Brains and Eggs: Memorial Day 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

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

Courthouse News

Justices look likely to rule out damages over Rastafarian dreadlock shaving - While the case before them was about the religious rights of a Louisiana inmate, the conservative justices were concerned about the knock-on effects in cas...
Raw Story

‘Wouldn’t last five minutes’: Buttigieg torches Trump over air traffic controller threat - Pete Buttigieg has said Donald Trump "wouldn't last five minutes" as an air traffic control employee. The president hit out at air traffic controllers i...
Futurism

The Guy Responsible for the Cybertruck Is Suddenly Leaving Tesla - He's leaving a disaster behind. The post The Guy Responsible for the Cybertruck Is Suddenly Leaving Tesla appeared first on Futurism.
OpEd News

Public Service: Have You Been Sickened by Aiken Drinking Water: Cryptosporidiosis, Legionella, E. Coli, or Listeria - Your help could force Aiken to make our water safer to drink, where Dr. Robert A. Leishear plans to address Aiken drinking water safety on November 24, 202...
Houston Public Media

Hello Houston (November 10, 2025) - Today: We discuss the United States' declining immigrant population, talk with legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, learn about the award-winning film “Cha...
memeorandum

The Shutdown Surrender — It makes perfect sense to me that the Senate Democrats caved ... (Dave Karpf/The Future, Now and Then) - Dave Karpf / The Future, Now and Then: *The Shutdown Surrender* — It makes perfect sense to me that the Senate Democrats caved last night and voted to ...
Crooked Timber

Armistice Day - 114 years ago, the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking a temporary and partial end to the Great War which began in 1914, and has continued, in o...
Mother Jones

Trump Claims He “Pardoned” His Fake Electors. He Doesn’t Have That Power. - Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned high-profile attorneys accused of joining in his plot to try to steal the 2020 election, along with dozens of so-calle...
Second Nexus

Maya Hawke Just Revealed Mom Uma Thurman's Shady 'Advice' About Working With Quentin Tarantino - When it comes to Hollywood’s weirdest recurring obsessions, Quentin Tarantino’s foot fetish might be the one thing more predictable than his love of bloo...
Mediaite

Buttigieg Slams Democrats’ Senate Compromise to Reopen the Government: ‘It’s a Bad Deal’ - Pete Buttigieg joined the Democratic dissent over Sunday night's Senate deal to reopen the government without any assurances about the future of health c...
CultureMap Houston

Rock band Train drops into Houston on summer 2026 anniversary tour - Pop rock band Train will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their breakthrough album, 2001's *Drops of Jupiter*, on a 2026 tour that will include a stop at ...
Eschaton

Democratic Whip Dick Durbin - I know it's much less of a real role than it can be in parliamentary systems, but the Whip is supposed to round up votes in support of the Leader's agenda....
The Week

Gen Z in Los Angeles, the end of ‘Stranger Things’ and a new mystery from the creator of ‘Breaking Bad’ in November TV - This month's new television releases include ‘I Love L.A.,’ ‘Stranger Things’ and ‘Pluribus’
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Drug dealer granted clemency by Trump sent back to prison for violating terms of release - Man accused of groping family’s nanny, evading bridge tolls and swinging IV pole at nurse and threatening to kill her A convicted drug dealer who had bee...
DeSmogBlog

COP30’s Agriculture Showcase Sponsored by Agribiz Interests Linked to Deforestation and Anti-conservation Lobbying - The sponsors of the sustainable agriculture pavilion at this year’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil will include the pesticides and seeds giant Bayer, whi...
Al Jazeera English

Malaysia recovers more bodies from capsized Rohingya refugee boat - Malaysian search and rescue teams discovered five more bodies off the coast of Langkawi after a refugee boat capsized.
Political Wire

Plastic Surgeons See More Demand for ‘Mar-a-Lago Face’ - Since January, Washington, D.C. plastic surgeons have seen a wave of Trump insiders asking for overt procedures in line with the “Mar-a-Lago face” look, Ax...
Axios

Here's why Congressional Democrats are furious over the shutdown deal - Many congressional Democrats aren't on board with the Senate deal that could reopen the government after a historically long shutdown. *Why it matters: *...
Consortium News

Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s ‘Successful Method’ - From what we know about Israeli society, it’s safe to assume the IDF is going to continue to constantly violating the ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon until ...
Techdirt.

Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’ - Over the weekend, the President of the United States fell for obvious satire from a website literally called “The Dunning Kruger Times.” Donald Trump—a man...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Mamdani’s Battle With Entrenched Power Begins - New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani won the election, but now his real battle with entrenched power begins.
The Hill

It may be too late for congressional Republicans to reclaim independence - Donald Trump's nomination of Amer Ghalib for U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait is facing strong opposition from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee due to his s...
Daily Dot

“Are we sleeping on those?”: Guest horrified after catching hotel worker using hot tub to clean bed sheets - [image: Employee at Expressway Suites in Fargo, North Dakota wearing black hoodie and sweatpants and washing bedsheets in the hot tub.] A hotel worker in...
Salon.com

Trump issues pardons for Giuliani, others who attempted to interfere with 2020 election - Critics called it a "permission slip" to interfere with future elections
The Daily Poster

Dems Shut Down Their Resolve - Some of the Democrats who voted to end the shutdown without protecting Affordable Care Act subsidies have health insurer money in their pockets.
Ballot Access News

Illinois Policy Organization Says Independent Candidate Ballot Access Laws are Far Too Harsh - The Illinois Policy Organization, a non-partisan think-tank, says that Illinois ballot access laws for independents and minor parties is far too severe. Se...
The Verge

Apple’s AirPods 4 just hit their lowest price yet at $85 - I’ve seen dozens of solid deals trickle in ahead of Black Friday, but Apple’s AirPods 4 hitting a new all-time low is the first one that’s really stood out...
Deadline Politics

BBC Insiders Claim Trump Crisis Has Been A Conservative Coup, But Is This Credible? - There is a deep sense of shock at the BBC over the events of the past 24 hours, but also of anger. “Bewildered fury,” is how one insider described the mood...
WhoWhatWhy

Great Barrier Reef May Partially Recover if Global Warming Is Kept Below 2C - [image: climate crisis, global warming, oceans, Great Barrier Reef, projection] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended...
San Antonio Current

State lawmaker, local trial attorney confirm they’re eyeing Bexar County DA’s race - The race to replace outgoing Bexar County District Attorney Joe Gonzales is heating up. On Monday, a high-profile state legislator and a prominent trial...
Slate

My Friend Has Discovered the Intoxicating World of Online Psychics. Now I Face an Impossible Choice. - She won't hear a word about it.
Independent Political Report

Green Party National Committee Votes to Recognize Israeli Defense Forces as a Terrorist Organization - The National Committee of the Green Party of the United States has voted to recognize the Israeli Defense Forces as a terrorist organization and is calli...
Mediagazer

Patreon launches Quips, short tweet-like posts that serve as previews to content behind paywalls, and adds tools for content creators to collaborate on posts (Mia Sato/The Verge) - Mia Sato / The Verge: *Patreon launches Quips, short tweet-like posts that serve as previews to content behind paywalls, and adds tools for content creat...
Daily Howler

THE DISAPPEARED: The New York Times has discovered Greg Gutfeld! - *MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2025* *His conduct still gets disappeared: *The battle over the government shutdown—the battle over food assistance; the battle ove...
Dissident Voice

Let’s Shift Federal Subsidies to Loans After 1 Year, Starting With Oil/Gas Industry? - The origin of federal subsidies—to businesses, industries, farmers, national infrastructure—began with our country’s first Congress (1789) approving star...
NPR's Health Shots

The FDA will lift warnings on hormone therapy for menopause - Hormone therapy drugs have carried box warning labels for years. The Food and Drug Administration is removing them, saying the risks were overstated.
Election Law Blog

“Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election” - NYT: President Trump has granted pardons to his former lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and a wide array of other people accused of trying to overturn the res...
Bracing Views

We Are Our Own Death Star - Who Needs Darth Vader? BILL ASTORE NOV 05, 2025 “Star Wars’“ fans will recall the Imperial Death Star, a ship the size of a small moon that was powerful en...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #04: BAKE OFF RECAP SPECIAL - It's our Third! Annual! Great British Bake Off! CHAT!!!
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

“It’s Unwritten History”: The Long Fight for Native American and Indigenous Studies for Texas Public Schools, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - “It’s Unwritten History”: The Long Fight for Native American and Indigenous Studies for Texas Public Schools *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *November 10...
Glasstire

Antony Gormley: A Significant Figure - The figurative sculpture, or sculptural figure — in plain English, the body — has rarely felt more poignant, urgent, or politically alive than right now....
SCOTUSblog

Justices agree to decide major election law case - Setting the stage for a major ruling on election law, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether federal law requires ballots to be not only ca...
Undernews

Word - *Senator Amy Klobuchar - *The President is breaking the law, abusing his power, setting a dangerous precedent, and undermining our economy.
El Paso Matters

Federal judge unseals dozens of files in El Paso Walmart shooting case, but others remain sealed - The newly released files reveal defense efforts to disqualify U.S. Attorney Jaime Esparza from the case but leave many other court records from the 2019...
Ian Welsh

It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US - These two charts tell a story. First, the top 1%. Next, the top .1%. This chart is only to 2023. Now what you’ll notice is that the top .1% holds about hal...
Bonddad

Tabulated state level jobless claims continue neutral trend - - *by New Deal democrat* As I have done since the beginning of the government shutdown, the unadjusted number of initial and continuing claims can b...
The Root

This Young ‘Wicked’ Fan’s Viral Encounter With Cynthia Erivo Will Leave Your Eyes all Watery! - One young fan is going viral for her emotional encounter with 'Wicked: For Good' star Cynthia Erivo. Read more...
Democracy Now!

How We Got Here: Jelani Cobb on Rise of Trump & White Nationalism After Push for Racial Justice - Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has just published a new collection of essays, “Three or More Is a Riot: ...
San Antonio Report

State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer eyes District Attorney race - The San Antonio Democrat is considering running for Bexar County District Attorney instead of reelection to the state legislature in 2026. -----------------...
The Conversation

What America’s divided and tumultuous politics of the late-19th century can teach us - There are lessons from history for today’s divided America. Political division in the second half of the 19th century produced more problems than solutions...
Texas Observer

Crypto’s Cryptic Texas Takeover - Eli McKay and John Weber, volunteers for the Sierra Club’s Coastal Bend Group, already had their hands full fighting plans for water- and energy-intensiv...
Space City Weather

Monday mega-update: Very cold night on tap, some rain in the forecast, and we kick off our annual fundraiser - In brief: We’ve got a lot to get to today. First up is our region’s coldest night of the season, by far, in which some far inland areas may experience a li...
First Draft

Pitching The Big Tent - MAGA Republicans have the freak show. Democrats have the big tent.
Vox

Your washing machine is actually a time machine - If Good News had a patron saint, it would be the Swedish professor of global health Hans Rosling. Rosling, who died in 2017, was a wizard at using data and...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Democrats Win, Then Surrender” - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Like you, political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou took note of the fact that Demo...
Dorf on Law

SCOTUS Echoes Plessy v Ferguson in Greenlighting Trump's Transphobic Passport Policy - Repeating a pattern that has become all too familiar, late last week the Roberts Court issued a *per curiam *order staying a lower court ruling that had te...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich, Luján stand firm for health insurance cost fix as Senate moves forward with deal to reopen government - New Mexicans anxious about missing SNAP benefits or federal paychecks may get soon get some relief after a handful of Senate Democrats joined Republicans...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Some Open and/or Shut Cases - Looks like we may possibly probably could have an end to the shutdown. Both my senators — one of whom has a special-needs kid — made the switch, which is e...
Alternet

'Infuriating': Trump's Sunday night pardon spree angers critics - President Donald Trump went on a Sunday night pardon spree, granting full clemency to at least 77 individuals involved in promoting alternate electors in...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Luke Purdy, Wieden+Kennedy’s Director of Sustainability, on Advertising’s Power To Change - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. Can the industry that... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Luke Purdy, Wieden...
The Smirking Chimp

Musk and Mamdani: The End of Harsh Capitalism? -
Skeptophilia

Time lapse - Some days, being a skeptic is a losing proposition. Only days after I posted a desperate plea for people to *please* check sources before posting/reposti...
Crooked Media

Will SCOTUS Say No to Trump’s Tariffs? - The post Will SCOTUS Say No to Trump’s Tariffs? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Rep. Al Green to run in the new CD18 - As expected. U.S. Rep. Al Green announced Friday that he plans to run in the redrawn 18th Congressional District, setting up a competitive primary between ...
Scheerpost.com

No, Ancient Hebrew Slaves Didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids - By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The persistent myth-making of Israelis about history has become a geopolitical danger, no le...
ProPublica

“No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office - The post “No Separation Between Church and State”: Inside a Texas Church’s Training Academy for Christians Running for Office appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

Are we all living in Florida now? The rise of ‘don’t say climate’ politics. - Talking about climate change may be politically radioactive, but adjusting to its effects is no longer optional.
Infidel753

Truths and inspirations for 10 November 2025 - If something's hard to see or read, click for full size. [For the link round-up, click here.] We need a lot more of this and a lot less of the upraised-...
High Country News

Western economies falter under the Trump administration - Tariffs, layoffs and federal funding clawbacks stress budgets. The post Western economies falter under the Trump administration appeared first on High C...
Informed Comment

No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids - As for Israelites, there is no archeological evidence of them being in Egypt, much less being enslaved.
Portside

Sunday Science: The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves - Sunday Science: The DNA Helix Changed How We Thought About Ourselves Ira Mon, 11/10/2025 - 01:09
Counterpunch

Boris Kagarlitsky Sent to Potentially Lethal Solitary Confinement Instead of Hospital - November 10, 2025 On November 8, the administration of Penal Colony No. 4 (IK-4) in Torzhok (Tver Region) sent CounterPunch writer Boris Kagarlitsky, soc...
jobsanger

Took The Day Off! - I took a much-needed day off. Regular posting will resume tomorrow.
World Socialist Web Site

Trump intensifies immigration Gestapo terror in Chicago - In the course of the assault on the city, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino has appeared in multiple videos physically assaulting, tackling and tossing te...
The AltWorld

Poland Might Impede The EU’s Push To Speedily Grant Ukraine Membership - Poland has more to lose from this than Hungary does, but it’s happy to let Hungary feel […] The post Poland Might Impede The EU’s Push To Speedily Grant ...
Texas Standard

Greg Abbott announces reelection campaign for record fourth term as Texas governor - Gov. Greg Abbott formally announced his fourth gubernatorial run in Houston on Sunday. The incumbent Republican, who currently has around $87 million in hi...
Popular Resistance

This Veterans Day, The VA Faces Multiple Threats - When veterans and their families gather at commemorative events on Nov. 11, many who use the benefits and services of the Department of Veterans Affairs ...
Wolf Street

Entire Treasury Yield Curve from 3 Months to 30 Years Has Risen since Fed’s Rate Cut. Mortgage Rates too. Bond Market Edgy about Inflation & Supply - The 6-month Treasury yield sees Fed on hold in December. Cutting rates as inflation accelerates is a delicate operation that the bond market isn't fond of.
Antiwar.com

What You Won’t Read About Ukraine in Your Newspaper - There is much of significance happening in Ukraine right now that is being reported either lightly or not at all by the mainstream Western media in an appa...
The Greanville Post

Scott Ritter: Trump LOST to Russia, Venezuela Attack BACKFIRES ft. Ray McGovern - DANNY HAIPHONG—The discussion centers on recent military activity involving Russian aircraft arriving in Venezuela, the geopolitical implications of potent...
Angry Bear

October employment situation: stagnant hiring, increased firing, continued wage growth - – by New Deal democrat On a normal first Friday of the month, I would be crunching the official jobs report data to try to provide not just a coincident...
Socialist Alternative

90th Anniversary Of The CIO And The Rise Of US Labor - The single most important development in American history—perhaps second only to the defeat of the slaveowners in the Civil War—was the rise of the Congres...
Krebs on Security

Drilling Down on Uncle Sam’s Proposed TP-Link Ban - The U.S. government is reportedly preparing to ban the sale of wireless routers and other networking gear from TP-Link Systems, a tech company that current...
Reform Austin

Can You Get Arrested for Flying a Drone in Your Neighborhood? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Drone use has become increasingly common across Texas for both recreation and professional proj...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Ass Kicking' Toons - ...IN MEMORIAM... ...NEXT WEEK... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly ...
Mondoweiss

How it feels to live as an academic in exile while Gaza burns - [image: Abdalrahim Abuwarda hiking at Medicine Bow Peak which lies in the heart of the Snowy Range, about 45 minutes west of Laramie, Wyoming.]As a graduat...
Land Destroyer

Future Global Order Pivots on Ukraine Proxy War - *October 21, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - Russian forces in recent weeks have been increasingly encircling the cities of Pokrovsk in central Donetsk wh...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Money Can't Buy You Love: Fascist Oligarchs as a Cautionary Tale - Musk and Trump and their whole cadre of conspirators are joyless and give the lie of capitalism away. We should be grateful.
Common Dreams

Turn It Up: Hero With A Hero Is Icing On the Cake - Hope glimmers. After an election that saw "democrats in array" rising up to thunderously repudiate "anyone and anything" associated with a doddering wann...
ArcaMax

Shutdown Politics - It has been a terrifying week for the one in eight Americans who depend on food stamps -- the SNAP program -- to feed their families. Would they be eating ...
Environment Texas

From New England to Texas, community action works - The post From New England to Texas, community action works appeared first on Environment Texas.
Workers World

Cheney, corporate boss and White House warmonger (1941-2025) - [image: Cheney, corporate boss and White House warmonger (1941-2025)] We come to bury Cheney, not to praise him. This is unlike the comments in most of the...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: RAY OF LIGHT EDITION. - *Heard this in a restaurant -- you remember this?I don’t and I don’t know how I missed it.* I missed ‘Round-The-Horn last week, and I’ll let you know ...
See You In 2020

The self-implosion of ruling-class ideologies, & the favorable chaos that this has left - Above: Zohran Mamdani with Alex Soros, son of George Soros. The ideological frameworks that used to hold dominance over the politically conscious masses...
Idavox

Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses in Puerto Rico - Were is not for social media, Danielle Bertothy could have gotten away with this. The... The post Five Years For Woman Who Burned Down Several Businesses...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 7-10 News & OT - I saw our other thread was at 110. Decided to open Benny’s Bar. News, opinions, and video jukebox is of your choosing below the jump.
The Texas Signal

Rodney Ellis Doc To Screen At Round Top Film Festival - A new short documentary from three storied directors about Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis premieres this weekend
Liberation News

The assault on the left: Trump’s crackdown in context - There is a long history of rightwing forces stretching the letter of the law to protect capitalist institutions from challenge.
Progressive.org

This Veterans Day, the VA Faces Multiple Threats - As the Trump Administration guts the Department of Veterans Affairs, VA patients and workers are fighting to save it.
Capital & Main

U.S. Deports Asylum Seekers to Southern Mexico Without Their Phones - The Trump administration's deportation flights to the Mexican southern border towns of Tapachula and Villahermosa leave people stranded with few resource...
The Militant

‘Workers need to break from the two parties of the bosses’ - SWP candidates point road forward for working class WEST NEW YORK, N.J. — “The Socialist Workers Party and all of its candidates are part of the working cl...
MintPress News

Hypersonic Missiles, Imperial Wars, and Resistance: The New US-Russia Clash in Latin America - As Russia moves to supply Venezuela with hypersonic missiles, Washington faces growing defiance across Latin America. Colombia and Mexico lead regional r...
LareDOS

LC student art exhibit opens Nov. 7 at Fenstermaker Gallery; mariachi soloist Juan Capetillo recital Nov. 13 - Applied music students perform Nov. 19
Rewire

Doctors Challenge Arizona Abortion Laws as Unconstitutional Burden on Patients - “I find that the laws that we are challenging are preventing me from providing the sort of care that I think my patients want and that they deserve, and ...
slacktivist

LBCF: CSI Atlanta - Wherein we discuss why a dogged insurance investigator would have made a better protagonist for these books than the callous, self-absorbed, apathetic auth...
Debunking Christianity

The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 - On Sunday, November 1, 1755, in Lisbon, Portugal, a great earthquake took place while Christians were worshipping their good all-powerful God. Since it was...
Church and State

The Great American Heist: How Reagan, Trump, and Their Billionaire Backers Stole the Middle Class - Back in the 1960s you could rent a small apartment, buy a used car, and put yourself through college on a minimum wage job.
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 7, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 7, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/07/2025 - 05:55 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
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...
Earthworks

Vale’s Problematic Indonesia Track Record - As eyes turn to Brazil, host of this year’s COP30 climate conference, Brazilian mining giant Vale is trying to position … The post Vale’s Problematic In...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report October 2025 - Walmart had at least sixteen more shootings related to their business, although one of them wasn't on their property and another one was in the food cou...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MEDIA / A new Rag for a new generation - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2025 Many of us have worked to keep The Rag flag flying since the 2005 reunion. It’s hard to believe that was...
Lowering the Bar

Jury Deliberates in Sandwich-Assault Case [Update: Not Guilty] - Agent claims sandwich "exploded" on his chest, says he "could smell the onions and the mustard."
Unlimited Hangout

Cold Harbor: Eugenics, Epstein and Big Tech - In the recent cache of Jeffrey Epstein emails unveiled by Bloomberg, Epstein’s connections to the elites of academia illuminate his interest in transhuma...
Project Censored

When Algorithms Break the News - Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Hospitals denying maternal mental health care, employers using AI tools that drive workplace discrimination, and “phantom...
Sludge

The Democrats Won’t Stop Spamming - Despite ActBlue’s updated policies banning fake matches and deadlines, Democratic Party groups are continuing to spam supporters with messages designed to ...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Journalist says that 188 Republican and Christian leaders have accused of sexually abusing kids this year (so far) - *While the far right falsely paint drag queens and other members of the LGBTQ community as 'groomers,' journalist Evan Hurst has identified 188 Christian...
NORML

Marijuana Arrests Comprised Nearly Half of All Drug-Related Arrests in Over a Dozen States in 2024 - [image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against three tiny buds][image: a single wrinkled marijuana joint rests at an angle against t...
Ecosophia

Why The Left Can’t Meme: A Second Interlude - The exploration of the no-ego ego trip and its relevance to contemporary culture a few weeks back has implications that reach far. The discussion that foll...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Dem Wave Hits Virginia, New Jersey, and Elsewhere; a Dozen House Ratings Shift in California Following Approval of New Dem Map - Democrats enjoyed a strong election performance last night. Aside from wins in New Jersey and Virginia. Prop. 50 will pass in California, which has promp...
Dissent Magazine

Zohran’s Promise - The Mamdani campaign extended the arena of political participation to ordinary and unseen people of every place and pursuit. The challenge going forward ...
Seeing the Forest

War Isn’t Murder – Jesse Welles - War isn’t murder, good men don’t die Children don’t starve and all the women survive “War isn’t murder, ” that’s what they say When you’re fighting the Dev...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence - There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its ...
ExChristian.Net

Megachurch founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse charges - *From the Oklahoma Attorney General:* OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2025) – The founder of a Texas megachurch pleaded guilty today to five counts of lewd or inde...
Duck of Minerva

Nuclear apocalypse now? Reflections on the movie “A House of Dynamite” - I had high hopes for director Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite, a new Netflix movie about U.S. nuclear command and control. There’s so much potential fo...
Progressives Chat

2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out - One year from this blog’s topic date, [Tuesday,] November 3, 2026, will be the general election for the 2026 midterm elections in the United States. The...
The Grayzone

AI drones used in Gaza now surveilling American cities - Immediately after October 7, a little know company shipped over 100 reconnaissance drones to Israel for use in its siege of Gaza. Having been battle-tes...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread: Clocks - Don't forget to turn your clocks back today. Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a.m. If we really could turn back time, what year would you go back to? ...
Trivial Knot

Origami: Radiant Star - This weekend, I’m at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The funny thing is, I picked this photo and scheduled the post ahead of time, but when...
Democracy Chronicles

Forgetabaht it! New York City is… Screwed - Zohran will probably win. Our 1970s municipal bankruptcy won't have nuttin' on an abandoned tax base by the class who pay all the bills here today.
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: Trump Raising the Roof - Trump's showy, hands-on presence blurs the line between leader and developer, raising bigger questions about power, public trust, and just how far privat...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

“No Threat” Weekend - 8.5 x 11 inch high-res color .jpg image, 683kb “Power was not challenged in any meaningful way. The status quo wasn’t disrupted in the slightest. People he...
Green Pages News

With Zack Polanski’s Win, British Greens Attempt Their Audacity Era - Zack Polanski’s unexpected victory as leader of the Green Party of England & Wales marks a bold new chapter for the UK Greens. Departing from the cautious ...
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 ...
Alas, a Blog

Why Are You Singling Out Israel? - If you publicly criticize Israel, you’ll sooner or later be confronted with the “why are you singling out Israel” critique. “There are so many nations in t...
Campaign for America's Future

We Protested, Now What? - We stand ready, and we stand together. We will resist while we still can, and impose costs when we must on those who trade away our freedoms and dignity fo...
Edinburg Politics

Texas lawmakers allow local governments and state agencies to discuss cybersecurity protections behind closed doors, reports South Texas attorney Omar Ochoa - A new state law approved earlier this year by the Texas Legislature – which was supported by the City of McAllen through its lobbyist, Amber Hausenfluck –...
Reveal

Find Your Lost Google Videos - [image: Close up of squares of binary code on a digital plane stacked on top of each other.] A guide to reclaiming your missing ephemera. Find Your Lost ...
Media Lens

Media Lens On Substack – An Explanation And An Apology - Traditionally, August is ‘silly season’ in the UK, and things certainly got silly on 14 August of this year, when we published our media alert, ‘“Israel Sa...
Greg Palast

I met Chávez and Maduro. I know drugs are not the reason Trump wants war with Venezuela - I met with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez just days after he was kidnapped. I’ll tell you about that, and the current President Nicolas Maduro’s visit t...
Two Party Opera

East Wing Ballroom Resort & Casino - Read More
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 ...
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: *...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
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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Monday, May 30, 2011

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