Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Verge

Some of our favorite gifts will cost you less than $25 - Holiday shopping on a budget can feel constricting, especially if you've been invited to a white elephant or need a last-minute stocking stuffer. The good ...
memeorandum

Trump defends Tucker Carlson for interviewing white nationalist Fuentes (Amy B Wang/Washington Post) - Amy B Wang / Washington Post: *Trump defends Tucker Carlson for interviewing white nationalist Fuentes* — “You can't tell him who to interview,” Trump ...
Al Jazeera English

Why many Bosnian genocide scholars remain silent on Gaza - Their refusal to speak out undermines scholarly integrity and the field of genocide studies.
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump’s Reversal On Epstein Files Does Not Mean Release Is Inevitable - Donald Trump’s reversal on the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files may have been accepting the inevitable, a House vote this week that otherwise would see...
Mediaite

‘The Heritage Foundation Is Willing to Destroy Itself’: The Right Reacts to Conservative Elder’s Resignation — and Ominous Warning - Conservatives did not take well to the news that Robert George, a widely-respected right-wing elder, was resigning from The Heritage Foundation's board. ...
Salon.com

Trump claims unchecked power — and challenges the Constitution - Even the Supreme Court can't question his use of force in American cities, Trump says
Second Nexus

People Explain The Dumbest Reasons They Had To Call 911 - We've all made mistakes from time to time, and some of them have probably been pretty cringy and stupid. But most of us can take comfort in the fact that...
Daily Dot

“Nobody cares about this traitor!”: Trump barrages former ally MTG with insults and nicknames as their public feud escalates - [image: Left: Former President Donald Trump Jr. speaks to the press after attending wake for NYPD officer Jonathan Diller at Massapequa Funeral Home in M...
El Paso Matters

El Paso midterm primaries: Key dates, filing deadlines, candidate requirements for 2026 elections - Political candidates are preparing their bids for next year’s midterm primary elections March 3, with the Dec. 8 filing deadline fast approaching. The p...
SCOTUSblog

The case that turned the justices into art critics - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. I. The artist formerly known as...
Alternet

Why the Supreme Court made a 'horrendous' mistake giving Trump absolute power - Policy expert and journalist William S. Becker writes in The Hill that the Supreme Court made a "horrendous mistake" giving President Donald Trump absolu...
Courthouse News

Still terrible - Have you watched "All's Fair" on Hulu? I did so you don't have to.
Bonddad

Jobless claims continue slightly elevated YoY - - *by New Deal democrat* Hopefully for the last time . . . As I have done since the beginning of the government shutdown, the unadjusted number of i...
Eschaton

America's Smartest Man - Harvard Crimson, continuing to do the best Larry Summers-related journalism. I hope Patel and Srivastava have non-journalism career plans, because there ...
The Week

Sheikh Hasina: why ousted Bangladesh PM has been sentenced to death - The country’s longest-serving leader spearheaded a ‘ruthless, state-led crackdown’ of protestors in 2024, and faces extradition from India
The Hill

Trump says he’s talking to Democrats about direct health care payment plan - President Trump said he is talking with Democrats about a direct health care payment plan on Sunday amid negotiations to tackle rising health insurance pre...
Techdirt.

Former FCC Officials Push To Kill Dated ‘News Distortion’ Rule Trump Abused To Bully CBS And ABC Into Feckless Compliance - A coalition of former FCC officials are pushing for the elimination of a longstanding FCC rule the Trump administration abused to “bully” ABC and CBS into ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

First Thing: Trump tells Republicans to vote to release Epstein files, in reversal of previous stance - The US president says he backs lawmakers’ efforts to release the files before an expected House vote this week. Plus: is there a dark side to gratitude? ...
Election Law Blog

At the NYU Democracy Project, John Samples on Post New Deal Politics - John Samples, a vice president at the Cato Institute, argues in A Fourth Republic? that the New Deal era characterized a Third Republic dominated by expe...
Raw Story

Kash Patel accused of 'clear abuse' as elite FBI swat team assigned to protect girlfriend - FBI Director Kash Patel’s country music singer girlfriend has a security detail made up of elite federal agents, according to sources with knowledge of t...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Empty Voices, Empty Rooms - This is when I first heard “Yankee Go Home!” I was eight, Ike was president and Vice-President Nixon was visiting Venezuela. As these cutlines read, the wr...
Houston Public Media

Fort Bend County broadband expansion (Nov. 17, 2025) - On Monday's show: We catch up with Fort Bend County reporter Natalie Weber, we answer listener questions about dog and cat care, and we preview a big prime...
Vox

Why prop bets are ruining sports - Another week, another sports betting scandal. It’s never been this easy for a player to fix the outcome of a bet. The onset of proposition or “prop” bets, ...
Mediagazer

A look at MSNBC's rebrand as MS Now, as it builds an independent newsroom, hiring 36+ reporters, aiming to maintain its liberal opinion and news analysis (Scott Nover/Washington Post) - Scott Nover / Washington Post: *A look at MSNBC's rebrand as MS Now, as it builds an independent newsroom, hiring 36+ reporters, aiming to maintain its l...
Mother Jones

Federal Cash for Lead Pipe Replacement Isn’t Making It to Illinois Communities - This story, a partnership between Grist, Inside Climate News, and Chicago-area public radio station WBEZ, is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk co...
Political Wire

More Consumers Falling Behind on Their Utility Bills - “More people are falling behind on paying their bills to keep on the lights and heat their homes, according to a new analysis of consumer data — a warning ...
Crooked Timber

Online discussion on Lisa Herzog’s The Democratic Marketplace - If you want to know more about how the current form of capitalism is undermining (a thick conception of) democracy, and what can be done about this, then y...
WhoWhatWhy

Stumper: Why Was Jeffrey Epstein Obsessed With Donald Trump Back in 2011? - [image: Trump Tower, Epstein] A new trove of cryptic but damning emails provides hints on a war between the two former friends Stumper: Why Was Jeffrey Ep...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: Liquidonate CEO Disney Petit On Solving The Retail Returns Crisis - Subscribe to receive transcripts by email. Read along with this episode. What if the solution... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: Liquidonate CEO Dis...
NPR's Health Shots

Dementia housing without locked wards? It's a small but growing movement - Some senior living communities are caring for people with dementia alongside other residents, not segregated behind locked doors.
Dorf on Law

Freedom of Thought, Compelled Speech, and Expressive Businesses - I spent Friday of last week at a one-day symposium called *Revitalizing Freedom of Thought *hosted by the Cornell Law Review. There was a great slate of ...
naked capitalism

Links 11/17/2025 -
Axios

Exclusive: Trump takes affordability pitch to McDonald's - President Trump will dial up his affordability message for an audience of McDonald's owners, operators and suppliers Monday evening, as part of an escala...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Truly Sh*tty Economy -
Angry Bear

Don the con - Trump says affordability is “a con job by the Democrats.” Who ya gonna believe, The Donald or your lyin’ eyes? When Trump speaks of cons, we should liste...
Crooked Media

The Agonies of Brett Kavanaugh - The post The Agonies of Brett Kavanaugh appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

The clown show that is the pro-casino interests in Texas - Just amazing stuff. After a string of legislative defeats in 2025, a test of the political power of those pushing to legalize gambling in Texas fell flat a...
Slate

I Planned to Give Each of My Daughters the Same Big Wedding Gift. Suddenly, That Might Not Be “Fair.” - I've changed my mind!
Progressives Chat

Trump–ed - U.S. president *Donald Trump*’s appeal for millions, who supported him, have become Trump–ed. Among Trump’s recent achievements with his Part II presiden...
San Antonio Report

Facing $37M budget deficit, Judson ISD hasn’t had a chief financial officer in more than a month - Facing a budget deficit, Judson ISD hasn't had a CFO in over a month. Here's why. ------------------------------ Facing $37M budget deficit, Judson ISD has...
ProPublica

He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. - The post He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms. appeared first on ProPublica.
Scheerpost.com

US Launches a Series of Airstrikes in Somalia, Civilians Reported Killed - Most of the strikes targeted al-Shabaab in southern Somalia while one targeted the ISIS affiliate in Somalia's Puntland region
Dissident Voice

Competing for Emissions: The COP Candidate Contest - It’s so silly as to be depraved. Two countries, hardly exemplary when it comes to their environmental credentials, vying for hosting rights to an event t...
slacktivist

We’ll think of something funny when we write your epitaph - Any kind of heaven every body doesn't get in Wont seem like a heaven to me
High Country News

After Trump cuts, seeds sit in the warehouse - [image: Person manicuring sagebrush seedlings] Western groups lose federal grants for urgent restoration and conservation projects. The post After Trump ...
ExChristian.Net

God, The Ultimate Abusive Spouse - *By MTC ~ * The "relationship" Christians have with their deity and wish for others to seek as well, is claimed to be one of pure love, benevolence, and d...
Rallblog

For Democrats, Surrender Is the Ultimate Victory - The Democrats were winning the battle for public opinion over the government shutdown. Inexplicably, they chose to cave in anyway to the Republicans with...
Counterpunch

Antisemitism, Campus Censorship and Freedom of Expression - Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that deny them...
DeSmogBlog

In Brazil, Agribusiness Giants Hire Celebrity Influencers to Win Hearts and Minds - Agribusiness companies enlisted an army of Brazilian social media influencers ahead of the United Nations climate summit, now underway in the Amazonian c...
jobsanger

Renewing ACA Subsidies Is Not Just Smart Policy - It Is Basic Governance -
Informed Comment

Assaults on US Academic Freedom: Acquiescence and Resistance - Academic freedom siege in the US is under siege as never in our nation’s history
World Socialist Web Site

Stellantis and its European Opel car plants—closure by installments - The Stellantis group, which includes Peugeot, Fiat and Chrysler, as well as Opel, is systematically cutting jobs and preparing further plant closures. In O...
The Grayzone

The intel scandal behind Prince Andrew’s twisted Epstein exploits - In an interview with The Grayzone, author Andrew Lownie details shocking findings of his research into Prince Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein....
Portside

Justice Jackson Goes ‘Her Own Way’ in SNAP Fight - Justice Jackson Goes ‘Her Own Way’ in SNAP Fight barry Sun, 11/16/2025 - 23:22
Wolf Street

The Most Splendid Housing Bubbles in America: Price Drops & Gains in 33 Large Expensive Metros in October 2025 - Prices fell year-over-year in 22 of the 33 metros. In 9 of the 33, prices rose to new highs.
Popular Resistance

Activists Mobilize Across The Americas To Demand ‘Hands Off Venezuela’ - The US military has extrajudicially killed 80 people in 20 strikes that have destroyed 21 boats, in aerial strikes off the coast of Venezuela. With outra...
The Greanville Post

Southern Spear: The American Pole and the Recolonization of the Hemisphere - PRINCE KAPONE—The fourth contradiction is historical. The United States is attempting to resurrect the Monroe Doctrine in a hemisphere that has spent two c...
Antiwar.com

Brittany Pettersen’s Blood Money and the Babies of Gaza - Children are a gift from God. In a world rigged against the little guy – where BlackRock and its ilk scoop up homes while families scrape by on shrinking p...
Consortium News

CN at 30: The Meaning of Consortium News - Founding editor Bob Parry left a legacy of strict, non-partisan journalism, really the only kind of journalism that there is, which this site has endeavore...
Socialist Alternative

Your Party in Britain: For a democratic, socialist, working-class party! - This article was originally posted on socialistalternative.info (website of the England, Wales, and Scotland section of ISA). On 29–30 November, Your Party...
Ballot Access News

Arkansas Governor Changes two Special Legislative Elections from June to March 3 - On Sunday, November 16, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders changed the special legislative elections in two districts from June 2026, to March 2026. ...
Greg Palast

The Failure of No Kings DayFrederick Douglass shakes his head - No Kings in San Diego was a helluva party, 50,000 celebrating — while at the same time fearing for — that delicate thing called democracy. A thousand Ameri...
Undernews

Trump's criminal status - *Factually - *Donald Trump was convicted in a New York state criminal trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records connected to a Stormy Daniel...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Edition - Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least...
See You In 2020

The anti-fascist fight’s current limitations, & the actions the workers must undertake to overcome them - Russia’s war against the U.S.-installed Kiev Nazi regime has gotten far, but for it to be completed, the world’s workers must take their struggle much f...
OpEd News

Zelensky's days as Ukraine's leader could be numbered - A corruption scandal has been exposed by Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau. It's so explosive it could imperil the reign of the country's leader Vl...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 16, 2025 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – November 16, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Elite impunity The Corrupt Roots of America’s Elite Run Deep David Kurtz, November 13...
The Root

The Great American Debate: Will The Democrats Ride The Wave to Victory? - The Nov. 4 election was the brightest spot the Democrats experienced in a while. But will it last...? Two contributing writers for The Root dig in to fig...
Bracing Views

Nuclear Force “Recapitalization” - An Abomination of the English Language BILL ASTORE NOV 12, 2025 Just when you thought the assault on the English language couldn’t be more severe, I came a...
Reform Austin

Opponents Tried to Spin an Escort Scandal—Talarico Shut It Down Immediately - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… James Talarico, Democratic Texas state representative and U.S. Senate candidate, has drawn atte...
Mondoweiss

From the Favelas to Gaza: How militarism and greenwashing shape Brazilian relations, resistance, and solidarity with Palestine - Brazilians have long supported Palestine, but the country's economic and military ties with Israel continue to deepen. As Israel's links to Brazil's domest...
Futurism

Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children - Would you trust an AI chatbot with your children? The post Parents Using ChatGPT to Rear Their Children appeared first on Futurism.
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Back to Business' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spec...
Glasstire

Art Dirt: A Visit to The RGV - Jessica Fuentes, William Sarradet, and Nicholas Frank discuss their recent visit to the Rio Grande Valley, including stops in Laredo, San Ygnacio, McAlle...
First Draft

The Sunday Dozen: Train Tunes - All aboard. Music by Duke Ellington, James Brown, Oscar Peterson, The Monkees, Cat Stevens, The Band, The Doobie Brothers, ELO, Soul Asylum, Squeeze, Cyndi...
Grist

The birth of the climate doula - In Florida, a new pilot program teaches doulas how to prepare pregnant people for hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat — addressing a growing climate and...
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Something’s Rotten In The Shutdown Deal - Poison pills in the government funding bill, insurers get rich off the open enrollment crisis, and more from The Lever this week.
Infidel753

Quote for the day -- stubborn, petty and stupid - "But at least the government will be open again. There is *never any excuse* for the government to close. Let's keep this simple: shutdown politics is s...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies - *Reflections on Thursday’s Hearing: Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the Implicit Defense of Ethnic and Women and Gender Studies* *by* *Angela Valenzuel...
Alas, a Blog

Blame Immigrants! - As many people have written, one way powerful people and institutions stay in power is by scapegoating immigrants. Dick Dowdell sums it up well: When wages...
San Antonio Current

Ron Nirenberg finally announces bid for Bexar County judge - The former San Antonio mayor will take on Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai in the Democratic primary — and Sakai isn't too happy. The post Ron Nirenberg ...
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 ...
CultureMap Houston

Where to order Thanksgiving to-go in Houston and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with a guide to Thanksgiving meals to-go. Plus, several hot restauran...
Duck of Minerva

Exploring the Meaning of Responsibility - I’ve been thinking a lot about the meaning of “responsibility,” specifically in the context of politics and governance. We live in an age of populism, risi...
The AltWorld

The Epstein-Israel Connection the Media Still Won’t Touch - Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss the latest Trump-Epstein revelations, showing how Epstein wasn’t just a predator […] The post The Epstein-Israel ...
ArcaMax

Shutdown Surrender Is Political Suicide for Democrats - Democrats think they run against Republicans. Republicans think they run against Democrats. When swing voters existed as a significant segment of the elect...
Skeptophilia

A handful of fragments - I've written here before about the tragedy of lost books -- and that prior to the invention of the printing press, the great likelihood is that most of t...
Liberation News

Victory of Katie Wilson for Seattle mayor another signal of political shift in the U.S. - A Wilson victory opens the door for progressives and working people to demand that she not only fight for the reforms she promised, but go beyond them.
Workers World

Long March for Mumia! - [image: Long March for Mumia!] The following is based on a lightly edited post from Zayid Muhammad in support of the Nov. 28-Dec. 9, 2025 March for Mumia: ...
Progressive.org

Talking ‘Bout a Revolution - Ken Burns’s new documentary chronicles 1776 and beyond, focusing on the roles played by enslaved people and Indigenous tribes.
Sludge

Fact Check: Musk Repeats Social Security Conspiracy on Joe Rogan Podcast - Musk recycled his claims of "massive fraud" in the Social Security program, this time saying it caused the recent government shutdown—and again, faced no f...
The NM Political Report

In Dem. primary for governor, former Las Cruces mayor talks pro-oil, anti-minimum wage agenda - Ken Miyashima is hoping to be the next governor, many of the voters he needs do not know which party’s nomination he is trying to capture. For Miyagishim...
The Militant

Workers at Safeway’s N. Calif. bread plant win new contract - RICHMOND, Calif. — Public protests paid off for Safeway bread plant workers here, who won a new contract 14 months after their old one expired. The workers...
Church and State

‘Change is happening, it’s just painfully slow’ - “Climate is our biggest war” says Ana Toni, chief executive of COP30. Hopes are high. Expectations are low.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: EPSTEIN IS THE MONSTER AND THE CREATOR EDITION. - *Robert Christgau told us about these guys.And they're doing a residency at MASS MoCA!* A lot of news this week, but I gotta tell you, I just saw somethi...
Texas Standard

New list serves up 100 of Houston’s best restaurants - The Houston Chronicle’s rankings features a wide price range and hearty helping of the diversity found among the city’s cuisine.
LareDOS

No more fat Generals and Admirals, No more Beardos! - Hegseth's comedic arrogance: In Vietnam he would have made a very ineffective platoon leader and kept in the rear
Common Dreams

Citizens Groups and Experts Warn Federal Officials that Recent Trump Executive Orders Would Decimate Standards for Radiation Exposure - Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal offic...
Capital & Main

Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil Drilling Near Denver Suburbs? Residents Hope So. - Threatened northern leopard frogs found near site of what would be one of state's largest fossil fuel operations. The post Can an Imperiled Frog Stop Oil...
Independent Political Report

Mike Collier Announces Independent Bid for Texas Lt. Governor in 2026 - Mike Collier, a former two-time Democratic nominee for Texas lieutenant governor, has announced that he will seek the position again in 2026, this time m...
Daily Howler

THE DISAPPEARED: What happens on the Gutfeld! program? - *FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2025* *And why does it get disappeared?* A highly unusual thing takes place near the end of Amanda Hess's profile of the *Gutfeld**...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Potemkin Revolution - We’ve just barely had time to hose down our street from that rank-assed “No Kings” shitfest before we get the news that these assholes are rolling into tow...
Rewire

Immigrant Women More Exposed to Breast Cancer Risks At Work - Occupations predominated by immigrant women came with significant exposures to cancer-linked chemicals, a new study finds. The post Immigrant Women More...
Space City Weather

Autumn eludes Houston over the next several days with near record warmth early next week - In brief: Near record high temperatures will settle in over Houston, along with a burst of high humidity early next week. Our next front is penciled in for...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 12 - *An argumentative holy hero promotes the Jesus-cult * Many religions insist that their spiritual truths derive from divine inspiration. Christianity es...
Democracy Now!

How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory - Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is less than two months away from taking office in New York City. Mamdani’s history-making campaign, grounded in community organ...
The Conversation

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress - The mayor-elect can use his popularity to protect New York’s capacity for self-government from outside interference, while reaffirming what his campaign pr...
Texas Observer

At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance - On a stone slab by the cold waters of Austin’s Barton Springs, transgender Texans celebrate existence. Against the best efforts of the state, they’re sti...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio November 14, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 11/14/2025 - 06:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
The Rag Blog

LAMAR HANKINS / COMMENTARY / Norman Finkelstein explains the Israel-Gaza conflict - BY LAMAR HANKINS / The Rag Blog / November 13, 2025 Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1953, a son of Jewish parents who survived the Holocaus...
Discourse

We Need to Be Bullying Political Nepo Babies More - If we do it to Colin Hanks we should be doing it to Jack Schlossberg.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispanic and Asian Voters Shifted, and a Place Where Politics May Still be Local - Deeper analysis of the VA/NJ 2025 contests, as well as two House rating changes The post Sifting Through the NJ/VA Results: Ticket-splitting, How Hispani...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

From the 'HB & HM' archives - 'America owes drag queens a huge apology' - *E**ditor's note - Because of what we have learned on Wednesday with regards to Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and what it MAY lead to in the future, ...
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...
The Texas Signal

Immigration Policies Take A Toll On The Texas Economy - Almost a quarter of ICE arrests have occurred in Texas, inflicting widespread reverberations on the state's economy
Democracy Chronicles

Tyranny of the Minority - Levitsky and Ziblatt propose reforming our democracy in the same vein as Norway has by making representation more proportional and elections more direct.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel - The system of metaphors at the heart of Yeats’s system of occult philosophy is not easy to grasp. Those readers who have been following this discussion as ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: The Changing Discourse, Our Unconscious Society, Neo-Nazism, and More - I answer subscriber questions and get into the topics you want to talk about
Media Lens

Inversion Of Reality - The BBC: A ‘Leftist Propaganda Machine’? The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC director general, and Deborah Turness, BBC head of news, after an intense, righ...
Environment Texas

Forget Black Friday, join us for National Clothing Swap Day - Reduce unnecessary waste this holiday season by hosting your own clothing swap for National Clothing Swap Day. The post Forget Black Friday, join us for ...
Avedon's Sideshow

Declinin' numbers at an even rate - "Au Reveil" by Clara Bergel is from the Life Everyday collection. Most of the links below were collected before Tuesday when there was "A Democratic Sweep...
Project Censored

#1. ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal age...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Zohran, the Jews, and Reckoning with Gaza - Matt and Sam talk to Peter Beinart about Zohran and Islamophobia, Jews and antisemitism, the genocide in Gaza, and more.
NORML

Veterans Are Still Being Denied Medical Cannabis Access - [image: A closeup of a military uniform with a cannabis leaf patch on the sleeve representing marijuana and veterans issues][image: A closeup of a milita...
The Progressive Wing

Nov 11-16 News Roundup & OT - The fallout from the 8 caving Dem/Indy senators continues after the jump. Join us in the conversation!
TalkLeft

Trump: Friends With Benefits (Pardons) and Open Thread - Just in time for Thanksgiving, Donald Trump has pardoned 65 people, including his cronies who helped him try to overturn the 2020 election. Many of these...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site - เลือกเว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด - เว็บหวยออนไลน์ที่ครบวงจร The post เว็บแทงหวยออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด – Best Online Lottery Betting Site appeared first on เ...
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...
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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