Brains and Eggs: Sunday Evening 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

Mediaite

JD Vance Says Hunter Biden Could Get Payout From Trump’s $1.8 Billion ‘Weaponization’ Fund - Vice President JD Vance suggested that Hunter Biden could receive remuneration from a $1.8 billion fund set up by President Donald Trump. The post JD Va...
Raw Story

Trump envoy's trip to Greenland met with hostility and rejection - Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry's visit to Greenland on Sunday failed after locals rejected Trump administration proposals with middle fingers and dismissals....
San Antonio Current

Civil rights groups warn foreigners not to visit Texas during the World Cup - A cohort of Latino civil-rights and labor groups is warning foreign visitors thinking about visiting Texas for the upcoming World Cup to scrap those pla...
Mother Jones

First, a $1.8 Billion Slush Fund. Now Trump Aims to Weasel Out of IRS Audits “Forever” - A new addendum to the so-called settlement agreement between Trump and Trump—that is, the Department of Justice and Donald Trump’s personal lawyers—will “f...
IVN

CADEM Chair Supports Repealing Top Two. Here's What He's Not Telling Voters. - This week, the Democratic Party chair chose to abandon more than 5 million independent voters in California to embrace a regressive proposal to roll back v...
Courthouse News

UCLA unlikely to shake off Pasadena lawsuit over attempt to leave Rose Bowl - The Southern California city is seeking a court order that the Bruins fulfill their contractual obligation to play their home games at the historic stadium...
Futurism

Pizza Hut’s AI Store Control System Is Such a Disaster That It’s Wasted $100 Million, Lawsuit Alleges - Mama mia, that's a lotta money. The post Pizza Hut’s AI Store Control System Is Such a Disaster That It’s Wasted $100 Million, Lawsuit Alleges appeared f...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Vetoes Legislation Regulating Adult-Use Marijuana Sales - [image: a cannabis dispensary sign with a red circle with a line through it representing "no"][image: a cannabis dispensary sign with a red circle with a...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US family seeks answers after fatal fall into open Manhattan manhole - Police say victim stepped from SUV into uncovered maintenance hole near Cartier building late at night - Sign up for the Breaking News US news...
NPR's Health Shots

School children at San Diego mosque need support to process trauma of shooting - After shootings like the one at the San Diego mosque, people on site and in a community who are not physically hurt also suffer. Children are especially vu...
Independent Political Report

Wyoming Constitution Party Sees Governor’s Race as Opportunity for Major Party Status - The Wyoming Constitution Party is hoping a gubernatorial run by conservative activist Rebecca Bextel can elevate it beyond its current minor party status...
World Socialist Web Site

A letter from afar by A. Lincoln - The following letter, signed “A. Lincoln” but without a return address or subject line, appeared in my email this morning. No sooner had I made a copy of t...
Undernews

- Via Elizabeth Warren
Vox

MAGA’s favorite psychedelic - The Trump administration has a surprising new agenda item: It’s all-in on legalizing a psychedelic drug called ibogaine. Ibogaine is classified as a Sched...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Late Endorsement of Paxton Is a Boon for Talarico - [image: Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, Baylor University, This is the Turning Point] Donald Trump waited until the last minute to make an endorsement ...
Texas Standard

‘A journey of discovery’: Duo biking from Texas Gulf Coast to Canada along whooping crane route - Ecologist Andy Caven and photographer Mike Forsberg are documenting and meeting people along the way to raise awareness about one of North America’s rarest...
Alas, a Blog

Radical Gender Ideology - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. In a way, it’s also by Samantha Fulnecky, because a lot of the dialog was swiped verbatim from a paper she wrote...
Duck of Minerva

I choose to celebrate Eurovision - There are two posts I could have written about the latest Eurovision song contest. One would focus on another controversy over Israel’s participation and h...
Alternet

Trump move just put Texas seat in major 'jeopardy': GOP senator - President Donald Trump’s 11th-hour endorsement in the Texas GOP primary went to far-right Attorney General Ken Paxton over establishment Republican U.S. ...
Techdirt.

Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports - Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOW...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – Ukraine Drone Escalation Peril - Distributed drone warfare is changing escalation dynamics in dangerous ways. NATO-enabled long-range strike capability may create false confidence that pre...
First Draft

Slush Funds Are OKIYAR - The MAGA corruption, it burns.
memeorandum

Senators put Blanche on defense over $1.776B 'anti-weaponization' fund (Rebecca Beitsch/The Hill) - Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill: *Senators put Blanche on defense over $1.776B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund* — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday ...
Political Wire

Democrats Are Still Favored to Take the House - Alan Abramowitz: “A House forecasting model based on post-World War II history, the number of seats the presidential party holds going into the midterm, an...
Eschaton

Capital Intensive Industries - Even if we all believe that AI is our wonderful and glorious future, this is a bit like 4 companies simultaneously building transcontinental railroads and ...
Novara Media

Israeli Soldiers Fire Shots at Peaceful Flotilla Activists - Israeli soldiers fired guns at peaceful humanitarian activists while illegally intercepting boats attempting to deliver aid to Gaza on Tuesday, video foota...
Texas Observer

The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA - The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais did not surprise anyone who has been paying attention. The 6-3 ruling on April 29 effe...
Scheerpost.com

The CIA’s Cuba Ultimatum: Regime Change With a Diplomatic Smile - Joshua Scheer View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Nation Magazine (@nationmag) The CIA did not sneak into Havana this time. It landed in broad...
OpEd News

Tomgram: John Feffer, America's Flight 93 Moment - Ever since North Korea suffered through the death of its first leader in 1994, a loss magnified by an economic collapse and a devastating famine, outside o...
Consortium News

Ignoring Israeli Sexual Abuse of Palestinians - Israeli soldiers and settlers are using sexual violence as a weapon to displace Palestinians, a new report finds. Britain should pull every lever available...
Common Dreams

G7 Finance Ministers Let Big Oil Off the Hook Again - On Monday and Tuesday, Paris hosted the G7 Finance Ministers’ meeting, bringing together finance ministers and central bank governors from some of the wo...
Ballot Access News

Missouri Legislature Adjourns Without Passing Bill for Presidential Primaries - On May 15, the Missouri legislature adjourned, without having passed the bill to restore presidential primaries. HB 2387/2480 had passed the House and the ...
The Verge

America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here - A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Studies Question Value of AI-Assisted Police Reports - Researchers asked experienced police supervisors to rate police reports, some of which were written by humans and some by AI
Election Law Blog

Districting and Competition - As the anti-competitive consequences of the ongoing mid-decade redistricting have become clear, there’s been some discussion of the U.S. House becoming l...
Mondoweiss

How Israel is using militias and concrete blocks to seize what remains of Gaza - [image: Israeli forces demolish a house near the "Yellow Line," dropping leaflets for residents to leave the al-Raqab al-Gharbi neighborhood, adjacent to S...
The Hill

Live updates: Blanche says 'anybody' can apply to compensation fund; Massie fights for seat in Kentucky primary - Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche leads a long line of Cabinet secretaries and administration officials testifying on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Asked abo...
Daily Howler

DECLINE: When you won't say what's staring you right in the face... - *TUESDAY, MAY 19, 2026* *...have you moved past the point of decline?* As we noted yesterday, President Xi may think that the United States is in a state...
SCOTUSblog

Rethinking a Supreme Court principle used to undermine the Voting Rights Act - *Courtly Observations is a recurring series by* *Erwin Chemerinsky* *that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyer...
El Paso Matters

More data centers could be coming to El Paso. What will that mean for your electric bills? - El Paso Electric is seeking to set up a special rate specifically for big data centers – a sign the utility anticipates it will provide service to more ...
Bracing Views

The Vitality of Faith and Belief - Becoming Children of God BILL ASTORE MAY 14, 2026 I’ve been thinking about the power of belief, of faith, its ability to inspire us, to bring us together f...
Democracy Now!

Minnesota Officials Charge ICE Agent Who Shot Venezuelan Immigrant & Falsely Reported What Happened - State prosecutors in Minnesota have filed criminal charges against an ICE officer who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis in January...
The Progressive Wing

5/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - The sickest children from around the country are brought to Children's National Hospital for treatment. The doctors who care for them work days on end fo...
Rewire

Queer South Asians Get Their Own Big Fat Desi Wedding - “Seeing such a large, joyful community come together made me realize how much love and support exists, even if it’s not always visible," one attendee sai...
Angry Bear

Inflation Negating Worker Wage Increases - Biden passed a strong economy over to Trump. A few things Biden passed on to Trump is due to a strong economy: – Inflation was tamed without a recession....
ArcaMax

Losing Abe: A Giant Passes at a Particularly Bad Time - In the late 1940s, when clever-sounding defenses of Soviet totalitarianism had overtaken certain fashionable political circles in Britain, George Orwell pu...
Earth 911

Glass: Recycling’s Negative-Value Problem - The average American household uses about 150 pounds of glass containers each year, but more... The post Glass: Recycling’s Negative-Value Problem appear...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Doesn’t Grasp How Much ‘Blow Back’ DOJ’s ‘Slush Fund’ Will Get: White House Insiders -
Al Jazeera English

Spain’s former PM Zapatero faces corruption probe - High court is investigating Zapatero over airline aid, putting pressure on current PM.
Off The Kuff

TSU poll: Talarico tied with Paxton, one point behind Cornyn - Time for another poll. A new Texas Southern University survey suggests the race for U.S. Senate in Texas could be far tighter than many voters may expect h...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio school districts take ‘conservative’ approach when dealing with flat property values - A perfect storm of flat property value, more tax cuts and higher interest rates could stretch school district tax rates thin. ------------------------------...
ProPublica

This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It. - The post This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It. appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Media

How Anxious Should You Be About AI? (w/ Katie Drummond and Timnit Gebru) - The post How Anxious Should You Be About AI? (w/ Katie Drummond and Timnit Gebru) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Countercurrents

Why Thousands of US and UK Citizens Are Leaving Their Countries - Despite the flag-waving white supremacist anti-immigration policies and propaganda promoted by governing capitalist classes, and their reactionary politics...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

A Simple Model for Forecasting the Impact of Mid-Cycle Redistricting on the 2026 House Elections - Even taking into account a GOP edge from redistricting, big-picture factors will need to improve significantly for Republicans to have a realistic chance...
Media Lens

Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion - Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likel...
Grist

Trump gutted USAID. Hunger and violence followed. - Researchers are just beginning to understand the human cost of America's retreat from international aid.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 19 May 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- to see any image at full size, right-click and open the link in a new tab. [For the link round-up, click here. For the...
High Country News

The Continental Divide Trail is being militarized for the border wall - A new border wall has turned one end of the long-distance trail into a construction zone. The post The Continental Divide Trail is being militarized fo...
Wolf Street

Auto Loan Balances, Debt-to-Income Ratio, and Delinquencies of Subprime & Prime Auto Loans in Q1 2026. How Bad Is it? - Several subprime-specialized dealer-lender chains collapsed, and shares of America's Auto Mart imploded. Subprime lending is not for the squeamish. But it’...
The Week

- [image: Digital Subscription]The Week Digital Get unlimited access to our app, website and the digital magazine. $1 first 6 weeks then renews automaticall...
Counterpunch

On the Untimely Death of the Voting Rights Act - The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais, invalidating a congressional map that included a second majority-Black district in the state...
jobsanger

Those Builders A.I. Are Worried About What They Are Building And For Whom -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 3374: Board Game Design - Episode 3374: Monte Carlo simulations and board game design. Today, Monte Carlo simulations and board games.
Informed Comment

US-China Summit Yields No Progress on Iran - China wants Washington to clean up its own Middle Eastern mess despite increasing economic fallout on Beijing.
Portside

Hawaii Just Found a Way To Keep Corporations Out of Politics - Hawaii Just Found a Way To Keep Corporations Out of Politics Mark Brody Mon, 05/18/2026 - 23:56
Church and State

The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them - As birthrates continue to decline in many industrialized countries, anxious governments are running out of schemes to keep women procreating.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

PRESS RELEASE: RIP UT: Donors Strike, Students to Stage Funeral for Academic Freedom at Regents Meeting—Wednesday, May 20, 2026 - *FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* *May 15, 2026* *Contact: Cameron Samuels* *press@studentsengaged.org* *RIP UT: Donors Strike, Students to Stage Funeral* *for...
Claytoonz

Trumpy Poo - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
See You In 2020

The USA’s attempt to crush Bolivia’s workers revolt is about stopping a new revolutionary wave - Bolivia’s indigenous anti-austerity revolt is happening in the context of a revolutionary retreat, where the globe’s working-class forces have mostly be...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Funding for wildlife crossings included in US House transportation bill - Environment America applauds Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, calls for additional funding for wildlife crossings The post STATEMENT: Funding...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Bigoted pastor James Robison dies. LGBTQ people outlasts another one. - The late religious right pastor James Robison is the latest anti-LGBTQ figure our community has outlasted. My LGBTQ brothers and sisters, we've outlasted ...
Workers World

On Nakba Day, a call in Boston to ‘Boycott the U.S.!’ - [image: On Nakba Day, a call in Boston to ‘Boycott the U.S.!’] Will Hodgkinson gave the following remarks on behalf of Workers World Party in front of the ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Every American Understands - 11 x 15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb “…Even in his brief remarks to reporters Tuesday, Trump made clear that his sole concern in terms of the econ...
Liberation News

Organize, resist, advance: Reflections from the Pan Africanism Summit Against Imperialism in Nairobi, Kenya - Progressive movements across Africa and the world convened for the Pan Africanism Summit Against Imperialism (PASAI) in Nairobi, Kenya in May.
Slate

Republicans Are Trying to Kill the Abortion Pill. They Don’t Stand a Chance. - They can bring all the lawsuits they want, but the genie is already out of the bottle.
slacktivist

Unprecedented corruption and Calvinism - Calvinism, cannibalism, blessed bicycles, and unblessed brand names.
Krebs on Security

CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github - Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed cred...
The Conversation

Battleground state with few combatants – why Pennsylvania’s primaries lack competition - Despite Pennsylvania’s status as a fiercely contested swing state, many local and state primary races in the 2026 primaries draw little competition at all.
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Trump and the Broligarchs Are Coming For Everything Now - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live video
Deadline Politics

The New York Times Files Another Lawsuit Against Pentagon, This Time Over Press Escort Policy - UPDATED, with Pentagon statement: The New York Times filed a new lawsuit against the Department of Defense and Secretary Pete Hegseth, this time challengin...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich, Senate Dem leaders secure decision making funding for Trump’s $1B ballroom “unlikely” - [image: Hassan Albadawi] An effort by New Mexico’s Senior U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich and a handful of other Senate Democrats have made it significantly ...
Project Censored

Higher Gun Ownership Linked to Higher Maternal Homicide Rates - In a November 2025 study, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open, researchers found the firearm homicide rate for pregnant women was 37 perce...
Daily Cartoonist

Petition Created to Prevent Future Eisner Nomination of AI Work - Byron O’Neal, Editor-In-Chief at Comic Book Yeti, has started a petition to change the submission guidelines for future Easter Award nominations to disqual...
The Root

The Rich Political History of Black Voting Districts Where Rights Are At Risk - From slavery to civil rights and music, we're laying out all the congressional districts targeted in redistricting battles with deep ties to Black histor...
Progressive.org

The Problem with Preemption - Laws deny communities the ability to chart their own course.
Axios

Kevin Warsh's bond market bind - Kevin Warsh hasn't even been sworn in as leader of the Federal Reserve yet, and his first great test has already arrived. *The big picture: *Global bond ...
Bonddad

What’s driving the stock market Boom (or Bubble)? - - *by New Deal democrat* In the past month or two, a number of times I have been asked by friends and neighbors why, if the economy feels so bad, does...
Edinburg Politics

$18 million to $20 million redevelopment of Comfort Inn and MainStay Suites latest evidence of continuing strong commercial construction in Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa announces - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Former Edinburg mayors Ramiro Garza, Jr. and Joe Ochoa, Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa, and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, during Mayor Oma...
Glasstire

Estudiosix Opens Call for New Artist Residency Program in Austin - Estudiosix, a new artist residency program and cultural workspace in Austin, has announced its inaugural open call for six-month artist residencies. Estu...
Dissent Magazine

George Scialabba’s Lessons in Solidarity - Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.
Mediagazer

Sources: FIFA officials are visiting India, where no World Cup broadcast deal is agreed; Reliance-Disney JV offered just $20M and Sony refrained from bidding (Reuters) - Reuters: *Sources: FIFA officials are visiting India, where no World Cup broadcast deal is agreed; Reliance-Disney JV offered just $20M and Sony refraine...
The Texas Signal

The Texas Runoff Election - The showdown between Paxton and Cornyn has generated headlines, but there’s still plenty of other races to watch.
Popular Resistance

Cuba Is Not A Failed State; It Is A Besieged State - May Day is the most important public celebration in Cuba. This year, which marked the 100th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s birth, carried special signific...
Field Negro

The death of voting rights. - *"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more" ~Laurell K. Hamilton~ * The United States Supreme court ruled recently that gerrymandering...
Dorf on Law

Addressing Long-Term Problems With Our Free Speech Infrastructure Without Empowering The Autocrats (cross-posted at The Knight Institute website) - N.B. As readers may recall, I current serve on the steering committee of the *Reconstructing Free Expression *initiative of the Knight Institute. As part ...
Salon.com

The real reason RFK Jr. is coming for your antidepressants - The HHS Secretary's attacks on psychiatric medication follow a pattern of putting politics over public health
Seeing the Forest

Most Voters Too Young To Remember - This post first appeared at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy. I was thinking about how most voters out there have no memory of all...
Rallblog

Into the Sunset - Remember those car ads where they drove a gas-guzzling vehicle up to the top of a mesa in Arizona to capture the romance of the open road? Now that gas p...
Antiwar.com

The Man Who Seeks To Rule the World - Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clea...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 17, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – May 17, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War Iran war has cost American consumers over $37 billion in extra fuel costs, Brown Uni...
The AltWorld

Los halcones de RAND instan a llevar a cabo operaciones militares en América Latina - EE. UU. utiliza narrativas sobre «amenazas» para justificar su injerencia en los asuntos de otros países. En […] The post Los halcones de RAND instan a l...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘All Over the Map’ Toons - …MEANWHILE, IN CUBA… …NEXT WEEK!… * * * As The BRAD BLOG’s former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: “With editorial cartooning increasingly ...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Canigou with cherries (2) - [image: Canigou and cherries (2)]
The Daily Poster

Rejecting The Health Care Trap - An oligarch-funded think tank is trying to preemptively undermine Medicare For All even before Democrats win back power. Some candidates are rejecting the ...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter: Russia will Soon Expand War by Striking EUROPE - DDAVIS—Russia has reached the limit of her patience with the West—both with arch-hypocritical Washington, and currently with the US vassals in Europe, say...
CultureMap Houston

Houston bar owner speaks out after surprise arrest and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from an unusual bar interaction to a new pizzeria and a neighborhood restaurant'...
Trivial Knot

Red vs blue button - The internet has been talking about this red vs blue button problem. Since I’ve been talking about game theory lately, why not talk about this one too? You...
LareDOS

LLT auditions for The Lion King Jr. set for May 18 and 19 - Play opens July 30
Lowering the Bar

Under Haitian Law, Is It Illegal to Make a Zombie? - Not specifically?
The Militant

Greek unionists bring solidarity, needed medical supplies to Cuba - ATHENS, Greece — Some 35 people packed the meeting hall of the Athens publishing house Diethnes Vima April 18 to hear a report from a union delegation retu...
Texas Freedom Network

Book Ban Backlash? Texas School Board Extremists Continue to Lose Key Races Across the State - School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, ...
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Black Agenda Report

Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit - Ahmed Kaballo on the France Africa Summit Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 05/15/2026 - 22:44 Margaret Kimberley of Blac...
Capital & Main

California Hazardous Waste Rules Criticized as Years Late and ‘Polluter-Friendly’ - Proposed hazardous waste oversight changes are years behind schedule and fail to account for a community’s health risks from pollution, environmental gro...
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Space City Weather

Thursday was Houston’s hottest day of 2026 and now the humidity is returning - In brief: After the hottest day of 2026 in Houston, we expect a quiet, less hot but more humid weekend. Rain chances then pick up next week with potentiall...
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Earthworks

Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Bolivia - Threats to Indigenous land defenders in Bolivia have drawn attention from the United Nations. The post Risks Remain for Indigenous Land Defenders in Boli...
Sludge

Trump Pivots From Bonds to Buying Hundreds of Individual Corporate Stocks - A newly filed disclosure shows the President bought stock in defense contractors, crypto firms, and AI companies whose fortunes are directly tied to decisi...
Discourse

MAGA Is Eating Up AI Slop (w/Jack Crosbie) - Plus: Tales in accounting, Trump's ambivalence about the cost of the Iran war, and Kash Patel losing it in a Senate hearing
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Third Quarter - With this post we have left behind the halfway mark on our journey around the Great Wheel of the lunar phases, the primary symbol of Yeats’s symbolic syste...
Socialist Alternative

Can “Future Industries” Lead China’s Economy Out of Crisis - 2026 marks the opening year of China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030). During the “Two Sessions” (parallel NPC and CCPPC rubber-stamp meetings) in March, ...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Land Destroyer

Why the US is at War with Iran and Why the War Might Pause but Won’t End - *April 28, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While much discussion of the US war of aggression against Iran has focused on regional-specific factors includi...
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
The Grayzone

Covert NATO initiative turns film into anti-Russia battleground - A scandal has erupted over covert NATO conferences with the Western entertainment industry. Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone show how NATO has s...
Debunking Christianity

A Minimal Facts Approach the the Problem of Evil - I just uploaded a major paper at "Academia.edu" titled, "A Minimal Facts Approach to the Problem of Evil." Hat tip to Gary Habermas and Michael Licona for ...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
Idavox

The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace - We lost Mike Sullivan in 2024 and Laura Sullivan yesterday. We want to remember what... The post The Sullivans, Much Love and Rest in Peace appeared firs...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - Our last open thread is about to hit 200 comments and close. Here is a new one all topics welcome. I'll add some content here when I'm done with work for ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Map is Not the Territory - OK, here’s the first chapter of Strangers in a Strange Homeland, the USA road-trip book, which will be published by Arcade Publishing later this year, hope...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
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...
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...
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...
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. —...
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...
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.
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 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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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 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 ...
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...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
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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Sunday, October 24, 2010

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