Brains and Eggs: Pre-SOTU toons

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

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

Raw Story

FBI head Kash Patel hired deputy Dan Bongino despite him not passing background check - FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members, exempting them from passing po...
SCOTUSblog

Justices evaluate limits of the compassionate-release statute - In Fernandez v. United States and Rutherford v. United States, argued on Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered what constitutes permissible grounds for...
Political Wire

Exchange of the Day - Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) told McKay Coppins that ICE agents should refuse unlawful orders. KELLY: Don’t have bad interactions with people. Do the job in a r...
Al Jazeera English

Trump admin to end plan requiring airlines to pay passengers for delays - The DOT announced its plan in September after referring to the requirement as 'unnecessary regulatory burdens'.
Techdirt.

Border Patrol Commander Locks Down Another Injunction After Admitting To Lying About Being Attacked - Gregory Bovino’s star will continue to rise. Admitting you lied to a court no longer matters when the entire administration does it on a daily basis. All t...
memeorandum

Humiliated Dems Forced to Delete Latest False Claim About Epstein and Trump (Rusty Weiss/RedState) - Rusty Weiss / RedState: *Humiliated Dems Forced to Delete Latest False Claim About Epstein and Trump* — Democrats were left with a heaping helping of e...
The Week

Blue Origin launches Mars probes in NASA debut - The New Glenn rocket is carrying small twin spacecraft toward Mars as part of NASA’s Escapade mission
WhoWhatWhy

‘Nothing to See Here’ Says Old Epstein Pal Trump - [image: Best Friends Forever, Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Sunset] Donald Trump wants to get people to stop talking about Jeffrey Epstein. It's just a li...
Second Nexus

Something Finally Clicked In Joe Rogan's Head About Trump's Election Claims—And His Realization Is Going Viral - Conspiracy theory-loving podcaster Joe Rogan had people raising their eyebrows after something finally clicked in his head about President Donald Trump's...
Mediaite

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Roasts Fox News Host Over Trump-Epstein-Free Interviews - Lawrence O’Donnell roasted Sean Hannity over interviews with senior Trump officials in which he didn't ask a single question about Trump and Jeffrey Epst...
Futurism

Chinese Astronauts Alarmed After Finding Cracks In Their Spacecraft’s Window - They had to act quickly. The post Chinese Astronauts Alarmed After Finding Cracks In Their Spacecraft’s Window appeared first on Futurism.
Independent Political Report

Mike Collier Announces Independent Bid for Texas Lt. Governor in 2026 - Mike Collier, a former two-time Democratic nominee for Texas lieutenant governor, has announced that he will seek the position again in 2026, this time m...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas A&M’s New Policy Is a Blueprint for Institutionalized Censorship — And a Warning for the Nation - * Friends,* *This is all so surreal. The Texas A&M University System decided yesterday to restrict any course that “advocates race or gender ideology, or...
Mediagazer

US right-wing media first ignored the new Epstein emails, then was unified in focusing on a redacted name, showing how aligned it is with elected Republicans (Ken Bensinger/New York Times) - Ken Bensinger / New York Times: *US right-wing media first ignored the new Epstein emails, then was unified in focusing on a redacted name, showing how a...
Salon.com

ICE arrest at Chicago day care was “beyond traumatic” - Parents and toddlers watched in terror as ICE agents seized a beloved teacher during morning drop-off
The Hill

The shutdown that cost billions and bought nothing is finally over - After a 43-day government shutdown, Democrats were unable to achieve any of their goals and were met with criticism from their own party, while Republicans...
Daily Dot

The tripod fish is TikTok’s latest tragic-little-guy fixation because it’s entire existence sounds like a punishment - [image: Left: Man screaming under text reading "POV: The worst punishment of all time." Right: Rendering of the tripod fish under text reading "Alone."] ...
Courthouse News

UK faces questions on complicity in US boat strikes after pausing intel sharing - Two leading international law scholars say the U.K. could be legally responsible for helping the U.S. carry out lethal strikes on small boats in the Caribb...
The Verge

Apple’s last-gen AirPods Pro 2 are down to their lowest price to date - Walmart on Friday officially kicked off its early Black Friday deals, with the first wave of discounts lasting from November 14th to November 16th. One of ...
Eschaton

Cancel Culture - I can't believe these censorious lefties are trying to cancel their fine colleague, Larry Summers. Harvard professors responded with outrage to a tranche o...
ProPublica

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff - The post FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff appeared first on ProPublica.
Daily Howler

THE DISAPPEARED: What happens on the Gutfeld! program? - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025* *And why does it get disappeared?* A highly unusual thing takes place near the end of Amanda Hess's profile of the *Gutfeld**...
Mother Jones

New Docs Show DHS Gathering Drivers’ License Data in Voter Fraud Crusade - The Trump administration is quietly undertaking an effort to expand a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tool used for citizenship verification to inclu...
Popular Resistance

Chaos: The Trump Doctrine For Latin America - The US, under Trump, is unapologetically an empire operating without pretense. International law is for losers. A newly minted War Department, deploying ...
Election Law Blog

“Nevada Supreme Court sends ‘fake electors’ case back to Clark County” - AP: The yearslong case against six Nevada Republicans who were accused of submitting a bogus certificate that falsely declared President Donald Trump th...
OpEd News

Say how it is and bless each other (originally posted 2021) - Maybe this is a poem./ What do you think? /It could be.
Angry Bear

The student loan shock - – by New Deal democrat Earlier this week, I wrote about 4 current shocks to the US economy (tariffs, medical insurance increases, SNAP payments, and AI ...
Slate

Slate Crossword: Wheel of Fortune Category? (11 Letters) - Ready for some wordplay? Sharpen your skills with Slate’s puzzle for Nov. 14, 2025.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

First Thing: Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign - Text messages released by US House show convicted sex offender coaching Maga influencer on political messaging. Plus, readers’ favourite photo booth mome...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Scolds “Weak Republicans” For Backing Release Of Jeffrey Epstein Files - Donald Trump went after what he called “weak Republicans” for backing an effort to compel the Justice Department to release files on convicted sex offender...
CultureMap Houston

Rothko Chapel dedicates a peaceful new garden for quiet contemplation - Generations of Houstonians have experienced moments of quiet contemplation inside the *Rothko Chapel*. Now, they can do so just outside its walls as well.
naked capitalism

MAGA Is a NATO Racket – Trump’s 5% Military Budget Hike to Fight Russia Stokes Corruption In Estonia - Yapping dog Estonia is out to take the lead among NATO members not only in arms spending to GDP but also in open corruption.
Axios

Most oppose Trump's military strikes against alleged drug boats: poll - A majority of U.S. adults oppose the U.S. military killing suspected drug traffickers without judicial process, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll rel...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Houston Public Media

Houston Ballet’s Nutcracker Market is back. Here’s what you need to know - The market is expected to draw more than 100,000 shoppers and bring in millions of dollars in revenue. It runs through Sunday at the NRG Center.
Bonddad

The student loan shock - - *by New Deal democrat* Earlier this week, I wrote about 4 current shocks to the US economy (tariffs, medical insurance increases, SNAP payments, a...
Texas Standard

Cracking, packing and power: How Texas’ congressional redistricting could reshape Houston - The congressional redistricting Texas Republicans pushed forward this summer didn’t just reshape two of Houston’s most historically diverse districts: It a...
Undernews

Military takeover of US cities has already cost taxpayers nearly $500M - *Independent, UK - *President Donald Trump’s decision to send the U.S. military into American cities to bolster local law enforcement has already cost ta...
ArcaMax

Bill Press: Jeffrey Epstein comes back to haunt Donald Trump - He had an impressive career as U.S. senator, Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff and ambassador to Japan, but, above all, Tennessee’s Howard...
El Paso Matters

City of El Paso weighs new street repair fee; musician’s fundraiser reaches goal - El Paso news roundup: The City Council will consider a street repair fee proposal, borderland musician Russ Kalman meets his fundraising goal after canc...
Glasstire

Una invitación abierta a pensar, leer y escribir sobre arte de una manera crítica - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota de la editora: este artículo fue publicado originalmente en i...
First Draft

Elites? They Are Clueless And Barely Literate - The Epstein emails reveal our grand American elites as a bunch of petty dopes.
Space City Weather

Autumn eludes Houston over the next several days with near record warmth early next week - In brief: Near record high temperatures will settle in over Houston, along with a burst of high humidity early next week. Our next front is penciled in for...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Democracy Now!

How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory - Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is less than two months away from taking office in New York City. Mamdani’s history-making campaign, grounded in community organ...
The Conversation

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress - The mayor-elect can use his popularity to protect New York’s capacity for self-government from outside interference, while reaffirming what his campaign pr...
Vox

AI is resurrecting the voices of dead famous people - Before Franz Kafka died in 1924, he had a simple wish for his friend and literary executor Max Brod: burn all of Kafka’s unpublished writing and papers. F...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Did Hitler Have a Micro Weenie?” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Battles over academic freedom and executive power today’s episode of “DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiri...
Texas Observer

At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance - On a stone slab by the cold waters of Austin’s Barton Springs, transgender Texans celebrate existence. Against the best efforts of the state, they’re sti...
Dorf on Law

The Unwarranted Freakout Over the Cert Petition Seeking Overturning of the Same-Sex Marriage Right - On Monday, the Supreme Court denied a *certiorari *petition by Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue licenses to same-sex couples. In...
The Root

Cali. Mom Needed Cash for Teen’s Cheerleading Trip, So She Allegedly Did the Unimaginable…To a Nurse - Five years after a nurse was stabbed 17 times, a mom who prosecutors say needed cash to fund her daughter's cheerleading trip was arrested. Read more...
The Smirking Chimp

The Verdict of History: Trump and His Fascist Glorification -
Skeptophilia

Retracting the backfire - In general, I always cringe a little when I see that a scientific study has been called into question. These days, especially in the United States (where...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Things That Are Not - If you’ve read Gulliver’s Travels, you’ve encountered a verbal nicety of those days, which is that nobody calls anyone a liar. Rather, they accuse him of “...
Off The Kuff

So now what for the hemp business? - I can think of one thing they should do. As part of the spending deal to end the government shutdown, federal lawmakers approved a provision cracking down ...
San Antonio Report

Robots, rear axles and paint guns: San Antonio middle schoolers meet with employers - CORE4 STEM Expo connects inner city students with "real-world" science, technology, engineering and math industries and careers. --------------------------...
Scheerpost.com

Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket - Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply.
NPR's Health Shots

Study: Eating ultra-processed foods linked to an increased risk of colorectal cancer - A new study found that women who eat a lot of ultra-processed foods were 1.5 times more likely to develop pre-cancerous polyps before the age of 50, compar...
Grist

How urban farms can make cities more livable and help feed America - Metropolitan gardens and farms are extraordinarily powerful tools that can improve food security, lower temperatures, and create invaluable gathering spaces.
High Country News

Can AI translate Native languages in times of disaster? - In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty. The post Can AI transl...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Ballroom Reno Derailed by Epstein - The post Trump’s Ballroom Reno Derailed by Epstein appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

“Motherfuckin’ Windfarms”: Samuel L. Jackson at the Seaside - Screenings in Berlin cinemas begin with about ten minutes of advertisements that come before the previews of upcoming feature films. These show-before-th...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Burying the Real Epstein Story - Sometimes the biggest news story of the day is the one all mainstream news outlets are completely ignoring. It is interesting how often such instances invo...
jobsanger

Republicans Are Hell-Bent On Destroying The Health Of Americans -
World Socialist Web Site

USW International cuts secret deal, calls snap vote in bid to break 3-month strike by Libbey Glass workers in Toledo, Ohio - Rank-and-file workers denounced the stab in the back by the USW bureaucracy as opposition grows to deal that would boost management’s power over workers.
Informed Comment

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech - Censoring academic content does nothing to promote "a safe learning environment," as Newsom's signing statement concludes.
Portside

Democrats Caved In the Shutdown Because of the Filibuster - Democrats Caved In the Shutdown Because of the Filibuster jay Thu, 11/13/2025 - 23:40
Alternet

'They didn't need to!' George Conway debunks MAGA's key argument about Epstein files - Attorney George Conway — one of the most prominent conservative critics of President Donald Trump — recently addressed one of the main counterarguments a...
The Greanville Post

VIJAY PRASHAD: A diary from the streets of South Korea - VIJAY PRASHAD—We are marching in Gyeongju, a conservative city. The march is led by leaders from the broad left: the Justice Party, the Green Party, and th...
Brad Blog

Trump DOJ Takes Stand for Voting Whites in CA: 'BradCast' 11/13/2025 - Tying up a few loose ends as another insane week wraps up on The BradCast today. But with a few laughs along the way and a song to help us over the finish ...
The AltWorld

The Media Focus On Epstein’s Ties To Trump And Ignore His Ties To Israel - The way the press have been covering Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump while completely ignoring far more significant revelations of Epstein’s ties to Isra...
Workers World

Sudanese community in U.S. demands end to genocidal war - [image: Sudanese community in U.S. demands end to genocidal war] Seattle Sudanese community rally in Seattle, Nov. 8, 2025. WW Photo: Jim McMahan One hundr...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/14/2025 - 06:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Antiwar.com

Netanyahu Cabinet’s Complicity in the Gaza Genocide - Recently, a classified report by a U.S. government watchdog discovered that Israeli military units have committed “many hundreds” of potential violations o...
Dissident Voice

The Ritual Roots of Animism, Drama and Sports: The Work of Jane Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists - My friends claim that I am irreverent to the Olympian gods. My interests I am told are unduly focused on ghosts, bogies and pillar cults. I prefer savage...
LareDOS

Speak up loud and clear at the Friday, Nov. 14 City Council meeting: 12 Noon, Council Chambers, 1110 Houston St.; Let Council know you don’t want the Border Wall - Speak up loud and clear at the Friday, Nov. 14 City Council meeting: 12 Noon, Council Chambers, 1110 Houston St.; Let Council know you don't want the Borde...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict - BY LAMAR HANKINS / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaus...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales denies ‘rumors’ surrounding fiery suicide of staffer - During an appearance at the Texas Tribune Festival, Gonzales also said he's confident he'll win the GOP primary against Brandon 'AK-Guy' Herrera. The p...
slacktivist

‘Political violence’ and Johnny and Nina - You can run on for a long time, run on for a long time, run on for a long time, but sooner or later ...
Reform Austin

Donald Trump signs THC ban, dealing blow to Texas hemp industry - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A new federal spending bill signed by President Donald Trump late Wednesday includes a measure ...
Wolf Street

Data Fog Engulfing October due to Government Shutdown May “Never” Be Fully Lifted - Survey-based data doesn’t exist because the surveys were not conducted in October. But data that companies electronically submitted exists.
Church and State

REPEAT: Atheist or Agnostic? - Atheist or agnostic? I’m both and that’s not because I’m too wishy-washy or indecisive or chickenshit to say.
Mondoweiss

Israel is killing Gazans trying to return to their homes beyond the ‘yellow line’ - [image: Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles have placed yellow-painted concrete blocks along what is known as the "yellow line" inside the Gaza Strip,...
Common Dreams

Sunrise Launches Historic Primary Program: “It’s time to clear house” - As outrage grows over Chuck Schumer and Establishment Democrats’ refusal to stand up to Donald Trump’s authoritarianism and right-wing extremism, Sunrise...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Heinrich calls for evacuation of Torrance County ICE facility after contract lapse - U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich is demanding answers from federal immigration officials about the continued operation of a New Mexico detention facility despit...
Ballot Access News

U.S. Department of Justice Asks to Intervene in Federal Lawsuit Over California U.S. House District Boundaries - On November 13, the U.S. Department of Justice asked to intervene in the federal lawsuit over the new California U.S. House district boundaries. It seeks t...
The Militant

25, 50, and 75 years ago - November 20, 2000 ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Meat packers at two slaughterhouses owned by Rosen’s Diversified Inc. are organizing to resist an antiunion offensi...
Socialist Alternative

US-China Trade Summit: Did Xi Jinping Capitulate? - 100 minutes was all that was needed for the two “strongmen” heads of the world’s main superpowers to agree a one-year truce in their long-running trade war...
Infidel753

Moving forward - Now that the Massie discharge petition has reached 218 signatures, there's still a rocky road ahead. The actual demand for the release of the Epstein fil...
Capital & Main

Barring a Sharp Shift, Health Insurance Costs Will Skyrocket - Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply. The post ...
The Daily Poster

Christmas Came Early (For These Industries) - There’s hidden perks inside the deal to fund the government — not for you, though.
Discourse

We Need to Be Bullying Political Nepo Babies More - If we do it to Colin Hanks we should be doing it to Jack Schlossberg.
Krebs on Security

Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad - Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers im...
Rewire

What It’s Like Suing Trump in Court Over SNAP Funding (Podcast) - Legal advocate Skye Perryman talks about fighting for communities and against the Trump administration in court. The post What It’s Like Suing Trump in C...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispanic and Asian Voters Shifted, and a Place Where Politics May Still be Local - Deeper analysis of the VA/NJ 2025 contests, as well as two House rating changes The post Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispani...
Ian Welsh

American “AI” Is “No Win” For Society - Let’s lay out the big picture for LLM style AI. It is is statistical prediction of what should be the next word or symbol. That is why it required so much ...
Earth 911

11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey - After the plates are cleared today, we bet you’ll have at least one thing left... The post 11 Brilliant Uses for Leftover Turkey appeared first on Earth9...
See You In 2020

Communism is everything that “rightist” politics pretends to be, & it will save America from destruction - What we must understand about today’s American far right—by which I mean outward neo-Nazism—is that it’s the default path forward for incels. It’s the m...
Liberation News

PSL statement: Democrats’ failed shutdown tactic in fighting the Trump agenda - Eight Democrat senators voted with the GOP majority to end the shutdown and fund the government, despite the Trump administration’s plan to nearly double t...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the 'HB & HM' archives - 'America owes drag queens a huge apology' - *E**ditor's note - Because of what we have learned on Wednesday with regards to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and what it MAY lead to in the future, ...
The Grayzone

White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show - Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates’ attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they cle...
ExChristian.Net

Former pastor gets maximum sentence after thousands of child pornography images found - *GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - * A former youth pastor in South Carolina has been sentenced to federal prison after appearing in court on Tue...
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...
The Texas Signal

Immigration Policies Take A Toll On The Texas Economy - Almost a quarter of ICE arrests have occurred in Texas, inflicting widespread reverberations on the state's economy
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
DeSmogBlog

Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his ‘Passion’ for Science - Jason Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, has for years claimed that his company’s artificial intelligence products, as some of the most a...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel - The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Changing Discourse, Our Unconscious Society, Neo-Nazism, and More - I answer subscriber questions and get into the topics you want to talk about
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Environment Texas

Forget Black Friday, join us for National Clothing Swap Day - Reduce unnecessary waste this holiday season by hosting your own clothing swap for National Clothing Swap Day. The post Forget Black Friday, join us for ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Progressive.org

Abortion Restrictions on Young People Cause Trauma - A new report finds young people in states that require parental consent are being forced to remain pregnant or involve unsupportive parents.
Project Censored

#1. ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal age...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
Bracing Views

Working Toward Peace - Imagine if Veterans Day Became Obsolete BILL ASTORE NOV 11, 2025 Today is Veterans Day, though of course November 11th was originally Armistice Day to mark...
NORML

Veterans Are Still Being Denied Medical Cannabis Access - [image: A closeup of a military uniform with a cannabis leaf patch on the sleeve representing marijuana and veterans issues][image: A closeup of a milita...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 11-16 News Roundup & OT - The fallout from the 8 caving Dem/Indy senators continues after the jump. Join us in the conversation!
Sludge

Alcohol Industry Groups Push to Ban THC Drinks in Government Funding Bill - A ban on hemp-derived products with THC was added to the bill reopening the government, pitting Sen. Mitch McConnell against fellow Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul...
Alas, a Blog

What Freedom Looks Like - Another collab between me and Nadine Scholtes. I have a big and overwhelming project with a deadline in just a bit over a month; I don’t expect to be parti...
Crooked Timber

Armistice Day - 114 years ago, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914, and has continued, in o...
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
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...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: RAY OF LIGHT EDITION. - *Heard this in a restaurant -- you remember this?I don’t and I don’t know how I missed it.* I missed ‘Round-The-Horn last week, and I’ll let you know ...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
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...
Earthworks

Vale’s Problematic Indonesia Track Record - As eyes turn to Brazil, host of this year’s COP30 climate conference, Brazilian mining giant Vale is trying to position … The post Vale’s Problematic In...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

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

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
Campaign for America's Future

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Brains and Eggs

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Pre-SOTU toons

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