top 10 causes of death in U.S. - For the first time since 2020, COVID is not one of the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S.
Raw Story

Suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing taken into custody, says FBI head Kash Patel - FBI Director Kash Patel said Wednesday that authorities took into custody the suspected gunman who shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk on ...
Political Wire

Suspect in Charlie Kirk Shooting Held - FBI Director Kash Patel announced that a subject in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was in custody.
Mediaite

BBC Host Audibly Gasps As Dem Strategist Rips Trump’s Charlie Kirk Tribute: ‘He Wasn’t Admired And Loved By All!’ - Perry audibly gasped after reading out Trump’s tribute to Kirk as Democratic strategist Joi Chaney countered that the conservative “wasn’t loved by all.”...
El Paso Matters

How much water will the $165 billion data center near El Paso use? Developers unveil figures ahead of Doña Ana commissioners vote - A public meeting in Sunland Park this week was standing-room only as community members expressed concerns about the massive project, especially its plan...
memeorandum

House floor erupts in chaos after moment of silence for Charlie Kirk (Lauren Green/Washington Examiner) - Lauren Green / Washington Examiner: *House floor erupts in chaos after moment of silence for Charlie Kirk* — The House floor erupted in chaos after Spe...
Daily Dot

“We’ve all been there”: What is “Shrekking?” The Gen Z dating trend, explained - [image: shrekking dating trend] They say that Shrek is love, but some people on TikTok are taking this literally. This is all thanks to a new dating te...
San Antonio Report

Nirenberg to go before ethics board for accepting Wemby jersey, taking photos inside City Hall - The 63-page complaint was filed days after two council members were sanctioned for similar issues, but comes as he gears up for a new political bid. ------...
Courthouse News

Disney seeks sanctions against lawyers in ‘Moana’ litigation - The movie studio argues Buck Woodall's attorneys pursued his claims for years after they already knew that most of them were barred by the statute of limit...
Salon.com

Suspect in Charlie Kirk shooting still at large as authorities search Utah campus - Authorities are searching for the person who killed the conservative activist during an event in Utah
Reform Austin

Abbott Expected to Set New Restrictions on THC Products in Texas - Following negotiations during the Legislature’s second special session, Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to issue an executive order to regulate hemp-derive...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court leaves order in place allowing transgender student to use boys’ bathroom - The Supreme Court on Wednesday left in place a ruling by a federal appeals court that requires a South Carolina school district to allow a transgender st...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico leaders react as conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot dead at Utah University event - Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative youth activist organization Turning Point USA, was shot and killed during a speaking event at Utah Valley Unive...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Charlie Kirk’s death shows political violence is now a feature of US life - Shooting of the commentator comes as a series of events show a rising level of violence related to political dissent - Charlie Kirk shooting –...
The Verge

Ted Cruz’s new bill would let AI companies set their own rules for up to 10 years - On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced legislation to create a regulation "sandbox" that would allow artificial intelligence companies to experiment with m...
Mondoweiss

From European leaders to American media personalities, Zionism’s rationale is crumbling - [image: French President Emmanuel Macron. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)]The breakdown of the mainstream consensus on Israel is an opportunity for the left, sp...
Slate

John Roberts Just Rewarded Donald Trump for a Blatant Violation of Law. Again. - This showdown at SCOTUS marks the administration’s latest effort to seize authority it does not have.
Axios

Hill leaders denounce political violence after attack on Charlie Kirk - Senior lawmakers of both parties condemned political violence and called for prayers on Wednesday after Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, 31, wa...
Mediagazer

Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ channels, including 1M how-to videos (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic) - Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: *Analysis: 13+ datasets used by tech companies without permission to train AI models contain 15.8M+ YouTube videos from 2M+ c...
Second Nexus

Italian Reporter Speaks Out After Sparking Backlash With Viral Ayo Edebiri Interview Question - Federica Polidoro attempted to clean up her mess after the *After the Hunt* press junket with Andrew Garfield, Julia Roberts, and Ayo Edebiri *went viral...
Discourse

The American Years of Lead are Here - The Charlie Kirk shooting is just another sign of our new era.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: We heard the news today, oh boy... - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2025* *It arrived in several parts:* As we walked home from the subway stop subsequent to a medical event, we were thinking abo...
slacktivist

Biblical slop - "The AI Bible is run by Pray.com ..." and the rest of the story, as hard to imagine as that is, gets worse from there.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Al Jazeera English

Netanyahu vows to target opponents abroad after strike in Qatar - Qatari PM says Israel is conducting 'state terror' and has 'killed any hope' for remaining hostages in Gaza.
Deadline Politics

Charlie Kirk Has Died After Being Shot At Utah Event; Influencer On The Right Was 31 - Charlie Kirk, the co-founder of Turning Point USA and one of the most influential activists on the right, has died after being shot at a Utah rally today, ...
San Antonio Current

Events coordinator latest staffer to exit Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ office - A third staffer in San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ office has left as she approaches just as many months on the job. Event Service Director Rory Van...
Glasstire

A Hopeful Exchange with Ambiguous Results: MASS x Cobertizo - In times of fraying international relationships, the idea of positive exchange between nations can feel hopeful. It is in that spirit of hopefulness that...
The Hill

3 in critical condition after shooting at Denver-area high school - An "active assailant" was reported at a high school in the Denver metro area on Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities in Jefferson County.
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Charlie Kirk Gunned Down” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Incendiary conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, 31, has been shot in the throat at Utah Valley University,...
OpEd News

The Epstein Case May Bring the Entire System Down: AJA Take Note! - The Epstein case points toward something almost unspeakable: the governments of the United States and Israel are implicated not only in covering up sexual ...
Futurism

NASA Announces Possible Discovery of Life on Mars by Comically Sucking Up to Trump - NASA made a big splash today, announcing that its Mars Perseverance rover had spotted "potential biosignatures" last year while examining a rock covered ...
The Week

Home Depots are the new epicenters of ICE raids - The chain has not provided many comments on the ongoing raids
Techdirt.

The Untold Saga Of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On Feb. 10, on the third floor of the Social Security Admin...
Claytoonz

A Cartoonists Conspiracy - 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 P...
Mother Jones

Politicians Unite to Condemn Killing of Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk - Leading conservative activist Charlie Kirk died Wednesday after being shot while speaking to students at a university in Utah. He was 31 years old. Videos ...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston – The Commuter Cut (September 10, 2025) - For our busy Houston commuters – we have “The Commuter Cut” – a special 40-minute version of our show to listen to during your journey home.
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: September 2025 - My PC is out of commission right now, so no origami this month. Still got a handful of links. Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults | Ozy Brennan – When...
Church and State

Trump’s foreign policy - Not only India, but Brazil and Canada have become centerpieces of distrust of America because of Trump's use of tariffs often for poor reasons.
Ian Welsh

A Brief Taxonomy Of Corruption - I was discussing Indian corruption with Sean-Paul the other day, and we had to really break down what we meant by corruption. That lead to a simple classif...
Dissident Voice

The Latest About Public Groceries in Low-Income “Food Deserts” - As leaders of America’s half-dozen giant supermarkets raise prices once again (Walmart, 40 percent “on some items”), they’re blaming Trump’s recent quixo...
American Prospect

Are Senate Democrats Growing a Spine? - Today on TAP: We could see much tougher terms for a budget deal, including letting Trump’s Republicans take the fall for a government shutdown.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Deserve Better: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We can stop this. Today.
Grist

In Georgia, Trump’s immigration agenda and clean energy jobs are colliding - Expert foreign workers are key to setting up new factories in the U.S. An ICE raid targeting them could hurt efforts to ramp up American manufacturing.
Vox

You’re paying too much for your phone - Apple did something wild at its big annual new iPhone event on Tuesday: It announced a phone that’s actually new. It’s called the iPhone Air, and it’s thin...
The Daily Poster

How Wall Street Broke The College Bookstore - As the nation’s college students head back to school, they are more likely than ever to be buying their textbooks from Wall Street.
Wolf Street

My Thoughts about that August Producer Price Index - That’s how the month-to-month PPI readings are, full of dramatic zigzags and revisions.
Undernews

Some other Trump signatures - [image: Handwritten signatures of Donald J. Trump on various documents. Each signature includes a long tail on the letter "D" in "Donald." The documents a...
Consortium News

India Disavows ‘Tianjin spirit,’ Turns to EU - After Narendra Modi enjoyed a private limo ride with Vladimir Putin that set off alarms in the West, Modi’s government did a quick about-face. By M.K. Bha...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Silicon Valley Ideologies as a Lens for Viewing Current Events - Silicon Valley ideologies like transhumanism, effective altruism, and neoreaction drive the actions of billionaires like Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Mark Z...
Election Law Blog

I Spoke to NPR’s Fresh Air: “An election law expert weighs in on Trump’s effort to reshape our democracy” (Link to Audio) - Had a great conversation with Tonya Mosley for NPR’s Fresh Air: “Before 2026’s midterms, President Trump wants to ban mail-in ballots and electronic voti...
Sludge

Lobbyists Cash In on Both Sides of PFAS Fight - California water ratepayers are funding lobbyists who simultaneously represent chemical companies that oppose PFAS regulation.
WhoWhatWhy

Carbon Emissions From Oil Giants Directly Linked to Deadly Heat Waves - [image: climate crisis, global warming, carbon emissions, oil giants, link to heatwaves, new report] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our e...
World Socialist Web Site

Take up the fight for socialism! Mobilise the working class against genocide, dictatorship and world war! - null
Progressive Army

RV: IG 05/2025 – EXPEDICIÓN DIRECTA – ADUANA ARCA – - COMUNICADO: Dirección General de Aduanas – ARCA Con el objetivo de facilitar el trafico internacional de mercedarias e implementar mecanismos que agilicen ...
The Root

Black Internet Reacts After Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Shot Dead at Utah Rally - Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck while speaking at Utah Valley University Wednesday (Sept. 10). Read more...
CultureMap Houston

Houston Ballet’s record-breaking opener doubles as Jim Nelson’s swan song - Houston’s balletomanes pirouetted into the new season in high style at the *Houston Ballet Opening Night Onstage Dinner* on September 5, where more than 220...
Alternet

'Not particularly deep': Trump mocked for response to Russia attack - President Donald Trump is under fire for waiting more than twelve hours before addressing Russia’s unprovoked attack on Poland, a NATO ally, and then del...
Capital & Main

Hitting the Bullseye - The Black-led boycott of Target seems to be working, even in L.A. neighborhoods that once yearned for big-box stores. The post Hitting the Bullseye appea...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Texas Observer

Life in the Time of Hurricanes - Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from the first chapter of Life in the Time of Hurricanes by Rod Davis, out this month from TCU Press. It is rep...
Texas Standard

How thousands of Atari games from an El Paso warehouse ended up buried in the New Mexico desert - “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” had long been the subject of an urban legend in which unsold copies were buried in a landfill. It turned out the legend was true.
ProPublica

Programs for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump’s Anti-Diversity Push - by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest storie...
Common Dreams

September Poll: 64% of Republican and Independent Voters Want Ban for Mid-Decade Redistricting - Republican and Independent voters want Congress to step up and ban mid-decade redistricting in opposition to a White House desperate to hold onto power –...
Bracing Views

Genocide Is Apparently OK in Gaza - Lesson from the LA Holocaust Museum BILL ASTORE SEP 09, 2025 The LA Holocaust Museum recently suggested that “Never Again” is a fundamental lesson of the H...
Bonddad

August producer prices largely a reflection of volatile food and energy prices - - *by New Deal democrat* Consumer price inflation will be reported tomorrow. In the meantime, this morning producer prices for August were reported....
Daily Cartoonist

Topps Baseball Card Cartoonists – 2nd Inning (Wayback Whensday) - In “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons, Part I“, we examined the cartoons made by the small number of artists for whom we possessed prior documen...
First Draft

The Badly Damning Birthday Book - Epstein was a sex predator and so is Trump. How are people OK with this?
Rewire

Colleges End Trans-Friendly Housing Policies Amid Federal Anti-DEI Push - Research shows that the option to live in gender-inclusive dorms can help transgender and nonbinary students succeed in school. But some students returne...
Democracy Now!

"Here Comes the Sun": Bill McKibben on Renewable Energy, "Sun Day" & the "Last Chance" for Climate - As the Trump administration grows increasingly hostile to renewable energy, we speak with acclaimed environmentalist Bill McKibben about his new book, *Here...
Crooked Media

Liberated from Labour: Zarah Sultana and Bimini Bon-Boulash – Live! - The post Liberated from Labour: Zarah Sultana and Bimini Bon-Boulash – Live! appeared first on Crooked Media.
ArcaMax

A Heated Hearing Reveals the Real RFK Jr. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not deserve his initials, as he showed in a Senate hearing that revealed a Shakespearean streak of villainy in the health and hu...
Space City Weather

Dry and hot for awhile now in Houston as high pressure takes control - In brief: After a pair of almost fall-like weather days, Houston’s pattern will tilt back toward summer. As high pressure asserts control our forecast look...
Popular Resistance

Two Incendiary Bombs Dropped On Gaza Flotilla Ships In Past Two Days - For the past two nights around 11:30pm Tunisia time, Israeli forces have dropped incendiary bombs from quadcopter drones on boats of the Global Sumud Flo...
The Conversation

Bail reforms across the US have shown that releasing people pretrial doesn’t harm public safety - President Trump wants to punish states and cities that eliminate bail money, but releasing defendants pretrial without having to post bail doesn’t lead to ...
NORML

Georgia: Clayton County Commissioners Enact Marijuana Decriminalization Ordinance - [image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table next to a small kitchen scale and two small bags of marijuana][image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table n...
Dorf on Law

Working While Brown is the New Driving While Black - On Monday, in *Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo*, the Supreme Court stayed a district court injunction that had limited the ability of ICE to engage in racial pro...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Gets Hit With Epstein Birthday Card Boomerang -
Skeptophilia

The phantoms of Jedburgh Abbey - Jedburgh Abbey is a ruined Augustinian monastery near the town of the same name in Roxburghshire, Scotland, only ten miles from the border with England. I...
Off The Kuff

Talarico’s announcement - And we’re off. Texas Rep. James Talarico launched his bid for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, promising in an interview to bring honesty and compassion back to pol...
Scheerpost.com

Eurasia Realigns in Face of Late-Stage Barbarism: Michael Hudson on New Post-Western World Order - At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, Eurasia discussed a new international economic order based on mutually beneficial trade and...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
Counterpunch

A Battle for the Bible in Trump’s America - It was a moment somewhat like this, 30 years ago, that turned me into a biblical scholar. In the lead-up to the passage of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, p...
jobsanger

Student Math And Reading Scores Continue Their Years-Long Slide -
Informed Comment

Top 4 Reasons Netanyahu Bombed Negotiators’ Offices in Qatar - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bombed the building being used by civilian Hamas negotiators in ...
The AltWorld

The US Might Try To Manipulate Nepal Into Weaponizing Its Revived Border Dispute With India - The student-driven riots that were putatively sparked by the state’s banning of social media after top platforms […] The post The US Might Try To Manipul...
The Grayzone

Israeli ‘tip’ preceded Australian claim that Iran plotted bombings - A new report suggests Israel played a key role in establishing the narrative that Iran was behind attacks on Jewish-focused establishments in Australia. ...
Portside

US Union Membership Declining in ‘Right-To-Work’ States, Report Reveals - US Union Membership Declining in ‘Right-To-Work’ States, Report Reveals Greg Tue, 09/09/2025 - 22:44
Brad Blog

Despite Another Voting Co. Lawsuit, Fox 'News' Stands Ready to Shout Fake 'Fraud' Yet Again: 'BradCast' 9/9/2025 - On today's BradCast: Apparently, the high price of lying to MAGA viewers about the 2020 election has been totally worth it for rightwing "news" outlets, ac...
The Greanville Post

CAPITALO-IMPERIALISM: DECADENT & DOOMED W/JOTI BRAR (EP 44)- - GARLAND NIXON—Another master class in politics by Garland and Joti Brar, who compares the deterioration of living standards for ordinary people in the US a...
Workers World

To fight martial law plans: Our movement cannot afford to be divided - [image: To fight martial law plans: Our movement cannot afford to be divided] The following is based on a talk given by Monica Moorehead, Workers World ma...
Ballot Access News

Special Election Results for Virginia U.S. House Race - Virginia held a special election on September 9 to fill the vacancy in the Eleventh District. Here is a link to the returns so far. Excluding the miscellan...
Antiwar.com

‘We Will Not Be Silent’: Hearing Stilled Voices of the Gaza Genocide - In his last minutes of freedom before Israeli Defense Forces arrested him, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, clad in a medic’s white coat, walked alone toward two Isra...
See You In 2020

Bronze Age Pervert & the KKE: working to sell the Trump White House’s Venezuela regime change war - Since Washington invaded Iraq, there has emerged a current of pro-imperialist actors who retrospectively oppose the Iraq war, while endorsing every new ...
Crooked Timber

My down the back of the sofa theory of the emerging stage of capitalism. Plus, Australian magpies. - Mr Magpie has always been a bold friend. He sits at the table with us when we are outside. In the warmer months when we often leave the back door open he w...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2025 Edition - Microsoft Corp. today issued security updates to fix more than 80 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. There are no known "zero-d...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s War on the Climate - For years we’ve been experiencing countless air quality warnings due to mass wildfires, record high temperatures across the globe, and sea levels rising at...
The Texas Signal

James Talarico Enters Texas Senate Race - Talarico’s sincere faith (as well as his youthfulness and made-for-television messaging) may serve him well in the primary
Independent Political Report

New York State Conservative Party Releases 2025 National Affairs Platform - The Conservative Party of New York State has released its 2025 National Affairs Platform, calling the policy outline a roadmap for safeguarding constitut...
Progressive.org

Suppressing Dissent - In ‘Police Against the Movement,’ Joshua Clark Davis investigates the role of police violence during the Civil Rights Movement.
Angry Bear

The “gold standard” QCEW suggests there may have been no growth at all in jobs so far this year - – by New Deal democrat The Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) for Q1 of this year was released this morning. Perhaps more importantly, the ...
MintPress News

MintPress News Faces Shutdown Amid Unprecedented Attacks on Truth - For 14 years we’ve exposed empire, propaganda, and genocide. Now, with funding slashed, our future depends on you. The post MintPress News Faces Shutdown...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Idavox

Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it Sounded it Would Be - A Nazi rally by any other name stinks all the same. Andy Fleming On Sunday,... The post Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it S...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 9 September 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the *Lawrence of Arabia* video, click here.] ...
High Country News

How to comment on the planned roadless rule rollback - The deadline to weigh in on the change is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 19. The post How to comment on the planned roadless rule rollback appeared f...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrate 19 years of LGBTQ hellraising and receipt keeping - Alvin A. McEwen, blogmaster of Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters celebrates his blog's 19th anniversary (after apparently watching too many scenes of Dia...
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The MAGA kids are not all White: Tokenizing Black Conservatism - Friends: The *Washington Post*’s profile of CJ Pearson’s “Cruel Kids Summer” party shows how Trumpism is being rebranded: young, multiracial, and “fun.” D...
Project Censored

Resisting Silence: From Palestine to Cop City - In the first part of the program, Mickey Huff sits down with author and professor Omar Zahzah to talk about his upcoming book: Terms of Servitude: Zionis...
Dissent Magazine

Falling Leaves - How do we know when democracy is gone?
Debunking Christianity

How Strong is 2nd/3rd Handed Testimony? - From Jack Johnson on Facebook. He studied Biblical academics and counseling at Baptist Bible College, Baptist Bible School of Theology, Trinity Seminary. ...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Author and Activist Bill McKibben Brings The Sun - Listen now and read a transcript of this episode. Introducing Sustainability In Your Ear transcripts... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Author and A...
The Progressive Wing

9/8-9/14 News Round Up and Open Thread - The U.S. Open just showed Donald Trump on the screen for a second time and he got booed for 30 seconds straight. Fans are pissed off. This is the clip that...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Would you like a free tree? - The City of Dallas will be handing out free trees on Arbor Day, which falls on November 8. You can choose from American Elm, Bald Cypress, Chinquapin Oak...
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...
Environment Texas

Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? - More algae blooms in Florida’s waters means less food for its struggling manatees. The post Why are manatees starving and what can we do to help? appeare...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
The Militant

Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance - Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Duck of Minerva

Benjamin de Carvalho - Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about h...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. What I'm following: Marco Rubio in Mexico, and his comments at a press conference aft...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Democracy Chronicles

Honoring Legacy, Embracing Justice - My family's story is not only one of proud military service and enduring sacrifice but also one marked by the lasting consequences.
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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alicublog

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Liberation News

La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
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...
Moron Majority

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
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...
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 ...
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

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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.
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...
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
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

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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

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...
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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