Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Futurism

Elon Musk Reportedly Obsessed With AI Girlfriend - Elon and Ani, sitting in a tree, T-W-E-E-T-I-N-G. The post Elon Musk Reportedly Obsessed With AI Girlfriend appeared first on Futurism.
The Hill

Axelrod on agreeing with Greene: 'Astonishing' - Former White House senior adviser David Axelrod on Thursday found himself in agreement with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over the Democratic victori...
Raw Story

Trump openly defied court order with Truth Social threat: judge - A federal judge issued a "sharp rebuke" of President Donald Trump's repeated attempts to prevent food assistance money from being distributed to people i...
Courthouse News

Judge slams ICE excuses for violence against Chicago protesters - “It's difficult to conceive how an injunction requiring the government to comply with the Constitution could possibly be harmful," a federal judge said.
memeorandum

Live updates: Federal judge orders Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits in November (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Live updates: Federal judge orders Trump administration to fully fund SNAP benefits in November* — Long lines have formed at food pa...
The Verge

Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package - Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to approve Elon Musk’s staggering new pay package, in a move aimed at retaining the controversial CEO’s leadership during...
Grist

The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions. - Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel it.
See You In 2020

Finance capital seeks to bring America’s demise. Yet with this scheme, it’s planted the seeds for its own defeat. - When we recognize that every ruling system contains the seeds for its own demise, we can gain clarity on how to defeat the present financial menace. A c...
Slate

Trump Is Missing One Massive Reason for Tuesday’s Election Results - The president still doesn’t appear to understand a likely reason for Tuesday’s results: the unnecessary, cruelly forced mass hunger unique to the shutdown.
Mediagazer

News Corp reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $2.14B, above $2.1B est., Dow Jones revenue up 6% to $586M, and News Media with "strong improvement in profitability" (Juby Babu/Reuters) - Juby Babu / Reuters: *News Corp reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $2.14B, above $2.1B est., Dow Jones revenue up 6% to $586M, and News Media with “strong i...
Techdirt.

What Really Happened In Portland Before Trump Deployed The National Guard - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. ⚠️ This story contains videos showing violence. President D...
Al Jazeera English

Afghanistan and Pakistan exchange fire as ceasefire talks resume in Turkiye - The truce talks are aimed at finalising a ceasefire reached in Qatar last month following deadly clashes.
Wolf Street

CarMax Enters our Imploded Stocks. Used-Car Dealers Face Reckoning after Jacking Up Prices by 55% in 2 Years - Consumers have had it with high prices. In addition, these dealers have company specific issues.
El Paso Matters

Fact check: Has El Paso International Airport issued delay notices due to the government shutdown? - As the federal government shutdown continues, travelers have questioned whether staffing shortages are causing flight delays at El Paso International Ai...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on sex designations on passports - The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon handed the Trump administration another victory on the justices’ interim docket. In a brief, unsigned opinion, th...
Workers World

Despite U.S. war threats, Venezuela sends humanitarian aid to hurricane survivors in Jamaica and Cuba. - [image: Despite U.S. war threats, Venezuela sends humanitarian aid to hurricane survivors in Jamaica and Cuba.] Workers World Party salutes the humanitaria...
Election Law Blog

“Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire” - I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: If Democrats and those on the left want to draw one lesson from the lopsided 64–36 victory of Proposition...
Progressive.org

Agriculture Secretary Flaunts Ignorance; Trump Sells Presidential Favors - Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
slacktivist

Tales from the religion press release slush pile - The ginormous Mobius-strip monument to answered prayer won't be built until you people fork over another $7 million. Plus: the best little prayer-house in ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US judge orders Trump administration to fully fund Snap benefits in November - Ruling comes in response to a challenge to administration’s offer to only partly fund US food benefits amid shutdown A federal judge in Rhode Island orde...
Mediaite

Bannon Says Trump Is Focused On Affordability Crisis, Calls to ‘Deport’ H-1Bs - "Number one, guys, you've got to deport—I hate to say but you've got to deport—all of the visa scams that came here to take jobs" The post Bannon Says Tr...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Candidate Mamdani also won! - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025* *Warfare concerning his speech: *Candidate Mamdani also won on Tuesday night, in this case by just under nine points. Warn...
Houston Public Media

When fighting for democracy, Joyce Vance believes ‘Giving Up is Unforgivable’ - Ahead of a Nov. 13 event in Houston, the law professor, former U.S. Attorney, and author of the "Civil Discourse" Substack offers advice for those interest...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio not among airports forced to cut flights, but travelers here could see effect - [image: A flight moves down the runway at San Antonio International Airport.] 'It is possible that travelers may be impacted by reductions in service at ...
Daily Dot

“They call it a ‘get a life warning'”: Gamer says Battlefield 6 told her to “TAKE A SHOWER” after marathon gaming session - [image: Left: Image reding: "TAKE A SHOWER. You have been playing for 16 hours straight we cannot allow you to continue onto Battlefield 6 servers. We ha...
Salon.com

Arizona city proposes memorial to “national treasure” Charlie Kirk - Scottsdale is the third city in the Phoenix area to propose a memorial to the slain podcaster
Independent Political Report

Zohran Mamdani Supported Himself in NYC Mayoral Race on Working Families Party Line - New York Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani, who this week was elected mayor of New York City, voted for himself on the Working Families Party line rather tha...
Second Nexus

Viewers Left Baffled By One Of Kim Kardashian's Bizarrely Risqué Outfits In New Hulu Series - Hulu recently premiered one of its latest shows, *All's Fair*, which follows an all-female law firm. Directed by Ryan Murphy, the legal drama stars Kim K...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa - National strikes continue in Nigeria by resident doctors and in Kenya by postal workers over lack of pay, and protests continue in Johannesburg, South Afri...
Church and State

It’s not racist to say: we are full - Limiting migration does cause pain. But so does destroying the natural environment, the quality of life of residents, and potentially the fabric of society.
The Week

Starbucks workers are planning their ‘biggest strike’ ever - The union said 92% of its members voted to strike
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MEDIA / A new Rag for a new generation - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2025 Many of us have worked to keep The Rag flag flying since the 2005 reunion. It’s hard to believe that was...
Axios

Brace for more shutdown travel pain as FAA cuts flights ahead of Thanksgiving - Flights at many major U.S. airports will be cut 10% in the coming days amid air traffic controller shortages linked to the longest*-*ever government shut...
Eschaton

Is That Good - Because of The Great Recession, I think "we" have forgotten that even modest recessions really suck for people. Layoff announcements soared in October as c...
Common Dreams

US: Millions Face Soaring Health Costs as Subsidies Expire - The US Congress’ failure to extend public subsidies for private health insurance threatens the right to health and financial security of millions of peop...
Popular Resistance

Israel Is Trying To Divide Gaza In Half Along The ‘Yellow Line’ - Today, there are essentially two Gazas. One is ruled by Hamas as the de facto governing body in the Strip, and makes up about 47% of the territory. The r...
CultureMap Houston

Rice University reveals game-changing new development and stadium renovations - Rice University is building a new development to better connect its campus with the nearby Rice Village shopping district. On Thursday, November 6, the uni...
Political Wire

‘Sandwich Guy’ Found Not Guilty - “Sean Dunn, the man who pitched a sandwich at the chest of a federal agent in a viral act of opposition to President Trump’s law enforcement policies in Wa...
Ballot Access News

Wyoming House Committee Introduces Bill to Drastically Increase Difficulty for Independent Candidates - On November 5, the Wyoming House Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee introduced a bill to drastically increase the difficult...
Alternet

Trump encouraging 'rogue agency' to engage in 'lawlessness': former DOJ prosecutor - In a report published in mid-October, ProPublica's Nicole Foy detailed 4th Amendment abuses against United States citizens by U.S. Customs and Immigratio...
Texas Standard

Richard Linklater revisited ‘first-time filmmaker’ mindset for ‘Nouvelle Vague’ - The Texas director premiered his latest film, which portrays the making of French New Wave classic “Breathless,” at the Austin Film Society.
WhoWhatWhy

We Have Been Cassandras, Now We Must Be Socrates - [image: Bust, Socrates, Western Australia] Much that was warned of has come to pass. At least we now know what we’re dealing with and that it won’t just al...
Mother Jones

A Border Patrol Agent Bragged About Shooting Someone, Texts Show - An immigration enforcement officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents...
Reform Austin

Supreme Court Scrutiny Casts Doubt on Trump’s Tariff Power - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared skeptical of President Donald Trump’s sweeping use of e...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
First Draft

Ross Douthat Can Go To Hell - He asks: "Did women ruin the workplace?" WTactualF, New York Times?
naked capitalism

Bill Gates Wants to Set the Environmental Agenda Ahead of COP30: It’s Not Surprising - Bill Gates’s bid to reframe the environmental agenda suggests it’s often set top-down, serving a particular set of interests, in this case, AI
NPR's Health Shots

White House strikes deals for lower prices on obesity drugs - Medicare beneficiaries will soon be able to get obesity and Type 2 diabetes drugs for a $50 copay. But there are some limitations.
Consortium News

Venezuelan Oil — American Gangster Politics - The slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” write Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares. But the objective remains the sam...
Daily Cartoonist

European Cartoon Award Releases Shortlist of Finalists - The European Cartoon Award has announced their short list of finalists for its annual award to “honor the most provocative, insightful, and impactful carto...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- God's god - This one speaks for itself -- quite entertainingly, too.
Undernews

Judge bans use of force for Trump’s Chicago blitz - *Independent, UK - *A federal judge is banning immigration authorities from firing tear gas and using other riot weapons during protests in Chicago afte...
Vox

Voters signed up to deport criminals, not grandmas - When President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, many American voters wanted immigration reduced, and Trump quickly complied. He boosted funding for immi...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - November 6, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Democrats win in key climate races in the 2025 Elections...
Deadline Politics

Media Ushered Out Of Oval Office After Man Collapses During Trump Announcement On Weight-Loss Drug Discounts - A man standing near Donald Trump in the Oval Office collapsed as the president was holding a press event to announce discounts to two popular weight loss d...
Capital & Main

Congress Could Get Millions of People Off of SNAP by Raising the Minimum Wage, but It Hasn’t — for 16 Years - 1 in 8 people rely on federal food aid that has become a pawn in the government shutdown. The post Congress Could Get Millions of People Off of SNAP by R...
The Daily Poster

OpenAI Wants You To Back Its $1 Trillion Gamble - The artificial intelligence giant’s chief financial officer just said taxpayers should guarantee the firm’s debt.
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #03: What Zohran Mamdani's Win Means - An election night so momentous we had to record a bonus episode
Dissident Voice

The Hidden Cost of Comfort: How Everyday Consumption Fuels Global Violence - In a world increasingly defined by convenience, luxury, and technological advancement, few pause to consider the true cost of their comfort. From the car...
Project Censored

When Algorithms Break the News - Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Hospitals denying maternal mental health care, employers using AI tools that drive workplace discrimination, and “phantom...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Beverly Gologorsky, How Dare Trump Tarnish Our Golden Years! - Aging, like time, ticks on, day by hour by day. Then, suddenly, its there, mocking our inability to sweep aside, should we even want to, this iron curtain....
Texas Observer

Houston’s Top Magnet High Schools Could Become Private Partnership Charter Schools, Raising Equity Concerns - Each year, thousands of students apply for a seat at one of the top performing magnet high schools in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) thro...
Sludge

The Democrats Won’t Stop Spamming - Despite ActBlue’s updated policies banning fake matches and deadlines, Democratic Party groups are continuing to spam supporters with messages designed to ...
Mondoweiss

Israel is trying to divide Gaza in half along the ‘Yellow Line.’ What is it, and is it here to stay? - [image: A yellow concrete block placed by Israeli army in Gaza demarcates the "Yellow Line" as part of the US-brokered ceasefire with Hamas, November 2, 20...
Bonddad

Long leading indicator Senior Loan Officer Survey for Q3 was neutral to slightly positive - - *by New Deal democrat* The Senior Loan Officer Survey is a long leading indicator, telling us about credit conditions that typically turn worse a ...
Glasstire

Top Five: November 6, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Manos de Memoria Presa House (San Antonio) October 24 –...
Democracy Now!

"Fire in Every Direction": Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness - Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir, *Fire in Every Direction*, a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing...
The Conversation

Trump’s White House renovations fulfill Obama’s prediction, kind of - President Barack Obama’s mockery of Donald Trump in 2011 may have fueled the former real estate mogul’s run for president and his desire to leave his mark ...
Space City Weather

Houston may set an all-time November temperature record before things cool down this weekend - In brief: In today’s post we explore the very warm highs of the region’s forecast, including the potential for an unprecedented 90-degree day in November. ...
Crooked Media

What can the left learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win? - The post What can the left learn from Zohran Mamdani’s win? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Root

Abigail Spanberger’s Historic Virginia Win Proves That Black Voters Aren’t Just Loyal to Black Politicians - Abigail Spanberger secured 9 out of 10 Black voters in Virginia, winning the race for governor over Black Republican Winsome Earle-Sears. Read more...
Angry Bear

Tabulated initial and continuing state unemployment claims continue rangebound - – by New Deal democrat As I have done since the beginning of the government shutdown, the number of initial and continuing claims can be calculated notw...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Fly the Empty Skies” - Live 9 AM Eastern, Then Streaming On Demand Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou catch you up on the one-two punch of Tuesda...
Dorf on Law

What the Oral Argument in the Tariffs Cases Clarified - After two and a half hours of oral argument in yesterday's tariff cases, I ended up roughly where I started. I am nearly certain that Justices Sotomayor,...
The Smirking Chimp

DOJ Tells Republicans That Epstein Files Even Worse for Trump Than They Thought: Report -
Skeptophilia

The persistence of memory - A paper published this week in the journal *Nature: Scientific Reports* provided some interesting insights into how our memories of our own past might wor...
Off The Kuff

More on the November election - Here’s a Chron story from the weekend that annoyed me a little. Early voting in Harris County wrapped up Friday with some of the lowest voting turnouts in ...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County sheriff establishes missing persons unit to tackle backlog of cases - The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is expanding and formalizing its missing persons unit, adding new staff to address a growing caseload and improve respons...
Scheerpost.com

Wealth Taxes Will Barely Slow Inequality. So Why Do the Super-Rich Resist Them? - A 2 percent wealth tax is like shaving off a fraction of a spire from a large cathedral, says economist Nancy Folbre.
ProPublica

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts - The post Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

ICE raids in Colorado highlight how violent the U.S. has become - After migrating to Canada, a journalist reckons with the grief and gratitude of having left. The post ICE raids in Colorado highlight how violent the U....
Counterpunch

Rightwing Washington Post Editorial Board Endorses Trump’s Golden Dome - Over the past several months, the editorial board of the Washington Post has moved steadily to the right, endorsing greater defense budgets, the use of...
Portside

Mamdani’s Victory Is a Rebuke to the Failed Strategies of the Democratic Party - Mamdani’s Victory Is a Rebuke to the Failed Strategies of the Democratic Party Mark Brody Thu, 11/06/2025 - 01:40
ArcaMax

The Test for a Conservative Court - Is the Supreme Court really a conservative court, bound by conservative principles of statutory construction and judicial review, or is it President Donald...
jobsanger

Democrats Must Embrace Both Moderates And Progressives -
Informed Comment

Israel’s Politicians Rebel for the right to Torture - Tomer-Yerushalmi freely admits to leaking the video to expose the serious nature of the crimes she was investigating,
The AltWorld

Israel Is Still Starving Gaza, And Other Notes - Israel is still blocking humanitarian groups from delivering the aid necessary to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians […] The post Israel Is Still St...
The Greanville Post

Donald Trump’s extended 60 Minutes interview - CBS—Norah O’Donnell sat down with President Donald J. Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss U.S.-China relations, Venezuela, Israel, the government shutdown, immi...
Krebs on Security

Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List - For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare's public ran...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Journalist says that 188 Republican and Christian leaders have accused of sexually abusing kids this year (so far) - *While the far right falsely paint drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ community as 'groomers,' journalist Evan Hurst has identified 188 Christian...
LareDOS

A COMPENDIUM OF PUNTOS DE VISTA - EL MURO - THE WALL
Antiwar.com

Venezuela’s Oil, US-Led Regime Change, and America’s Gangster Politics - The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco...
The NM Political Report

Trump nominates former New Mexico Rep. Steve Pearce to lead Bureau of Land Management - President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated former New Mexico Congressman and former Republican Party Chair Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Man...
Liberation News

Uprising topples Madagascar government - On October 17, a military coup ousted the former president of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina following a mass protest movement
Environment Texas

Court upholds national furnace efficiency standards - Efficiency standards for gas-powered furnaces reduce pollution by reducing energy waste The post Court upholds national furnace efficiency standards appe...
Bracing Views

War and Rumors of War - Dick Cheney Is Dead BILL ASTORE NOV 04, 2025 War and rumors of war dominate the headlines. Venezuela. Nigeria. Iran. Somalia. A “new Cold War” involving Ru...
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 4 of 4) - Death comes for us all. We are outlived, as Barkandji man Woddy Harris would have it, by Mother Nature, who holds us in something that I think he would lik...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Veneer is Gone: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We see politics for what they are now: a battle between the wealthy few and the rest of us
Socialist Alternative

Zohran’s Historic Victory: Full Steam Ahead To Fight Trump & The Democratic Party Establishment - In a truly historic victory, self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has defeated hated former governor Andrew Cuomo to become mayor of New York...
NORML

Marijuana Arrests Comprised Nearly Half of All Drug-Related Arrests in Over a Dozen States in 2024 - [image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against three tiny buds][image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against t...
Ecosophia

Why The Left Can’t Meme: A Second Interlude - The exploration of the no-ego ego trip and its relevance to contemporary culture a few weeks back has implications that reach far. The discussion that foll...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Dem Wave Hits Virginia, New Jersey, and Elsewhere; a Dozen House Ratings Shift in California Following Approval of New Dem Map - Democrats enjoyed a strong election performance last night. Aside from wins in New Jersey and Virginia. Prop. 50 will pass in California, which has promp...
Dissent Magazine

Zohran’s Promise - The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward ...
MintPress News

Fatema Al Harbi: The Arab Working Overtime to Defend Israel’s Genocide - Fatema Al Harbi built her career defending Israel’s actions in Gaza, partnering with Israeli intelligence-linked groups and spreading propaganda that whi...
Ian Welsh

Mamdani Represents A New Era Of Political Conflict - As everyone’s probably aware, Mamdani, a brown muslim social-democrat who has promised, among other things, to open city grocery stories, make transit free...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Tokenization of Environmental Assets & Ecosystem Services - With forests and seas on the map, tokenization of natural capital is redefining the world’s... The post Guest Idea: Tokenization of Environmental Assets ...
Seeing the Forest

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

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
Rewire

Let White People Be the Face of Trump’s Hunger Crisis—Opinion - Black suffering has never moved this country to act. Maybe seeing white families skip meals will finally make us admit that food insecurity isn’t fate—it...
The Texas Signal

Election 2025: What To Watch - Here’s a roundup of some of the hottest, most bizarre, and interesting races in the lone star state taking place today
Black Agenda Report

Z!0nIsm and Race in the White Empire | w/ Gerald Horne & Ajamu Baraka - Z!0nIsm and Race in the White Empire | w/ Gerald Horne & Ajamu Baraka bareditors Wed, 11/05/2025 - 00:00 Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Progressive Wing

November 4-7 News Roundup and Open Thread - Election Day 2025 is here.
DeSmogBlog

Labour’s Big Tech Love Affair Could Blow Up Its Climate Promises - When U.S. President Donald Trump landed for what he called the “exquisite honour” of an unprecedented second state visit to the UK this September, he bro...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Unity Walk—Friday, Nov. 7th in collaboration with the National Day of Action against the Trump Compact for Higher Education - *The Unity Walk in collaboration with the National Day of Action against Trump's Compact for Higher Education is happening this coming Friday. You ...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Debunking Christianity

The First Pages of "God and Horrendous Suffering, 2nd Edition" - This is a final draft of my Preface, Blurbs, Contents, and Introduction to the 2nd edition of "God and Horrendous Suffering" at Academia.edu. CLICK HERE! E...
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
The Militant

The working class needs to take political power! - Mamdani aims to suck workers back into the Democratic Party NEW YORK — Amid growing national and international attention focused on the 2025 New York City ...
Idavox

VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi - To the right, Bela played a role that was far, far scarier than Dracula. The post VIDEO: Vampire Antifascist: The Story of Bela Lugosi appeared first on ...
Reading the Pictures

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

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Green Pages News

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

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Earthworks

On the Texas Coast, Exporting LNG Causes Explosions - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post On the Texas Coast, Ex...
Campaign for America's Future

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

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

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

FRIDAY ‘ROUND-THE-HORN: LITTLE BIG LIARS EDITION. - *The Taj Mahal verson is fine, too. Just a good tune all around.* So what’s next after the demolition of the White House’s East Wing? You know Tubby want...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

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American Prospect

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

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
WAWG Blog

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

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

ICE ICE Terrorists - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
Progressive Army

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

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

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

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

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Texas Monthly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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