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

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

To Protect Free Speech, I'm Suing the Man Who Defamed Me (Matt Taibbi/The Free Press) - Matt Taibbi / The Free Press: *To Protect Free Speech, I'm Suing the Man Who Defamed Me* — There's a difference between censorship, which prevents spee...
World Socialist Web Site

Australia: Parliamentary inquiry no obstacle to demolition of Victorian public housing towers - The inquiry was a diversion promoted by the Greens and aimed at promoting the fraud that appeals to the Labor government would halt its destruction of publ...
The Verge

Alienware is working on new slim and cheaper gaming laptops - Dell-owned Alienware is looking to reach a wider swath of gamers, announcing at CES 2026 that it's working on two new laptops: one with a lower, entry-leve...
Mediaite

Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Trump’s ‘Globalist’ Invasion of Venezuela - Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Trump for giving the order to invade Venezuela, suggesting that the administration had taken on a "globalist" character. The ...
Al Jazeera English

Americans evenly split on Maduro’s abduction, poll shows - One in three Americans opposes the Venezuelan leader's abduction by US forces, a poll shows, while others are unsure.
Countercurrents

Dismantling Public Universities: Pushing Education Back to the Margins - Not all privileged students enrol in state-run public universities. It is primarily students from deprived communities and economically disadvantaged rural...
Popular Resistance

‘Killing Democracy’ Exposes Imperialist Tactics And Media Complicity - The new book, "Killing Democracy: Western Imperialism's Legacy of Regime Change and Media Manipulation," is a timely account of the West's efforts to con...
The Hill

Stephen Miller: US 'running Venezuela by definition' - White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller backed President Trump’s assertion that the U.S. will govern Venezuela in the wake of the capture of its l...
Raw Story

Hegseth waylaid in scathing analysis over 'extremely pernicious' case of 'bullying' - Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's latest bid to punish Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) for his role in a video instructing active-duty troops to refuse unlawful...
Political Wire

Is Greenland Next? - The Atlantic: “Danish officials think they know how Donald Trump might seize Greenland. In a late-night Truth Social post, the president announces that the...
Axios

Inside Congress' deep split after marathon Venezuela briefing - Top congressional leaders emerged from Monday's 2+ hours classified briefing with radically different interpretations of the Trump administration's short...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump officials sue California cities over laws to restrict fossil fuels - Suit against San Francisco-area cities Petaluma and Morgan Hill latest attack on policies that seek to rein in oil and gas The Trump administration sued ...
Portside

Top 5 Mistakes Bush Made in Iraq That Trump Is Making in Venezuela - Top 5 Mistakes Bush Made in Iraq That Trump Is Making in Venezuela barry Mon, 01/05/2026 - 21:03
Crooked Media

Did The J6ers Win? - The post Did The J6ers Win? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Deadline Politics

Tony Dokoupil’s Official ‘CBS Evening News’ Debut Features Brisk Headlines, A Momentary Glitch And A New Sign-Off – With Plenty Of Scrutiny To Come: Analysis - When Tony Dokoupil finished his first official broadcast from New York as anchor of the CBS Evening News on Monday, he signed off with, “And that’s another...
Scheerpost.com

“We Have a Thug as President”: Jeffrey Sachs Says Trump’s Venezuela Operation Pushes World Closer to WWIII - Posted by Joshua Scheer In a wide‑ranging interview, economist and author Jeffrey Sachs with Danny Haiphong offers a stark assessment of the U.S. military ...
Courthouse News

Postponements continue for Zizian murder trial - Mental health care issues surrounding one defendant and another's third attempt to escape jail are the latest reasons for delays in an attempted murder tri...
ArcaMax

Lawmakers Renew Push To Regulate Kids' Speech Online Despite Speech Protections - As jazz music, which began in Black communities, spread across the nation in the 1920s, more than 60 cities adopted rules limiting or outright banning it i...
Consortium News

Maduro & Flores Plead Not Guilty in US Court - Maduro described himself as a prisoner of war and said he remains Venezuela’s president. The next hearing is scheduled for March. By Jessica Corbett Common...
Brad Blog

Trump's War on Venezuela is About Ego, Power, Creation of 'Alien Enemies': 'BradCast' 1/5/2026 - Well, we're back! And I had some great stuff I was looking forward to covering on our first BradCast after a long holiday break. But, of course, our psycho...
Undernews

The 92 year old judge handling the Manduro cast - * CLICK FOR STORY*
Progressive.org

El Salvador, Again - The United States and its ally incite new levels of international chaos.
Grist

Trump says he’ll unleash Venezuela’s oil. But who wants it? - As oil prices fall and demand nears a peak, exploiting Venezuela’s heavy crude reserves won’t be as easy as Trump thinks.
San Antonio Report

San Antonio brings in three-time Olympic gold medalist Gabby Douglas for MLK march - San Antonio officials outline plans for the 39th annual MLK March on Jan. 19, alongside a weekend of events emphasizing youth leadership and community enga...
Slate

The Curious Case of the “Free” $1.8 Billion Stadium - Despite claims that the new stadium will pay for itself, taxpayers aren’t likely to see the returns they’re promised.
Techdirt.

They Came To The U.S. Legally. Then Trump Stripped Their Status Away. - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. It was a chilly afternoon in January, just a week after Pre...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Former New York Times editor claims that paper's anti-trans slant was deliberate and came from management - Some of us suspected the following. It looks like we were right. I guess that can be seen as *some* comfort. From THEM: Former *New York Times* editor ...
Ian Welsh

Keep Your Eyes On The Long Game of Imperial Collapse - The kidnapping of Maduro is fascinating and it’s interesting to speculate whether it was inside job. Some sources have claimed it, we’ll know by the action...
Mother Jones

US Reduces Number of Vaccines It Recommends For All Children - Federal health officials reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 to 11 on Monday. According to the new schedule, some routine v...
San Antonio Current

Houston businessman Andrew White drops bid for Texas governor, endorses fellow Democrat Gina Hinojosa - [image: Gubernatorial candidate Andrew White speaks at the University Democrats general meeting at Burdine Hall at the University of Texas at Austin on Oct...
Claytoonz

Maduro On ICE - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Salon.com

The mass media’s blind spot on Trump’s Venezuela escalation - Iraq-era mistakes of blind deference by the mainstream press are back
Mediagazer

NYT says a Trans News Network interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney about NYT's gender identity coverage included "factually inaccurate criticisms" (The New York Times Company) - The New York Times Company: *NYT says a Trans News Network interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney about NYT's gender identity coverage included...
Vox

Trump’s big change to childhood vaccines, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Houston Public Media

Houston saw more 90-plus-degree days in 2025 than ever before - The National Weather Service reported that 2025 was one-tenth of a degree away from matching Houston's record for warmest average temperature, which came i...
El Paso Matters

EPWater 2025: A year of innovation, community and water resilience - Reflections of key milestones and top highlights of the year The post EPWater 2025: A year of innovation, community and water resilience appeared first ...
Futurism

That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping? It’s AI Slop - "The people cry for their freedom, thanks to the United States for freeing us." The post That Video of Happy Crying Venezuelans After Maduro’s Kidnapping...
CultureMap Houston

Houstonians can buy a historic Hill Country dance hall for a song - Wondering what to do with your Christmas bonus? Storied Hill Country dance hall Kendalia Halle is now up for sale for $669,000, offering Texans the chance ...
Daily Dot

“Today in late capitalism”: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s Nike tracksuit becomes a meme - [image: maduro nike tracksuit memes] The Nike tracksuit worn by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as he was taken to the United States has become the t...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
slacktivist

Obedient subjects - Two years ago, the idea of the U.S. sending it's military to conquer Greenland was recognized by everyone as an absurd, ugly joke. But now the absurd, ugly...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Church and State

Trump’s Venezuela attack puts the USA in another war with boots on the ground for oil we don’t need and with his blatant corruption continuing! - Trump‘s presentation was long and rambling, and filled with self-congratulations followed by a press conference.
Election Law Blog

Jonathan Adler Responds to Study on Whether the Supreme Court Favors the Wealthy (Which Was Featured in Adam Liptak’s NYT Column) - Following up on this post, here’s Jonathan’s response: Having looked at the study, I don’t think it does much of anything to reliably substantiate its cl...
Daily Cartoonist

Adaptations and Guest Creators - 13 months ago Liniers delighted us with a weeklong adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky.” I expect to be as thoroughly enamored with his adaptation o...
Second Nexus

Denmark Slams Stephen Miller's Wife After She Shares Image Of Greenland Covered By American Flag - The wife of MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's United States Homeland Security Advisor and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Mi...
Independent Political Report

New York State Conservative Chair Endorses Republican Bruce Blakeman’s Gubernatorial Bid - The chair of the Conservative Party of New York State has announced his endorsement of Republican Bruce Blakeman for governor in the 2026 election cycle,...
Duck of Minerva

Trump, US foreign policy and Venezuela: Aberration or Honesty? - In my international relations classes, I encourage my students to not just express their (mostly negative) views of Trump’s foreign policy. I also ask them...
Ballot Access News

Independent Political Report Collects Statements about Venezuela Events by Various U.S. Political Parties - Independent Political Report has collected official statements from various U.S. political parties about current events in Venezuela. See the collection h...
Bracing Views

Gangster Capitalism - The Donroe Doctrine of Regional Dominance, Obedience, and Theft BILL ASTORE JAN 04, 2026 There are at least 30 trillion reasons why the Trump administratio...
Daily Howler

MONDAY: The madness of the king advances! - *MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2026* *But mainly, Walz drops out:* With the Battle of Caracas won, the madness over Air Force One has been general, with warnings is...
The Week

Venezuela’s Trump-shaped power vacuum - The American abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has thrust South America’s biggest oil-producing state into uncharted geopolitical waters
NPR's Health Shots

Health officials slash the number of vaccines recommended for all kids - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reducing the number of vaccines recommended for all children. The action follows a presidential memorandu...
Wolf Street

Fed’s Standing Repo Facility (SRF) Drops to Zero, from $75 billion on the Last Balance Sheet as Yearend Liquidity Turmoil Dissolves - The Fed’s weekly balance sheet on Thursday will show a substantial drop in total assets.
Texas Standard

From Caracas to Houston: How Venezuela’s oil future could affect Texas - Markets thus far have shown a muted response amid uncertainty over a still-developing situation.
Mondoweiss

Israel has detained Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya without charges for a year. Why has the New York Times refused to cover his case? - [image: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beita Lahia in northern Gaza. Photo via social media]One year ago, an iconic photo f...
Dissent Magazine

The Trump Doctrine - For years, Venezuelans have been trapped between two rogue states, with many reduced to hoping that one could solve the problem of the other. But it is t...
Glasstire

Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists Applications Open Through February 15 - The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) has announced open calls for three annual grant programs for artists in Texas and the Southwestern U.S. The DMA Awards to ...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump’s Plan for Venezuela: A Hope, a Prayer, and Golf - [image: Protestors, Times Square, invasion, Venezuela, kidnapping, Nicolás Maduro] What’s the good of power if you don’t misuse it? Trump’s Plan for Venez...
Common Dreams

Venezuelans deserve democracy not fossil fuel-driven regime change - Global Witness has criticised the US attack on Venezuela in what the Trump administration says will enable US companies to exploit the country’s vast fos...
First Draft

Venezuela Follows The U.S. Fascist Pattern - Go after the easy meat first.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Makes Microslop Trend - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has made the term Microslop go viral with his admonition to "get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication."
The Greanville Post

FOR THE RECORD: ABC World News Tonight with David Muir Full Broadcast – Jan. 4, 2026 - PG— For the record we reproduce here ABC News' episode of Jan. 4, 2026, covering via blatant lies and other distortions the lawless abduction of Venezuela'...
Reform Austin

Texas’ Bold Age Verification Law Faces Major Setback - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A federal court ruling has stalled Texas’ effort to impose age verification and parental consen...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico secures $211M for rural hospitals - [image: New Mexico will receive about $211 million over five years to expand rural health care access under a new $50 billion federal program, though sta...
The Daily Poster

Venezuelan Regime Change, Sponsored By Big Oil - The U.S. government is set to partner with the fossil fuel industry to take over Venezuela’s crude oil reserves.
Alternet

Supreme Court could 'change everything' for campaigns this year: analysis - The Supreme Court seems poised to "change everything" for political campaign finance laws with a ruling expected this year, according to a new analysis f...
The Root

You Won’t Believe Why Cynthia Erivo’s Shutting the Door on Playing Elphaba in ‘Wicked’ on Broadway - While we all love Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, she's adamant about not playing her on Broadway. And now we know why! Read more...
Environment Texas

Plastic Pellet Free Waters for Texas - Texans deserve waters free from microplastics. Let’s hold manufacturers to the same standards we hold ourselves to and stop spilling pellets in our water...
Project Censored

Ghosts in the Machine: Israel’s Military Myths and the Private Equity State - In the first part of the program we welcome back Dr. Shir Hever to talk about what’s really going on behind the media veil of an infallible Israel. Dr. H...
Capital & Main

Capturing America’s Racial Zeitgeist, One Week at a Time - David G. Brown, political cartoonist for the *Los Angeles Sentinel*, the city’s oldest Black newspaper, reflects on the art of racial dissent. An exhibit...
Dissident Voice

The EU’s Extralegal Sanctions Regime - EU Sanctions against the block’s own citizens and residents are a horrible development toward a totalitarian future. Their extralegal nature is what give...
Bonddad

December ISM manufacturing report: continued contraction, continued stagflation, poor employment - * - by New Deal democrat* We are still suffering the data aftereffects of the government shutdown. Normally we begin each month with reports on both ...
The Progressive Wing

1/5-12 News Roundup and Open Thread - More on Venezuela and other stuff,
Texas Observer

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our January/February 2026 Issue - Texas Observer reader, Call me biased, but I do believe you’re holding a damn good magazine in your hands right now. Michelle Pitcher continues her ascen...
SCOTUSblog

The most unorthodox dissent - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. On Aug. 3, 1973, a single Supre...
Discourse

The Word For This Is 'Coup' - Call what Donald Trump just did in Venezuela by its proper name.
The Conversation

Voters shrug off scandals, paying a price in lost trust - Scandals don’t have the resonance they used to. Both parties could do more to police offenders within their own ranks.
Rewire

Sleep Problems and Depression Can Be a Vicious Cycle, Especially During pregnancy—Here’s Why It’s Important To Get Help - "Healthy sleep is a necessity for improving your mental health during pregnancy and at all times of life." The post Sleep Problems and Depression Can Be ...
Democracy Now!

Trump "Just Wants Oil," Not Democracy: What's Next in Trump's War on Venezuela? - *Democracy Now!* discusses the attack on Venezuela with two Venezuelan American scholars: Alejandro Velasco, an associate history professor at New York Uni...
Space City Weather

Houston probably will set more record highs this week. So, like, is winter over? - In brief: In this morning’s post we dig into our region’s very warm start to winter, which will continue this week. We probably will set more record highs....
Rallblog

Grand Theft Oil | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - Live at 9 AM Eastern time, then streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media eve...
Angry Bear

New Deal democrat’s Weekly Indicators for December 29 2025 – January 2 2026 - – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. As 2025 ended, all of the important trends seemed to intensify. The US$ is dow...
Earth 911

35 Years Worth Of Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Earth911 - Earth911 turns 35 in 2026. We invited Trey Granger, who worked at Earth911 from 2007... The post 35 Years Worth Of Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know Abou...
Dorf on Law

Semiquincentennial Reflections on Original Sin and Inevitability - [Note to readers: I am of course aware of the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela, capture of Maduro, and suggestions that further military operat...
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Skeptophilia

Notes on a supercluster - Today I'm going to focus on outer space, because if I don't I'll be forced to deal with events down here on Earth, and it's a little early to start drink...
The Smirking Chimp

The Quagmire of Trump’s Venezuela -
Off The Kuff

Interview with Terry Virts - It’s January of an even-numbered year, and that means we are off and running for primaries. Believe it or not, we are six weeks (and one day, thanks to Pre...
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 5 January 2026 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] "Bad" sources meaning "factually wrong", *not* "ideologic...
ProPublica

Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases - The post Arizona Judges Launch Effort Seeking Quicker Resolutions to Death Penalty Cases appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - How the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology. The post Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics appeared first on High C...
The AltWorld

The US’ Capture Of Maduro Exposed The Reality Of Great Power Geopolitics - Trump 2.0 boldly explained how the US intends to restore its “sphere of influence” over the Americas […] The post The US’ Capture Of Maduro Exposed The R...
Counterpunch

Stop Slandering Me, Mr. Trump - I don’t know if Maduro is good or bad, not even if he’s a drug trafficker; in the files of the Colombian justice system, after half a century of dealing ...
jobsanger

The Worst Is Not Over -
Informed Comment

“A Blind Understanding:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:33 - No one has peeked behind the veil of fate. / No one’s discovered destiny’s secret
Antiwar.com

‘We’re Going To Run the Country:’ Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela - I listened to the January 3 press conference with a knot in my stomach. As a Venezuelan American with family, memories, and a living connection to the coun...
Liberation News

Venezuela’s Revolution still stands: debunking Trump’s psyop - In the aftermath of the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate misinformation campaign has been waged to sow doubt about the survival of the ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Why Aren't Professors Braver? Fear and Self-Censorship in Academe, by Paul Bloom, Chronicle of Higher Education - * Friends:* *I'm finally getting around to reading this piece that is listed by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of its most widely read articles...
The Militant

Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! - SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY NATIONAL COMMITTEE STATEMENT Statement Issued January 3, 2026 by the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party The Socialis...
See You In 2020

Big tech’s agenda of AI pandemonium, & the breakthrough that will come from defeating it - When John Martin created his 1841 painting Pandemonium, pictured above, he was reacting to the hell that capital had created through the industrial revo...
Land Destroyer

New Year Starts, Same Old US Proxy War Continues - *January 3, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While the United States government poses as “pursuing peace” with Russia regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine,...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Windmill Hill - [image: Windmill Hill]
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Free pleating - I made this a couple months ago in an origami workshop with Goran Konjevod. The subject of the workshop was how to pleat paper without pre-creasing. It’s...
Democracy Chronicles

The Capture of Venezuela’s President and the Crisis of Democratic Norms - Even when a leader is accused of serious crimes, international law does not permit a foreign power to act as police, prosecutor, and jailer simultaneously.
Greg Palast

When Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM - It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Workers World

¡Condenemos el bombardeo estadounidense contra Venezuela! ¡Liberen al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a Cilia Flores YA! - [image: ¡Condenemos el bombardeo estadounidense contra Venezuela! ¡Liberen al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a Cilia Flores YA!] La agresión estadounidense co...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s New War For Regime Change—Hands Off Venezuela! - Read in Spanish below For mass struggle against imperialist plunder, bullying and war Trump has begun a new US imperialist war for regime change in Latin A...
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier On Why There Is No Free-Will - Edouard Tahmizian had an interesting discussion with Richard Carrier about the metaphysical impossibility of libertarian free will. Our actions are aimed a...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Krebs on Security

The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network - The story you are reading is a series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been explo...
TalkLeft

Happy New Year and Open Thread - Happy New Year to all! Photos of the celebrations around the world are pretty awesome. Still, the world is not a happy place today. America has watched ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Living in the Storm: Preparing for 2026 and the Battles to Come - We're in the thick of a pivotal moment in our lives and history. It's time to take a breath and look at where we're heading.
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

The Current Gaza War Is a Repeat Of Previous Atrocities - As I pointed out in previous articles, Israel has been committing atrocities, which traditional media rarely ever remind us of, assuming the report on them...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - With all the jigging and *cooning *in America of late, I find myself having to once again call out the sellouts and slave catchers among us. I have ...
Idavox

Brigitte Bardot, ROT IN HELL! - We end the year the same way we began it: the death of a French... The post Brigitte Bardot, ROT IN HELL! appeared first on Idavox.
The Grayzone

As Israel bans aid orgs in Gaza, notorious mercenary firm seeks “Targeter” - Are Israel and the Trump admin planning to revive the dystopian Gaza Humanitarian Foundation scheme that spawned famine and death under cover of humanita...
Sludge

House Dems Gave Millions in ‘Dark Money’ to AIPAC-Linked 314 Action - 314 Action is one of the groups that AIPAC diverted its PAC money through in 2024.
Lowering the Bar

Plaintiff Accuses St. Vincent of Negligent Stage-Diving - The artist allegedly "had to be removed from him by security guards," a detail that is never explained.
The Texas Signal

How Wiess Park Changed Into A Houston Outdoor Art Garden - Thanks to some recent investments from the Houston Parks Board, Wiess Park is now also an open-air sculpture garden for seven Texas artists
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: THROW THAT YEAR IN THE GARBAGE CAN EDITION. - *[no caption]* This Friday I’m not going long (nor early, neither!) with ‘Round-the-Horn, because I’m on vacation. Yes, both this and *Roy Edroso Breaks...
NORML

Federally Funded Survey: Teen Marijuana Use Continues Historic Decline - [image: group of teens having fun walking down the street][image: group of teens having fun walking down the street]"Sensational claims that adult-use le...
DeSmogBlog

How MAGA Changed the World in 2025, and What Comes Next - There’s no doubt that 2025 has been one of the most politically chaotic years of the 21st century. Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

TrumpGas - 11×15 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.4mb ‘They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland’s Thompson gun’ ...
Alas, a Blog

BEWARE the NARCO TERRORISTS! - This cartoon is by me and Nadine Scholtes. Like a lot of people, I’ve been reading the news about Trump’s attacks on so-called “narco terrorists” with horr...
MintPress News

Indiegogo Withholds $51K In Donations From MintPress in Financial Censorship Crackdown - Indiegogo is withholding $51,000 in reader donations to MintPress News after we published investigations into US war crimes, Israeli intelligence influen...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio December 19, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 12/19/2025 - 04:45 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Armando Martínez, who continues to work to bring public law school to the Rio Grande Valley, graduates from groundbreaking online law school program through St. Mary’s University (LAW) - FEATURED: Rep. Armando “Mando” Martínez, D-Weslaco, poses outside the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday, April 21, 2023, with the files of three of his leg...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What They Could Mean for the Future - A look at key 2025 results as well as voter registration trends in Pennsylvania The post Examining Democrats’ 2025 Victories in Pennsylvania and What The...
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
LareDOS

River Pierce Foundation announces Soy el Rio exhibition and performance by acclaimed Mexican artist Dragustinovis; Dec. 20, Treviño-Uribe Fort in San Ygnacio - Event supported by Mellon Foundation’s Humanities in Place Grant
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
WAWG Blog

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

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

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
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.
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 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Texas Environmental News

How US Air Pollution, Ironically, Has Kept Climate Hazards in Check - The past half-century has seen remarkable improvements in air quality in many parts of the world, thanks largely to legislation [...] The post How US Air...
Shadowproof

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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