Brains and Eggs: Sunday Not So 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

The Greanville Post

Col. Larry Wilkerson: The Iran War Threat RETURNS — But Iran Has Transformed into a Military Giant! - DW—The dramatic shift in American public opinion, particularly among Jewish Americans, who increasingly view Israeli actions as war crimes, signals a seism...
Techdirt.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Rated R For Ridiculous - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
Slate

Guillermo del Toro’s *Frankenstein* Is a Lavish Epic Decades in the Making - In Netflix’s movie adaptation, a lanky Australian heartthrob breathes new life into one of science fiction’s oldest creations.
Raw Story

Mike Johnson swipes CNN's 'socialist town hall' during interview with Jake Tapper - House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took a swipe at CNN during an interview with anchor Jake Tapper because the network hosted a town hall with two progres...
The Hill

World of Travel: Inside Kevin O’Leary’s Fascination with the UAE — and the Future of A.I. - Entrepreneur, financier, television host, and investor Kevin O’Leary joined World of Travel: The Podcast to discuss his deep ties to the Middle East and wh...
Reform Austin

Voter Registration Backlog Resolved in Bexar County - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Bexar County election officials have completed processing a backlog of 72,000 voter registratio...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio loses fight to host Army Western Hemisphere Command - Texas leaders who tried to stop a consolidation of jobs in North Carolina are now pivoting to make Fort Sam Houston a military medicine hub. ---------------...
Political Wire

Tom Steyer Is Infuriating Democrats — Again - “Tom Steyer swooped in with millions of dollars to tout Gavin Newsom’s congressional redistricting measure. Top Democrats involved with the campaign wish h...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Nearly two dozen states sue to stop Trump ending $7bn solar grant program - States who received funding under an EPA project aimed to expand solar energy for low-income communities Nearly two dozen states are suing the Trump admi...
Eschaton

Thursday Evening - enjoy
Mediaite

‘He’s a Bad Guy’: Trump Gives Real-Time Reaction to Bolton Indictment - In the Oval Office Thursday, a reporter informed the president that his former national security advisor John Bolton had just been indicted by a grand ju...
Salon.com

“I feel bad for her”: Brewers fan fired for threatening to “call ICE” on Dodgers fan during NLCS - The recipient of the racist taunt said her firing was excessive
memeorandum

US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela (Robert Mackey/The Guardian) - Robert Mackey / The Guardian: *US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela* — Alvin Holsey just took over the U...
San Antonio Current

City of San Antonio to host screening of animated Disney film Coco in East Side cemetery - [image: The city is screening 2017 animate feature Coco this Saturday.] Saturday's free screening also will feature a scavenger hunt and a community ofren...
Mediagazer

Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have been too reluctant to challenge tech giants (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter) - Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter: *Inside the discussions between OpenAI and talent agencies about the video app Sora; some agents say studios have b...
Courthouse News

River authority safe from Hurricane Harvey suit - HOUSTON — A federal court in Texas reversed the trial court’s decision against the San Jacinto River Authority, which had mounted a jurisdictional challeng...
Al Jazeera English

Marwan Barghouti’s son says family fears for his life in Israeli prison - Arab Barghouti tells Al Jazeera Israel wants to 'silence' his father amid reports Israeli guards beat him last month.
Daily Dot

“That’s why we go to Jersey Mike’s”: Viral video shows what $10 gets you at Jimmy John’s - [image: jimmy johns 10 dollar sandwich] A smaller-than-average sub from a local Jimmy John's has gone viral online, with many pointing to the state of th...
Popular Resistance

By Enabling Police Surveillance, Elected Officials Fuel Trump’s Agenda - In a remarkable series of avoidable mistakes, elected officials in Illinois have demonstrated to the rest of the country the impossibility of meaningful ...
The Verge

New York bans AI-enabled rent price fixing - On Thursday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law legislation banning the use of price-fixing software by landlords to set rental rates. New York is ...
Axios

Trump promises deal to lower surging beef prices - President Trump on Thursday promised an imminent deal to lower the quickly rising price of beef. *Why it matters: *As inflation picks back up, beef has b...
Futurism

The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and Just Bury Your Head in the Sand - You definitely don't want to hear anything about this new report. The post The Latest Climate News Is So Bad That You Should Probably Not Click This and ...
Houston Public Media

New Houston ISD initiative pairs businesses and nonprofits with lower-rated schools - The district launched the “Houston Promise” initiative in September, aiming to get every C- and D-rated school sponsored to achieve Superintendent Mike Mil...
The Week

The Week contest: Disarmed 007 -
Texas Observer

‘Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History - Greg Abbott intends to run for reelection to a fourth term as Texas governor in 2026, which if served to completion would secure his spot in the history ...
El Paso Matters

El Paso city officials say they can’t stop Trump administration airport video blaming Democrats for government shutdown - El Paso city officials say they have no authority to remove a video at the city’s airport showing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the go...
The Daily Poster

JD Vance’s Supreme Court Plot - Two new Supreme Court cases are poised to end campaign finance laws, legalize bribery, and create Citizens United 2.0.
Deadline Politics

John Bolton Indicted: Former National Security Adviser Is Latest Foe Targeted By Trump’s DOJ - UPDATED: John Bolton, who served as national secutiry adviser to Donald Trump in his first term, has been indicted by a grand jury in Maryland. Bolton was ...
Progressive.org

Why Trump Favors the Coast Guard Over NOAA - These two agencies have long collaborated to serve the public interest. That is now at risk.
CultureMap Houston

Keanu Reeves soars as an angel with attitude in Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune - Actor/writer/director Aziz Ansari is best known for his role on the sitcom *Parks & Recreation* and for creating and starring in the Emmy-winning *Master of...
WhoWhatWhy

Our Craven Country: Why Corporations Keep Bowing to Trump - [image: Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Bill Gates] Permission to dispense entirely with morality is worth, to these moguls, more than its we...
Second Nexus

Unwritten Workplace Rules That Newcomers Learn The Hard Way - There are basic rules when at work. Rules so basic they don't even need mentioning... until they do. For some reason, not everybody comprehends simply g...
LareDOS

Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez awarded APHA’s 2025 Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health - SaludAmerica!
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

PETITION TO ALL UT-AUSTIN ALUMNI: Urge UT Austin to reject the federal funding compact. Hook 'em! - *Please circulate widely. -Angela* Alumni urging UT Austin to reject the federal funding compact Decision Maker: UT Austin Board of Regents 45 Supporte...
Undernews

6000 truck driver pulled off the road for English language deficiencies - *Washington Post -* Between June 1 and Monday, about 6,000 truckers were pulled off the road for English-language proficiency violations, according to a Wa...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Towel-snapping fun with The Five! - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2025* *What they do with Tarlov: *It's as we said in this morning's report. On our most-watched "cable news" TV show, this was the...
American Prospect

The Racist Roots, and Racist Present, of Today’s Republican Party - Today on TAP: They’re going after the civil rights laws of the 1960s just as white Southern racists went after the civil rights laws of the 1860s.
Ballot Access News

Seventeen States File Amicus Brief in Florida Lawsuit Over Residency of Petition Circulators - On October 15, seventeen states, all with Republican Attorneys General, filed am amicus brief in the Eleventh Circuit in Florida Decides Healthcare v Byrd,...
Mother Jones

The Unbelievably Expensive Battle For California’s Congressional Map - If you live in California, like me, chances are you’ve been inundated with political ads and have a recycling bin filled up with mailers urging you to vote...
Greg Palast

Palast, Hartmann Speak in San Diego, LA this Friday, SaturdayTwo evening talks — plus Palast at No Kings this Saturday - Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann to take the crown off King Donald’s comb-over. Three chances to catch their act.... READ MORE
The Conversation

New Pentagon policy is an unprecedented attempt to undermine press freedom - Free press advocates warn that limiting how journalists cover the Defense Department hampers the stability and freedom that democracies enjoy.
Election Law Blog

The State Interest Solution - I want to return to one possible outcome in Callais—holding that compliance with Section 2 isn’t a compelling state interest—that I’ve previously flagged...
Socialist Alternative

Youth in Revolt: Fight for International Socialism! - Corruption, unemployment, and inequality run rampant across the world. But Gen Z has had enough of capitalism’s crises and is fighting back. In Indonesia a...
slacktivist

‘We’re saving God’ - The same Trump administration that has declared every non-MAGA religion to be "anti-Christianity" and, therefore, "terrorist," is also claiming that it is ...
OpEd News

Proportional at 1 - The table calculates a circumference using two different equations. Although the equations are different, they both use Radius. The table shows their propo...
The Militant

Socialist Workers Party, ‘Militant’ campaign expands political reach - “Before the union came it was stressful working there,” said Sayre Archira, a former worker at TomaTek, a tomato processing plant in Firebaugh in Californi...
Independent Political Report

Green Party National Committee Elects Cassiday Moriarity to Finance Committee - The Green Party National Committee has named Indiana Green Cassiday Moriarity to its national Finance Committee, following a nomination put forward by th...
Consortium News

Israel: A Huge Airbase With a Small Country Attached - What we’re now seeing is Israel’s version of air-power colonialism, writes Juan Cole. By Juan Cole TomDispatch.com Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s ...
First Draft

Still Missing WV Documents FOIA’d In July - There are laws about responding to FOIA requests. And there are Republicans everywhere who believe they are above the law.
naked capitalism

Afghanistan–Pakistan Clashes in Middle East Context - Nothing exists in a vacuum. This is especially true when trying to understand the Middle East. There is no event that happens in this region that isn’t rel...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - October 16, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump cuts to National Weather Service resulted in fault...
World Socialist Web Site

Former Kenyan prime minister Raila Odinga dies aged 80 - Raila Odinga’s death marks the end of a political career spanning more than four decades, during which he served as the chief political fixer of the Kenyan...
Sludge

While Some Democrats Ditch AIPAC, Cory Booker Cashes In - Booker recently declined to say if he believes Netanyahu is a war criminal and criticized the International Criminal Court for singling out Israel.
Mondoweiss

Hamas is hunting down groups in Gaza that collaborated with the Israeli army, one by one - [image: Palestinian Hamas police officers begin working to maintain security and order during the ceasefire with Israel, Gaza City, January 20, 2025. (Phot...
Crooked Media

Why can’t the UK get over Thatcher? Plus – “Your Party” infighting is Definitely Maybe over… - The post Why can’t the UK get over Thatcher? Plus – “Your Party” infighting is Definitely Maybe over… appeared first on Crooked Media.
Texas Standard

Your guide to all of Texas’ proposed constitutional amendments on the ballot this November - We’ve broken down all 17 ballot measures – what they mean and who’s behind them – that will decide everything from property taxes to disciplining judges.
NPR's Health Shots

A study found lead in popular protein powders. Here's why you shouldn't panic - Consumer Reports expressed concern about high levels of lead in some two dozen protein powders, but only with repeated high exposure. Here's what to know b...
Alternet

'It’s captured on film': Trump official slammed for demanding reporters 'give him a break' on bribe - President Donald Trump’s border chief Tom Homan dismissed a reporter’s question about taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents last year in a st...
The Root

Nia Long, Larenz Tate Reunite for First Film Since ‘Love Jones,’ Here’s the Tea! - Nia Long and Larenz Tate haven't shared a screen since their beloved 1997 film, but that's all about to change soon. And we've got to talk about it! Read...
Discourse

Give Me a Fucking Break Kamala - She wants the world to "be honest" about what happened in Gaza, but refuses to do it herself.
Vox

How soybeans took over America — and the world - Americans have a weird relationship with soy, one of the most important and widely cultivated crops in the world. Most of us associate the protein-packed,...
Daily Cartoonist

Comic Strips -News and Views - With Alison (Rudy and Trevor) Mason, Patrick (Mutts) McDonnell, USA Today Play (Prince Valiant), The Daily News (Gasoline Alley), The Pit graphic newspaper...
Capital & Main

Five-Day Strike by Kaiser Permanente Workers Is About More Than Money - Kaiser employees are calling for a lucrative medical giant that handles care for more than 12 million Americans to let them better prioritize patients. ...
ProPublica

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. - by Nicole Foy, photography by Sarahbeth Maney ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stori...
Dissident Voice

Terrorists: NOT a Love Story! - Being a baby boomer who protested against the Vietnam debacle, what the Trump regime is now doing is disgusting. All this week we see Republican Congress...
SCOTUSblog

Court hears arguments on when police may enter a home without a warrant - The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to side with police officers in Case v. Montana, a Montana man’s challenge to a 2021 incident that left him...
DeSmogBlog

Reform Conference Sponsor Called Farage’s Rhetoric ‘Very Far-Right’ - The sponsor of a flagship event at Reform UK’s annual conference has accused party leader Nigel Farage of adopting “very far-right, very anti-immigrant” ...
Project Censored

Legacy Media Is Failing Trans People - By Shealeigh Voitl The same day that Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk, co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, at Utah Val...
Bonddad

Significant positive news in the goods producing sector - - *by New Deal democrat* Under normal circumstances, this would be the morning I would slice and dice the first important consumer data for the mont...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Daily Mail deems this cheesy new Chili’s dish “disgusting” - I’m sorry to link a Daily Mail article in the sophisticated forum that is Frontburner, but only the DM would be deranged enough to write the headline: “C...
Bracing Views

How Democrats Can Win in 2028 - Hint: Select Someone Like Bernie Sanders BILL ASTORE OCT 12, 2025 How can Democrats win in 2028? Not by doing what the Democratic National Committee (DNC) ...
Unlimited Hangout

City-States Without Limits – Part 2 - In Part 1, we discussed the NRx technocrats’ ideas and how they have influenced the city-state model that seeks to capitalise on the global proliferation...
Glasstire

Top Five: October 16, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. The Horror Part 2: A Haunting SP/N Gallery (Richardson)...
Dorf on Law

The Emperor's New Clothes Originalism - Law Professor Caleb Nelson made a big splash this week by arguing that under the text and original meaning of the Constitution, Congress has the power to...
Ian Welsh

There’s A Reason I Say “Climate Change and Environmental Collapse” - A lot of people lump all environmental issues under “climate change.” It’s the big bad boogeyman, the easiest to observe, and the first that’s likely to ca...
Rewire

Banning Abortion Is a Hallmark of Authoritarian Regimes - Analysis: Abortion bans instantly oppress a huge swath of society. Enforcing them begets a police state—an upside for dictators from Mussolini to Orbán. ...
Democracy Now!

Walkout: Top U.S. Media, Including Conservative Outlets, Reject New Pentagon Press Restrictions - The Department of Defense has introduced a new press policy requiring the Pentagon to authorize any reporting on itself. Top TV news outlets have rejected ...
Space City Weather

Houston’s forecast in the days ahead: Rain chances trend up slightly, front outlook remains muddled - In brief: Today’s post takes a look at rising humidity for the next couple of days, and returning rain chances on Friday and Saturday. We also look at the ...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Regime Change Against Venezuela?” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou analyze the Supreme Court’s probable gutt...
ArcaMax

Janet Mills Happens to Be a Lot Younger Than Bernie Sanders - So Democrat Janet Mills, governor of Maine, is running against Susan Collins, the state's Republican senator since 1997. An established political figure wo...
Angry Bear

Number of US Students in College Decreases as Political Views Discourage Foreign Students - This is a rambling commentary pulling from an Angry Bear writer and two articles. I believe I have it all in order. Most recently Joel discussed Academia...
Earth 911

What To Do When Your Water Tastes Bad - It’s understandable that Americans are concerned about water quality these days. Not only is the... The post What To Do When Your Water Tastes Bad appear...
Crooked Timber

Does “forward” still make sense? A hypothesis on protest - One of the big puzzles in the last months, for those observing the politics in the US and elsewhere, is this: why is there apparently so little protest aga...
The Smirking Chimp

My Aging, Trump’s Aging -
Skeptophilia

Dark matters - A point I've made here at *Skeptophilia* more than once is that I don't automatically *disbelieve* in anyone's claim of having a paranormal or religious ex...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Jolanda Jones - We come to the end of the line of my interviews for this cycle. I’ll be back in the saddle soon enough for the 2026 primaries, but today we are finishing o...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Maine Senate Primary Tests Whether Democrats Will Keep Deferring to Their Leaders - Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of part...
Infidel753

How the left loses working-class voters - It's a rather minor example, perhaps, but this short posting at Daily Kos illustrates perfectly the mind-set by which the left alienates the very people i...
Scheerpost.com

Trump: If Hamas Doesn’t Disarm, ‘We Will Disarm Them, Perhaps Violently’ - The president also expressed support for Hamas's executions of alleged criminals, saying he's 'OK' with it.
Grist

The strategy behind Trump’s climate catchphrase, the ‘Green New Scam’ - The slogan may sound like a joke, but it’s part of a broader campaign to undermine public trust in climate action.
High Country News

Montana’s Chinese past isn’t past - A forgotten Chinese cemetery reveals how Missoula buries its past — and why the present is so familiar. The post Montana’s Chinese past isn’t past appea...
Portside

5-Day Strike Begins at Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Across Hawaii - 5-Day Strike Begins at Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Across Hawaii Ray Thu, 10/16/2025 - 03:06
Counterpunch

Shit Has Hit the Fan - The post Shit Has Hit the Fan appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Avedon's Sideshow

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

The Slow Corrosion Of Our Institutions -
See You In 2020

As the U.S. prepares to invade Venezuela, pro-Maduro communists must take the lead in the workers movement - Washington’s attempt at invading Venezuela must prompt us to rally behind Maduro, and to combat the supposedly socialist political actors which stand ag...
Workers World

PDF of October 16 issue - [image: PDF of October 16 issue] Download the PDF Palestinian Resistance scores historic victory Editorial: Nobel Committee awards peace prize to warmonger...
Wolf Street

Stock Market Leverage Blows Out - Everyone is talking about the AI bubble – proclaiming it or denying it – but this is what it looks like from the leverage point of view.
Informed Comment

The Israeli Scramble for Palestine’s Energy Reserves (Pt. 1) - For 25 years, Israel’s Gaza policies have been motivated not just by security concerns, but by efforts to exploit the Palestinians’ energy reserves. With t...
The NM Political Report

Rio Rancho mayor officially enters 2026 governor’s race - [image: Rio Rancho Mayor Gregg Hull officially announced his candidacy for New Mexico governor Tuesday, becoming the first Republican to enter the 2026 r...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

JD Vance defends GOP leaders caught making Holocaust jokes, voicing gay slurs, and calling Black people monkeys - Recently, a group chat of leaders of Young Republican groups across the country was leaked to *Politico *magazine, and it is a doozy: The messages publi...
The Texas Signal

Radical Political Puppeteers Come To Texas - The famed and revolutionary Bread and Puppet Theater, famous for their puppetry, is making stops in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and Fort Worth this week
MintPress News

Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal - Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover cem...
Texas Freedom Network

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

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Staying Sane During Insane Times: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The battle is every single day
NORML

FBI: Marijuana Possession Arrests Comprised Over 20% of All Drug-Related Arrests in 2024 - [image: a police officer handcuffs a man's arms behind his back while another officer in the background uses her radio][image: a police officer handcuffs...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Debunking Christianity

A Second Visit to the Cahan’s - A Second Visit to the Cahan’s: *Figure 1:* The Cahan’s Meeting House’s unused Presbyterian pulpit. My fellow Ulsterman, Ignorant Amos, thought this pictur...
Ecosophia

The No-Ego Ego Trip: An Interlude - Every year or two I field an earnest message from someone who’s just discovered that the human ego is the cause of all the world’s problems. The sender’s i...
Common Dreams

Advocacy Orgs Launch Ad Campaign to Defend Healthcare in Face of Shutdown - This week, a coalition of public interest organizations: Public Citizen, Indivisible, MoveOn, Fair Share America, People for the American Way, American F...
Seeing the Forest

American Media Asymmetry - There are things the American public just can’t be told. Here are a few examples. Universal healthcare, like Medicare-for-All, would dramatically reduce Am...
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
WAWG Blog

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

Gaza: The Peace of the Genocide Alliance - With the silence of the guns, hope grows that Israel’s genocide in Gaza may have come to an end. Hostages and prisoners from both sides have already been e...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, October 2025 ‘End of 10’ Edition - Microsoft today released software updates to plug a whopping 172 security holes in its Windows operating systems, including at least three vulnerabilities ...
Church and State

Put Trump‘s day of triumph in Gaza in perspective - Trump's constant efforts to dismantle our democracy will continue and he will stop at nothing to install his authoritarian regime.
Trivial Knot

Deconversion Narrativization - It’s said that the world is made of stories. But, if that were true, why is translating a personal experience into a story so lossy? Invariably, you must c...
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
The AltWorld

Clash of Civilization: East vs. West - On this episode of TheRedPillDiaries we will be visited by the founder and host of The New […] The post Clash of Civilization: East vs. West appeared fir...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
Field Negro

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

10/13-10/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - The shutdown continues…more news, videos, and of course, your comments after the jump.
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANTIFA VS. PRO-FA EDITION. - *Just nice.* According to Tubby and his mob, if you’re anti-fascist you’re a terrorist. Having declared antifa (obligatory mouse type: not a real organiz...
Claytoonz

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

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
Progressive Army

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

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The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

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

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.
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...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

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