Brains and Eggs: Sunday Night 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

memeorandum

Courts Can Check, and Have Checked, Executives' Military Judgment (Ilya Somin/Reason) - Ilya Somin / Reason: *Courts Can Check, and Have Checked, Executives' Military Judgment* — Katherine Yon Ebright and Leah Tulin of the Brennan Center m...
Raw Story

Judge denies Trump admin's attempt to dismiss Abrego Garcia suit - A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday denied the Trump administration’s attempts to dismiss a lawsuit by wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who wa...
Techdirt.

Let’s All Talk About The ‘Reverse Boycott’ Oakland A’s Game That MLB Is Trying To Memory-Hole - I’ve been an MLB.TV evangelist for some time now. My deep love for the game of baseball has led me to subscribe to baseball’s streaming service, still prob...
The Hill

Six Secret Service agents suspended after Trump assassination attempt - The Secret Service suspended six agents in connection with their "actions" during last year's assassination attempt on President Trump at a campaign rally ...
Consortium News

Australia Obstructed Probe Into Deadly ‘Rainbow Warrior’ Bombing - Forty years later, David Robie, the only journalist on board the Greenpeace ship in the weeks leading up to its bombing on July 10, 1985, looks back on thi...
Daily Dot

“All the girls getting whiplash”: What is TikTok’s “I Woke Up In A Bugatti” trend trying to prove? - [image: i woke up in a new bugatti tiktok trend] Couples on TikTok and Instagram are demonstrating who’s faster and more powerful by yanking each other o...
Courthouse News

Demanding verdict reversal, convicted sex cult leaders say feds violated First Amendment - The two women claim the government's entire case was a "moral condemnation" of their spiritual beliefs and practices.
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
World Socialist Web Site

Top Democratic Party officials escalate baseless charges of “antisemitism” against New York mayoral candidate Mamdani - Mamdani’s own response to the campaign of denunciations and threats has been to shift to the right, stressing his willingness to work with “business leaders.”
Crooked Media

ICE Gets Billions To Intimidate Americans - The post ICE Gets Billions To Intimidate Americans appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mediaite

Trump Names Musk Foe Interim Head of NASA After Ditching Billionaire’s Ally for Role - President Donald Trump appointed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy the interim administrator of NASA in yet another blow to former ally Elon Musk. T...
Portside

The Writer As Editor in “Toni at Random” - The Writer As Editor in “Toni at Random” Geoffrey Wed, 07/09/2025 - 21:48
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: president demands Bolsonaro trial be stopped as he hits Brazil with 50% tariff - Trump calls for end to prosecution and also targets other countries with steep levies while Washington sanctions UN official over Gaza – key US politics ...
Eschaton

Wednesday Night - Rock on.
Popular Resistance

Historic Genocide Case Heard In Barbados Supreme Court - Bridgetown, Barbados-In a landmark moment for regional justice and international law, the Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration (CMPI) has filed a...
Al Jazeera English

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,232 - Here are the key events on day 1,232 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Brad Blog

A 'Mass Shooter Subsidy'?: More Dumb, Deadly Stuff in the Trump/Republican Spending Law: 'BradCast' 7/9/2025 - The Madness of King Donald's massive, recently signed tax cut and spending law continues to be a focus on today's BradCast. As does his madness and non-sto...
Political Wire

‘Maybe They Have to Pay a Price’ - President Trump responded to reports that former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey are being investigated over allegations that...
Mediagazer

A look at celebrity impersonation scams and the steps taken by Hollywood to combat them, including a likeness management tool CAA is developing with YouTube (Rebecca Keegan/The Hollywood Reporter) - Rebecca Keegan / The Hollywood Reporter: *A look at celebrity impersonation scams and the steps taken by Hollywood to combat them, including a likeness m...
Alternet

Washington Post columnist calls Bezos a 'Donald Trump supplicant' in final parting shot - Longtime Washington Post columnist Joe Davidson recently resigned after the paper — which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — killed his latest colum...
Houston Public Media

Congressional redistricting, including in Houston, on Texas governor’s agenda for special legislative session - Hemp regulation, property taxes and natural disaster preparation and response -- in the wake of deadly flooding in Central Texas -- also are among the gove...
Axios

Senate Republicans brace for intra-party fight over foreign aid cuts - Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) is setting up a vote next week to claw back billions of dollars in federal spending — but some Senate Republic...
El Paso Matters

ICE blocks Rep. Veronica Escobar from visiting detention center amid oversight rights dispute - Federal law requires that ICE allow oversight visits by members of Congress to detention facilities upon request. The post ICE blocks Rep. Veronica Esco...
CultureMap Houston

Here are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - People will be getting hella proud of the city this weekend. All over H-Town, folks will be celebrating 713 Day with everything from food and drink special...
The Verge

The Powerbeats Pro 2 are down to their best price yet for Prime Day - The Powerbeats Pro 2 are only a few months old, but they’re already on sale for an all-time low of around $179.95 ($70 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Bu...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Transphobia takes a back seat as MAGA rages at AG Bondi over Epstein files debacle - California officials are failing to protect girls on the playing field and in the locker room. The Department of Justice has filed suit. pic.twitter.com/...
High Country News

Mass layoffs can move forward, with devastating impacts for conservation and science - ‘Shortsighted’ cuts could eliminate bird banding program, federal bee research and much more. The post Mass layoffs can move forward, with devastating i...
Texas Standard

H-E-B, James Avery embrace their Kerrville roots with support for flood victims - Two Texas companies loved by Texans return the love to flood victims.
Rio Grande Guardian

STHS Children’s will cover getting your kids back to school ready for the 2025-26 school year - [image: |||] STHS Children's helps parents get their kids ready for back to school.. The post STHS Children’s will cover getting your kids back to school r...
Futurism

OpenAI Is Pouring Money Into the Second Largest Teachers' Union - Big continues its ensnaring of a desperate education industry. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic — three leading AI chatbot makers — have poured $23 milli...
Claytoonz

For Steve - 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...
Workers World

Hamas condemns Israel’s crimes - [image: Hamas condemns Israel’s crimes] The following statement from the Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas was issued on July 7, 2025, by Resistance News...
NPR's Health Shots

Why a decline in scavenger populations could impact human health - A recent study shows that top scavengers, like hyenas, can be beneficial for human health. But the same study reveals that scavenger populations are declin...
The Greanville Post

DON HANK DISPATCH: The collapsing myth of Israel as a sanctuary state - DON HANK—Historical experience indicates that the stability of states is not measured solely by their military deterrence capacity, but also by the extent ...
San Antonio Report

Alamo Heights residents tie green ribbons to honor those missing in South Texas floods - Alamo Heights in San Antonio is a tight-knit community, the kind of place where kids who start kindergarten together also graduate together. ---------------...
SCOTUSblog

How the 2024 term fits into the history of the Roberts court - Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions and oral arguments, to provide...
Mondoweiss

ICE official: We used Canary Mission to find students to target for deportation - [image: Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk being detained by ICE agents.]A senior ICE official says the Trump administration used the shadowy, anti-Palestine ...
Second Nexus

Elon Musk's Ex Grimes Calls X Platform A 'Poison' And 'Theatre' After Social Media Hiatus - Claire Boucher—who performs and creates under her stage name Grimes, but prefers her birth name or just "C" offstage—recently returned to her musical per...
Progressive.org

The Movement to Excommunicate Misogyny From the Catholic Church - A global movement of women becoming priests shows no signs of stopping, despite the steep consequences.
Wolf Street

The (Declining) Status of the US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: Central Banks Diversify into other Currencies & Gold - There was an extra-special spectacle in Q1 among the Swiss franc, Australian dollar, British pound, and Japanese yen.
Slate

The New *Superman* Is a Corrective to the Modern Superhero Movie - The delightful new Superman movie is the best since Christopher Reeve.
Glasstire

Open for Discussion: How Austin City Council Keeps it Weird at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport - Most of the time it seems pointless to decry the continued uncontrolled urbanization of the violet crown. You can’t stop progress, the old saying goes, e...
Discourse

Elon Musk's Pet AI Is Off the Rails - And it's claimed a CEO's head already.
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2025 - Introducing Project Censored’s Summer 2025 Student Interns Project Censored is pleased to announce our stellar cohort of summer 2025 interns, Jayden Henr...
Election Law Blog

More on Ranked-Choice Voting - Two articles on ranked-choice voting and the New York City primary here and here. The post More on Ranked-Choice Voting appeared first on Election Law Bl...
San Antonio Current

Kerrville mayor says he wasn’t aware of state resources that Gov. Abbott said were in place ahead of flooding - Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Kerrville’s mayor said he was...
Deadline Politics

T-Mobile To End DEI Programs As It Seeks FCC Regulatory Approval Of Transactions - T-Mobile is the latest company to end its diversity, equity and inclusion programs as it tries to gain FCC approval for certain transactions. In a letter t...
Sludge

Billionaire Pharma Investors Fund Privatized 'Strike Team' at the FDA - Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale, a close ally of Elon Musk who announced the project, and his Koch network funding partner each have extensive investments ...
Ballot Access News

Russ Verney, Campaign Manager for Ross Perot in 1996, Discusses Elon Musk and the America Party - Politico has this interview with Russ Verney, who was Ross Perot’s campaign manager in 1996 and who was the national chair of the Reform Party. … Continue ...
Reform Austin

Flood Deaths Renew Emergency Reform Debate - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As the death toll from the devastating Hill Country floods continues to rise, State Rep. Wes Vi...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: The president keeps pouring it on! - *WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2025* *Delusional, dangerous conduct:* Yesterday, we returned late in the day from our all-day medical outing. We hadn't had the chan...
The Week

Cytomegalovirus can cause permanent birth defects - The virus can show no symptoms in adults
American Prospect

The Supreme Court as Enabler of Dictatorship - Today on TAP: The Court uses a backdoor procedure to allow Trump to get rid of civil service employees at will.
Common Dreams

Our Revolution and Progressive Allies Deliver Over 30,000 Petitions to Sen. Gillibrand Urging Democrats to Stand by Zohran Mamdani - Today, *Our Revolution*, along with grassroots organizers from the Long Island Progressive Action Group, led a petition delivery action in front of Senat...
Rewire

Anti-Choice Groups Seek Stricter Rules on Abortion Medication Mifepristone - A July 8 letter asks HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to allow its use only up to seven weeks of pregnancy and in-person, among other changes. The ma...
Vox

What Trump and Netanyahu want from each other - President Donald Trump sounded confident on Sunday when he told a reporter that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas could be reached by the end of th...
Rallblog

DeProgram: “RussiaGate Revisited, Epstein, ICE at War, AI Little Marco” - LIVE 6:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Never a dull moment on the “DeProgram” show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John K...
Mother Jones

Labor Department Reposts Grants for Women Workers DOGE Previously Canceled - On Wednesday morning, the Labor Department quietly reposted grants aimed at getting women workers into fields like construction and manufacturing, two mont...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: P. Diddy, RICO, Politicized Prosecutions - The Sean Combs trial provides a lens through which to look at RICO and prosecutorial overreach in an era of collapsing rule of law.
The AltWorld

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - Amid global military overstretch and weapons shortages, the U.S. is employing strategies like “division of labor” and […] The post US Still Dangerous Des...
Undernews

Workers - *ABC News- * Trash continues to pile up on the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as negotiations between the city and its largest blue-collar worke...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living With Fascistic Paradox: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We're existing in an oppressive and dysregulating environment. We have to change while maintaining ourselves to survive and thrive.
Grist

Drought is draining water supplies and driving up food costs where you’d least expect - From Mexico City to the Mekong Delta, increasingly severe droughts caused by climate change are laying waste to ecosystems and economies everywhere.
WhoWhatWhy

Global Financial Industry Retreat From Coal Hasn’t Cut Its Funding: Analysis - [image: climate crisis, global warming, fossil fuels, coal funding] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our read...
The Root

Check Out These Lavish Celeb Homes, All for Rent Right Now! - A handful of highly-coveted celebrity homes are available for rent, but only if you've got the spare change to spend! Read more...
The Daily Poster

A Cursed New Crypto Bank Could Tank The Economy - The nationally chartered Erebor Bank could add legitimacy and value to crypto assets, but risks destabilizing the financial system.
Angry Bear

Gates Drops a Few Positions in the Rich People Tally - I read this stuff (yes stuff) and I wonder how you equate this to the average person going to work every day. I can’t. The average salary is far less for...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- uncomfortable realities - This video, and what I have to say about it, will make some regular readers unhappy. (At 33 minutes it's also longer than I would have preferred, but sti...
Dissident Voice

The Rise of the Prison State: Trump’s Push for Megaprisons Could Lock Us All Up - America is rapidly becoming a nation of prisons. Having figured out how to parlay presidential authority in foreign affairs in order to sidestep the Cons...
Socialist Alternative

Over 9,000 City Workers On Strike—Solidarity With AFSCME DC 33! - Sarah Giskin is a Former AFSCME DC 47 & Unity Caucus Member. The following article was written while the strike was on-going. As of Wednesday July 9th, DC ...
OpEd News

13th Annual Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival "Now More Than Ever!" - WASHINGTON - From July 25 to August 3, 2025, the 13th annual Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival will be held at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. ACORN ...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Stories of Michael Robartes and his Friends - Perhaps the most important thing that sets A Vision apart from other works of occult philosophy in its time is that its author was one of the greatest writ...
Capital & Main

Trump’s FEMA Proposals and Feud With Gavin Newsom Could Devastate California’s Disaster Response - Changes to FEMA could cost the state billions as climate-driven disasters intensify. The post Trump’s FEMA Proposals and Feud With Gavin Newsom Could Dev...
Bonddad

Why goods-producing employment is not flashing a danger signal for an economic downturn - - *by New Deal democrat* During this week’s drought of new economic data, let’s continue taking a look at some important information from last Frida...
Texas Observer

‘Disasters Are a Human Choice’: Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas - Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engagin...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Shock poll shows Trump's approval rating savaged by key group—Gen Z - *Friends,* *Trump’s rapidly declining approval among Gen Z—a generation born roughly between 1997 and 2012—is a glaring warning sign for his campaign. De...
NORML

John Hopkins University Study: Cannabis Initiation Associated With Significant Reductions in Anxiety, Depression - [image: man smoking a legal cannabis joint][image: man smoking a legal cannabis joint]"Initiation of THC-dominant medicinal cannabis was associated with ...
Daily Cartoonist

Steve Benson – RIP - Editorial cartoonist Steve Benson has passed away. Stephen Reed (Steve) Benson January 2, 1954 – July 8, 2025 The Arizona Mirror is reporting the death of ...
First Draft

And Now Grok’s Gone Full Nazi - Because OF COURSE it did.
Democracy Now!

Philadelphia Strike Ends: Race & Inequality at Center of Municipal Workers' Fight for a Fair Wage - The largest municipal workers’ strike in decades in the city of Philadelphia has ended after 9,000 members of AFSCME District Council 33, who are primarily...
The Conversation

My city was one of hundreds expecting federal funds to help manage rising heat wave risk – then EPA terminated the grants - The administration said the grants were ‘no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities.’ Spokane, which has faced deadly heat waves in eastern Washingto...
Space City Weather

Expect more showers and thunderstorms across the region today as an active pattern continues - In brief: Houston will likely face additional showers and thunderstorms on Wednesday, with hit-or-miss coverage similar to what the region experienced on T...
ArcaMax

A Heartland Scene: Democracy Writ Small - The village egg toss on the Fourth of July sings of democracy to me. An exuberant gaggle of 100-plus people lined up for the competition. A little bit of e...
The Smirking Chimp

‘No Half Measures’: Musk’s AI Chatbot Praises Hitler and Calls for New Concentration Camps -
Dorf on Law

Human Rights for Nonhumans, Activism for Introverts, and Other Seeming Oxymorons - As I explained here on the blog yesterday, from today through Sunday, I'm attending Vegan Summerfest. In yesterday's essay, I provided the descriptions o...
Skeptophilia

Tracking the hailstones - One of the most shocking results from mathematics -- or even scholarship as a whole -- is Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. Like (I suspect) many of u...
Off The Kuff

The flood warning history of Kerr County - They’ve tried for awhile to get some funding for a flood warning system. They’ve failed every time. Nearly a decade before catastrophic flash flooding kill...
ProPublica

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come - by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re pub...
Media Lens

Israeli Massacres Of Starving Palestinians Seeking Food Aid – Comparing The BBC And Haaretz - On 27 June, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article that demolished many of the conceits held by ‘mainstream’ journalists about Israel’s assault...
Scheerpost.com

Riyadh Realigns: Tehran Over Tel Aviv - Persian Gulf monarchies are quietly reorienting away from Tel Aviv and Washington toward Tehran and a more promising multipolar-led security order.
Crooked Timber

The mug - I’ve owned this mug for twenty-five years now. Bought in the gift shop of the Metropolitan Opera in New York on my first ever trip to America, which I doub...
Counterpunch

Can Israel Survive without the West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power - The Israeli genocide in Gaza, along with the escalating regional wars it has ignited, has brought two chilling truths into our focus: first, Israel is de...
jobsanger

Trump Is Quick With Disaster Aid To Red States - But Not To Blue States -
Informed Comment

Regime Change: From Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump - Sacramento (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – The Fourth of July we just observed, nearly 250 years after America’s Declaration of Independence, felt...
Salon.com

Gunn responds to MAGA backlash over immigrant Superman - The director had no time for conservatives who took issue with the idea that Superman is an immigrant
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2025 Edition - Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 137 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software. None of the weakness...
See You In 2020

The “Trump is antiwar” psyop let the Gaza genocide accelerate. We can’t let it kill the pro-Palestine movement too. - The errors that have been made by many alternative or "dissident" commentators in regard to Trump are now bringing about dire repercussions. Because th...
Antiwar.com

Illness and Endless Wars - Reprinted from TomDispatch. Hey, you remember that guy, right? You know, the candidate who, in his third campaign for president in 2024 insisted that he wa...
DeSmogBlog

UK Advertising Regulator Dismisses a “Disinformation” Complaint Against Saudi Oil Giant - The UK advertising watchdog today dismissed a complaint against a series of ads for Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, 16 months after climate campaign...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Admin Claims the Epstein Files Don’t Exist, Why? - [image: Trump’s Admin Claims the Epstein Files Don’t Exist, Why?] How stupid do they think everyone is? I’ll state the obvious, then make on observation. ...
Environment Texas

How plastic in the ocean hurts animals - Plastic pollution is injuring, sickening and killing wildlife — from seabirds and turtles to seals and whales The post How plastic in the ocean hurts ani...
Church and State

Historians offer opinions on Trump and his support from his MAGA base - Our adversaries are admiringly delighted as they see us diminished by our own decisions.
The NM Political Report

High-speed internet expands in rural New Mexico - Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Tuesday the completion of broadband projects that have brought high-speed internet access to more than 500 rura...
slacktivist

Someone left my cake out in the raid - It's weird to blog about wtiches and ghost stories and batnados during the rise of a police state, but keeping room for wonder and whimsy and weird interes...
Black Agenda Report

Donald Trump's Big, Beautiful Con-Job w/ Margaret Kimberley - Donald Trump's Big, Beautiful Con-Job w/ Margaret Kimberley bareditors Wed, 07/09/2025 - 00:00 Dimitri Lascaris Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor an...
LareDOS

The fire of Spain comes to Laredo via LC’s FlamencoFest July 29 – Aug. 2 - Performers to conduct workshops for dance, guitar, and Cante
Independent Political Report

Green Party Reschedules “Dump the Duopoly” Rally for July 10 - The Green Party of the United States has rescheduled its Dump the Duopoly, Power Up for Peace virtual rally for the evening of Thursday, July 10.…
Liberation News

Supreme Court sides with Tennessee attack on trans youth health care - What does this ruling mean for transgender health care services, and what does it mean for the movement against Trump’s far right agenda?
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Fred Farías, III, longtime statewide leader in Texas higher education, appointed to two key positions at UTRGV’s School of Optometry - Dr. Fred Farías III, a lifelong advocate for higher education and a nationally respected leader in optometry and public service, has joined The University ...
Bracing Views

Catastrophic Flooding in Texas - Just Don’t Mention Global Warming or Climate Change BILL ASTORE JUL 07, 2025 More than 100 people are already dead from catastrophic flooding in Texas. The...
Greg Palast

Kherson: Human Safari“While the world is asleep, we are dying here.” - Kherson: Human Safari is both a frontline documentary and a work of resistance art — a powerful and poetic film created inside the war-torn city of Kherson...
MintPress News

Big Beautiful Cover Up: Epstein, ICE and the MAGA War State - Epstein’s gone, the files are sealed, and Trump’s DOJ says the case is over. Meanwhile, ICE becomes the third-largest military force on Earth. Greg Stoke...
The Progressive Wing

July 7/7-11 News Roundup and Open Thread - More from Bernie
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: A Complicated Man - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Tanenhaus about his long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
Earth 911

Earth911 Podcast: Kelly Ramsey on Life as a Hotshot Firefighter and the Burning Reality of America’s Wildfire Crisis - What does it take to stand on the front lines of one of the most... The post Earth911 Podcast: Kelly Ramsey on Life as a Hotshot Firefighter and the Burn...
The Texas Signal

The Flooding In Texas - As the search continues for missing Texans, many are asking why such a tragedy occurred in the first place, with different leaders casting blame elsewhere.
The Grayzone

New footage exposes ragtag US mercenaries firing toward Gaza aid seekers - Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2025 - Walmart had another eleven shootings last month, with at least two fatal ones, including one officer involved shooting, and only a handful of injuries. ...
Campaign for America's Future

Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Bud Kennedy

What can Texas do about floods? Plenty. Lessons ignored from 1987 bus disaster | Opinion - The Guadalupe River is full of memories, and danger. In 1932, it rose 35 feet, washing away dozens of cabins from Camp Mystic and other youth camps in west...
The Militant

Canadian rulers seek to impose harsh immigration restrictions - MONTREAL — Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced Bill C-2, the “Strong Borders Act,” to Canada’s Parliament June 3, a sweeping attack on the rights...
Trivial Knot

I released my game - I released my game, Moon Garden Optimizer. It’s a puzzle strategy game about growing a tiny garden on the moon while optimizing water usage. It’s inspire...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: SO FAT DON CAN READ IT WITHOUT HIS GLASSES EDITION. - *If you hate us, you just don't know what you're sayin'.* A lot of people are gloomy this Independence Day, so right out of the gate here's today's *Roy ...
Stinque

Weeping Angel - “The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest”, mural by Dutch artist Judith de Leeuw, unveiled in Roubaix, France, July 3, 2025. The post Weeping Angel appear...
Debunking Christianity

Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? - *There is so much wrong with their version of reality* Of course, there’s something seductive, irresistible, about believing you’re on splendid terms w...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / TRUMP / The war with Iran should not distract us from important domestic issues - E. Jean Carroll, 2006. Photo by julieannesmo. Creative Commons image. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 3, 2025 The following is an expanded versi...
Lowering the Bar

Justice Harlan on Dirty Movies: “By Jove! Extraordinary!” - Great Odin's Raven!
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

2004 to 2024, Part One: When Each State Was at its Most Democratic - Over the past few decades, some states have gotten more Democratic compared to the nation as a whole, while others have gotten more Republican. This arti...
TalkLeft

Sean "Diddy" Combs: Beats Biggest Charges But Bail Denied - Yesterday, with less than two full days of deliberations under their belt, jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs trial sent a note to the judge saying they had ...
ROAR Magazine

Veilige betaalmethoden bij Carousel Casino: een uitgebreide gids voor stortingen en opnames - Veilige betaalmethoden bij Carousel Casino: een uitgebreide gids voor stortingen en opnames Table of Contents Inleiding tot veilige betaalmethoden Populair...
Nina Illingworth

Knives Out: The Roberts Court Coronates Trump - At the end of June, the Supreme Court locked the US Constitution behind a paywall and signaled its intentions to let Trump rule as a fascist dictator. The...
Unlimited Hangout

The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations - After 3 years of sleuthing, John Klyczek has completed the final installment in his investigative series on the legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard. In this a...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Dear Substack Subscribers - There are 33,334 of you. Probably even more by the time you read this. I do not ask much of you. I do not ask often. But I need to ask something of you now...
Progressives Chat

'Jaws’ and ‘Nashville’ Turns 50 - Summer has long been embraced as a time away from school, from work, and from the usual routine. I will do some of this as I give *Progressives Chat* ...
Democracy Chronicles

Social Security and Medicare Reforms For Trump - Disabled people have the harshest financial situation in society. And the percentage of people disabled increases as you start adding intersectionality.
Earthworks

Nickel Waste Floods Homes in Indonesia, Sparking Protests - From June 10 to 13, 2025, heavy rainfall hit Obi Island in Indonesia. As a result, muddy floods submerged three … The post Nickel Waste Floods Homes in ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Karmageddon - I’ll be absolutely 100% honest with y’all — I couldn’t pretend I didn’t enjoy this. At last, some more folks got up the cajones to put their foot down, ris...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just see what you've done - "Amaryllis" by Olga Sarukhanova is from the Georgia O'Keeffe-inspired What Flowers Say collection. I want to quote a bit of this review by Sam Rosenfeld o...
Idavox

This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Festivals; Idaho Event Gets Trolled While Organizer Gets Attacked by Supporter By Mistake - Three years after members of the neo-fascist group Patriot Front were arrested in Coeur d’Alene,... The post This Performer Kills Fascist Anti-LGBTQ+ Fes...
Field Negro

Another lie! - Donald Trump ran for president on being an isolationist, America first, candidate. He promised his cult members and all those who were gullible enough ...
Reading the Pictures

What If They Gave A War And Nobody Came? - How LA residents refused Trump's invitation to violence—and why the most essential protest images tell a different story. The post What If They Gave A Wa...
Alas, a Blog

(comic) He’s Back – Get ‘Im! - Check out the video of me drawing this cartoon! Two-thirds through drawing this cartoon I had the thought “surely some other cartoonist has already done IC...
nonsite.org

The Earth’s Intentions: Richard Powers’s The Overstory and the Limits of Anti-Anthropocentrism - Critics have celebrated Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, *The Overstory* (2018), for the way that it distills key ecocritical ideas that gain...
Duck of Minerva

After Anarchy? On Hierarchy, Heterarchy, and Multiplicity - Kenneth Waltz famously claimed that anarchy—i.e., the absence of a global sovereign—is the ordering principle of world politics, and much International Rel...
Texas Monthly

How a Picky Rescue Dog Inspired This Woman-Led Taqueria - Alejandra Cavazos took a cue from her pup’s attitude to bring a menu of strong and bold flavors to her taco trailer, La Prieta Mamona, in McAllen.
Seeing the Forest

RIP Brian Wilson - I saw the Beach Boys play at the Mayday demonstrations in DC, 1971. For all I know I’m in this video, somewhere in the crowd.
Eater Houston

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

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

Continuity of Agenda: Trump Administration White-Washes Bush-Obama-Biden-backed Al-Qaeda in Syria - *May 29, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - US President Donald Trump announced during his May 2025 trip to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that the US would be lifting...
ExChristian.Net

All Other Gods Are Ridiculous... Except Bible GOD! - *By Webmdave ~ * Iwas once a special kind of True Christian™ believer — bold, confident — who thought ancient religions were laughable nonsense. Hindu go...
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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Game of Thrones Star: Celebs Silent on Gaza are ‘Cowards’ - Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how th...
The Disorder Of Things

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

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

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

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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

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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.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Dogs are the solution to the ‘900 new cops’ problem - In response to my noodling over the conundrum created by the passage of Proposition U, which requires the city to hire 900 new cops it can’t afford, a la...
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
Shadowproof

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

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

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
Innocence Project

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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...
Progressive Army

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
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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