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

“The problem we are running into is just a fundamental social question of ‘well, are we going to take care of each other or not? Are we going to take care of our neighbors?’”https://t.co/iCG6ytXSja
— Dr. Joe Jarvis (@DrJoeQJarvis) January 12, 2024

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Marine Le Pen Barred From 2027 French Presidency Run (Gaspard Sebag/Bloomberg) - Gaspard Sebag / Bloomberg: *Marine Le Pen Barred From 2027 French Presidency Run* — Far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and ba...
Vox

Trump is making Europe great again - Cast your mind far, far back, to November of 2024. Trump had just been elected. Americans were divided and unsteady. But the stock market wasn’t: It was th...
The Verge

Nintendo has moved beyond specs - The official unveiling of the Switch 2 was an incredibly confident moment for Nintendo. It was brief and lacking almost entirely in details. There was no p...
Raw Story

'All they're talking about': MSNBC's Mika shares freak-out chats with military families - MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski on Monday ripped into Donald Trump's administration for doing nothing to address the Signal scandal and to reassure military fami...
naked capitalism

Will Trump Deliver on His Threat of Taking Military Action Against Iran? - The US has increased its threat display in the Middle East generally and versus Iran in particular. Will the US greenlight an Israel attack?
Mediaite

Elon Musk Vows DOGE Probe Into These ‘Strangely Wealthy’ Dems: ‘How Do They Get $20M?’ - Elon Musk has announced a DOGE-led investigation into the personal fortunes of Democratic members of Congress during a town hall in Wisconsin, asking how...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term: ‘There Are Methods Which You Could Do It’ -
Political Wire

The Largest Peacetime Tax Hike in History - “White House aide Peter Navarro claimed Sunday that President Donald Trump’s new tariffs would raise more than $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next...
The Hill

Morning Report — Wild week ahead: Trump tariffs, elections - In today’s issue: President Trump will shake up global trade again this week, add new pressures to a slowing U.S. economy and pay new attention Tuesday t...
Mediagazer

Nokia and Amazon settle a long-running, global patent dispute over Amazon using Nokia's video tech in Prime Video and its devices, without disclosing the terms (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg) - Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: *Nokia and Amazon settle a long-running, global patent dispute over Amazon using Nokia's video tech in Prime Video and its de...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing - [image: Trump’s Negotiating Is Failing] If you want to call it negotiating. Iran refuses to even talk, unless America removes sanctions first. Putin will ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Donald Trump says he is ‘not joking’ over possible third term – US politics live - President tells NBC ‘there are methods’ in securing a third term despite constitutional barriers Good morning, and welcome to our US politics blog amid n...
Alternet

Trump’s vindictiveness never ends - Last week I wrote to you about Trump’s crackdown on the pillars of civil society — the universities, the scientific community, the media, the legal profe...
Off The Kuff

Allred considering 2026 Senate run - Fine by me. On a night when he urged a group of erstwhile Republicans to stay in the fight, former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred said he’s “seriously considering”...
Axios

BlackRock's Larry Fink treads cautiously in letter that shies from politics - BlackRock CEO Larry Fink reassures investors that this moment of economic anxiety will pass in his annual letter out Monday morning. *Why it matters: *Fi...
Salon.com

Marco Rubio’s mission to root out students “making a ruckus” causes collateral damage - Seizure of Tufts University student shows the First Amendment is the first casualty
NPR's Health Shots

How Much Will That Surgery Cost? Hospital Price Lists Remain Largely Unhelpful - Health care price transparency is one of the few bipartisan issues in Washington, D.C. But much of the information is not helpful to patients, and there's ...
Daily Dot

‘Can we even normalize them?’: Woman gets whole meal at Raising Cane’s for $6.99. Here’s everything it comes with - [image: woman shares meal that she purchase at restaurant(l) Raising Cane's outdoor sign(r)] It’s no surprise that 74% of American adults are overweight....
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of Selena - Monday, March 31, 2025 marks the 30-year anniversary of the murder of popular and Grammy-winning Latin singer *Selena Quintanilla-Pérez*. Born April 16, ...
Eschaton

Morning - New week, new excitement.
San Antonio Report

Should Texas lawmakers ban cell phones in classrooms? - After hearing from several educators that cell phones are distractions in the classroom, lawmakers are considering banning the devices in K-12 schools, a p...
The Week

What should you be stockpiling for 'World War Three'? - Britons advised to prepare after the EU tells its citizens to have an emergency kit just in case
Slate

The Adjective *Columbine* Refers to a Similarity to Which Bird? - Test your wits on the Slate Quiz for March 31, 2025.
Rio Grande Guardian

Covarrubias: Taxing Value Chains: Auto Tariffs in an Integrated North American Market - Tariffs represent a fundamental shift in US trade policy with potential long-term consequences for North American integration and the reshaping of contin...
Courthouse News

France’s extreme-right leader Le Pen found guilty of embezzlement - Marine Le Pen's presidential ambitions were at stake in the trial, as prosecutors asked for a five-year ban on her running for office.
Scheerpost.com

Schools are No Place for the ADL: Examining the ADL’s ‘No Place for Hate’ Program - The Anti-Defamation League's flagship "No Place for Hate" program brings the organization's Israel advocacy into K-12 schools across the country under the ...
Dissident Voice

The Real Outrage in Yemen - Members of the Fifteenth Street Meeting of Friends and the New York Catholic Worker gather for a weekly vigil against the bombing of Yemen in New York Ci...
American Prospect

The Trump Factor in the Middle East - Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s slow road to obliterating ...
Al Jazeera English

French court finds far-right leader Le Pen guilty of embezzlement - Prosecution demands that Marine Le Pen be barred from office threaten to derail her bid for the presidency in 2027.
ProPublica

We Detailed Mayor Adams’ Embrace of an Abuse-Ridden NYPD Unit. Now Lawmakers and Advocates Demand Change. - by Eric Umansky ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re publishe...
Grist

Why Indigenous nations are walking away from pipeline talks in Michigan - Experts say tribes are protesting federal agencies as Trump fast tracks oil and gas projects.
High Country News

Trump’s funding freeze of Indigenous food programs may violate treaty law - [image: Members of the Buffalo Nations Food Sovereignty community dig into soil with shovels in a sunny garden.] According to legal experts, the cutoff er...
Earth 911

Pollinate Success: 5 Tips for Planting a Bee-Friendly Garden - It’s been in the news for years now — the bee population has been dying... The post Pollinate Success: 5 Tips for Planting a Bee-Friendly Garden appeared...
Portside

New Nanoparticle Therapies Target Two Major Killers - New Nanoparticle Therapies Target Two Major Killers Ira Mon, 03/31/2025 - 03:06
The Disorder Of Things

Why We Wrote Governing The Feminist Peace - This is the first post in a new book symposium, on Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd’s Governing the Feminist Peace, which was published in 2024 by Columbia...
Rallblog

ICE Targets College Students Over Criminals - Trump rode into office vowing to secure the border, yet ICE’s deportation of criminals crawls at a snail’s pace. Fewer deportations have occurred since J...
Counterpunch

War, Doublethink, and the Struggle for Survival: Geopolitics of the Gaza Genocide - In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global powers ...
jobsanger

AOC Says Democrats Need Candidates Who Know Voters Problems -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1345: The Pantheon - Episode: 1345 Hadrian’s Pantheon: The world’s largest domed structure for 1800 years. Today we build a big room.
World Socialist Web Site

David North’s *Sounding the Alarm* introduced at Leipzig Book Fair: “Humanity is confronting the danger of a descent into the abyss” - “The alternatives as posed by Rosa Luxemburg, ‘Socialism or Barbarism,’ confronts us all today. The alarm has been sounded. Now we must respond to it.”
Informed Comment

Iran Rejects direct talks with Trump despite threat that “There will be Bombing.” - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian met with his cabinet on Sunday, according to the president’s website, and announced that...
Antiwar.com

Sometimes, Appeasement Is the Best Option - Appeasement was a bad idea in 1938, but it’s often a good idea. Ukraine would be wise to appease Russia. Ukraine’s supporters in the United States and Euro...
Crooked Media

Musk Throws Millions Into Wisc. Supreme Court Race - The post Musk Throws Millions Into Wisc. Supreme Court Race appeared first on Crooked Media.
Popular Resistance

Fake ‘Populism’: Trump’s Billionaire Administration Serves The Rich - When Donald Trump campaigned to be US president in 2024, he promised he would help working-class Americans. He even did a photo op at a McDonald’s, prete...
Krebs on Security

How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack - In an address to Congress this month, President Trump claimed he had "brought free speech back to America." But barely two months into his second term, the...
Claytoonz

Free Speech Brouhaha - Read the blog at my Substack, then please subscribe to help support my cartooning and blogging. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the c...
Futurism

AI's "Biggest Test" Is Turning Into a Catastrophe as CoreWeave Flounders - AI is said to have It faced its toughest challenge yet in CoreWeave, the AI processing company that went public on the stock market this week — the first...
Deadline Politics

Trump Now Claims A Third Term “In A Way Is A Fourth Term” Because 2020 Was Rigged Against Him – Update - UPDATE, 5:48 PM: Donald Trump seemed to joke around with gallows humor before about never leaving the White House now he’s back in power. Today, with some ...
Undernews

Elon Musk Scores Big Legal Win at Wisconsin Supreme Court - * Newsweek - *The Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to hear a case brought against billionaire Elon Musk by the midwestern state's Attorney General Josh K...
Election Law Blog

Dan Balz: “Trump seeks takeover of elections in a bid for more presidential power” - WaPo Dan Balz column: Almost no part of government is immune from President Donald Trump’s thirst for power and control. Last week he signed executive or...
WhoWhatWhy

Triple Threat: Trump Teases Third Term - [image: Donald Trump, White House, Washington, DC] The issue of Trump’s third term will be resolved long before 2028. Triple Threat: Trump Teases Third Ter...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Can Zionists Defend Their Agenda Without Suppressing Academic Freedom? - Under the current circumstances, the answer clearly appears to be NO; however, only those checking more reliable sources would know this, since mainstre...
The Texas Signal

Thousands Attend Immigration March In Dallas - The Mega Marcha, billed as the largest rally for immigration reform thus far into the year, ended at City Hall Plaza, where a diverse lineup of speakers fr...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Why A ‘Lay Low’ DEI Strategy Is Especially Bad Right Now, by Dr. Shaun Harper - *Friends:* *In total agreement with Dr. Shaun Harper. It's very clear to me that our leaders within our institutions and corporations need to speak up. Thi...
Bracing Views

What Good Is Democracy If You’re Unable to Speak? - W.J. Astore A Lesson from “The Matrix” In “The Matrix,” Agent Smith asks humanity’s hero, Neo, “What good is a phone call if you’re unable to speak?” It’s ...
Mother Jones

“I’m Not Joking”: Trump Again Floats Running for Anti-Constitutional Third Term - President Donald Trump has repeatedly teased running for a third term in violation of the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which limits presidents to tw...
Techdirt.

Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is frankcox with a comment about the horrifying abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk: Masked abductors? The...
Debunking Christianity

An Interesting Documentary on Northern-Irish Monarchism - R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) is a Presbyterian Philosopher whom I like to listen to. He mentions the German word for: Enlightenment, which is: ‘Aufklärung’. ...
The Root

Wow! Cardi B Goes Off About the Scary Messages Her Ex Offset is Allegedly Sending Her - The Cardi B and Offset drama just won’t let up. Recently, the “I Like It” rapper took to X Spaces, where she claimed not only that her estranged ex was t...
See You In 2020

“Truth to power” is no longer enough. We must mobilize the masses to overthrow their criminal dictatorship. - Above: Homeland Security agent in February 2025, photo by RJ Sangosti We’ve reached a point where it’s no longer enough to expose power, because power h...
The Greanville Post

The Incompetent Empire - EDITOR—In Episode 136 of "Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline," host Billy Bob welcomes Christopher Black, a renowned international criminal lawyer, to di...
Daily Cartoonist

Laffs and Gaffes - As Mike noted GoComics dropped the black line from Baby Blues today. They did the same with Phoebe and Her Unicorn (and on the comic strip’s tenth annivers...
Space City Weather

Strong thunderstorms are possible in the Houston metro area this afternoon - In brief: We’re interrupting your Sunday with a short post to note the possibility of severe weather in the Houston metro this afternoon and early evening....
Infidel753

The Day of Action - Tesla Takedown's "Day of Action" yesterday seems to have been fairly successful, with more than two hundred events at Tesla showrooms, within the US and g...
Field Negro

"The Death of Outrage" - William Bennett wrote that book, the Death of Outrage, back in 1999. In it, he lamented about how Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky affair was an "a...
Liberation News

Undemocratic St. Louis police bill will hurt working class, immigrants - [image: Feature photo: Governor Mike Kehoe after being sworn into the Missouri Senate in 2011. Photo credit: Missouri News Horizon (CC BY 2.0)]The solution...
The AltWorld

Turkey’s Uprising is Still Going: Is This the Beginning of the End for Erdogan? - Murat Akad, a representative of the Communist Party of Turkey, joins the show to discuss the mass […] The post Turkey’s Uprising is Still Going: Is This ...
El Paso Matters

Patrick Crusius believed he was fulfilling Trump’s wishes in El Paso attack, his attorney says - Patrick Crusius told his attorney that he massacred people in an El Paso Walmart because President Donald Trump wanted him to stop a Hispanic invasion. ...
Bonddad

Arctic sea ice makes new record low annual max - *- by New Deal democrat* On Sunday I occasionally post about topics of interest unrelated to economics. So today, let’s take note of a significant m...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dual Existence During a Coup: Audio From A Collapsing State - Navigating this moment can be maddening. But we must acknowledge the threats and problems while seeing the places for hope
Reform Austin

Sasha Aghili, A Texas Animal Savior - Sasha Aghili is a Texas woman who runs a streetdog rescue shelter that saves several dogs daily. Her efforts to save these vulnerable animals have reache...
Mondoweiss

Eid in Gaza: Joy tainted by blood - [image: Palestinian Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip March 30...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Great Start!' Toons - Sadly, it doesn't end there... ...NEXT THIS WEEK!... ...HOPE... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With edit...
Idavox

Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904) - When we talk about John Brown, we really should look at the people around him... The post Mary Ellen Pleasant (1814-1904) appeared first on Idavox.
First Draft

The Lineup (1958) - A 1958 film noir set in San Francisco. Starring Eli Wallach, Robert Keith, and Richard Jaeckel. Directed by Don Siegel. Screenplay by Sterling Silliphant. ...
Consortium News

Judges Weighing Appeal By Whistleblower Who Exposed Cover-Up of Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan - SPECIAL REPORT: David McBride appeared in a Canberra court earlier this month appealing his conviction in a case that could determine if a soldier’s duty i...
Angry Bear

Economic Occurrences Could Lead the US to Another 2008 - This particular piece (or partial) is taken from an article written in 2015. You can pick up the entire piece at “KelloggInsight.” It is an abbreviated v...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Braunton Road - [image: Braunton Rd, BS3]
Glasstire

City of Austin Finds Solutions for Public Artwork Originally Slated for Demolition - Despite the City of Austin’s initial decision to deaccession four public art pieces located in the Austin Convention Center, it is now working with the a...
Ballot Access News

March 2025 Ballot Access News Print Edition - WYOMING ALMOST CERTAIN TO SEVERELY INJURE BALLOT ACCESS On February 19, the Wyoming Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee passed HB ...
Wolf Street

Could a Market Meltdown Trigger the Next Recession? - Wolf Richter on Thoughtful Money.
Trivial Knot

On artificial romance - I just watched a video by Daryl Talks Games titled “What Artificial Romance Does to People“. Although crushes/romance/relationships with artificial charact...
ExChristian.Net

The Mind Virus of Religion: Why Are We Still Doing This? - It is 2025. We have sequenced the human genome, mapped the cosmic microwave background, and developed artificial intelligence capable of composing sympho...
The Progressive Wing

3.29-31 Open Threads - Hello everyone. 🙂 The interesting news down here is the two Special House elections. The one in my area is Wells vs. Fine. The other one (which is also wo...
CultureMap Houston

Closure of favorite Montrose restaurant tops week's most-read stories - *Editor's note: It was a week of big restaurant news, with the announcement of a favorite Montrose restaurant's closure and the opening of some exciting ne...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Who the heck is Hotep Jesus? - S*ATURDAY, MARCH 29, 2025* *We finally decided to check:* Last night, it was the same old thing on the primetime "cable news" propaganda show, *Gutfeld!....
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Fighting The Oligarchs - Thousands fight the oligarchy, states give credit where credit’s due, a free-press challenge gets crushed, and state death penalties meet their fate.
The Conversation

How is classified information typically shared and can officials declassify secrets whenever they want? A national security expert explains - Government officials with classified information clearance typically have a range of secure ways they can view or discuss classified information.
ArcaMax

The Era of the Wuss - American popular culture, ever promoting the myth that we live in the land of the free and the brave, wants us to believe that we stand up to bullying. Eve...
Bud Kennedy

From 2000: In Fort Worth tornado, Cowtown’s good luck finally runs out | Opinion - (From columns published March 29, 2000 and April 4, 2000.) This is the column I prayed I would never have to write. When I was 5, I saw a tornado … Click t...
Skeptophilia

The letter and the labyrinth - A year and a half or so ago I wrote a piece about some of the biblical apocrypha -- books and epistles and letters and whatnot that didn't make the cut t...
Progressive.org

The Real Outrage in Yemen - As Democrats decry the Trump Administration’s national security lapse, the United States is engaged in an actual killing campaign.
Workers World

Boston demands: ‘Free Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk!’ - [image: Boston demands: ‘Free Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk!’] Thousands of people converged on Tufts University on March 26 to demand that U.S. Immigration...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court considers Catholic charity group’s bid for tax exemption - [image: Supreme Court considers Catholic charity group’s bid for tax exemption] [image: Supreme Court considers Catholic charity group’s bid for tax exempt...
Eater Houston

Where to Get Your Matcha Fix in Houston - Enso A busy Houston pop-up dishing out hand-crafted matcha on the spot, a Michelin-recognized ramen restaurant with an unlikely pairing, and a matcha ma...
Texas Standard

Remembering Carole Keeton, political trailblazer - She scored many “firsts” in her long political career, including being the first woman mayor of Austin and first woman to serve as state comptroller.
Church and State

In Texas, Christian right grows confident and assertive - Lawmakers and bill supporters frequently say that church-state separation is a myth meant to obscure America’s true, Christian roots. The post In Texas, ...
slacktivist

LBCF: This is London - Apart from the persecution-complex paranoia and the desperate need for vicarious thrills to give drab life the illusion of meaning, this chapter has little...
Rewire

A Leaked Group Chat, ICE Detaining International Students, and More - I can’t believe we’re less than three months in. The post A Leaked Group Chat, ICE Detaining International Students, and More appeared first on Rewire Ne...
The Militant

Thousands march in Gaza: ‘Hamas out!’ - Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza March 25 and 26 to demand an end to Tehran-backed Hamas’ dictatorial rule. They are the largest prote...
The NM Political Report

Mexican wolf heads toward Mount Taylor - By Hannah Grover A female Mexican gray wolf is wandering toward Mount Taylor. This wolf, who was given the name Ella by school children and is identifie...
Southeast Texas Record

Court activity on March 21: Velocity Investments, LLC vs Allison Horton - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activity in the suit brought by Olsen-Zhang, Jessica and Velocity Investments, LLC against Allison H...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CULTURE WAR IS A WAR ON CULTURE EDITION. - *A blast from the pissed. (RIP Sandman.)* Woke up this morning and, dammit, it was still Nutsy Nazi Time in the former United States of America. Tubby sq...
Discourse

FOWL HYSTERIA 2025: FINAL FOUR - We weren't expecting THIS.
Sludge

Trump Has Already Let 100 Companies Off the Hook - Wacthdogs worry the dropped enforcement actions will encourage more corporate abuse.
Second Nexus

Kansas Babysitter Finds Man Hiding Under Child's Bed While Checking For 'Monsters' - Many horror movies with plots involving children would be *much shorter* if movie parents listened when the kid complained about something under the bed....
Dorf on Law

No One Knows Whether Social Security is Safe from Musk and Trump, But There Are Some Reasons for Guarded Optimism - Social Security happens to be one of my primary areas of academic expertise, and it unfortunately has become a focus of attention in the Musk-Trump Admin...
Earthworks

Multiple Dams Fail at Indonesian Nickel-Mining Facilities - Multiple tailings dam failures at Indonesia’s IMIP nickel-mining complex have killed three workers and exposed hundreds to toxic waste. Advocates warn of...
Common Dreams

Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Casar Slams Late-Night Assault on American Workers - Congressional Progressive Caucus *Chair Greg Casar (TX-35)* issued the below statement following a late-night executive order issued by President Trump a...
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...
MintPress News

Israeli Lawsuits Target Americans: A New Threat to the First Amendment Under Trump - A wave of lawsuits filed by Israeli plaintiffs against pro-Palestinian Americans is setting the stage for Trump-backed legislation that could criminalize...
Capital & Main

USDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg’ - More than $1 billion in assistance has been cut; millions of families could be affected. The post USDA Cuts Hit Food Banks Across the Country: ‘This Is J...
Texas Monthly

Jesus Is Performing a Miracle for the Texas Filmmaking Industry - A visit to the Midlothian set of "The Chosen" sheds light on why the biblical drama has millions of fans around the world—state political leaders among them.
Texas Freedom Network

The March Lege Lowdown - In the March Lege Lowdown, we'll cover key bills in pub ed, religious freedom, LGBTQIA+ equality, reproductive rights, and voting rights. [...] Read More...
Democracy Now!

"The Encampments": New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests - The new documentary *The Encampments*, produced by Watermelon Pictures and BreakThrough News, is an insider’s look at the student protest movement to deman...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Coke, Chops, Cheats, and Corporate Resurrections - The post Strangest State: Coke, Chops, Cheats, and Corporate Resurrections appeared first on The Texas Observer.
DeSmogBlog

Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro Discuss Canada Electing ‘Solid Allies’ to Trump at Florida Event - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and conservative influencer Ben Shapiro discussed how to help Canada elect “solid allies” to the Trump administration duri...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio March 28, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 03/28/2025 - 05:10 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Unlimited Hangout

The Kim Iversen Show - The Kim Iversen Show.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Macklemore on ‘Encampments’: A Film That Tells the Truth About Student Protests for Gaza - Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmo...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Notes on the State of Off-Year Elections: Wisconsin, Florida, and Pennsylvania - Wisconsin will hold a state Supreme Court election next week, where liberals are defending their 4-3 majority. Florida will also have two special electio...
LareDOS

LFS Film Club Friday features films of Marcela Morán on Friday, March 28 - Isaac Garza’s team-building workshop set for Saturday, March 29
Greg Palast

Trump Orders States to Open Voter Files to MuskExec Order Will Cost 21 Million Their Vote - No joke. On Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump issued an extraordinary Executive Order that would give “the DOGE Administrator,” that is, Elon Musk, access...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a bigoted fool of herself during PBS, NPR hearing - Marjorie Taylor Greene On Wednesday, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene held a public hearing in which she tried to put forth the argument that PBS and ...
Ecosophia

March 2025 Open Post - This week’s Ecosophian offering is the monthly open post to field questions and encourage discussion among my readers. All the standard rules apply (no pro...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The War on Whatever - The War on Whatever is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous, which it is. Like the never-ending war in Orwell’s 1984, it is waged by the empir...
Project Censored

Stargate Fiasco - Recently, Trump announced the private-public partnership, Stargate. It builds on Biden’s executive order to make DOD military bases and irreplaceable ele...
The Grayzone

Why did Jeffrey Goldberg leave the ‘bomb Yemen’ Signal chat? - With momentum for a strike on Iran building within the Trump White House, Goldberg was apparently summoned to move the neocon message. And he wound up wi...
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...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Becoming Elon Musk, Part Two - In the second of two episodes on Elon Musk, Matt and Sam examine key moments in the billionaire’s political derangement, his purchase of Twitter, and his...
NORML

Virginia: Governor Vetoes Adult-Use Marijuana Retail, Guts Medical Access Legislation - [image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization][image: Virginia Marijuana Legalization]"Once again, Governor Youngkin has prioritized his personal politics over...
Duck of Minerva

The Folly of Trying to Trade Russia for “Europe” - I published an article yesterday in Real Clear Defense. The title is “The Road to Securing European Cooperation on China Runs Through Ukraine”, but I supp...
The Rag Blog

MELISSA HIELD / HISTORY / Project Tejas 1985 - Heart Centered Work at the Texas Department of Agriculture By Melissa Hield / The Rag Blog / March 25, 2025 People’s History in Texas posted the following ...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Our last open thread is just about full. Today's latest: Chief Judge James Boasberg has issued a lengthy order keeping his ban on Trump's use of the Alie...
Democracy Chronicles

How New World Peoples Inspired the Age of Democracy - What is largely underappreciated is how European exposure to the novel concepts of governance helped spark the Enlightenment and give birth to modern democ...
Free & Equal

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

An Old Man Sonnet - A sonnet back in the saddle of love, riding, cropping, bleeding lungs and spitting phlegm.
Lowering the Bar

President Threatened With Witchcraft - This one really is a "witch hunt."
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, ...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia - *This piece originally appeared in **The New York Review of Books. * We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to d...
Reveal

Several Law Enforcement Agencies Have Stopped Reselling Guns - The shift comes after an investigation by The Trace, CBS News, and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting linked former police guns to crime...
The Socialist

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Media Lens

Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer - Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like ‘Generals: Te...
Campaign for America's Future

Building the Resistance - Our fight for democracy is not about left or right, or who you voted for - it's about who gets to live with dignity. Right now, greedy oligarchs think our ...
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
Alas, a Blog

Cartoon: Taking Away His Incentive To Work - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In some circles, Portland’s claim to fame, aside from “burned down by Antifa in 2020,” is the large ...
Seeing the Forest

Can You Trust American Tech? - I live in the UK now. The reaction here and in the EU to what Trump is doing to Ukraine from what I’m reading, is intense. That is putting it mildly. Sudde...
GreenSource DFW

Even as more DFW cities promote water-wise landscaping, homeowner fears reprisal for nontraditional yard - *Grapevine resident Tim Yatko has been fighting citations for his native plant landscaping for nearly two years. Above, Cyril Yatko and pet chicken enjoy...
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...
Avedon's Sideshow

People tell me I'm lucky - I don't think I've mentioned her paintings of New Orleans before, but Diane Millsap is an artist I've long enjoyed. This one is Old Absinthe House. You can...
The Reality-Based Community

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

Liberty and Robber Barons - ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: A moneybag headed Broligarch leads a gang of industrialists (Rockefeller, Carnegie, and them) and says to the Statue of Liberty, "We...
nonsite.org

Painter: Making A Modern Painting - With generous permission from the filmmaker’s estate, we are honored to share this extraordinary short documentary, completed in 2017 by Joseph De Francesc...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Stop Overreacting! - (Inspiration: thanks @pogglerebecca.bsky.social) So — exactly how comically bad ARE Liberals, Centrists and other mutant beasts in the Democratic Party Zoo...
Web of Debt

‘Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics’: How to Fund an Economic Miracle - China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek,...
Stinque

TRUMP TARIFFS UNLEASHING FURY OF CANADIANS – AND THEIR LEGENDARY SNIPERS! - They’re quiet, unassuming but like all newspaper stories we’ve ever read about domestic murderers, we have to assume under that calm exterior lies the mu...
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 ...
Land Destroyer

Anduril’s “Arsenal 1” and “Rebuilding the Arsenal of Democracy” - *January 22, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - With the conflict in Ukraine exposing how unprepared the United States’ military industrial base is for a pee...
The Mind Unleashed

Insurance Company Halts Plan to Put Time Limits on Coverage for Anesthesia During Surgery - In early 2025, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield planned a significant shift in its anesthesia coverage policy, sparking intense debates across the healthcare ...
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...
Ring of Fire

America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable - The post America’s Hatred Of Insurance Companies Is Palpable appeared first on The Ring of Fire Network.
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.
Moron Majority

Satirists Declare National Emergency as Trump’s Cabinet Picks Outpace Their Wildest Spoofs - I In an unprecedented move, the nation’s leading satirists gathered on the steps of the Capitol today to stage a protest against what they call the “unbear...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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

The Reading the Pictures Salon: Looking at Key Images from Campaign 2024 - An expert panel examined key images in the contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump emphasizing themes of democracy, gender, and race. The post The...
Save Buffalo Bayou

No More Money for Incompetent Flood Control - Vote No on Proposition A Oct. 31, 2024 The Harris County Flood Control District is asking county voters for a property tax increase to raise an extra $100 ...
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...
Nina Illingworth

Nina-Bytes: A Gateway to Eliminationism - Nina looks at why fascist lawmakers using anti-trans arguments to go after disability rights is a predictable but ominous sign for Pig Empire society. The...
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 ...
San Antonio Current

Eighteen of Texas' current congressional candidates are election deniers - A total of 18 candidates who deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election are running to represent Texas in Congress this November, according to a tally by no...
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...
Socialist Alternative

Don’t Let Trump Steal the Election - Despite losing the popular vote by millions, Trump tried to steal the election in 2020. He has never stopped repeating that the 2020 elections were stolen ...
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...
Environment Texas

Fracking is an environmental disaster - Polluted waterways. Destroyed wild places. Dead wildlife. The environmental impact of fracking is devastating. The post Fracking is an environmental disa...
Edinburg Politics

Open Government Seminar, free and open to the public, set for Hidalgo County Commissioners Court Chambers in Edinburg on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, reports attorney Omar Ochoa - Journalists, elected and appointed public officials, and the general public in the Rio Grande Valley will have the opportunity to hear expert presentations...
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...
Countercurrents

Gaza becomes “death zone” as UN suspends humanitarian aid to hundreds of thousands in north - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Tuesday the suspension of all humanitarian aid to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. The estimat...
Independent Political Report

Minor Technical Note - For some days we have had an anomalous issue that kept our site from loading properly. Apologies while the matter is being worked on. We are aware of the...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

ROAR is closing down, but the struggle goes on - After more than a decade of independent publishing and media activism, we are moving on to explore new horizons.
Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Case Against Two Evils - Last week Medhi Hasan of the Intercept interviewed the famous dissident Noam Chomsky in which he proclaimed that not voting for Joe Biden is a vote for “th...
Austin 360

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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