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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Courts grant ex-Malaysian PM Najib house arrest after $12m royal pardon - Najib transitions to house arrest after his party UMNO raises $12m fine via crowdfunding.
ArcaMax

Radicalized in Aisle Three - Most people don't get radicalized at the mosque. Most people don't get radicalized at an antifa meeting because there are no real antifa meetings. Most peo...
memeorandum

Key federal panel is expected to approve Trump's arch while it's being challenged in court (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Key federal panel is expected to approve Trump's arch while it's being challenged in court* — A federal judge late Thursday blocked ...
Rallblog

War Oopsie - Given the many wars that the United States has fought in the past, the current obsession with Iran is based on and marketed with paranoid projection—what...
The Week

Climate change has stopped the next ice age - Warming temperatures are offsetting natural cycles
Raw Story

Judge instantly derails Trump’s arch after torching ‘unsupported’ security claims - A federal judge moved within hours to stop one of President Donald Trump's prized projects, scoffing at his administration's last-minute defense of it. U...
World Socialist Web Site

Russian government axes social spending - In an effort to fund massive increases in war expenditures and service a rapidly growing public debt, the Russian government is slashing and freezing outla...
Debunking Christianity

Christianity and Changing One's Politics - When Christians teach their children their politics just as if it's the same thing as Christianity itself, they set themselves up for disaster. For if a w...
jobsanger

What Democrats Should Do -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1652: Justus von Liebig - Episode: 1652 Justus von Liebig and the first R&D laboratory. Today, we create the first research laboratory.
Axios

Trump's 250-foot arch temporarily blocked by federal judge - A federal judge temporarily blocked construction of President Trump's much-contested triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, hours after the pro...
Courthouse News

Feds barred from pressing Washington state to toss voters’ ballots, for now - A federal judge found Justice Department prosecutors demanded, not requested, that Washington set aside roughly 400 voters’ ballots and threatened election...
Informed Comment

Yes, Laura Loomer, Americans Should be learning Arabic amid Hormuz Crisis - At precisely the time when the fate of our nation hangs on an Arabic- and Persian-speaking part of the world, we are closing ourselves off
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Australia faces same issues that flipped control of US Congress in midterms, experts say - Anthony Albanese’s government has taken a blow due to Iran war but voter anxiety around cost of living and datacentres may hit harder - Get ou...
Workers World

Elections won’t save us: Look to the youth of Europe - [image: Elections won’t save us: Look to the youth of Europe] This is a talk by Sara Flounders as a participant in the International Manifesto webinar on O...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Blue Tsunami Has Arrived. Now Comes the Work of Democracy. by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *The Blue Tsunami Has Arrived. Now Comes the Work of Democracy.* *Celebrating a Historic Democratic Victory—and the Responsibility to Turn Electoral Power ...
Techdirt.

One Subplot To The GOP’s Midterm Debacle Was A Repudiation Of The MAHA Movement - The midterms are over and the Republicans got their asses waxed. We can point to any number of reasons why the country delivered a stinging rebuke to the G...
Political Wire

Democrats Clear 250 House Seats in Decisive Power Shift - “The Democratic House majority surged past 250 seats on Thursday as the party seized its biggest majority in nearly two decades by flipping more seats, inc...
Portside

Abdul El-Sayed Shows Opposition to Israel Is No Barrier to Winning Battleground States - Abdul El-Sayed Shows Opposition to Israel Is No Barrier to Winning Battleground States jay Thu, 11/05/2026 - 22:25
IVN

DSA Machine Falls Short in California’s Open Dem v. Dem Races - Democratic Socialists of America and Working Families Party-backed candidates won some competitive races in California's same-party Democratic contests, bu...
OpEd News

The Evolution and Neuropsychology of Human Religiosity - This article explores how evolution shaped the human brain's capacity for religious belief, supernatural experiences, and divine revelation. Drawing on neu...
Alternet

Critics pounce as Trump swings from wild market praise to Dem blame - President Donald Trump whiplashed from wild praise to bawling blame over the sudden drop in the Stock Market Thursday. After taking responsibility for a ...
The Greanville Post

WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL - PE—From the first we have held virulently hostile views toward people of any shade of color not our own off white. Through colonial times, we hated native...
Ballot Access News

Wisconsin Files Brief in Defense of its New Ban on Out-of-State Circulators - On November 2, Wisconsin filed this brief in Americans for Citizen Voting PAC v Wolfe, e.d., 2:26cv-786. This is the lawsuit challenging the new Wisconsin ...
Popular Resistance

Lula And The Terrible Realities Of The Era Of Counterrevolution - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, has sought the presidency of Brazil eight times since 1989. He has won the presidency four times (2002, 2006, 2...
Election Law Blog

Colom Campaign in Mississippi Senate Race Pushes Back Against GOP Demands for Ballot Segregation, Saying It Would Violate Voter Privacy, is Not Allowed Under the State Elections Code, and Violates the Equal Protection Clause under Bush v. Gore - You can find the letter here. Earlier: NRSC Sends Demand to Mississippi Election Officials to Segregate Provisional Ballots Likely for Potential Legal Ac...
The Hill

Meta, TikTok, Google sue California over child online safety restrictions - Meta, TikTok and Google filed separate lawsuits against California over a new law seeking to tighten restrictions on child social media usage, arguing the ...
Mother Jones

So Much for the “Latinos Are Republicans Now” Hot Takes - When Trump won in 2024, members of the Republican Party theorized that MAGA’s conservative platform resonated more with Latinos, in particular Latino men’s...
The Verge

OpenAI is stepping back from NDAs for data center projects - Following this week's midterms where voters resoundingly voiced their opposition to data center expansion, OpenAI today announced new commitments to commun...
Claytoonz

Don’t Cry For Elon - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 733 days until the presidential election. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Wolf Street

Bloodletting in Semiconductor Stocks - Intel has already plunged by 63% from its June high, SanDisk by 66%, Micron by 47%.
Antiwar.com

Very Close to a Nuclear Strike on Iran: We Can Save Ourselves - The 1984 British movie Threads opens with ordinary scenes in Sheffield, England, where a young couple learns they are expecting a baby. The story of their ...
San Antonio Report

What makes Texas food taste like Texas - SPONSORED: The dishes Texans love did not appear overnight. Learn more at Gather ‘Round the Table: Texas Food Tradition at the Witte Museum. ---------------...
SCOTUSblog

Justices grapple with how to apply pretrial procedure rules in improper firing dispute - How rigidly to apply the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure surfaced this week in *Younge v. Fulton Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office, Georgia*, ...
Progressive.org

In Delhi, Indians Confront the Cost of Dissent - Accounts of detention, disputed voter-roll deletions, and restrictions on public assembly raise questions about civil rights in the world’s largest democracy.
San Antonio Current

Stand-up comic Nikki Glaser bringing her raunchy, self-deprecating act to San Antonio - The comedian wlll perform Saturday and Sunday at the Majestic Theatre. The post Stand-up comic Nikki Glaser bringing her raunchy, self-deprecating act ...
Deadline Politics

Google, TikTok And Meta Sue To Block California’s Social Media Law That Restricts Addictive Features For Children - Three tech giants — Google, Meta and TikTok — sued the state of California over a recently passed law designed to restrict social media platforms from offe...
The AltWorld

The Midterm Election has changed more than the political composition of Congress - Trump squandered his presidency, loss the chance for an American revival, and demoralized traditional Americans in order […] The post The Midterm Electio...
Dorf on Law

Predictably, the Democratic Establishment (Including the NYT) is Having None of It - Having indulged in a bit of non-pessimism in yesterday's column, I want to get back to reality today with a serious question. Pop quiz: What do Chuck Sch...
Vox

What the midterms could mean for Trump’s Cabinet - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
TalkLeft

Gavin Newsom Commutes All CA Death Sentences - California Governor Gavin Newsom has commuted the sentences of all 548 death row inmates to life without parole. His letter explaining the decision is he...
WhoWhatWhy

The ‘This Is Not Who We Are!’ Election - [image: People voting, California State University, 2026, midterms] It was a long, hard wait and a loud, clear voice. The ‘This Is Not Who We Are!’ Electio...
Slate

Gavin Newsom’s Clemency Is a Game Changer for America’s Death Penalty - But there’s still one more hurdle to go.
Greg Palast

My friend faces the death sentence tomorrowRights Lawyer Tundu Lissu, who exposed the killings at Bush Sr’s gold mine, faces execution by the Tanzanian dictatorship - Tomorrow, Friday, human rights lawyer Tundu Lissu, in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, leader of the opposition to a soulless dictator, will be sentenced for treas...
Lowering the Bar

Who’s to Blame for “Ballot Stacking”? I Guess Everybody - [image: image of the stacked Alaska ballot]It's ridiculous and deceptive—but sadly, some voters fall for it.
Mediagazer

LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, before that, The CW (A.J. Katz/The Wrap) - A.J. Katz / The Wrap: *LIV Golf is shutting down after five years and over $5B in Saudi backing, ending its efforts to build a TV audience on Fox and, be...
CultureMap Houston

Humor and history collide in outstanding new comedy Wild Horse Nine - It’s difficult to nail English writer/director Martin McDonagh down when it comes to his interests. Prior to his new film, he has set films in Bruges, Belg...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

UN says about half of Afghan children out of school - After returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban banned girls’ secondary and tertiary education in Afghanistan, with primary education the only level o...
Crooked Media

Latino Voters’ Rebuke of Trump - The post Latino Voters’ Rebuke of Trump appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mediaite

‘Political Theater!’ Pete Hegseth Posts Defiant Video Amid Impeachment Push - "A disgruntled, defeated congressman, along with all his Democrat allies, has also dropped sham articles of impeachment against yours truly," Hegseth fum...
The Daily Poster

The Blue Wave Might Have Washed Away Progressives’ Leverage - Democrats’ landslide strengthened Hakeem Jeffries’s bid for House speaker, weakening progressive insurgents’ bargaining power even as their Senate allies c...
Common Dreams

Statement on Google AI in School Allegedly Helping Teen Girl Plan Suicide - Fairplay, the nation’s leading nonprofit fighting to protect kids from the dangers of Big Tech and AI, released the following statement today in response...
The Texas Signal

What Changed In Texas - The sweeping wins by Texas Democrats will create a seismic shift in how the state runs and operates well beyond the state Capitol
The Conversation

Black Michiganders helped push Abdul El-Sayed to victory – but the numbers show he was less popular with this key voting bloc than some other Democratic candidates - About 86% of Black Michiganders voted for Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate, according to preliminary data.
Dissent Magazine

Curtains for Trumpism - The midterm elections were a profound rejection of Trump’s Republican Party. To make America great will require the destruction of his legacy.
Futurism

Journalist Admits She Used AI to Edit Photo Smearing Democrat Voters - "Actual journalists don't do this." The post Journalist Admits She Used AI to Edit Photo Smearing Democrat Voters appeared first on Futurism.
The NM Political Report

Who will be Gov. Haaland’s chief of staff? Here’s who to watch - [image: Sarita Nair] Column by Pat Davis, New Mexico Political Report — Governor-elect Deb Haaland is wasting no time filling top positions in her new adm...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Turned Blue. Now, the Real Work Begins. - A message from the Texas Freedom Network team It’s hard to put into words how we’re all feeling. But we’ll try. We knew this day would come, but it came ...
Project Censored

Jane Doe and the Manosphere - Lily Minh Wass Editor’s note: This week’s Dispatch includes mentions of sexual assault and intimate image abuse. This September, independent student newspa...
Novara Media

Russell Brand Found Guilty - Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault. Russell Brand has been found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual...
Consortium News

Netanyahu Appears Doomed as Arabs Join Opposition - UPDATED Arab parties in Israel on Thursday supported Gadi Eiskenkot, Netanyahu’s opponent, giving him a 67-46 seat lead with the president poised to ask hi...
El Paso Matters

Texas Dems vowed seismic education change. Here’s how schools could change for millions of students. - The end to GOP dominance in Texas will likely have major implications for K-12 education policies, including the future of school vouchers and state tak...
Discourse

WOKE 3 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (w/Paul Blest) - The 2026 Midterms episode
Salon.com

Goodbye from Salon - It has been an extraordinary privilege.
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: El-Sayed as former Rhodes scholar! - *THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2026* *Democratic numbers grow:* Preachers and healers and a logger oh my! In the various fields of play, the Democratic Party's n...
ProPublica

Missouri Voters Just Made It Much Harder for Lawmakers to Overturn Citizen-Led Initiatives - The post Missouri Voters Just Made It Much Harder for Lawmakers to Overturn Citizen-Led Initiatives appeared first on ProPublica.
First Draft

You Don’t Eat An Elephant All At Once - Democrats made gains in deep red West Virginia. The WV GOP had to resort to astro-turfing using hundreds of thousands of outside dollars.
naked capitalism

The Decline of Politics, Lawfare and the Coming Technocratic Government - Driven by zero-sum conflict and legal overreach, the decline of politics threatens to replace representative democracy with technocracy.
Brad Blog

‘Green News Report’ – November 5, 2026 - IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Democrats sweep Congress and win a slew of state races; Voters overwhelmingly reject local development of polluting data centers; ...
Church and State

Wow! Democrats won big. So now is smart time. - I have been making suggestions about what Democrats should do should they win both houses, which they have now done.
See You In 2020

The Dark Enlightenment, the upturning of civilization, and the path of the neo-nomads - Under the surface of our technological dystopian takeover, there are forces that the architects of the chaos can’t understand, and that will undo all of...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *NBC News - *A federal judge in Florida has permanently dismissed a revised version of President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation suit against The Wal...
The Root

Why Black Governors Should Follow Wes Moore’s Lead on Education - Wes Moore has shown how we can improve educational outcomes for Black students, even under the Trump administration. Read more...
Daily Cartoonist

Some New York Times Readers’ Veyesque Cartoons Revealed - Last month The New York Times ran their obituary of cartoonist P.C. Vey and at the same time asked readers to submit cartoons in a PC Vey vein i.e., “humor...
Environment Texas

Careers in Environmental and Public Interest Advocacy - RSVP to learn more about careers in environmental and public interest advocacy. The post Careers in Environmental and Public Interest Advocacy appeared ...
Angry Bear

Quote of the day - The reality is Democrats do not face a stark choice between confrontation and compromise. The can do both or either or neither. They get to pick when and...
Texas Standard

Latino voters reflect on historic Democratic wins as Texas shifts left - Two years after Donald Trump flipped longtime Democratic strongholds in the Rio Grande Valley, the region swung back toward Democrats in an election that w...
Rewire

Trans Rights Take a Hit in the 2026 Midterm Elections - Against the backdrop of a blue tsunami across the country, multiple states passed ballot measures chipping away at trans kids’ rights.
Mondoweiss

Gaza’s vanishing date harvest - Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has reached even the smallest sources of livelihood, destroying agricultural traditions that Palestinians have been practici...
Bonddad

The economically weighted ISM averages for November show a strong expansion, weakly growing employment, and even worse inflation - - *by New Deal democrat* The economically weighted ISM manufacturing (25%) + services (75%) indexes continue to be the best timely snapshot of the U...
Scheerpost.com

Oppenheimer, the Bomb and the Price of Serving the State - David Rieff and Steve Wasserman discuss the physicist’s Jewish identity, left-wing politics and loyalty to the country that stripped him of his security cl...
Trivial Knot

Punishment of sexual violence - My politics tend towards anti-punitive. That is, I tend to favor smaller and shorter punishments for criminals. No particular reasons for it, no commitment...
Glasstire

Top Five: November 5, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Still Becoming: Liz Ward, Works from Four DecadesNeidor...
Liberation News

Texas rejects the Republican establishment in historic midterm election: What comes next? - While Texas has “turned blue," the question remains if we can build a movement powerful enough to demand something fundamentally different.
Ian Welsh

JD Vance Continues To Maneuver Towards His 2028 Run - Vance published a long piece on why Republicans lost the elecctions. It’s… not insane and more correct than not. First: Republicans voted Democratic. I ask...
Democracy Now!

"They Have Eyes": How Trump's Corruption Became a Top Concern for Midterm Voters - Democrats regained control of both the House and the Senate in Tuesday’s historic midterm elections, a comeback fueled largely by voter anger over high pri...
Independent Political Report

Arizona Pirates Shift Ballot Access Effort From Statewide Focus to Pima County - The Arizona Pirate Party is shifting its ballot access efforts away from a statewide campaign to instead pursue access in Pima County, citing the need fo...
Space City Weather

Comfortable weather continues, as we eye rain chances for Houston later in the weekend - In brief: Another nice day awaits Houston before we slip into a more unsettled pattern this weekend. Rain chances look highest on Sunday right now, lingeri...
NPR's Health Shots

Teens worldwide aren't getting enough exercise -- especially girls - A new study looks at the recommended amount of daily exercise for adolescents — and how few are getting it.
The Progressive Wing

November 05 news round up and open thread - A federal judge in Oregon says he can no longer assume ICE agents are telling the truth in their arrest paperwork, declaring Monday that live testimony is ...
The Smirking Chimp

The GOP Is Secretly Celebrating an Electoral Collapse -
Off The Kuff

Initial thoughts on the blue earthquake - I’m going to have a lot of thoughts about what happened on Tuesday, some of which haven’t occurred to me yet, some of which I’ll realize after reading some...
High Country News

New bill slashes tribes’ role in projects that impact ancestral sites, water and wildlife - Native nations have come out against Senate permitting reform. The post New bill slashes tribes’ role in projects that impact ancestral sites, water and...
Krebs on Security

Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House? - Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address avail...
Socialist Alternative

Trump & Republicans Routed: What Now To Defeat Their Whole Agenda - The wave became a tsunami: the Republicans, with Trump at their head, were absolutely trounced in the midterm elections. Tens of millions of people in the ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Mr. Bubble - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb Like many of us out here, I’d been watching the impending implosion of the AI “boom” (as they insist on calling...
Eschaton

Thursday Night - Rock on.
Capital & Main

ICE Raids Loomed Large for L.A. Voters — Including Some Caught Up in the Crackdown - Early data shows more voters casting ballots in L.A. County’s immigrant-heavy communities. ‘I want to make a difference for the people that can’t vote,’ ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Blue Tsunami Massacre!' Voters brutally reject Trump and MAGA, propelling Democrats to monumental victories across nation - Just in case none of you dear readers heard about Tuesday night's midterm election, allow me to give you a summation. The Democratic Party won control ov...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2026 - Walmart had at least nine more shootings in October 2026, including two fatal ones, one where an innocent bystander was killed in an argument between ot...
Idavox

The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost More Than $440 Million - Musk’s astronomical campaign contributions were no match for outraged voters across the US. Truthout Elon... The post The Egg on Elon Musk’s Face Cost Mo...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

After the Midterms Comes the Real Work: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Bracing Views

A Blue Wave Cometh - Democrats Win Big BILL ASTORE 6 HOURS AGO I woke to the news of a “blue wave” as Democrats regained control of the House and Senate by margins that few pre...
Texas Observer

Bobby Pulido, the New Scion of South Texas Democrats - Tejano star Bobby Pulido crushed the incumbent Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz by 24 points last night in a fierce blue backlash against gerry...
Ecosophia

Politics: Imperial Sunset Revisited - Hindsight is a useful thing, and the twenty years that have passed since I sketched out my first and least accurate set of predictions about the future of ...
Sludge

The Money Behind Hakeem Jeffries - Executives at Anduril and Palantir, crypto industry advocates, and investors giving through AIPAC helped fund the Democratic leader preparing to become spe...
NORML

Congressional Shake-Up Bolsters Prospects for Future Federal Marijuana Policy Reforms - [image: an American flag flying in front of the US Capitol is colored in shades of green][image: an American flag flying in front of the US Capitol is co...
Infidel753

A landslide, but no revolution - Well, the polls in many cases *were* wrong -- they understated the size of the blue wave. The Democrats will have at least 54 Senate seats, and possibly ...
Seeing the Forest

The Ballroom - I just got up here in the UK and see that the Dems won!! Finish the ballroom and make it a public monument to ‘It CAN Happen Here’, like how in France you ...
Stinque

2026 Election Results - The post 2026 Election Results appeared first on Stinque.
Black Agenda Report

The Truth About Haiti's "Gangs" --US Guns. UN Troops. Blackwater Drones | Dr. Jemima Pierre - The Truth About Haiti's "Gangs" --US Guns. UN Troops. Blackwater Drones | Dr. Jemima Pierre bareditors Wed, 11/04/2026 - 09:41 Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor an...
slacktivist

A Psalm for Election Day - What would it mean to read Psalm 72 through the lens of the Gettysburg Address?
Alas, a Blog

Turek & Stevens - Just a quick one, dashed off in response to some of this week’s news. As folks here know, I usually do cartoons intended to be about lasting issues, and th...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Winner of the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize - The prize committee is pleased to announce that Maria Tanyag’s article, ‘Who cares for the carers? Patriarchal contradictions and the reinvention of the ...
Crooked Timber

An open letter to JK Rowling from Sophie Grace Chappell - An open letter to J K Rowling (November 2026) Dear Ms Rowling I see you have published an update on your June 2020 essay on transgender issues. As you prob...
Two Party Opera

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Conversation with an Election Expert: Breaking Down This Year’s Election Process - Loyola Law School professor Justin Levitt has worked on elections for 25 years in the government, nonprofits, and academia. He addresses common voter quest...
Edinburg Politics

With almost 12,000 Blacks in the Rio Grande Valley, new board members for Village in the Valley (ViVa) continue to promote positive changes for all residents of deep South Texans - FEATURED: Village in the Valley (ViVa), a McAllen-based organization whose stated mission is elevating and uniting the Black community while connecting cul...
Earthworks

El largo camino para exigir que la industria minera canadiense rinda cuentas - Por Jan Morrill, Earthworks y Diana Martin, MiningWatch Canada Este mes, representantes de las comunidades que viven al lado de … The post El largo cam...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Advertisement for The Rise of the New Normal Reich, including a Stupid Anti-Nazi Disclaimer for the German Authorities - Here we go again. The second edition of The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021), published by Tucker Carlson Books, ...
Duck of Minerva

The Curse of Elon - As part of my interest in electric vehicles, I have listened to 7 or 8 audiobooks on Elon Musk, EVs, and Tesla (Vance, Isaacson, Niedermayer, McKenzie, Slo...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterm Elections Predictions - The time has arrived. Tuesday, November 3, 2026 is Election Day and Election Night. I will likely be a guest on *Due Dissidence* with a focus on the elec...
Field Negro

Midterm fears. - November third is almost here, and the talking heads and political junkies at news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and FOX are losing their minds. This is the...
Avedon's Sideshow

Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin' my dreams - This image was swiped from Snoogums' flickr feed. Look, if you were hoping Netanyahu would lose and it would make everything okay, no, that was not going ...
MintPress News

Iran Downs US Aircraft As Israel Prepares ‘Unprecedented Strikes’ Amidst Election Turmoil - Iranian air defences downed three US drones and opened fire on a fighter jet, amidst ongoing military preparations by the United States to carry out anot...
The Militant

Vote Socialist Workers Party! Join the SWP campaigning, now and after the elections! - Vote for the Socialist Workers Party candidates Nov. 3! Join with the SWP and build the one party that speaks loudly and clearly for the class interests of...
DeSmogBlog

Ohio Denies Evidence of Fracking Waste in Drinking Water. Its Own Records Show Otherwise. - This story was co-published with Rolling Stone. In Ohio’s rural southeastern corner, Marietta College geology professor David Jeffrey was among the resid...
The Grayzone

Facing subpoenas, pro-Palestine activists refuse to testify in Fergie fishing expedition - A pair of activists subpoenaed by Trump’s Justice Department have announced their refusal to cooperate with investigators on an apparent legal fishing ex...
Grist

Grist launches new reporting project on the intersection of misinformation and climate disasters - The series, Distorted, will trace the pathways through which rumors and conspiracies spread after extreme weather — and how those falsities disrupt relief,...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway - Jeff Schapiro on Virginia's 2026 elections The post Despite a Blocked Gerrymander, Virginia Democrats Aim for House Gains Anyway appeared first on Sabato...
Land Destroyer

US Project Meridian” - A Symptom of American Decline, Not a Solution - *October 12, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently announced the creation of the 120 day task force, “Project Meri...
Campaign for America's Future

Will You Save Democracy? - Everyone who has the right to vote must vote. We must send a clear message to authoritarians that we reject their plan, and reject division. We stand toget...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: DADDY ISSUES EDITION. - *I forgot they were good right to the end.* Getting close to zero hour, so Tubby and his goons are trying to fuck with the election. For example, he was ...
LareDOS

Avowed racist Bo French running for Texas Railroad Commissioner - His xenophobic sentiments evidence a lack of character
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Media Lens

Has Andy Burnham Ever Heard Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? - Last week, Andy Burnham, the new Labour leader and UK Prime Minister, addressed the Labour party conference in Liverpool: ‘All Together Now. That’s my rall...
Unlimited Hangout

EP003: The Unlimited Hangout Podcast - The Bitcoin-Dollar - In this episode, Whitney and Mark discuss their actual (and often misrepresented) views on Bitcoin and stablecoins and how both are due to be used in tande...
Counterpunch

Nuremberg’s Warning: When Law Legitimates the Machinery of Authoritarianism - After visiting the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, legal scholar Kim Wehle observed, fascism does not always arrive through spectacular acts of f...
Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
The Rag Blog

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Brains and Eggs

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Pre-SOTU toons

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