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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Eschaton

Forever War - I am not going to pretend to know anything about this stuff, but shooting down $20K drines with $5 million missiles probably can't keep going for ever.
The Verge

Here’s how journalists spot deepfakes - In the days that followed the US and Israel's joint military strike on Iran on Saturday, floods of images and videos that supposedly document the war have ...
Futurism

Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Contradicts Its Argument in High Stakes Court Cases - "This tweet, from Suno’s lead investor, will surely be used in court one day." The post Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Co...
Courthouse News

Father of Georgia school shooter becomes first convicted of second-degree murder - A jury unanimously found Colin Gray guilty on all 29 charges after he supplied his son with the gun and ammo used to kill two teachers and two students at ...
Mediaite

Trump GOES OFF on ‘Terrible’ Spain, Says US Can ‘Just Fly in and Use Their Bases’ Despite Their Refusal - President Donald Trump went on an absolute tirade against Spain on Tuesday, bashing the country as "unfriendly." The post Trump GOES OFF on ‘Terrible’ Sp...
Raw Story

State Dept. staffer shot to death after four women and dog stabbed: report - A U.S. State Department foreign service officer was fatally shot by a Virginia state trooper Sunday following a stabbing incident on Interstate 495 in Fa...
Mondoweiss

Netanyahu finally gets his war on Iran - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak in the Diplomatic Reception Room before a dinner, Monday, July 7, 2025, ...
The Hill

End-stage disease shouldn’t be the entry to care - Chronic kidney disease is a silent epidemic that is often diagnosed too late, leading to limited treatment options and poor outcomes, and the U.S. health c...
Techdirt.

Ron Wyden Is Begging His Colleagues To Stop Trying To Hand Trump A Censorship Weapon - We’ve been writing about Section 230 for a very long time. We’ve written about why it matters, why the people attacking it are wrong, and why most of the p...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Kristi Noem refuses to retract statement calling Minnesotans killed by federal agents ‘domestic terrorists’ - Homeland security secretary was grilled in Senate hearing over immigration enforcement crackdown in Twin Cities - US politics live – latest up...
memeorandum

Trump calls for 'Deranged Jack Smith' to be 'brought to Justice, NOW!!!' (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket) - Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket: *Trump calls for ‘Deranged Jack Smith’ to be ‘brought to Justice, NOW!!!’* — President Donald Trump again called for ...
Bracing Views

Quick Thoughts on the Iran War - Can We Contain and Extinguish the Fire, or Will It Become a Raging Inferno? BILL ASTORE MAR 03, 2026 Here are some macro ideas and thoughts about America’s...
Capital & Main

In New Mexico, Natural Gas Transporter Goes to the Mat Over $47.8 Million Fine - The state has spent $225,000 in staff time fighting Targa over emission infractions, some that the company reported itself. The post In New Mexico, Natur...
NORML

NORML Defends Cannabis Consumers’ Constitutional Rights - [image: a large legal cannabis leaf against a US flag][image: a large legal cannabis leaf against a US flag]It's not only consumers' 2nd Amendment rights...
The Daily Poster

Now Broadcasting From Riyadh - Saudi Arabia got the Iran war it wanted — plus influence over U.S. movie and television studios.
Mediagazer

Ziff Davis agrees to sell its Connectivity division, including Ookla and Downdetector, to Accenture for $1.2B in cash, to focus on enthusiast websites like IGN (Kritika Lamba/Reuters) - Kritika Lamba / Reuters: *Ziff Davis agrees to sell its Connectivity division, including Ookla and Downdetector, to Accenture for $1.2B in cash, to focus...
Democracy Chronicles

Freedoms That Hang in the Balance - The bottom line is Trump has stolen levers of power that we’re being damaged by a presidency out of balance and the greatest need is for protecting the uni...
The Week

RAM: The memory crisis you won’t forget - Expect prices to jump on consumer electronics that include RAM
Novara Media

Activists Block Alleged Arms Shipment From Manchester to Israel - Activists have intercepted a shipment heading from the UK to Israel by sitting on the roof of a lorry. As the shipment was leaving the depot in Manchester...
Salon.com

Yes, you should delete your food delivery apps - I recently bid farewell to every single food delivery app on my phone. My overall well-being thanked me
Dissident Voice

Hoisted by Your Own Petard - The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Hosseini Khamenei, has been an obvious prime target for assassination by the US/Israel perhaps for the whole of his perio...
The Greanville Post

DIMITRI LASCARIS: Did Iran shoot three US warplanes? - DL—On March 1, after a video surfaced of a U.S. F-15 crashing to the ground in Kuwait, the Iranian, Kuwaiti and U.S. militaries issued competing claims abo...
NPR's Health Shots

A new one-a-day-pill holds promise for HIV's 'forgotten population' - It's designed to take the place of complicated, multiple drug regimens that many people with HIV need to follow. And it's also beneficial because the HIV v...
CultureMap Houston

This is the income it takes to be middle class in Houston in 2026 - A new study tracking the upper and lower thresholds for middle class households across the nation's largest cities has revealed Houstonians have to make at...
Undernews

Progressive presidential candidates - *Pete Buttigieg - *We all know that the most serious, sober, and important job of a President is to decide whether and when to order troops into combat. ...
Axios

UAE considers striking Iranian missile sites as regional war spreads - The United Arab Emirates is considering taking military action to stop Iranian missile and drone strikes on the country, two sources with knowledge of th...
Daily Howler

SURROUNDINGS: Hegseth spilled with tribal anger! - *WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 2026* *The segregation we've chosen:* Yesterday morning, at 8 o'clock Eastern, Secretary Hegseth briefed the nation along with Gener...
SCOTUSblog

Déjà vu all over again - The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is avai...
San Antonio Current

Business owners sue Texas comptroller after their removal from state minority business program - [image: State Sen. Royce West, D-Dallas, left, listens as Ipsum General Contractors owner Ruben Mercado Jr. speaks at a press conference about a lawsuit ag...
Election Law Blog

“Town of Newburgh will become second locality in New York to use ranked-choice voting” - Coverage of a settlement in a New York Voting Rights Act case against the town of Newburgh over its at-large elections. On the eve of trial, the town agr...
El Paso Matters

Check-in problems cause delays at El Paso voting sites; officials say voting machines are functioning - El Paso polling sites are experiencing slower processing times due to malfunctioning check-in pads, though officials say voting machines are working pro...
OpEd News

Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) - The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, bu...
Al Jazeera English

How many countries has the US bombed since 2001, and how much has it cost? - Since 9/11, the US has engaged in three full-scale wars, bombing at least 10 countries under four presidents.
Mother Jones

Justice Alito’s Latest Opinion Is a Very, Very Bad Sign for Voting Rights - The Supreme Court on Monday evening overturned a New York state court ruling that found that the Staten Island-based district of Republican US House Rep. N...
Vox

The one question everyone should be asking after OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon - American AI companies love to say that the US must win the AI arms race, or China will. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all invoked th...
Political Wire

The Whims of Donald Trump - Jon Stewart dissected President Trump’s inability to explain why he launched a war with Iran. He concluded: “How quickly the right has gone from ‘peace thr...
Houston Public Media

Business owners sue comptroller after their removal from state minority business program - Women- and minority-owned businesses were removed from the Historically Underutilized Business Program in December by acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock, who...
Bonddad

The potential of the US war with Iran for an Oil Price Shock - - *by New Deal democrat* There is no important economic data being released today, and nothing in the past several weeks has changed my overall econ...
naked capitalism

AI and the Distribution of Income Between Capital and Labour - AI is working according to plan, further enriching the owner class at the expense of workers.
WhoWhatWhy

Democrats Fumble Away Their Edge on ICE Reforms - [image: federal agent points weapon, less lethal, anti-ICE protesters] Republicans are trying hard to use the conflict with Iran to pressure Democrats to a...
Glasstire

Disturbance-Loving Species: A Conversation with Beverly Penn - Beverly Penn speaks in a clear, melodic voice with the exuberance of an ambitious student and the eloquence of a scholar-practitioner, evidenced by her 3...
Grist

Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin. - The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.
Duck of Minerva

Iran and the shadow of the Kosovo intervention - When I was in grad school in the mid-aughts, one Professor was a die-hard supporter of George W. Bush’s foreign policy. When challenged over the legality o...
Dissent Magazine

Response to “The Conquerors of Tomorrow” - A letter to the editor.
First Draft

Assigning Blame Keeps Me Grounded - It's too early for administering justice for this Iran attack, so we settle for blame. Also, why is this woman reading about Lindsey Graham?
Democracy Now!

A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World's Oil Trade - We speak with economist Michael Hudson, who details how President Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations. “The whol...
The Conversation

Public defender shortage is leading to hundreds of criminal cases being dismissed - There are never enough lawyers to provide indigent defense, but the situation has gotten worse since the pandemic.
Rallblog

Regime Derange | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Consortium News

Jeffrey Sachs: Attack on Iran Also an Assault on UN - The U.S. objective is not the security of the American people. The objective is global hegemony. The attempt is to destroy the U.N. and the international r...
The Root

Are We Actually Headed Toward World War 3? Why It Feels Closer Than Ever… - One in three people from the U.S. to France to Canada believe WWIII is likely within the next five years. Here's why. Read more...
Space City Weather

Houston will continue to see very warm conditions for early March - In brief: In today’s post we talk about our anomalously warm start to March weather, and look ahead to increased rain chances this weekend. Unfortunately, ...
The Progressive Wing

3/3 Texas and NC Primaries - And of course the war with Iran continues. More snow up here in the Hudson Valley.
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: That Old Familiar Feeling - This isn’t a Juxtaposition of the Day because it’s a Juxtaposition of 23 Years. Bramhall’s is current, Englehart’s ran back when we went into Iraq in 2003 ...
ArcaMax

Both Sides Now: The Cons and Pros of 'Operation Epic Fury' - A young lawyer once asked an old Washington hand what to expect when he went down to work for a U.S. Senate committee. The old hand, who'd worked in the Ca...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

It Wouldn’t Take Much for 2026 to be a Big Year for House Incumbent Primary Defeats - Typically, only a handful of House incumbents lose renomination in a given year. But with several big House primaries already set for Tuesday, that also ...
Slate

Money Talks: This Season on ‘Industry’ - Hillary Frey and Anna Szymanski join Emily Peck to unpack the wild ride that was ‘Industry’ season 4.
Angry Bear

Officers Hiding Behind Masks. - Dan Rather talking about Trump’s ICE agent’s masking up. This is what people who commit crimes do so they are unidentifiable. The hide from their victims...
TalkLeft

Clinton Depositions On Jeffrey Epstein Released - The House Oversight Committee has released the videos of Bill and Hillary Clinton's depositions on Jeffrey Epstein. You can watch Bill here and Hillary h...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 7 Innovations in Energy Storage and Transmission - The U.S. electric grid loses roughly 5% of all electricity generated just moving it from... The post Guest Idea: 7 Innovations in Energy Storage and Tran...
Rewire

Too Afraid to Leave Home: ICE’s Toll on Latino HIV Care - In Minneapolis, intense immigration enforcement is disrupting HIV care for Latino communities, a group already disproportionately affected by the virus. ...
Dorf on Law

Guns, Drugs, and Supreme Court Insanity - Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in *United States v. Hemani**, *which raises the issue whether a federal law prohibiting the possession ...
San Antonio Report

Construction jobs are San Antonio and they’re building our future - [image: Construction takes place at a future Microsoft Data Center north of Castroville.]Commentary: AGC president Lauren Mandel argues data center constru...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Hasn’t a Fucking Clue What He’s Doing -
Skeptophilia

Guilt by association - I've played English country dance music for years. It's a lovely repertoire, and playing for dances creates a wonderful synergy of sound and movement. ...
Scheerpost.com

US Media Mostly Care for Iranians When They Can Be Used to Justify Bombing - US corporate media tend to humanize Iranians only when they can be portrayed as victims of their own government.
Off The Kuff

On Republican meddling in the Democratic Senate primary - I have three things to say about this. The Democratic primary for U.S. Senate is closing with a fierce debate that has animated it from the start: Who woul...
Crooked Media

War with Iran, and Award Shows in This Political Moment - The post War with Iran, and Award Shows in This Political Moment appeared first on Crooked Media.
Ian Welsh

The Doom Spiral Of Executive Decision Making - ~by Sean Paul Kelley A tweet I encountered last night and obsessed over as I followed its logic all the way to the bottom terrified me in its potential imp...
ProPublica

Nike Wants Factory Workers to Earn a Decent Living. In Indonesia, It’s Moved Into Areas Where Workers Don’t. - The post Nike Wants Factory Workers to Earn a Decent Living. In Indonesia, It’s Moved Into Areas Where Workers Don’t. appeared first on ProPublica.
Alternet

Judge blocks Trump admin policy in yet another win for Democrats - WASHINGTON — A federal judge Monday temporarily blocked a Department of Homeland Security policy that instituted a seven-day notice requirement for membe...
High Country News

Why Western states are pushing for plug-in solar - State laws and product standards could make or break the nascent portable solar market. The post Why Western states are pushing for plug-in solar appear...
Countercurrents

The Decline and Fall of the United Nations: Is the UN Still Relevant? - Since the 7th of October 2023, Israeli forces have killed just over 72,000 people and injured 171,741 others as a result of the conflict, according to the ...
Portside

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All - Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All Mark Brody Tue, 03/03/2026 - 02:51
LareDOS

Tu Casa Gráfica prepares for papermaking workshop March 15 in San Ygnacio - Register now! Participation limited to 10
jobsanger

Trump Want Democracy For Iran (But Not For The U.S.) -
World Socialist Web Site

Trump and Hegseth launch “total war” against Iran - The unprecedented language used at a Pentagon military briefing indicates that the Trump administration is preparing to use nuclear weapons in the war of a...
Crooked Timber

Golden (missed) opportunities - She told me she’d be ten minutes late, which was fine. But when it was nearly twenty minutes I messaged – where are you? Shall I walk towards you? My daugh...
Informed Comment

Has the Arab Gulf’s Balancing Act with Iran Ended? - From diplomatic architects to shock absorbers - Iranian missiles raining down on the Gulf Cooperation Council , targeting US military facilities
Counterpunch

Iran War Talking Points - The U.S. War on Iran Is Based on Lies The Trump administration’s ever-changing rationales for going to war against Iran are lies. Iran posed no threat t...
Popular Resistance

The United States Is On The Path To Fascism; How To Change Course - Is the United States a fascist state? There is an authoritarian in the White House, systemic racism is rampant, our cities and towns are being militarize...
Workers World

U.S. aggression starts regional war in West Asia - [image: U.S. aggression starts regional war in West Asia] March 2. Two heavily and nuclear-armed rogue states — the United States and Israel — launched a t...
Deadline Politics

White House Mocks Kesha Over Singer’s Outrage About “Disgusting” Use Of Song In Military Posting; She Responds: “Stop Using My Music, Perverts” - Kesha has joined the coterie of Olivia Rodrigo, the Rolling Stones, Celine Dion, Radiohead, Sabrina Carpenter and Issac Hayes and others who really don’t l...
Brad Blog

Trump Attacks Iran in 'Operation Epstein Fury': 'BradCast' 3/2/2026 - Okay. It's not called "Operation Epstein Fury". It's called "Operation Epic Fury". But who's kidding who here? Here we ago again. Today on The BradCast, an...
Claytoonz

Pedophile Warmonger - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Senate Ad Wars - The blockbuster Senate race in Texas has tallied millions of dollars in ad spending. And for the five leading candidates, the gloves are off.
See You In 2020

Framing Luigi was how Epstein’s accomplices hoped to put a lid on the backlash to their crimes - Every sign points to Luigi Mangione being innocent, and to Brian Thompson’s slaying having been done by a team. I’m not even talking about the idea that...
Independent Political Report

Bryce Thon Named Second Region 1 Alternate to Libertarian National Committee - Bryce Thon, a member of the Libertarian Party of Wisconsin, has been selected as the second Region 1 alternate to the Libertarian National Committee foll...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Supreme Court Restores Old New York House Districting Plan - On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an injunction in the New York redistricting lawsuit, Malliotakis v Williams, 25A914. By a vote of 6-3, the old b...
Antiwar.com

Stuck in Another Disastrous Middle East War - Unfortunately, President Trump listened to the neocons and Benjamin Netanyahu instead of his MAGA base and other voices of caution as he launched a surpris...
Texas Standard

Austin Police, FBI say they haven’t found the ‘ultimate motivation’ behind the Buford’s shooting - APD is investigating the incident along with the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Police Chief Lisa Davis said Monday that the suspected shooter was weari...
Two Party Opera

Triple Digits - One of the longest-running gags in 2PO is making a Washington/Eye comic on the repeat digits (111, 222, 333…). Now that we’re past 999, it’s its own wild r...
Progressive.org

The Return of the Luddites - Artificial intelligence will supposedly bring great benefits. But what’s driving it is corporate greed.
Church and State

Crazy Trump has finally crossed the red line to earn his ousted!! - Trump has used war as a cover for his inability to accept reasonable ways of stopping violence.
Environment Texas

Repair techs explain why appliances aren’t lasting as long - Opponents of energy efficiency standards have claimed that they make our appliances less durable. What do the experts think? The post Repair techs explai...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / RELIGION / Make America’s public school children bible-readers again - By Lamar Hankins / The Rag Blog / March 2, 2026 It is increasingly likely that Republicans will make Texas the first state in the country to mandate all pu...
The AltWorld

Pentagon DEPLOYS MORE US troops in war for Israel | 162 - Pentagon DEPLOYS MORE US troops in war for Israel | 162 The post Pentagon DEPLOYS MORE US troops in war for Israel | 162 appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Project Censored

Narratives of Power: Cartel Media Spin and Epstein Cover Stories - First up this week, Mexico City-based journalist José Luis Granados Ceja joins the show to talk about the recent Mexican operation that captured and kill...
Discourse

SPECIAL EDITION: The Traitors U.S. Season 4 (w/Caitlin Schneider & Producer Sam) - We joined together at the roundtable to discuss the best and worst of the latest season
Wolf Street

10-Year US Treasury Yield Flipflops, Spikes by 14 Basis Points to 4.07%, after Plunging to 3.93%, amid Massive Volatility - It undid more than the entire haven trade that had started on Thursday and blew through the hot PPI inflation on Friday.
Common Dreams

Sanders and Khanna Introduce Legislation to Tax Billionaire Wealth and Invest in Working Families - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) today...
Texas Observer

Why This South Texas District Is a Proving Ground for One of Democrats’ Biggest Questions - Editor’s Note: This article was co-published with Puente News Collaborative, a bilingual nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality coverage from the U...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

How We Got to War and Where We're Going: Bourbon Talk Q&A - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 2 March 2026 - If images are hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the first post on the attack on the Iranian theocracy, cli...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Still Just A Confirmation Bias Machine - It used to be that when I used AI I found that it would give me obviously wrong answers to questions about things I had some knowledge about. Later new ver...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Trump Kills Khamenei — Iran Hits Back | Regime Change War Day 2 - The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters day two, with bombs falling across the Middle East. After assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Washingt...
Socialist Alternative

Trump, Tradwives, and “Traditional Values”—We Need Socialist Feminism - It has been nearly ten years since #MeToo went viral, sparking a movement that took down rich and powerful serial abusers and brought conversations around ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom in Texas Higher Education, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Manufacturing “Cancel Culture” at UT: Crisis Discourse, Governance, and the Politics of Academic Freedom * *in Texas Higher Education* *You may listen to ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Horses - Here’s a horse I folded at a conference many years ago. It’s meant to stand on its hind legs, although you’d really need to attach it to a stand. Earlier ...
Idavox

US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call for Regime Change - The first casualties reported by Iran were those from strikes on an elementary girls’ school.... The post US and Israel Launch Illegal War on Iran, Call ...
Progressives Chat

Can Ds win Texas [Part I]? - Tuesday, March 3, 2026 will give us Uniter States Senate primaries in *Texas*. The primary on the Republican side is whether unpopular incumbent John Co...
Sludge

Here Is How Much AIPAC Has Funneled to Every Member of Congress - Sludge analyzed FEC data to create a searchable list of AIPAC’s donations this cycle to every member of Congress.
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

When Genocidal Governments Label their Victims As Terrorist! - Since October 7th Social Media has gone viral with atrocities committed by Israel, including many confirmed by credible sources, and among these claims ...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Stop Trump’s War on Iran! - The Trump administration and Israel have launched a massive war against Iran that has already brought death, destruction and chaos all across the Middle East.
MintPress News

Scott Ritter: US vs Iran: What War Would Really Look Like –Military Power, Oil Shock & Global Fallout - War with Iran has been the goal of both neoconservative and Zionist factions in Washington for decades. With an increasingly belligerent and erratic Trum...
The NM Political Report

New Mexicans in Congress condemn Trump’s Iran actions without Congressional approval - The United States and Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran Saturday morning, prompting near universal condemnation from New Mexico’s elected ...
Field Negro

The Epstein War has begun. - I have a friend who bought this really nice sports car a few years back, and he wouldn't let his nineteen year old son at the time get within a hundred...
Krebs on Security

Who is the Kimwolf Botmaster “Dort”? - In early January 2026, KrebsOnSecurity revealed how a security researcher disclosed a vulnerability that was used to assemble Kimwolf, the world's largest ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TOO GRIM TO BE FUNNY & VICE VERSA EDITION. - *Ry Cooder doesn't get enough love.* If the actions of this administration weren’t so harmful to actual human beings, I could enjoy them as living satire...
Debunking Christianity

"Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian - "Why Adam and Eve Sinned & Problems with Free Will" by Edouard Tahmizian is Secular Web's Editor's Choice, Kiosk Article! Congrats goes to Edouard who is t...
Alas, a Blog

The Alpha Wolf - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. And just look at how adorable the wolf pups she drew are! The term “alpha wolf” was coined in 1947 by biologist ...
Texas Freedom Network

Hey State Board of Education, what’s the rush? - Your February 2026 SBOE Rundown This week’s sprung-up-out-of-nowhere special State Board of Education (SBOE) meeting is over. The politicization of our c...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Earthworks

We Caught Shell Polluting in PA, again! Our Partner did, too. - Since opening in November 2022 the Shell Plastic Plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania has been wrought with malfunctions and violations. … The post We C...
Greg Palast

Two Speeches. Two Americas. One Liar. - Trump doesn’t just tailor his message to the room. He fabricates reality from scratch for different audiences, with total indifference to being caught, as ...
The Militant

Protests worldwide say ‘US hands off Cuba!’ - Protesters mount pickets in New York, Canada, Oakland NEW YORK — Despite the beginning of a massive snowstorm here, opponents of Washington’s stepped-up at...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio February 27, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 02/27/2026 - 05:42 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage Paid £27,000 to Speak at Pro-Trump U.S. Think Tank - Nigel Farage is preparing to fly more than 3,000 miles from his UK constituency to address an anti-climate U.S. think tank with close ties to Donald Trum...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Donald Trump's SOTU, Sage Blair, and 'sex transitioning operations for minors' - Hoping to draw attention away from his disastrous poll numbers and piss poor performance as president, Donald Trump used a small portion of his recent St...
Web of Debt

Regime Change at the Fed: From Big Bank Bailouts to Local Productivity - Image by ScheerPost. On January 30, when former Federal Reserve board member Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump as the central bank’s next chair,...
nonsite.org

Black Studies, Cultural Politics, and the Evasion of Inequality: The Farce this Time - Best takes great pains to describe race as many things: “inheritance,” “legacy,” “lineage,” “affinity,” “subjectivity.” But he avoids the painful truth tha...
Ecosophia

February 2026 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Avedon's Sideshow

We will protect our home - This photograph was posted by Radley Balko in his amazingly comprehensive round-up post of February 3rd. He called it "Too Much Ice", and of course, the ov...
The Grayzone

NED leader cut off in Congress after boasting of ‘deploying’ 200 Starlinks to Iran amid violence - The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, i...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #172 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: legislators don't want to take civics tests; llamas do pretty good police work; courts rule on "boneless chicken wings" a...
Land Destroyer

At the AI Race’s Finishing Line: A World of Abundance or Automated Dominance? - *February 12, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance, an important but unnoticed debate is taking place with...
Reading the Pictures

The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated: Leila Navidi’s Photograph as a Defining Image of Resistance to Trump’s ICE Regime - A spontaneous ICE encounter on a St. Paul block becomes a rare picture of practiced solidarity—and a case study in how images can answer federal power. ...
WAWG Blog

Bad Barrels Behind The Abuses of ICE And Billionaire Pedophiles - Recognizing the systemic nature of the problem shifts the focus from blaming only “bad individuals” to addressing the structural features that enable tho...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities - Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, was recently named a 2025 Legislative Champion by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, which is ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Medical Leave - I’m going to be out of commission for a while. I’ll spare you (or deny you) the gory details. The short version is, I am in pretty bad shape, and, after a ...
Unlimited Hangout

Redacted - Redacted.
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Victories Pour In - (That Melania doc sure was a massive W if ever there was one. 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.2mb) Does having to close the Kennedy Center afte...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - 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 ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Socialist

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
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

- Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare quella giustaSupremo Casino Titolo dell’articolo: Online Casinos UK: una guida per trovare q...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

Placeholder Article for Testing - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. In sit amet volutpat tellus, mattis luctus nulla. Nullam purus lacus, faucibus ut magna sit amet, ...
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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