Brains and Eggs: Final Funnies of 2010

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/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 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

ArcaMax

Rob Reiner and Donald Trump - At first, when I saw it on Facebook, I thought someone had fallen for some AI slop, was reposting "fake news." Even President Donald Trump could not be tha...
Courthouse News

Trump gives a partisan prime-time address insisting the economy is stronger than many voters feel - Trump has promised an economic boom, yet inflation has stayed elevated and the job market has weakened sharply in the wake of his import taxes.
Al Jazeera English

Academy Awards, YouTube sign deal to livestream Oscars from 2029 - Organisers say the deal with YouTube will allow viewers to watch the awards ceremony on an 'unprecedented global scale'.
Countercurrents

Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation - Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s larg...
naked capitalism

What Will Happen If the Right Wins Absolutely? - Right wing factions are determined to implement extreme agendas. Where are they heading?
memeorandum

ICE voodoo doll discovered in New Orleans as immigration crackdown continues (WVUE-TV) - WVUE-TV: *ICE voodoo doll discovered in New Orleans as immigration crackdown continues* — Makeshift doll depicting ICE agent found near Magazine Stree...
jobsanger

The Difference With Trump Is His Breathtaking Moral Depravity -
The Week

Codeword: December 18, 2025 - The daily codeword puzzle from The Week
Mediaite

Man Pardoned by Trump Says President Is ‘Fading’ and His ‘Swagger’ Is Gone: ‘Can’t Lie Through the Reality Anymore’ - Owen Shroyer, the former Infowars host who was pardoned by President Donald Trump, warned on Wednesday that the president was "fading." The post Man Pard...
Axios

Ex-Harvard morgue manager who sold body parts sentenced to 8 years in prison - A former Harvard Medical School morgue manager was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling human body parts as part of a nationwide s...
World Socialist Web Site

Will Lehman: Every worker should be using Socialism AI - Mack Trucks worker and UAW presidential candidate Will Lehman released this video explaining the significance of Socialism AI for the working class.
Informed Comment

In 2025, 65% of Americans view Muslims Favorably, 85% view Jews Favorably - It is a paradox that Americans at some points say they like Muslims, but take a dim view on the whole of their religion.
The Hill

5 takeaways from Trump’s White House address - President Trump delivered an address to the nation on Wednesday night intended to mark the close of his first year back in power. Trump appeared before the...
The Verge

The ChatGPT app store is here - On Wednesday evening, OpenAI launched an App Directory to browse all the tools currently available and opened its SDK for developers to build new interacti...
Raw Story

'What is Newt smokin'?' One of GOP's 'deepest thinkers' roasted for hyping Trump's speech - Someone who has been described as one of the GOP's "deepest thinkers" was roasted on Wednesday night by political analysts after he hyped up President Do...
Claytoonz

Susie Big Mouth - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Techdirt.

The ‘Koozie’ People Bullied A Wooden Drink Sleeve Product, ‘Woodzie’, Into A Name Change - I’ve said it roughly a zillion times: trademark bullying exists because it works. One of the unfortunate inequities of our system is that having a large le...
Mediagazer

Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91 (John Rogers/Associated Press) - John Rogers / Associated Press: *Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for C...
Crooked Media

Why Is Trump So Obsessed With Rep. Ilhan Omar - The post Why Is Trump So Obsessed With Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared first on Crooked Media.
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Political Wire

AOC Says She Would ‘Stomp’ JD Vance - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she would coast to victory if she were ever to square off against Vice President JD Vance in a presidential elect...
Vox

The revealing pointlessness of Trump’s primetime speech - When a president gives a primetime televised speech, it is typically about something of serious import: to make the case for a major new policy or to annou...
Daily Cartoonist

Walter Mahoney – RIP - Former Tribune Media Services Sales Manager and Senior VP Walter Mahoney has passed away. Walter F. Mahoney January 21, 1951 – November 20, 2025 From the o...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Peter Arnett, Pulitzer prize-winner who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, dies aged 91 - Arnett won 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his Vietnam War coverage for the Associated Press Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Ruling a How-To for Unlawful Gerry-mandering on 'Eve' of Critical Election Year: 'BradCast' 12/17/2025 - On today's BradCast: Our final round-up of the Gerrymandering Wars at year's end, as we head into the critical 2026 election year following a big, disturbi...
Futurism

Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda - Spoiler: it's definitely not Atlantis. The post Scientists Intrigued by Huge Structure Under Bermuda appeared first on Futurism.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Uses Primetime Address To Insist “Inflation Is Stopped” And “Prices Are Down” — And To Blame Much On Joe Biden - With warning signs flashing over the health of the economy and Democrats winning off-year races on the issue of affordability, Donald Trump sought to recla...
Ballot Access News

Arizona and National Republican Parties File Lawsuit to Stop No Labels from Changing its Name to Arizona Independent Party - On December 11, the Arizona Republican Party and the Republican National Committee filed a lawsuit in Arizona state court against the Secretary of State. T...
Portside

Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore - Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore Geoffrey Wed, 12/17/2025 - 21:32
Scheerpost.com

GOP Centrists Rock the House, Force ACA Subsidy Showdown - By Joshua Scheer Four centrist Republican members of the U.S. House broke with Speaker Mike Johnson and joined Democrats in signing a discharge petition th...
TalkLeft

Trump's Speech - Live-Blogging of Donald Trump's Economic Speech: Tales from the Crypt Donald inherited a mess and he's fixing it. He blames life being unaffordable due to...
Eschaton

Trump Speech Thread - For the sickos
See You In 2020

Ultra-leftism grows out from the metropole. To defeat it, we must expand the workers struggle into the rural. - Right now, ultra-leftism of the adventurist kind is rapidly growing in its relevance, and in the threat it poses to the working-class movement. Even tho...
OpEd News

Liberation Theology as Critical Thinking: Why God Talk Still Matters - If we are serious about liberation-- real liberation, not branding-- then we must reclaim every tool that helps us see clearly. Theology, done rightly, is ...
Election Law Blog

“Judges quiz California and GOP attorneys in Prop. 50 redistricting case” - LA Times: But Wednesday was the first time the public got to hear the three federal judges of the Central District of California challenge those narrativ...
Popular Resistance

US Racist Immigration Policy Toward Haiti Reinforces Imperialism - On November 26th 2025, the Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti using nearly identical language to the TPS cancella...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Spouting the Same Line on Bondi Attack - Narrative spin for Israel is in full swing following the Bondi Beach attack, conflating pro-Palestinian activism with anti-Jewish violence. By Caitlin Joh...
The Greanville Post

Aaron Maté : Rob Reiner and Free Speech. - JUDGE NAP—In this in-depth conversation on Judging Freedom dated December 16, 2025, Judge Andrew Napolitano hosts journalist Aaron Mate to discuss several ...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - We’re officially in the home stretch, and Christmas is just around the corner.
Houston Public Media

Houston-area high school student dies after fight on campus - The other student involved in the fight at Sterling High School was in police custody, Goose Creek CISD said in a statement.
Reform Austin

FIFA Slashes World Cup Ticket Prices to Just $60 After Outrage - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… FIFA announced Tuesday that $60 tickets will now be available for every match at the upcoming N...
Salon.com

“He wants to go back to his show”: Bongino announces exit from FBI - Recent reports had described the deputy director as "something of a clown" who will not be missed
Antiwar.com

Tucker Carlson and the Freedom of Speech - Last week, Sen. Charles Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the United States Senate, introduced a resolution on behalf of himself and 40 other Senate ...
San Antonio Report

Smart winter savings with CPS Energy and Cam the Chameleon - SPONSORED: Cam has partnered with CPS Energy to give customers conservation and money saving tips to be prepared for winter. ------------------------------ ...
Second Nexus

TikToker Goes Viral After Revealing How An Air Fryer Actually Works—And People Are Low-Key Devastated - With the promise of versatility, quick cook times, and healthier options, air fryers have had us in a chokehold for the past few years. We've been hypnot...
Progressive.org

Fascists of a Feather Flock Together - As the United States has slid into fascism, authoritarian regimes around the world have taken notice.
Mother Jones

A Federal Judge Nominee Said Disabled People Shouldn’t Be Wed. In Fact, Many Can’t. - On Wednesday, Justin Olson, a judicial nominee for the federal bench in the Southern District of Indiana, admitted that in a 2015 sermon, he had said marri...
Undernews

Muscle mass found to help brain - *MSN - * According to brand-new research that will be presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting later this month, having mo...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Colonized Mind: The Cognitive Dysfunction Destabilizing the Planet - [image: Trump's Colonized Mind, Donald Trump, Cognitive Dysfunction] The neurological, psychological, and political breakdown of the American president — a...
San Antonio Current

Public hearing on controversial San Antonio housing development set for January - The special hearing on Guajolote Ranch was set following a protest at Wednesday's San Antonio Planning Commission meeting. The post Public hearing on co...
Daily Dot

Taco Bell brings back the fan favorite that overshadowed Nikola Jokić’s draft pick: “We heard our fans loud and clear” - [image: taco bell quesarita returns nikola jokic] Taco Bell has confirmed the limited return of the Quesarito—a combined quesadilla and burrito—after an ...
Wolf Street

Lennar Further Cuts Average Sales Price of New Homes, to Lowest since 2017, -25% from Peak: That’s what this Housing Market Needs - Lower prices & lots of new supply. Deliveries & backlog rose. Profit margins, profits, & shares plunged.
The NM Political Report

Federal judge orders Iranian bodybuilder’s release from New Mexico jail - [image: A federal judge in Albuquerque on Dec. 15, 2025 ordered ICE to immediately release Hamid Ziaei, an Iranian man held for the last six months at th...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Cleaner air on the border is a shared commitment - Cleaner air in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez depends on cross-border coordination, reliable data and sustained investment to support growth and public healt...
Church and State

Review of The Devil … - One thing that comes through clearly in Graff’s telling was the sheer chutzpah of the Manhattan Project.
slacktivist

Have fun storming the castle! - Some storytellers leave a legacy of great art that is admired and respected. Rob Reiner leaves behind a host of stories that we simply love -- stories that...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Done with this Shit: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

C. Wright Mills Warned Us: The End of Ideology Was Always a Trap, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - C. Wright Mills Warned Us: The End of Ideology Was Always a Trap *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *December 17, 2025* *In 1960, renowned sociologist C. Wr...
Slate

Last Year’s Postapocalyptic Megahit Is Back. It’s Even More Fun This Time Around. - Season 2 of Fallout is a riot.
Texas Standard

Researchers look to make Texas highways safer for migrating monarch butterflies - The pollinators serve crucial roles in the ecosystem and food system.
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: We're keeping our eyes on more than one prize! - *WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2025* *Fox News rules the cosmos: *As we near the end of the year, we're keeping our eyes on the prize--more accurately, on a pa...
Socialist Alternative

FAIR School Crystal Walks Out to Protest Proposed Closure—Tax The Rich To Fund Schools! - Over 400 middle school students— almost the entire student body—walked out of class at FAIR School Crystal (in Crystal, MN) to protest the School Board’s p...
The Conversation

Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’ - A historian analyzes how White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s claims about her boss and his administration are ‘doublespeak’ straight out of the ...
Dorf on Law

Tuition-Free Higher Education in the United States - An undergraduate student at a US university contacted me recently with some interesting questions about the possibilities and benefits of tuition-free hi...
Dissident Voice

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it r...
Mondoweiss

As Zohran Mamdani prepares to enter City Hall he faces pressure from an unlikely source — Palestine activists - [image: Zohran Mamdani speaking to supporters after declaring victory in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary on June 24, 2025. (Photo: https://x.com...
NPR's Health Shots

Why I volunteered to be infected with dengue fever - The U.S. has registered over half a million clinical trials since 2000. Here's a look at the business and ethics of human medical experimentation through t...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Workers World

Young workers reject capitalism’s dead-end future - [image: Young workers reject capitalism’s dead-end future] No Tech for Apartheid protest, Dec. 1. New York City According to a recent Harvard Kennedy Schoo...
The Daily Poster

Bank’s Favorite Regulator Goes Venture Capital - A former Biden-era financial regulator accused of going easy on banking supervision has a new job as a venture capitalist.
Ecosophia

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance - As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I p...
Capital & Main

Credit History Remains an Obstacle for Section 8 Tenants, Despite Anti-Discrimination Law - California prohibits the use of credit history to reject applicants with housing assistance without considering pay stubs and other alternatives. Big lan...
The Root

Comparing 2020, a Trash Year Black Folks, to an Even *Worse* 2025 - In 2020, it seemed like Black folks couldn't catch a break. Now, here we are in 2025 and arguably the Black community is facing heavier problems. Read m...
Rewire

I’m Not a Fan of the Holidays—But This Year It’s Different - Imani Gandy used to spend December fighting on the internet. “Arguing was easier than admitting that this time of year made me feel untethered while ever...
Angry Bear

Real retail sales contract; depending on inflation report may signal further job losses - – by New Deal democrat [Note: An update to my OS the other day has nuked my ability to post graphs. For now, I will post links to FRED graphs that you ca...
Alternet

Democrat in deep-red Kentucky beats Republican challenger - The 2025 elections continued this month with a state Senate seat left vacant in Kentucky and it turned out to be another "blue wave." Newsweek reported ...
Texas Observer

Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet - Texas Republicans have been wary of unmanned aerial vehicles, with some even backing proposed laws to allow the citizenry to gun down invasive airborne d...
The Texas Signal

Jolt Initiative Forges Ahead - “We want to ensure that we uphold democracy, we also want to ensure that people are able to register to vote without fear or retaliation and intimidation.”
Grist

How the devil is in the details of greener new jobs - Building a skilled workforce for a sustainable future has been much discussed in climate proposals. Now researchers are figuring out what green jobs actual...
Glasstire

Review: Bonny Leibowitz’s “Adventures in Plunderland” at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center & Trinity River Audubon Center, Dallas - “‘The question is,‘ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master—that’s all.’” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Plunder, pillage, loot, ransack,...
SCOTUSblog

Party presentation: A mysterious new rule? - ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. The first “opinion of the court” fo...
Bonddad

Real retail sales contract; depending on inflation report may signal further job losses - - by New Deal democrat *[Note: An update to my OS the other day has nuked my ability to post graphs. For now, I will post links to FRED graphs that ...
First Draft

It’s Mean Girls All The Way Down - Susie Wiles is just Regina George.
Democracy Now!

How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates His "Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons" - As the Trump administration is expected to release investigative files related to Jeffrey Epstein later this week, a recent *New York Times* investigation ...
The Grayzone

Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado - By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened ...
Space City Weather

Scattered, mostly light showers today in Houston. We are now confident in our Christmas Day forecast. - In brief: In today’s post we discuss the scattered showers moving through parts of Houston today, and a warm-up in temperatures before a short-lived front ...
Rallblog

Blockade! | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
The Smirking Chimp

‘The Dam Is Breaking’: MTG Says Trump’s ‘Iron Grip’ on the GOP Is Weakening -
Skeptophilia

Scattered to the winds - One of the more puzzling aspects of evolutionary theory is the phenomenon of *peripheral isolates*. This term refers to widely-separated populations of see...
Off The Kuff

Some resistance to the push for closed primaries - Of interest: Last week, during a tour driving across parts of rural West Texas, I had a phone call with Nick Troiano, the executive director of Unite Ameri...
ProPublica

Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases. - The post Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases. appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Going bananas in Portland, any portabella in a storm, and squirrels gone wild in California - Mishaps and mayhem from around the region. The post Going bananas in Portland, any portabella in a storm, and squirrels gone wild in California appeared...
Counterpunch

Trump Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker, Threatens Colombia “Could Be Next” Target For Regime Change - The attack against Venezuela's principal revenue source has nothing to do with drug trafficking–military operations abroad are the least effective method...
Black Agenda Report

Struggling for Sovereignty: Sudan After Two Years of Civil War - Struggling for Sovereignty: Sudan After Two Years of Civil War bareditors Wed, 12/17/2025 - 10:22 Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor Ahmed Kaballo
Liberation News

PSL Statement: It’s an act of war! We reject Trump’s naval blockade on Venezuela - This is a siege designed to cause economic collapse and a humanitarian crisis as a precursor to all-out war by the United States.
Ian Welsh

Revisiting The Ivy League “Super Conformer” Thesis - Back in 2021 I wrote What the Ivies have tended towards for generations now are “super conformers” — straight As and spent all their time in adult run extr...
Independent Political Report

Green National Committee Approves Plan to Modernize National Digital Infrastructure - The Green National Committee has approved a proposal to overhaul the Green Party’s digital infrastructure, adopting Basecamp as a project management plat...
Discourse

CBS Is Having a Bari Bad Time - Weiss guys finish last
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Common Dreams

Statement on Mattel delaying release of its first toy with OpenAI - *Fairplay, the leading nonprofit committed to helping children thrive in a screen-obsessed culture, released the following statement today in response to...
NORML

Cannabis Rescheduling: Separating Fact From Fiction - [image: hand holding a cannabis leaf with smoke wafting in the background][image: hand holding a cannabis leaf with smoke wafting in the background]The f...
Dissent Magazine

The Child-Care Challenge - To expand child care, New York needs more space, more caregivers, and more government workers. It can only happen if the city works closely with existing...
Krebs on Security

Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content - Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast ...
Democracy Chronicles

The Enduring Echoes: Totem Politics in Zimbabwe and Across Africa - Growing up in Zimbabwe, I have seen firsthand the significance of totems in shaping our identity, politics, and social dynamics. In this article, I will ex...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 16 December 2025 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the video on European self-defense, click here....
Earth 911

How to Recycle Makeup - Makeup is making the planet ugly. The beauty industry generates approximately 120 billion packaging items... The post How to Recycle Makeup appeared firs...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

In memory of Rob and Anthony - the gay episode of 'All in the Family' which infuriated President Nixon - Anthony Geary (right), Rob Reiner (center), and Carroll O'Connor (left) We lost two good ones last weekend. Director and actor Rob Reiner and longtime so...
The AltWorld

Putin Just BROKE Zelensky & EU, Trump’s Peace Deal IMPLODES - Alastair Crooke drops truth bombs on the latest theatrics between Trump & his counterparts in the EU […] The post Putin Just BROKE Zelensky & EU, Trump’s...
The Progressive Wing

12/15-12/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Warming trend happening, but floods to follow in parts of the Northwest. It will be a temporary reprieve, but welcomed. Meantime, news below the jump and y...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
MintPress News

Bloody Diamonds: How Your Engagement Ring Helps Fund a Genocide in Gaza - Israel has no diamond mines, yet it dominates the global trade. This investigation exposes how diamonds sold in the West bankroll Israel’s war on Gaza, f...
Project Censored

A Viscous Morass: SLAPP Suits, Secrecy, and Complicit Courts - This week, a special roundtable discussion with your Project Censored cohosts and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Director of Advocacy Seth Stern an...
Trivial Knot

Heated Rivalry - Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It’s some sort of popular sensation, supposedly the #3 most popular T...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Digging Deeper into Virginia, New Jersey Returns: Missing Nonwhite Trump Voters? Changing Coalitions in New Jersey, and More - Turnout and swing patterns in VA suggested some "missing" pro-Trump minority voters this year; "Central Jersey" gets bluer; how Govs.-elect Spanberger (D...
Sludge

Koch Network Fuels Republican Push to Kill ACA Subsidies - As millions face higher premiums, Koch‑funded groups are pressuring Republicans to oppose Obamacare subsidy extensions.
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Southville houses - [image: Southviille houses]
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...
Environment Texas

Tips for wasting less this holiday season - Waste less and celebrate more during the holidays. The post Tips for wasting less this holiday season appeared first on Environment Texas.
DeSmogBlog

Report: Proposed EPA Cuts Further Imperil Environmental Protections in Cash-Strapped States - Massive cuts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have hampered state-level regulators’ ability to rein in pollution, according to a new rep...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: KICKING THE PRICK EDITION. - *Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool.* It’s not like I’m gonna get very optimistic about the State of the Nation but there have been some go...
The Militant

Protests oppose gov’t threats against Somalis in Minnesota - MINNEAPOLIS — Some 200 people protested in front of Signature Aviation at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport Dec. 3. The federal government is ...
Bracing Views

I’m a Mutt-American - Enough of the “Heritage America” BS BILL ASTORE DEC 11, 2025 I’m a Mutt-American. I’m half Italian, 3/8th English, and 1/8th Swedish. But I’ve never though...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 13 - *How can devout Christians take this ancient superstition * *seriously?* If Mark 13 were printed alone as a pamphlet—with the names changed—and handed ...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Idavox

We Are All Somalia - Donald Trump’s anti-Somali rants are not directed solely at members of that group. All Black/African... The post We Are All Somalia appeared first on Ida...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
The Rag Blog

DANIEL ACOSTA, JR. / HIGHER EDUCATION / Ideological Warfare at the University of Texas - Daniel Acosta, Jr. Make UT Great Again (MUGA) By Daniel Acosta, Jr. / The Rag Blog / December 10, 2025 The University of Texas is facing an existential cri...
Alas, a Blog

Bankruptcy Lane - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: This comic was inspired by current events. Some background: 82nd Ave is a 4-lane road that cuts thro...
Greg Palast

The Real Election Story No One Wants ToldPalast in conversation with Anthony Johnson of ABC News - 25 years of investigations. Millions of voters erased. A system built to decide elections before you ever touch a ballot. *Vigilantes Inc.* exposes the rea...
Edinburg Politics

For the sake of their safety, top leadership of higher education in Texas now shielded from having their personal information made public, reports Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa - Personal information of top leaders of public and private higher education systems, universities and colleges – such as the University of Texas Rio Grande...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report November 2025 - There were at least eleven more shootings at Walmart in November 2025, with five of them having one death each related to the shootings, and one of thos...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Field Negro

The Secretary of War Crimes. - Alvin Holsey is four star Admiral *(Shout out to Morehouse College)*who refused the Secretary of War Crimes orders to kill civilians in an *alleged* ...
Lowering the Bar

Assorted Stupidity #171 - [image: LTB logo]In this edition: are those orange-fronted parakeets in your pants or are you just happy to be crossing the border, and other items of note.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

All I Want For Christmas - …history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not as the powerful na...
Seeing the Forest

AI Is Just Not Ready And The Bubble Will Pop - The following experience reflects many experiences I have had using AI. I keep trying again because I’m a long-time techie so I am ever-hopeful that “tech ...
Progressives Chat

The Last Topic for 2025 - Now that December has arrived, I will be making this the “The Last Topic for 2025”—and for good reason—and I will explain why. I have decided to not pub...
Avedon's Sideshow

Throw cares away - It's that time of year again! And nothing starts the season off like "The Carol of the Bells", so here's a nice flash-mob version from the streets of Pari...
Duck of Minerva

Can the news ever be impartial? - Probably not, but the problem isn’t impartiality it’s the politics of impartiality On November 9th, the director general of The BBC, Tim Davie, along with ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

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

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

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
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...
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 ...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
American Prospect

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

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

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Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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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Friday, December 31, 2010

Final Funnies of 2010

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