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

Futurism

Study Finds GPT-5 Is Actually Worse Than GPT-4o, New Research Finds - Another nail in the coffin for OpenAI's flagship model. The post Study Finds GPT-5 Is Actually Worse Than GPT-4o, New Research Finds appeared first on Fu...
Eschaton

Exaggerated Wink Dot Gif - Why would the police need to be involved when it would be, at worst, a bad prank (we all know it was not a prank) and not anything resembling a crime. U.S...
SCOTUSblog

SCOTUStoday for Thursday, October 16 - You’ve likely heard of the debate over how to pronounce GIF – gif like the start of “gift” or jif like the peanut butter brand? – but what about the […] ...
Political Wire

Epstein Victim Details Claims in Posthumous Memoir - “A posthumous memoir by Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre offers an expanded account about her longstanding claims to have been sexually tra...
Undernews

Meanwhile. . . - *Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother*
The Conversation

Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built - Structured parking can cost as much as $50,000 per space, making housing more expensive to build and for those living there.
The Verge

Honda wants you to teach its new robot lawnmower - Ever wanted a robot lawnmower you can ride? If the answer’s yes, then Honda has something for you. The Japanese company will be debuting its new ProZision ...
The Hill

Live updates: Senate GOP pressures Dems with focus on defense funding - The Senate will pivot Thursday from efforts to reopen the government to a vote on whether to advance an $852 billion defense appropriations bill. Senate Ma...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump plans to switch anti-terror funds from Democratic to Republican states - Overhaul of $1bn post-9/11 program would shift funds to states that voted for Trump in 2024 election The Trump administration plans to shift terrorism pr...
Mediagazer

Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop "responsible" AI products and is building a generative AI research lab (Steven J. Horowitz/Variety) - Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: *Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop “responsible” AI products and is building...
Mediaite

CNN Panelist Claims ‘Red State’ White People ‘Test the Racist Water All the Time’ - Welch made the claims as she lambasted Vice President JD Vance’s dismissal of the leaked Young Republicans chat logs. The post CNN Panelist Claims ‘Red S...
memeorandum

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown (Washington Post) - Washington Post: *Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown* — The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government wor...
Space City Weather

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

School voucher rollout (Oct. 16, 2025) - On Thursday's show: The timeline is set for how school vouchers will roll out in Texas beginning in Feburary. We learn why that timing might only benefit p...
Daily Dot

“McBoss”: DoorDash overload leaves McDonald’s in shambles—until one customer steps up and locks in - [image: Left: A McDonald's table swarmed by DoorDash orders in paper bags. Right: Woman pointing inside a McDonald's.] A McDonald’s in disarray turned in...
Al Jazeera English

Several killed, injured in bus explosion near Syria’s Deir Az Zor: State TV - Bus belonging to the Syrian Energy Ministry was attacked, killing four people and injuring nine.
The Week

How padel took over the world - Smaller courts than tennis, thicker rackets than pickleball and glass walls on all sides – padel is enjoying a huge rise in popularity
Rallblog

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

'Republicans are terrified': Ex-Tea Party lawmaker unleashes profane 'meltdown' on GOP - Republicans are *terrified* of the upcoming No Kings protests, and they are showing it, according to former Tea Party lawmaker Joe Walsh. Walsh wrote abo...
ArcaMax

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

This Federal Office Was Meant to Ensure America’s Energy Future. Trump Aims to Kill It. - This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrat...
Vox

Peace in Gaza won’t last if Netanyahu stays in office - If the current ceasefire in Gaza holds, it will mark the much-needed end to an indefensibly cruel war. But the longer-term picture, and whether yet another...
Earth 911

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

CSotD: Across the Universe - We’re discussing news from other countries today, but I’m starting with a story from right here because the Department of Justice doesn’t often hand out la...
WhoWhatWhy

On No Kings Day, Why Protest Matters - [image: Chicago, No Kings, march, June 14, 2025] When millions gather and demonstrate, it becomes part of the narrative, helps build a movement, and is a g...
San Antonio Report

‘Mexican culture is still alive here’: Museo del Westside to honor community’s heritage and stories - Museo del Westside’s grand opening will feature a stacked lineup of musical performances, workshops and remarks from local leaders. -----------------------...
Election Law Blog

Miscellaneous thoughts on Callais - I confess, I’ve found the litigation saga surrounding Callais quite complicated (including what, precisely, re-argument was supposed to accomplish, and w...
naked capitalism

Links 10/16/2025 -
Crooked Timber

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

My Aging, Trump’s Aging -
Salon.com

Religious liberty? Trump is obstructing freedom of worship - The president's anti-immigration agenda is driving fear into America’s houses of worship
Skeptophilia

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

Introducing Runaway Country with Alex Wagner (Coming October 23rd) - The post Introducing Runaway Country with Alex Wagner (Coming October 23rd) appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

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

Help! My Sister’s Kids Just Did Something Truly Horrible to My Mother. I’m on the Verge of Violence. - These monsters are too old for this.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

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

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

CEOs grow a bit more apprehensive as tariff uncertainty weighs - Data: The Conference Board and The Business Council; Chart: Axios Visuals A key measure of CEO confidence dipped slightly lower into negative territory, ac...
American Prospect

The 2026 Election Is Being Decided at the Supreme Court - A case heard Wednesday will go a long way to determining whether Republicans can gerrymander their way to a near-permanent House majority.
Scheerpost.com

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

'Death fold' proteins can make cells self-destruct. Scientists want to control them - Scientists are hoping to treat diseases including cancer and Alzheimer's by influencing how cells make life-or-death decisions.
Grist

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

The Bogus Value of the Pentagon Press Pass - Reporting on national security matters, irrespective of which country you are in, can be a hazardous affair. In police states, the consequences are self-...
High Country News

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

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

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

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

The Slow Corrosion Of Our Institutions -
Courthouse News

In Portland, resistance takes many shapes - Operation Inflation brings inflatable costumes to the protest at the ICE facility.
See You In 2020

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

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

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

Australia: Glencore locks out coal mining workers in New South Wales - In response, the Mining and Energy Union is asking the pro-business Fair Work Commission to declare the dispute “intractable” and impose an enterprise agre...
Informed Comment

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

Michael Hudson: From Neoliberalism to Neofeudalism - GLENN DIESEN—Professor Hudson’s analysis reveals that neoliberal economics is not just a policy choice but a fundamental ideological shift away from centur...
Ballot Access News

Green Party of Santa Barbara, California, Opposes Ballot Measure to Redraw U.S. House District Boundaries - The Green Party of Santa Barbara, California, is opposed to Proposition 50. See the party’s statement here. … Continue reading →
Techdirt.

RFK Jr. Discovers Second Cause Of Autism: Foreskin Deficiency - It’s story time! I came home from the grocery store over this past weekend very proud. I rushed to tell my wife about how I was complimented in the check o...
Alternet

'Watch out for January': Insider reveals which Trump Cabinet member will be first to go - Washington D.C. correspondent David Gardner on Wednesday revealed which member of Donald Trump’s Cabinet will be first to go, telling podcast host Joanna...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Federal judge issues temporary injunction on new law that limits expression on campuses, bY Kelsey Leffingwell, Spectrum News - *Students, Friends, and Colleagues:* *Great news! The moral of the story is that some laws shouldn’t be laws to begin with—especially when they collide wit...
Popular Resistance

No To US State Terrorism In The Caribbean Sea - Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP) rejects the false narrative peddled by the Trump Administration, claiming that President Nicolas Maduro ...
Brad Blog

The 'Jeffrey Epstein Shutdown' and Other Autocratic Nightmares With 'Digby' and 'Driftglass': 'BradCast' 10/15/2025 - It's time for our monthly-ish reality check-in with two of our favorite BradCast guests. And we've got a lot to cover. [Audio link to full show follows thi...
Deadline Politics

Zohran Mamdani Debuts ‘Survivor’ Themed Spot Featuring Past And Present Contestants - UPDATED: Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is debuting another spot tied to a popular reality show franchise, this time an ad debuting on Wednesday night during CB...
Reform Austin

Houston Officials Protest Against Rainbow Crosswalk Removal - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Since Governor Greg Abbott’s statement to remove all “political ideologies” from public spaces ...
CultureMap Houston

These are the 14 best things to do in Houston this weekend - Good grief! There’s a bunch of cool stuff happening this weekend!
The NM Political Report

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

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

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

The War Profiteers of Palo Alto - After pushing sensationalized claims of foreign threats, Silicon Valley’s military startups are set to score billions in funding for drones and A.I.-powere...
slacktivist

A ‘Hardcore’ theological crisis - Paul Schrader's 1979 film Hardcore may be both the most Calvinist and the most anti-Calvinist movie I've ever seen. A real-life remake is happening in the ...
San Antonio Current

Esperanza’s Museo del Westside to hold grand opening this Saturday - [image: Ruben’s Ice House served as a beloved watering hole and community gathering place until its 1987 closure.] The museum is focused on preserving thi...
El Paso Matters

Upgraded water meters coming to every El Paso neighborhood - Part of El Paso Water’s commitment to improved service and future-ready infrastructure. The post Upgraded water meters coming to every El Paso neighbor...
MintPress News

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

Vermont Progressive Party Condemns State Sen. Samuel Douglass Over Leaked Young Republicans Chat - The Vermont Progressive Party has condemned what it described as “hateful, racist, antisemitic, and misogynistic” messages shared in a private Telegram c...
Texas Freedom Network

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

It's All PR From Here On Out - A new tech "magazine" promises a conflict-free approach to prestige press.
Second Nexus

People Are Calling Out Exactly Why The Inflatable Frog Protesters In Portland Are So Effective - How do you counter a false narrative from someone as powerful as the President of the United States? Some protesters in Portland, Oregon, may have figure...
ExChristian.Net

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

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

Where Texas birders can spot sandhill cranes – and possibly whooping cranes – this winter - Both birds make their way to Texas as part of a winter migration, but only one of the species is endangered.
NORML

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

Health Care Lies by Republicans - Fifth term Virginia’s 8th District U.S. Representative representing Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, and parts of Fairfax County, Don Beyer talks hea...
Daily Howler

WEDNESDAY: What happens when empires fall apart? - *WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2025* *The center, failing to hold: *Can the Democratic Party survive—regain some measure of control? Everything is possible, o...
Bracing Views

Meet the New Centrist Democratic Party - Same as the Old Centrist Democratic Party BILL ASTORE OCT 11, 2025 Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-Michigan) is a rising star in the Democratic Party. In July sh...
OpEd News

Finland Reels from Anti-Russian Sanctions: Economic Downturn and the Path to Recovery - Finland faces a severe economic crisis due to EU anti-Russian sanctions triggered by the Ukraine conflict. The halt in trade with Russia, a key partner, ha...
Progressive.org

The March Toward Martial Law - As Donald Trump descends the country into fascism, Democratic leaders are leaving the people to fight for themselves.
Dissent Magazine

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

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

The I Love Hitler Club - They're all insult comedians now; make that baby insult comedians. That's why Adrastos calls them the Hitler Youth.
Consortium News

Craig Murray: A Warning from Lebanon - We know from Lebanon that in Gaza, the Israelis will break any agreement and the American “guarantors” will support their continued violence as “counter-te...
Mondoweiss

The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal - [image: Allam al-Ra'i, 47, released by Israel from Ofer Prison, arrives in Ramallah as part of the first phase of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, O...
The Root

A Definitive List of D’Angelo’s Greatest Hits and How They Made Him a Neo-Soul Icon - As we continue to mourn the shocking death of D'Angelo, his music will no doubt live forever. Read more...
Socialist Alternative

Federally Employed Letter Carriers Fight for the Right to Strike - Rob Darakjian, NALC Branch 2902, Los Angeles (in personal capacity) Letter carriers working for the USPS are at a crossroads. In our most recent contract n...
Capital & Main

Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve Jobs, Even Without a Union - With unionization dropping under Trump, experts say “premajority” campaigns can help workers score wins. The post Dollar Store Workers Fight to Improve J...
Ecosophia

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

A Night at the Screamo Bookstore - On another night, Alienated Majesty Books near the University of Texas at Austin campus might host a conversation with a novelist or a poetry open mic. B...
Glasstire

Review: “O’ Powa O’ Meng: The Art and Legacy of Jody Folwell” at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio - O’ Powa O’ Meng means “I came here, I got here, I’m still going” in the Tewa language, spoken by Pueblo nations in New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley. Jody F...
Common Dreams

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

EU Leaders Determined To Win “Most Supine Slave Award”: Nexperia Edition - A couple days ago I discussed the Dutch taking over Nexperia, a Chinese owned by Dutch domiciled company making commodity semiconductors. The company becam...
Rewire

How RICO Could Be Weaponized Against Abortion Providers and Funds - “It’s about punishing the infrastructure of abortion access,” one lawyer said of the emerging legal strategies to criminalize abortion care networks. The...
Democracy Now!

Lindsey Boylan, Ex-Cuomo Aide Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment, on Why She Supports Mamdani - There are just weeks to go before the November 4 New York City mayoral election, a virtual rematch of the Democratic primary from earlier this year, when d...
Seeing the Forest

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

What are the "Essential Functions" of the Supreme Court? - Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral argument in *Bowe v. United States*. In my *Verdict *column previewing the case, I highlighted the case's potentia...
Progressives Chat

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

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little to Help. - by Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up ...
WAWG Blog

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

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

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

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

More on stock market indexes’ advance-decline lines: the healthy and the sick - - *by New Deal democrat* I am currently on vacation, and as the shutdown continues with no end in sight, the only sources of economic data are from ...
Trivial Knot

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

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

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

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

Boeing’s Arms Sales Thrive on Gaza Genocide - With $26.7 billion in approved Israel arms sales since October 7, 2023, Boeing stands out as a top beneficiary of the Gaza war.
DeSmogBlog

OpenAI’s New Energy Chief Is a Trump Administration Natural Gas Evangelist - As artificial intelligence company OpenAI plans its rapid construction of behemoth power-guzzling data centers to fuel the AI boom, it has hired a new en...
Project Censored

US Military Power, Media Messaging, and Grassroots Strategies - In the first part of the program, cohost Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show US marine veteran Matthew Hoh to talk about the realities vs. the st...
Field Negro

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

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

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

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

The Glenn Beck Podcast - The Glenn Beck Podcast.
alicublog

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

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

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

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Idavox

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

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

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

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

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

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

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
Lowering the Bar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Rag Blog

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

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
nonsite.org

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

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

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

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

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Texas Monthly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

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

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video statement on her husband’s rel...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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