Brains and Eggs: Sunday 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 Week

Trump allies reportedly poised to buy TikTok - Under the deal, U.S. companies would own about 80% of the company
The Verge

Tariffs kill the Starling Home Hub, Google Nest’s best bridge to Apple Home - I have bad news for ecosystem straddlers who use Google Nest products in their smart homes but rely on iPhones and Apple Home for control: the much-loved S...
Raw Story

'Never do it again': RFK Jr. threatened CDC director after she spoke with lawmakers - According to the now-fired director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grew alarmed by what she might...
Courthouse News

Trump’s historic second UK visit marked by pageantry and protest - The president joined King Charles III for a guard of honor and carriage procession before he meets with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday for talks f...
Slate

Something Bizarre Happens When My Girlfriend Orgasms. She Swears It’s “Just a Quirk.” - This is ... concerning.
Deadline Politics

No New ‘South Park’ Episode Tonight Reveals Matt Stone & Trey Parker, Due To Time Crunch: “This One’s On Us” - There will be no Cartman, Kenny or the South Park gang, nor more on Donald Trump anfd Satan’s love child tonight. “Apparently when you do everything at the...
Mediagazer

Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 (Bloomberg) - Bloomberg: *Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing de...
Political Wire

Huge Protest Greets Trump’s Visit to Britain - “Thousands of protesters poured into central London on Wednesday to demonstrate against President Trump, a contrast to his red-carpet reception from royalt...
Salon.com

How “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” became an antidote to American fatigue - Amid a slog of familiar stories and nationalist culture, Americans are adopting a wave of new Eastern obsessions
The Hill

Trump’s prayer push is a time bomb for America - Donald Trump's pledge to restore prayer in public schools may please his base, but it also strengthens the hand of whoever comes after him and could lead t...
San Antonio Current

Texas GOP may be banking on low Hispanic turnout in new map - [image: Presiding judge Dina Patel checks her watch as she waits for polls to open at Parker Elementary on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Houston.] Republicans...
Daily Dot

“I betrayed my spouse, coworkers, friends, family”: Ex-Try Guy Ned Fulmer launches podcast years after “wife guy” cheating scandal - Exactly three years since the internet exposed Ned Fulmer for cheating on his wife with a co-worker, the former Try Guy is launching the "Rock Bottom" po...
NPR's Health Shots

Ousted CDC director testifies on why she was fired - Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
Mediaite

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez Lights Up Ex-Boss RFK Jr. in Blistering Statement on Capitol Hill - Ousted former CDC chief Dr. Susan Monarez ripped into her former boss Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before a Senate panel on Wednesday, claiming he demanded that...
Sludge

Following Sludge Report, SKDK Says It’s Dropping Its Israel Contract - The Democratic PR firm was under contract with Israel to build a social media bot program, but says it never worked on such a program.
memeorandum

Fascism Scholar Sounds Alarm: We're Now In 'Next Phase' Of Trump Authoritarian Playbook (Lee Moran/HuffPost) - Lee Moran / HuffPost: *Fascism Scholar Sounds Alarm: We're Now In ‘Next Phase’ Of Trump Authoritarian Playbook* — And it's “just what we expected,” sai...
Eschaton

Seems Bad - The important thing to remember is we treat "everybody" like this, but some of these Koreans might be people who matter. We got a vivid glimpse of what i...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US liberal philanthropies condemn political violence and defend their work - More than 100 organizations sign open letter as Trump administration vows to crack down on left-leaning funding More than 100 liberal philanthropies and ...
Alternet

This Trump official being set up to 'take the fall' for bungled Kirk investigation - U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to crack down on "hate speech" following the fatal shooting of MAGA activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie ...
Dissident Voice

Inadequate Responses Leading to Calculated Atrocities - As the tragedy facing the Palestinians unfolds to an ultimate tragedy, we become aware of the true nature of the catastrophe, exhibiting unique elements ...
Al Jazeera English

LIVE: Liverpool vs Atletico Madrid – UEFA Champions League - Follow our live build-up with breaking team news ahead of our full text commentary stream of the Anfield football match.
Progressive Army

Reunión entre AAACI y la Gerencia Comercial de TCA - Informe de Reunión – AAACI y TCA En el día de ayer, los principales directivos de la AAACI se reunieron con la Gerencia Comercial de TCA para monitorear el...
Bonddad

August housing construction: even more recessionary than before - * - by New Deal democrat* A puzzling relationship this year has been that the housing data has been classically recessionary for a number of months, ...
CultureMap Houston

Houston homes go bold with color and texture this autumn, says Houzz - Fall is right on the doorstep, which means it's time to break out all the jewel tones and autumnal decor kept hidden away until the first cool breeze hits....
El Paso Matters

Opinion: Sunland Park mayor urges Doña Ana County to delay $165 billion Project Jupiter bond over water, housing, and road concerns - Sunland Park Mayor Javier Perea urges Doña Ana County to delay Project Jupiter’s $165 billion bond, citing concerns over water, housing and strained inf...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- there's nothing out there - This is the best and most thorough discussion of this topic that I've ever seen. No, the fact that there are "billions and billions" of stars, planets, g...
Futurism

Experimental Spacecraft Headed to Space Station Suddenly Shuts Down - A whopping 11,000 pounds of supplies and scientific instruments that were headed to the International Space Station are way behind schedule. Northrop Gru...
NORML

Minnesota: Retailers Begin Adult-Use Cannabis Sales - [image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cannabis leaf symbol representing the sale of legal cannabis][image: A hand holds out a paper bag with a cann...
naked capitalism

How Private Equity Is Corroding Education in the UK - The Government is standing by as foreign private equity firms buy up UK universities. This should be a major concern
Daily Cartoonist

Tony D’Adamo – RIP - Newsday illustrator Tony D’Adamo has passed away. Anthony F. (Tony) D’Adamo June 12, 1931 – September 15, 2025 From the obituary: Born with a remarkable ar...
Houston Public Media

Houston’s recovery funds for Beryl and the derecho unlikely to meet need - Houston residents with homes damaged by Hurricane Beryl or the derecho wind event last year could receive financial assistance in the coming months. The ne...
ArcaMax

Broken Shards of September - Sept. 11, 2001: United Flight 93 flew in a tragic turquoise sky with 40 souls aboard. The passengers did not know each other when they boarded the plane to...
SCOTUSblog

Where Congress controls the court - Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Please note that the views ...
Second Nexus

People Open Up About The Biggest Morons They've Ever Worked With - Have you ever met someone who made you wonder how they survive day-to-day? Simple tasks seem beyond their ccapabilities. Have you ever worked with someon...
Bracing Views

The Department of War Is Back! - But Victoryless Culture Remains Also at TomDispatch.com. BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE My fellow Americans, my critical voice has finally been heard inside the Oval...
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 224: “Tyler Robinson Faces Death Penalty” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: “The TMI Show” hosts Ted Rall and Manila Chan are joined by guest Tyler Nixon. Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray...
Glasstire

Synergistic Studio Series: Shifting Perspectives on Purpose with Zach Morriss - Although the vision of the starving artist toiling away in their brilliantly lit warehouse studio is still frequently portrayed in popular media, the rea...
Daily Howler

PRETENDERS: The killer was motivated by Obama! - *WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025* *So a pretender now said: **We're losing the soul of the culture*, he said. The writer was Bret Stephens. In this mornin...
Undernews

Numbers - [image: Two red rectangular bars displaying financial figures. The left bar shows "$5.7 TRILLION" labeled "1,135 American Billionaires." The right bar sho...
First Draft

Musical Interlude: Sing Out - Singing is a refusal to be silenced.
Democracy Now!

Robert Redford the Activist: Hollywood Icon Was Lifelong Champion of Environment & Independent Film - Robert Redford, the legendary Oscar-winning director, actor and activist, died at the age of 89 on Tuesday. Redford was a longtime environmental activist w...
Election Law Blog

“Justice Department says it’s suing Oregon and Maine as it seeks voter data in multiple states” - AP reports. DOJ claims that the states are violating the NVRA, HAVA, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960. Both states are vigorously opposing DOJ’s efforts ...
The Conversation

Federal judge overturns part of Florida’s book ban law, drawing on nearly 100 years of precedent protecting First Amendment access to ideas - A federal judge found a Florida law censoring school library books violates students’ First Amendment rights.
Techdirt.

The Washington Post Fires Its Last Black Opinion Columnist For Directly Quoting A Bigot - The Washington Post isn’t what it used to be. While the paper is still peppered with a few decent journalists trying to do good work, the outlet is being s...
Space City Weather

Modest rain chances reenter the forecast, with a pattern change ahead - In brief: Houston will see plenty of sunshine through the weekend, but we will also start to see some slightly better rain chances. By later Sunday or more...
Texas Observer

How Texas Localities Have (and Haven’t) Spent Settlement Funds to Fight the Opioid Crisis - In the coming years, Texas is set to receive billions of dollars to address the ongoing opioid crisis that has taken the lives of more than 10,000 Texans...
Vox

The AI doomers are not making an argument. They’re selling a worldview. - You’ve probably seen this one before: first it looks like a rabbit. You’re totally sure: yes, that’s a rabbit! But then — wait, no — it’s a duck. Definitel...
Mother Jones

Senate Committee Seeks Intel on Polluters’ Efforts to Kill Critical EPA Rule - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the wake of the Trump administrati...
WhoWhatWhy

WaPo Editorial Board Canonizes Kirk: It’s Just Another ‘Business Decision’ - [image: Washington Post, building, sign, Washington, DC] ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’: Just about every day Jeff Bezos’s once estimable newspaper slips fur...
Dorf on Law

For Trump, Racism and Homophobia are Features, Not Bugs: "Monkeypox" Edition - Donald Trump has a penchant for bestowing and changing names--from "Little Marco" to the "Gulf of America." Some of Trump's statements and actions regard...
Common Dreams

Youth Plaintiffs Begin Historic Live Testimony in Federal Constitutional Climate Case, Lighthiser v. Trump - On Tuesday morning, September 16, 22 young Americans began presenting live testimony in *Lighthiser v. Trump*, a landmark lawsuit challenging federal act...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Calamitous Crypto Corruption -
The Root

Black Internet Has Surprising Reaction to Cardi B’s New Pregnancy Announcement - Cardi B, the popular 'Bodak Yellow' rapper, is back in the headlines and finally confirming a long-held rumor. But folks online are divided! Read more...
Skeptophilia

Utopia for pirates - There are very few tropes that have had quite the cachet (and staying power) that pirates do. Consider the popularity of the *Pirates of the Caribbean* ser...
Off The Kuff

Judge Hidalgo will not run for re-election - We have our answer. Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced late Monday that she will not be seeking re-election in 2026. The decision, announced exclus...
San Antonio Report

How San Antonio clinics use magnetic fields to treat depression - Transcranial magnetic stimulation is an FDA-approved treatment for depression. A growing number of local clinics are offering the treatment. ---------------...
Axios

Behind the Curtain: GOP future foretold - What does a post-Trump Republican Party look like? The past week has given us a clear glimpse of the most likely trajectory, based on conversations with ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Democratic Calendar in Disarray: The Importance of the 2028 Presidential Primary Schedule - The 2028 presidential primary will help determine the future of the Democratic Party. But the schedule of that primary season remains a mystery The post ...
American Prospect

Republicans Leverage Charlie Kirk’s Death to Declare War on Free Speech - A cruel troll is being canonized so liberals and leftists can be silenced.
Scheerpost.com

US Allies Are Not Off-Limits: Israel’s Qatar Strike Shatters Gulf Illusions - Tel Aviv’s unprecedented attack on a US-designated major non-NATO ally has warned the region that diplomatic ties and American bases offer no shield from I...
ProPublica

Elon Musk Has Criticized Environmental Regulations. His Companies Have Been Accused of Sidestepping Them. - by Taylor Kate Brown for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon...
Grist

This new machine churns out carbon-storing biochar on the cheap - A worker-owned cooperative is deploying PyroTowers to produce biochar, which helps farmers in the developing world improve their yields.
High Country News

New Mexico’s billion-dollar orphaned oilfield problem - After oil companies go bust, the state is left paying to clean up abandoned wells, tanks, machinery and sludge pits. The post New Mexico’s billion-dolla...
Crooked Media

Can the FBI Survive Trump & Kash Patel? - The post Can the FBI Survive Trump & Kash Patel? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Consortium News

AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Israel’s Qatar Attack Rattles the Gulf - Like its Gulf neighbors, Qatar invested in a security system premised on U.S. reliability and Israeli restraint. Both pillars have now collapsed. By As`ad...
Counterpunch

More Than a Boat: The Gaza Flotilla as a Symbol of a Growing Global Movement - One needs only to examine the actions and rhetoric of the Israeli government to fully appreciate the profound significance of the solidarity flotillas bo...
jobsanger

Whitewashing American History -
World Socialist Web Site

Divisions deepen in Australia’s Liberal-National Coalition - More rifts have erupted in the Coalition since Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley sacked Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from the shadow ministry last week.
Informed Comment

“Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face:” FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:14 - Quatrain 14 emphasizes how short life is, even with all the good things the earth offers us (of which we should take advantage while we can). XIV. The Worl...
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America, Aug 2025: Price Drops & Gains in 33 Large Expensive Metros. Overall US Home Prices Fell YoY - And they fell in 21 of our 33 metros: Tampa, Austin, Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, San Antonio, Dallas, Phoenix, Orlando, Atlanta...
Workers World

Lies & hype around the Kirk assassination - [image: Lies & hype around the Kirk assassination] Let’s first make it clear who the perpetrators of violence are. In the first half of September: The U.S...
Claytoonz

How To Desecrate An American Flag - 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...
Brad Blog

Our Crumbling Courts and Withering Rule of Law: 'BradCast' 9/16/2025 - We're lucky to have a guest on today's BradCast who is able to offer a smart perspective on a whole bunch of legal stories breaking over the past 24 to 72 ...
The Greanville Post

The Billionaire Class Want You Thinking Israel Controls the West - JON. COOK—A proper analytical framework can explain why Trump and European leaders wish to feign indignation at Israel attacking an ally, Qatar, even thoug...
Ian Welsh

Care To Tell Me What Is Wrong With This Headline? - Link to article here.
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: Israel, Charlie Kirk, And Weaponization Of Murder - Charlie Kirk’s assassination will likely serve as the crux of a new era of political violence and repression in the United States. In the days since Kirk...
Portside

‘Like Working in a Prison’: Cuts, Fear and Understaffing at Trump’s Labor Department - ‘Like Working in a Prison’: Cuts, Fear and Understaffing at Trump’s Labor Department Greg Tue, 09/16/2025 - 20:36
Antiwar.com

New York Declaration: From US-Led Destabilization to Chinese-Led Development in the Middle East - Recently, a high-level UN conference urged Israel to commit to a Palestinian state and gave “unwavering support” to a two-state solution. The “New York Dec...
Reform Austin

Lina Hidalgo’s Political Future Unclear as She Declines Reelection Bid - Democrat Harris County Judge, Lina Hidalgo, announced she will not seek reelection in 2026, concluding an eight-year tenure marked by both bold policy pu...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / Political Commentary / Virtually everything the Trump Administration has done to ramp up deportations has been illegal - Honk for Trump Vance. Photo by Thomas Hawk / Flickr/ Creative Commons. By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / September 16, 2025 The following is an expanded...
The NM Political Report

Sen. Lujan assails feds for canceling funding for minority-serving institutions - [image: U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján has secured more than $12 million in federal funding for New Mexico projects focused on health care, workforce training a...
The Texas Signal

Texas Comic Creator Tackles Music During Jim Crow In New Strip - The Austin-based Isaiah Broussard based the adventures of the band on stories that his Great Uncle would tell him about playing music in the South
Progressive.org

What Our Health Care System Fails to Recognize About Women’s Pain - Preserving and expanding access to Medicaid—and improving women’s access to health care—is a matter of life or death.
Ballot Access News

Third Circuit Won’t Put Pennsylvania Primary Write-in Candidate on November Ballot - On September 16, the Third Circuit refused to order Pennsylvania election officials to put Brandon Pugh on the November 4, 2025 ballot as the Republican no...
LareDOS

Gateway Community Health Center hosts open house for West Laredo Clinic - Residents invited to meet staff
The Daily Poster

Defense Bill Opens Door To Guns-For-Hire At The Border - The must-pass legislation that just passed the House would, for the first time, allow the Pentagon to send private military contractors to the border.
TalkLeft

Tuesday Open Thread - Our last open thread is filling up fast. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. I turned on the TV coverage of CNN for Tyler Robinson's court appearance. ...
Discourse

They Want You Shot By The Smoothest-Cheeked Stormtroopers - The warrior ethos demands troops be as sleek as baby seals
OpEd News

Early this morning the IDF (Israel Defense Force) invaded Gaza city with thousands of troops - This morning the IDF (Israel Defense Force) invaded Gaza city w/ two divisions numbering tens of thousands of troops. Even though the Trump administration ...
slacktivist

‘A brief encounter’ - In which I regret never getting to ask our old family friend Missionary Bob about his potential connections to the Romanian Revolution.
Texas Standard

‘I want to sell some belief’: Matthew McConaughey shares his new book ‘Poems & Prayers’ - McConaughey says this book came out of both a desire to keep writing and a need to fight the cynicism he saw growing in himself and around him.
Independent Political Report

Green Party of Pennsylvania Endorses Global Sumud Flotilla - The Green Party of Pennsylvania has endorsed the Global Sumud Flotilla, a multinational fleet attempting to break the blockade of Gaza. Organizers say th...
Mondoweiss

UN inquiry finds Israel is committing genocide, calls for arms embargo - [image: Palestinians inspect the site of a morning Israeli strike on a house, in Gaza City, August 8, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)]A UN commissio...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Right Breaks Down: Charlie Kirk's Assassination Set Off a Powder Keg - We're watching the fury of the Right grow by the hour and it reveals the depth of our problems
Angry Bear

Consumers say “hold my beer” to DOOOMing about Sales - – by New Deal democrat Retail sales is the first of two very important indicators we got this morning. Per yesterday, with employment growth “dead in the...
Crooked Timber

On the philosophical – moral implications of a 1989 Honda Civic - A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda. 1) Trolley time. Let’s start with the trolley problem. Peop...
Capital & Main

Effort to Curb Southern California Rail Yard Pollution Stalls Under Trump - The region’s rail yards continue to pose serious health hazards, prompting local advocates to push state leaders for action. The post Effort to Curb Sout...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Dean Charles Martinez and a Legacy of Equity, Belonging, and Impact - *Friends:* *I share a sad and disappointing message this morning from University of Texas College of Education Dean Charles Martinez. Dean Martinez’s dec...
MintPress News

Infiltration: A Cardinal Function of the Zionist Movement - Zionism is not just an ideology — it is a system of infiltration designed to embed Israel’s interests into every corner of Western life. The post Infiltr...
Krebs on Security

Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages - At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials fro...
Rewire

Infant Mortality Rises in States With Restrictive Abortion Laws—New Research - Analysis: States that enacted abortion bans post-*Dobbs* saw a 7.2 percent increase in infant deaths. The post Infant Mortality Rises in States With Rest...
Liberation News

‘One space, one people, one destiny’: Two years of the Alliance of Sahel States - The roots of the AES were formed out of military coups that sought sovereignty as a rallying cry from the mass mobilizations taking place against French pr...
Earth 911

Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden - Mulch is any material you use to cover bare soil in a landscape. But mulching... The post Mulch 101: Mulching Your Soil for a Healthy Garden appeared fir...
See You In 2020

Nepal color revolution proves Trump has only intensified imperialist warfare, & expanded big tech’s reach - Above: U.S. armed forces on top of Nepal’s embassy In the face of this anti-revolutionary Nepal coup, the message we must take away is that the enemies ...
Church and State

One of Us - The feverish reaction to Kirk’s death proves that the price is only tolerable when the gun death is one of them, not one of us.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Engraved Ammunition - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb “Sources say…” BWAH HA HA HA HAAHHH, “authorities believe” …”sources say” …after the shooter was revealed to be...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk's 'avengers' are making opportunistic fools of themselves - This post is not about Charlie Kirk. Instead, it's about those who have taken it upon themselves to avenge his death, so to speak. I'm talking about al...
The Grayzone

Billionaire Bill Ackman convened stormy Israel ‘intervention’ with Charlie Kirk, sources say - A month before Charlie Kirk’s killing, billionaire pro-Israel moneyman Bill Ackman arranged an intervention in the Hamptons during which sources say he a...
Idavox

Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! - Charlie Kirk does not deserve our respect or goodwill, no matter how much the mainstream... The post Charlie Kirk: There’s More Comin’! appeared first on...
Project Censored

Palestine, Censorship, and the Responsibility to Reflect - This week we’re talking about getting comfortable with uncomfortable ideas. First up, Thea Abu al-Haj joins the program to discuss the unprecedented cens...
The AltWorld

Do White Ethnicities Understand that they and their values are under attack? - Recently I was enjoying a draft beer with a friend. Charlie Kirk’s assassination became a topic of discussion. […] The post Do White Ethnicities Unders...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1995: The Murder of American Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair - On September 29, 1995, renowned atheist *Madalyn Murray O’Hair*, born April 13, 1919 (in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania) was murdered along with her son, Jon, ...
Trivial Knot

Computer difficulties - Story time. So the other day, my computer crashed and then it wouldn’t restart. I’m not much of a hardware person, but my brothers are, so I spent a long...
Socialist Alternative

Indonesia: Mass Protests Shake ‘Strongman’ Prabowo - Since the end of August, Indonesia has been shaken by the largest protest movement since the fall of Suharto’s 32-year dictatorship in 1998. So far, the pr...
The Militant

Laborers union strikes Pace Industries over wage, health care - DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Honks and waves from drivers passing by show the widespread solidarity with striking workers picketing at the Pace Industries manufac...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy - Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
DeSmogBlog

What ‘Chimney Sweep Testicle’ Can Teach Us About Fossil Fuels’ Staggering Health Consequences - Of the many health impacts linked to fossil fuels perhaps the most gruesome is chimney sweep testicle. Following the Great Fire of London in 1666, chimne...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
Duck of Minerva

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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nonsite.org

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
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.
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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...
Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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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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...
Free & Equal

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

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

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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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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