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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

Elon Musk's xAI under fire for failing to rein in 'digital undressing' (Hadas Gold/CNN) - Hadas Gold / CNN: *Elon Musk's xAI under fire for failing to rein in ‘digital undressing’* — Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual...
The Week

Why the Middle East is obsessed with falcons - Popularity of the birds of prey has been ‘soaring’ despite doubts over the legality of sourcing and concerns for animal welfare
The Hill

Crypto ramps up Senate lobbying ahead of key votes - {beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Crypto ramps up Senate lobbying ahead of key votes The cryptocurrency industry is ramping up efforts to get ma...
Courthouse News

Washington church revisits challenge to state abortion insurance requirement - The church says a Washington health care law has forced it to provide abortion coverage for the past six years.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US House breaks with Trump to revive Affordable Care Act subsidies - Seventeen Republicans join Democrats to pass a three-year extension of tax credits cutting ACA premiums The US House of Representatives on Thursday passe...
Raw Story

17 House Republicans cross party lines to vote to save Obamacare subsidies - House Democrats scored a victory on Thursday evening as the chamber passed a revival of enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies on a bipartisan basis — th...
Mediaite

Josh Hawley Tries to Make Amends After Trump Calls For His Defeat: ‘I Love the President’ - "Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again,” Trump raged on Thursday The post Josh Ha...
Vox

“There’s a fight to be had here”: A local reporter on the pain and resolve in Minneapolis - The events that led to a federal officer in Minneapolis killing Renee Nicole Good have not been universally interpreted. On a visit to Texas on Wednesday, ...
Political Wire

Trump Orders Buy of Mortgage Bonds to Lower Rates - President Trump said he is “instructing my Representatives” to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, claiming that doing so will drive rates and monthly paym...
Techdirt.

Trump: The Anti-Lincoln - Saturday, January 3rd, 2026. The President of the United States stood in his private club in Palm Beach, Florida, and announced that America had toppled Ve...
Alternet

'Criminal': Massie and Khanna say Trump's DOJ 'cannot be trusted' to release Epstein files - Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) are now directly accusing President Donald Trump's administration of committing "criminal violations...
Salon.com

“Enough is enough”: Senate marches toward vote to limit Trump’s war powers in Venezuela - A measure to limit the president's war powers advanced with bipartisan support in the Senate on Tuesday
Daily Dot

“Corpo slop”: Owner of Galaxy Ring that caused ER visit shares Samsung’s investigation results. Users aren’t reassured - [image: Samsung Galaxy Ring painfully swelling around a man's index finger. Tweet text overlay reads, "Samsung Galaxy Ring – Update #3 It’s been just ove...
The NM Political Report

Illegal oil seizure, impeachment, extortion and Epstein: Rep. Stansbury addresses multiple crises - [image: U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury held a press call Thursday where she provided updates on several congressional issues.] [image: U.S. Rep. Melanie Stan...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy.
Second Nexus

'AI Slop' Christmas Gifts That Fooled Customers Are Already Popping Up At Thrift Stores—And Oof - In the past few years, there's been a rising concern in the beauty community and among big social media influencers regarding the authenticity and reliab...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/09/2026 - 03:22 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Edinburg Politics

As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, combat veterans Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Col. Frank Plummer honored by the City of McAllen at Valley’s iconic Veteran’s War Memorial of Texas - FEATURED: Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, during his tour of duty as a U.S. Marine combat squad leader in Vietnam from 1966 through 1968, and Col. Frank Plu...
Futurism

Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck - Finally, our leisure time has been automated. The post Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck appeared first on Futurism.
Al Jazeera English

Brazil to send national guard near border with Venezuela - Tensions rise as Brazil reinforces its northern border following US air strikes in Venezuela and Maduro's abduction.
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio police officer fired over accusation he fled wreck scene while drunk - [image: SAPD Officer Luis Carrillo received an indefinite suspension late last year.] SAPD terminated Officer Luis Carrillo in October after he was involv...
Mother Jones

Cops Are Taught Not to Shoot Into Cars. ICE Keeps Doing It Anyway. - On Wednesday, a masked federal immigration officer killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother and poet, shooting her at point-blank range in her car. ...
slacktivist

‘Is it right on red or left on MLK?’ - It is 2026 and I am 57 years old and I am listening to a new song by Amy Grant and it is a good song.
Capital & Main

Why No Charges? Friends, Family of Man Killed by Off-Duty ICE Officer Ask After New Year’s Eve Shooting. - Keith Porter, 43, had been firing a gun into the air to celebrate before he was killed, family members say. If the shooter weren’t an ICE agent, ‘We woul...
Houston Public Media

Benefits for Texas could be mixed as U.S. looks to tap Venezuelan oil, experts say - Refineries in Texas and along its Gulf Coast could get a boost from Venezuela's heavy crude. But oil producers might hesitate to get involved in the countr...
The Conversation

ICE killing of driver in Minneapolis involved tactics many police departments warn against − but not ICE itself - Police departments have changed their policies regarding use of force over the years to protect life, but ICE and other federal agencies have lagged in thi...
Church and State

Chevron and the other major oil companies can be heroes! But will they? - Trump says that oil companies will be running down to Venezuela to take advantage of the wonderful opportunity to restore the dilapidated oil.
Mediagazer

Some of WBD's biggest investors are split on Paramount's offer that counters Netflix's accepted bid; investors have until January 21 to accept Paramount's bid (Ross Kerber/Reuters) - Ross Kerber / Reuters: *Some of WBD's biggest investors are split on Paramount's offer that counters Netflix's accepted bid; investors have until January...
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: "This is not a normal world!" - *THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2026* *Life in our American Babel: *This morning, in the first few minutes of *Morning Joe*, producers played a memorable bit of vi...
CultureMap Houston

Blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit and 8 more new Houston art openings - The art world looks to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston this month as it unveils a monumental Frida Kahlo exhibition, but there’s many other shows around H...
Undernews

Tariffs - *Zoe Tillamn - * With SCOTUS poised to rule on Trump's tariffs as soon as Friday, more than 1,000 companies -- big, small, public, private -- already have...
The Verge

The coolest laptops we saw at CES 2026 - CES is always jam-packed with new laptop announcements, acting as a barometer for the year's upcoming releases. The proofs of concept at the show display w...
Deadline Politics

Trump’s “Total Failure” Condemned By Newsom In His Final State Of The State Address That Sure Sounded A Lot Like A 2028 Acceptance Speech - “It’s time for the president of the United State to act like the president of the United States, all the United States,” proclaimed Gavin Newsom bluntly to...
Project Censored

Neglect at Federal Detention Center Ignored Until a Famous Person Is Held There - The federal Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn usually makes headlines only when famous people—such as Luigi Mangione and Ghislaine Maxwell—...
Axios

Inside Democrats' new push to handcuff ICE - Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) will propose sweeping reforms to DHS, including requiring a warrant for arrests, banning masks during enforcement operations ...
Dorf on Law

Are Emerging Political Threats to Social Security Enough to Change Retirement Strategies? - A friend of mine recently turned 62. (A mere child.) Because I have written so much about the Social Security system over the course of my career, my b...
Slate

The Supreme Court Was Ripe for Another Ideological Food Fight. Then Something Else Happened. - An evangelical preacher challenged a city ordinance that confined protesters to a designated zone outside a public amphitheater in Brandon, Mississippi.
Scheerpost.com

There Was No Regime Change’: Venezuela’s Ex‑FM Jorge Arreaza on U.S. Kidnapping Raid - The Grayzone There was no regime change’ -Venezuela’s ex-FM Jorge Arreaza on US kidnapping raid In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Max Blumentha...
Novara Media

ICE Agent Kills US Citizen, Protests Erupt in Minneapolis - Protests have erupted in response to the shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a masked ICE agent as Trump’s government scrambles to justify her killing. Plus: ...
Rallblog

Checks and Balances Are Dead - Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America’s ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily corruptible. Because the Foundin...
First Draft

It Could Have Been Any One Of Us - Renee Good could have been any of us.
Consortium News

A Lawless Presidency - The catastrophe we all witnessed in Caracas — the result of expanding presidential power — is a body blow to the U.S. Constitution, writes Andrew P. Napoli...
naked capitalism

The U.S.–Venezuela Coup: The Quiet Part Out Loud - The analysis of the U.S. abduction of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro offers three theories: an elite military raid, imperial aggression, or an internal coup
Election Law Blog

Unearthed Chandler Davidson et al. Report on Republican “Ballot Security” Efforts from the 1960s to 2000 - As part of the research for my book, Unbent Arc, I came across a comprehensive (though quite critical) 2004 report from Chandler Davidson and co-authors ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - January 8, 2026 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump's takeover of Venezuela is about much more than oi...
Wolf Street

Trade Deficit Drops to Least Terrible Level since 2009, upon which Atlanta Fed GDPNow Doubles Q4 GDP Forecast to +5.4% - The GDPNow algo is to be taken with a teaspoon of salt, but it shows that a big improvement of the trade deficit pushes up GDP growth.
Daily Cartoonist

Bloom County Goes Patreon - Berkeley Breathed let his Facebook followers know that The Bloom County Boys will be moving to Patreon: Opus, Bill, Steve and your Bloom County family are ...
Independent Political Report

Minnesota Greens, Green Latinx Caucus Call for ICE Withdrawal Following Minneapolis Shooting - The Green Party of Minnesota and the national Green Party’s Latinx Caucus are calling for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to withdraw from Minne...
Sludge

Democratic Ad Firm Works to Protect Insurance Company Profits - Bully Pulpit International, a leading Democratic digital firm, was paid millions in 2024 by a health insurance industry group that is working to ensure com...
World Socialist Web Site

Syrian HTS regime clashes with Kurdish SDF forces, makes a deal with Israel - Less than a year after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, US-allied forces in Syria have reached the brink of civil war. This underscores t...
Claytoonz

Baby Goebbels - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Crooked Media

Trump’s explosive start to 2026 – will Starmer find a backbone? - The post Trump’s explosive start to 2026 – will Starmer find a backbone? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mondoweiss

Israel is quietly erasing Palestinian refugee camps from existence in the West Bank - [image: Israeli army forces conduct a military operation inside the Nur Shams refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarem. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA I...
The Daily Poster

Fact-Check Your Robots, Federal Court Demands Of Lawyers - Amid reports of false legal citations generated by artificial intelligence, one federal bankruptcy court is putting its foot down.
SCOTUSblog

The transgender athlete cases: an explainer - Who are the challengers in the cases? There are two challengers – both transgender women – in two separate cases, Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B....
Angry Bear

Republicans en mass are responsible for the complete chaos of the American government - AB: J.P. McJefferson’s comment in reply to a commentary by Ken Melvin, “The Republicans.” Ken, you are so right that Republicans en masse are the respons...
Discourse

Renee Nicole Good's Murder Is Not Up for Debate - Fascist spin and an abdication of journalistic responsibility won't change what we can see with our own eyes.
The Root

Is Martial Law Headed to Minneapolis? The Governor Has Thoughts - Gov. Tim Walz believes Trump wants to use a recent ICE shooting to justify enacting martial law. Here's what that means for all Americans. Read more...
WhoWhatWhy

Trump Proposes Plan to Crank Up the US War Machine - [image: navy ship] Donald Trump wants defense spending to increase by 50 percent to $1.5 trillion in 2027 so that he can have a "dream military." Based on ...
Grist

Trump just took his most dramatic step yet against global climate action - Unlike the Paris Agreement, Trump’s withdrawal from a bedrock U.N. climate treaty may be difficult to reverse.
High Country News

These Americans were prosecuted for voting - In a corner of Alaska, American Samoans are facing prosecution for participating in democracy in the only country they’ve ever known. The post These Ame...
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Taco do’s and don’ts for 2026, Texas-style - As the new year begins, taco journalist Mando Rayo is offering a different kind of resolution list – one focused on what to embrace and what to avoid come ...
Dissident Voice

Fukayama’s Misstep - Political scientist Francis Fukuyama’s prediction that we, meaning those who glorify the western world, were at “The End of History and the Last Man,” an...
San Antonio Report

Plans show what a new JW Marriott River Walk hotel could look like - IBC Bank applied for permits to turn a downtown office and the facade of the 1926 Texas Theater into a 300-room hotel. ------------------------------ Plans ...
Bonddad

Stale news: one “hurrah!” for the positive report on manufacturers’ durable and capital goods orders - for October - - *by New Deal democrat* In the category of updated but stale data, yesterday manufacturers’ durable goods orders were released for October. The hea...
Glasstire

Top Five: January 8, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. The Fabulous Fifties: Houston Art at the Dawn of the Sp...
El Paso Matters

Fact check: Is a neurological virus outbreak affecting horses in El Paso? - The El Paso County sheriff’s posse pulled their horses out of a Thanksgiving Day parade as a safety precaution, according to EPCSP. The post Fact check:...
Democracy Now!

Trump Vows to "Indefinitely" Control Venezuela's Oil as U.S. Seizes Two More Oil Tankers - U.S. forces have seized two more oil tankers with links to Venezuela, days after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro along wi...
Space City Weather

A few thunderstorms may occur with the passage of Friday night’s front - In brief: Today’s post discusses the possibility of thunderstorms with a front on Friday night, folllowed by a cooldown that will stick around for awhile. ...
Common Dreams

350.org on the US withdrawal from the UNFCCC & other international bodies - US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from 66 international organizations, including the UN Framework Con...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Low Gas Prices Don’t Seem to be Moving the Needle for Trump—and He’s No Exception Historically - There is some connection, historically, between gas prices and presidential approval, but that connection has been weaker lately. The post Low Gas Prices...
ArcaMax

You Can See Clear to the Bottom of Minnesota's Fraud - Back in the mists of time, Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey was asked on "Meet the Press" whether he liked spending the taxpayers' money. The question was ba...
NPR's Health Shots

5 women's health myths, debunked by doctors - Some common misconceptions keep women from taking optimal care of their health. Here, doctors set the record straight.
The Smirking Chimp

Minneapolis Mayor Goes on Profanity-Laced Tirade Against Trump Admin on Live TV -
Socialist Alternative

SHUT IT DOWN: ICE Murders in Minneapolis - Just days into what’s being called the “largest immigration operation ever,” an ICE agent murdered a woman on the street in South Minneapolis in an interac...
Skeptophilia

Lonely wanderer - One of the most curious unsolved problems in physics is the *three-body problem*, which despite its name is not about a *ménage-à-trois*. It has to do w...
Off The Kuff

Judicial Q&A: Jimmie Brown - (Note: As I have done in past elections, I am running a series of Q&As for judicial candidates in contested Democratic primaries. This is intended to help ...
ProPublica

“We’re Too Close to the Debris” - The post “We’re Too Close to the Debris” appeared first on ProPublica.
Crooked Timber

How to make sure the writing gets done - I’ve been asked by a couple of friends, who have signed contracts to write nonfiction trade books, whether I have any advice on how to make sure the book g...
Countercurrents

Monroe Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine- Imperialistic Greed extends - If Donald Trump is not stopped immediately, nobody knows what further catastrophe awaits mankind. Chamberline was blamed for appeasing Adolf Hitler. Europe...
Infidel753

My best postings of 2025 - Class awareness is growing among right-wingers too. You're not obligated to let politics dominate your life. Class consciousness is the key to national re...
Portside

Bush Walked So Trump Could Run Into Venezuela - Bush Walked So Trump Could Run Into Venezuela Mark Brody Thu, 01/08/2026 - 02:11
Counterpunch

The Current Situation in Venezuela: A Government in Charge, a People Resilient - As dawn broke on 3 January and the stench of bombs lingered in the air, the population was both alarmed and shocked. It is important to emphasise that th...
Workers World

PDF of January 3 issue - [image: PDF of January 3 issue] Download the PDF Outside NYC courthouse: ‘Free Pres. Maduro and Cilia Flores!’ WW Statement: Condemn the U.S. bombing of Ve...
jobsanger

Trump Administration Increases Racist Effort To Keep Non-Whites From Coming To U.S. -
Informed Comment

Genocide in Gaza, Apartheid in the Palestinian West Bank: UN Report - Palestinians face "criminal prosecution in military courts during which their due process and fair trial rights are systematically violated.”
Idavox

ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Observer Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis - Just a four blocks away from where George Floyd, ICE murders a White American woman.... The post ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Observer Renee Nicole Good in M...
Popular Resistance

Lawyer Who Represented Julian Assange Defends President Maduro - Renowned criminal lawyer Barry Pollack, who defended journalist Julian Assange, has taken on the defense of Venezuela’s constitutional president, Nicolás...
The AltWorld

American Conservatives Are Disgusting Frauds - After spending days enthusiastically applauding Trump’s freakish act of imperialist aggression to oust the president of Venezuela […] The post American C...
Ballot Access News

What Vote on restoring Obamacare subsidies shows - On January 7, HR 780 to restore subsidies for Obamacare passed the House. Nine Republicans voted Yes. Seven of them were from closed primary states. Supp...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Professor fired over anti-Charlie Kirk post wins $500,000 settlement and his old job back' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs - *Professor fired over Charlie Kirk post just won a major payout — and his old job back* - *God Bless America! * *Speaking of Charlie Kirk, check out the hy...
Antiwar.com

Is the Gaza War a Genocide? - Many respected scholars and human rights organizations have characterised Israel’s war in Gaza as a genocide. At the same time, other scholars and organiza...
The Greanville Post

The international dictator Trump demands all nations capitulate. - ERIC ZUESSE—The U.S. government, under Trump, is demanding capitulation from countries like Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba. This includes forcing...
Texas Observer

Why Houston Oil Majors Are Hesitant to Go All In on Venezuela - President Donald Trump’s deadly invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president could be an unusually clear example of “blood for oil.” The preside...
The Texas Signal

A Texas Art Teacher Creates Comics In His Off Hours - Gay Snakes (now up to three volumes with fans clamoring for a fourth) is exactly what it says on the xeroxed, tract-sized paper. It’s downright wholesome, ...
Ian Welsh

Understanding America’s Plan and Venezuela’s Possible Submission - So, some stuff has begun to come out though so far it’s all from the US and I haven’t seen Venezuelan confirmation. First, Trump: Second, the oil blockade ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
MintPress News

Maduro on Trial & Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ - From the courtroom to the newsroom, Nicolás Maduro’s trial exposes how U.S. force is laundered through media language and legal theater, reviving an old ...
NORML

2nd Amendment Group Says Feds Should Restore Gun Ownership Rights To State-Authorized Cannabis Consumers Following Rescheduling Order - [image: legal marijuana leaves][image: legal marijuana leaves]“Neither past nor current cannabis use should automatically preclude someone from legal pro...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Texas Already Ran the Voucher Experiment—And the Results Should Alarm Us, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - Texas Already Ran the Voucher Experiment—And the Results Should Alarm Us *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 7, 2026* *Governor Greg Abbott’s successf...
Rewire

Abortion Remains Legal in Wyoming After State High Court Strikes Down Bans - Wyoming Supreme Court rules two bans passed by state lawmakers are unconstitutional. The post Abortion Remains Legal in Wyoming After State High Court St...
Earth 911

How to Recycle Foam Mattress Pads and Toppers - Egg crate mattress pads, memory foam toppers, and other foam bedding shouldn’t go in your... The post How to Recycle Foam Mattress Pads and Toppers appea...
DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage Accepted £10,000 Gifts from Petrostate - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage received freebies worth £10,000 from the Abu Dhabi government, new records show. Farage’s latest register of interests show...
Trivial Knot

Experience with AI coding - In the past year, myself and many other people who program for a living started using AI coding assistance. I’m just going to plainly discuss my experience...
See You In 2020

Popular struggle is what gives a fighting chance to Venezuela, and to the entire global working class - No nation will tolerate interference in its internal affairs and infringement upon its honour. Not only the socialist countries but also the newly indep...
Progressive.org

The Case of Free Speech v. Trump - The courts, American institutions, and the public can still reject the lawlessness of the Trump Administration.
Environment Texas

These companies could have a big impact on protecting bees - To protect bees, we need to get bee-killing pesticides off store shelves. That’s why we’re encouraging three major companies to lead the way. The post Th...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
LareDOS

Here on the river’s edge as the water, like time, slips past. Here is the promise of the long view and the close look. - Here, where quiet drowns out the distant rancor of fearmongers, we might, instead, be good neighbors.
The Grayzone

Behind the DOJ’s politicized indictment of Maduro: a CIA-created ‘network’ and coerced star witness - The US Department of Justice indictment of Venezuela’s kidnapped leader, Nicolas Maduro, is a political rant that relies heavily on coerced testimony fro...
The Rag Blog

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

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

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

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

1/5-12 News Roundup and Open Thread - More on Venezuela and other stuff,
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
The Militant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happy New Year and Open Thread - Happy New Year to all! Photos of the celebrations around the world are pretty awesome. Still, the world is not a happy place today. America has watched ...
Liberation News

Por qué todo el mundo debería oponerse al secuestro del presidente de Venezuela - Trump quiere que pensemos que el secuestro y el juicio contra el presidente de Venezuela son una acción de "cumplimiento de la ley". En realidad, se trata ...
Progressives Chat

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Earthworks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Free & Equal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

Julian Assange is FREE!!! - Dandelion Salad June 25, 2024 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
CT's short stories and novelettes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Monday, May 30, 2011

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