Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

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

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

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

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

Salon.com

GOP House majority shrinks as Democrat wins New Jersey special election - Progressive activist Analilia Mejia, who campaigned on affordability, will finish out Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s term
Futurism

Wild Video Shows Delivery Robots Causing Havoc, Getting Obliterated - When will it end? The post Wild Video Shows Delivery Robots Causing Havoc, Getting Obliterated appeared first on Futurism.
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for April 18, 2026 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 18 April 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o This would work better without the elastic. Here are some people being no...
Mediagazer

Q&A with Boston Globe journalist Emily Sweeney, whose news videos attract millions of views and likes due to her Boston accent, raising The Globe's profile (Kasia Pilat/New York Times) - Kasia Pilat / New York Times: *Q&A with Boston Globe journalist Emily Sweeney, whose news videos attract millions of views and likes due to her Boston ac...
Al Jazeera English

Iran has learned that the Strait of Hormuz is its strongest deterrent - Donald Heflin, a senior fellow at Tufts University, says Iran has shown it doesn’t need nuclear weapons as a deterrent.
Crooked Media

The Revolt of the College Grads - The post The Revolt of the College Grads appeared first on Crooked Media.
Countercurrents

Fossil-Fuel Investments Are a Fiduciary Risk - CAPE TOWN—The global fallout from the Iran war demonstrates once again that for investors, fossil fuels are not just another commodity exposure, but a geop...
naked capitalism

Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson: The Blockade Stage of Trump’s Absurdities - Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson on the media and market disconnect between Trump Iran barker talk and dire economic and political effects.
The Week

Chuck Norris: former policeman who became an action star - His hardman persona made him an ironic cult hero
World Socialist Web Site

Massive fire at 1 of Australia’s 2 remaining oil refineries - Around 50 workers on site when the blaze erupted escaped without injury, but some were forced to literally run for their lives.
jobsanger

A Warning For MAGA And Trump -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1558: We O’ercome by Art - Episode: 1558 Mastered by nature, we o’ercome by art – then as now. Today, an old debate in a new arena.
First Draft

Saturday Odds & Sods: No Expectations - Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
memeorandum

Newsom demands answers from RFK Jr. over past comments about Black children on ADHD meds being 're-parented' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill) - Ryan Mancini / The Hill: *Newsom demands answers from RFK Jr. over past comments about Black children on ADHD meds being ‘re-parented’* — California Go...
Consortium News

PATRICK LAWRENCE: Iran & Ukraine — Two Theaters in the Non–West’s Single War for Parity - In Iran and Ukraine, what is at stake — what is fought for and against — is a rebalancing of power that will prove of world-historical magnitude when it is...
Informed Comment

Iran: Strait of Hormuz is Open; but with Conditions - "The passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire"
Workers World

VP Vance’s claim on Gaza aid ‘misleading’ - [image: VP Vance’s claim on Gaza aid ‘misleading’] The following statement was issued by Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas on April 15, 2026. We strongly...
Glasstire

El arte del estado de la estrella solitaria no está tan solo - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota de la editora: este artículo fue publicado originalmente en i...
Mediaite

‘What Does That Mean?’ Confused Reporter Asks Trump About ‘Nuclear Dust’ Claim - A reporter aboard Air Force One spoke for many on Friday night when she asked President Donald Trump about a claim he made regarding Iran's "nuclear dust...
Daily Cartoonist

Editor & Publisher 100 Years Ago - On April 17, 1926 Editor and Publisher celebrated the 32nd anniversary of newspaper comics with a comic supplement featuring specially created comic strips...
The Hill

Trump administration reverses course, extends Russian oil sanctions waiver - The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and extended a waiver on sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products amid the Iran war, just days afte...
Political Wire

Trump Says UFO Files Will Be Released ‘Very Soon’ - President Trump said documents related to UFOs and unexplained aerial phenomena, aka UAPs, will be released “very soon,” NewsNation reports.
Raw Story

Red state Dem official urged not to seek reelection over 'hostile work environment' - Thirty six Texas Democrats — including a congressional candidate, a former Texas House member and former party staffers — are urging Kendall Scudder to f...
Deadline Politics

Nexstar Decries $6.2B Tegna Deal Being Blocked By Judge, Vows Appeal - Thwarted on Friday in what looked to be a Donald Trump-approved $6.2 billion local station mega-deal to merge with Tegna, Nexstar is vowing to march forwar...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US midwestern states at risk of severe thunderstorms, weather agency warns - About 26 million people are under tornado watches from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, according to one report A stretch of the midwestern states is at risk of se...
Alternet

'Epitome of whiteness': Critics dismantle Trump’s second-tier Iran 're-deal' - Podcasters Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali roasted President Donald Trump for crowing about a heavily flawed deal with Iran after first blowing up a supe...
Claytoonz

Hate Tax - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Eschaton

Friday Night - Rock on.
Portside

Friday Nite Videos | April 17, 2026 - Friday Nite Videos | April 17, 2026 barry Fri, 04/17/2026 - 21:17
Scheerpost.com

Chris Hedges LIVE Q&A: The Iran War & the Fall of the American Empire - By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report
Courthouse News

Brazil Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action ban in southern state - The majority-white state of Santa Catarina enacted a January law that banned race-based affirmative action at public universities and state-funded colleges...
Wolf Street

Nasdaq up by 60% since Liberation Day Selloff and by 100% in 3 Years. People Are Just Having Fun - While the Nasdaq gained 100%, the economy grew by 15% not adjusted for inflation. Who needs cryptos when stocks are so much fun.
Progressive.org

ICE Agents Hide Behind Masks; Jesse Jackson Remembered As Determined Leader - Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
Ballot Access News

New Mexico Libertarian Party Will Try to Put Three Statewide Nominees on the Ballot This Year - According to this story, the New Mexico Libertarian Party will try to qualify three statewide nominees for the November ballot this year. The party has nom...
Mother Jones

Is Hasan Piker the Left’s Biggest Problem—or Its Best Shot? - Hasan Piker’s name is everywhere. Not because he won an election or passed legislation. Not because he’s a big sports star or an astronaut. It’s because he...
The AltWorld

INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson / McGovern & Scott Ritter – Weekly Wrap 17-April - INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson / McGovern & Scott Ritter – Weekly Wrap 17-April The post INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson / McGovern & Scott Ritter – Weekly Wrap...
Vox

Is the Strait of Hormuz really open? - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
OpEd News

"Netanyahu insists on continuing the war and is against including Lebanon in the ceasefire," interview with Wael Malaeb - This is an interview with Lebanese journalist and official at the Syrian social nationalist party about the latest developments between Lebanon and Israel
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Animal Care Service offering zero-cost pet adoptions this weekend - More than 800 adoptable animals are now listed on the SAACS website. The post San Antonio Animal Care Service offering zero-cost pet adoptions this week...
San Antonio Report

OLLU to offer no-cost master’s program starting this fall - The new program will have 30 seats across five master's degree programs this fall for qualifying OLLU graduates. ------------------------------ OLLU to offe...
Axios

Scoop: Bessent and Wiles met Anthropic's Amodei in sign of thaw - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joined a meeting on Friday between White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, sources briefe...
Election Law Blog

“Judge sides with Arizona election official in ruling that has implications for midterms voting” - AP: The top election official in Arizona’s most populous county will get more authority in running elections after a judge sided with his office in a pr...
El Paso Matters

El Paso leaders face October deadline for $6 million deck plaza funding decision - The city has to kick in $6 million to match a contribution of $22.5 million from the federal government toward the project. The post El Paso leaders fa...
The Verge

OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving - Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company...
Dorf on Law

Interchangeable Idiots and Sociopaths: Do Individuals Matter in Trump's World? - I have spent a fair bit of time over the past year or so pondering a surprisingly difficult and recurring question: Does it matter which specific people ...
The Texas Signal

Finding LGBTQ-Friendly MMA Training in Texas - It makes sense that many LGBTQ+ Texans want to learn mixed martial arts (MMA). The problem is that there are relatively few overtly LGBTQ-friendly MMA gyms...
Church and State

Trump will be gone before November 3, 2026!! - Continuing under Trump would push the gutless GOP toward a broader conflict, with many nations armed with nuclear weapons.
The Daily Poster

Inside Big Tech’s Secret Push For TikTok Immunity - After Congress banned Big Tech from working with TikTok, Trump prosecutors promised sweeping amnesty for Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other major tech fir...
CultureMap Houston

The quest for a Topo Chico replacement — we rate 9 sparkling waters - Topo Chico drinkers nationwide are in a bit of a tizzy. Coca-Cola, which *acquired* the cult-favorite sparkling mineral water in 2017, announced that the p...
slacktivist

LBCF: Dead Man’s Messages - I've seen Left Behind described as a "page-turner," but you'd have to be turning those pages really, really fast for any of this to seem to make sense.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Undernews

Growing number of US singles - *NY Times - *The growing number of U.S. singles indicates she’s in good company. As of 2023, the last data available from Pew Research Center, there were a...
Common Dreams

Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law - After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced federal legislation that would give oil and gas companies immunity fro...
Novara Media

Starmer Accused of Lying Over Mandelson Vetting - British prime minister Keir Starmer is at the centre of a storm after it was revealed that Peter Mandelson was appointed U.S ambassador despite failing his...
Counterpunch

- The post appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
Angry Bear

Hormuz Strait is ‘completely open’ Now - One thing I like about the Bangkok Post is you are getting an accurate replay of what is actually happening and said. There is no enhancement or interpre...
Lowering the Bar

Cat Blamed for Crime - [image: ai-generated image of a cat lineup]Unsuccessfully.
SCOTUSblog

Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, April 22 - We will be live blogging as the court potentially releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs abou...
Liberation News

On Palestinian Prisoners Day the world demands freedom for all Palestinians held hostage - The long and epic history of Palestinian resistance tells a story of unimaginable resilience — one of a people who refuse to accept humiliation and extermi...
Seeing the Forest

And take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind - Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me I’m not sleepy and there is no place I’m going to Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me In the jingle jan...
The Root

Behind the Violent End of Justin Fairfax’s Marriage - They were a Duke University power couple with the world at their feet. But by April 2026, Justin and Cerina Fairfax met a tragic end during tense divorce...
The Militant

End Washington’s war for plunder in the Middle East - The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarte...
Independent Political Report

Meredith Hays Resigns as Libertarian National Committee Region 4 Representative - Meredith Hays has resigned as the Region 4 Representative to the Libertarian National Committee, with alternate Mimi Robson moving into the role. In a m...
Trivial Knot

Newcomb’s Paradox occurs in real life - Newcomb’s paradox is a philosophical thought experiment. There is an entity called Omega, who can predict your choices. Omega presents you with two boxes; ...
Capital & Main

What Could a Republican Governor Get Done in Deep-Blue California? - Experts say he would likely face a recall, but could still wield power through appointments, vetoes and regulatory boards. The post What Could a Republic...
NORML

Most Americans Say Cannabis Freedom Is Still Out of Reach - [image: A closeup of hands holding a grinder and a glass pipe containing cannabis][image: A closeup of hands holding a grinder and a glass pipe containin...
Bracing Views

The Social Media Echo Chamber - When the Rabbit Hole Becomes an Information Silo BILL ASTORE APR 16, 2026 If you’ve spent time on social media, you know it can be quite unsocial. Profane...
DeSmogBlog

‘Get Rid of MAHA’: Trump Alliance Cracks as Climate Denialists Turn on RFK Jr.’s Movement - At the right-wing Heartland Institute’s International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) held in Washington, D.C., last week, speakers mocked their usua...
The Conversation

Why the future of marijuana legalization remains hazy despite high public support - A cannabis legalization movement that for a decade rode a wave of success has stalled amid failed ballot initiatives, rising health concerns and a frayed c...
Mondoweiss

Trump may want out of the Iran war, but the first round of negotiations showed the challenges ahead - [image: Vice President J. D. Vance at the 2025 AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 21, 2025. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)]It's clear the Trump ad...
Debunking Christianity

Does the Splintered, Bickering Church Represent Gospel Jesus? - *Tough question, since there are major disagreements about gospel Jesus* In the article I posted here on 27 March 2026, I commented on the book by Karl...
NPR's Health Shots

Why scientists are nervous about fungi - They can pose a threat to human health — yeast infections are but one example. Scientists say not enough attention is paid to their ability to develop resi...
Daily Howler

DIAGNOSIS: Baker quoted the nutcase Jones... - *FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2026* *...disappeared Gupta and Trump: *As we start, let's be fair to the New York Times—and to Peter Baker, a highly skilled synthesi...
Democracy Now!

Aliya Rahman v. DHS: Disabled Woman Dragged from Car Files Claim over Violent Arrest in Minneapolis - Aliya Rahman, a Minneapolis resident who was violently detained by ICE officers in January during “Operation Metro Surge,” filed a federal tort claim again...
Bonddad

March industrial production mainly continues stagnant trend - - *by New Deal democrat* Since I didn’t get to it yesterday, let me say a few words about yesterday’s industrial production report for March this mo...
Techdirt.

Brendan Carr Cooking Up New Sham Investigation Of Jimmy Kimmel - As the boss of the country’s media and telecom regulators, there’s plenty of corporate malfeasance and corrupt shenanigans Brendan Carr could be targeting ...
Space City Weather

Throwing it back to more early-spring like weather by Sunday in Houston - In brief: Drought conditions have begun to improve across Houston, and that should hopefully continue with more rain expected on Saturday and next week. It...
ArcaMax

As Gas Prices Keep Rising, My Electric Car Keeps Saving Me Money - Gasoline prices have surged to their highest levels since the COVID-19 pandemic and it has me feeling pretty good about my electric vehicle purchase. I kno...
ProPublica

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women - The post Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women appeared first on ProPublica.
Rallblog

Pope vs. Dope | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
The Smirking Chimp

Why a President Should Never Pick a Fight with a Pope -
Skeptophilia

eSavior - I suppose it was a natural progression. First we had AI art, starting out with the innocent-seeming "Show me what I'd look like as a Tolkien Elf" things ...
Off The Kuff

Talarico reports $27 million raised in Q1 - Wow. State Rep. James Talarico raised $27 million in the first three months of 2026 in his bid to flip Texas, according to his campaign. The Austin Democra...
Grist

Deep-diving robots help crack the mystery of Antarctica’s vanishing sea ice - A decade ago, southern sea ice suddenly and dramatically declined. Scientists say the culprit was a 'very violent release' of deep, pent-up heat.
High Country News

Why mycorrhizal fungi networks need more protection - Scientists say the West’s hidden biodiversity warrants more attention. The post Why mycorrhizal fungi networks need more protection appeared first on Hi...
Crooked Timber

Global science equity – towards solutions - What does it mean to be an academic in different parts of the world? What comes along as the same job description – a bundle of teaching, research, and imp...
Earth 911

56 Environmental Innovations in the 56 Years Since Earth Day Began - The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970 — 56 years ago —... The post 56 Environmental Innovations in the 56 Years Since Earth Day Began appe...
Brad Blog

U.S. Middle Eastern 'War Crimes' Then and Now: 'BradCast' 4/16/2026 - A study in contrasts across two different U.S. wars in the Persian Gulf, and shadows of accountability emerge into view on today's BradCast. [Audio link to...
Popular Resistance

Iran Blasts YouTube Ban On Lego Mockery Videos - Iran’s Foreign Ministry is accusing YouTube of trying to “suppress the truth” by banning the account responsible for a series of viral Lego-style animati...
Antiwar.com

NATO Allies Adopt Evasive Policies on US War in Iran - Trump administration officials are discovering that a daunting number of longstanding U.S. allies and security clients are adopting hedging policies or eve...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/17/2026 - 02:48 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
MintPress News

Not Neutral: Inside The UAE’s Shadow Role In the US-Israeli War on Iran - Behind claims of neutrality, the UAE has emerged as a key player in the war on Iran — providing surveillance, hosting operations, enabling strikes from i...
Texas Standard

After Artemis II, when do astronauts land on the moon? - NASA has one more launch planned before it returns astronauts to the lunar surface. Here’s an overview of the Artemis mission.
See You In 2020

Socdems want “socialism” that excludes the rural workers. Communism is what can truly rescue America. - The plans of the “democratic socialists” can at best bring increased living standards for the workers who are able to enter the most privileged labor st...
Socialist Alternative

From Coast To Coast: Socialist Alternative Is Building For May Day Action - We are now just two weeks away from May Day, which more and more labor leaders and organizations are calling a day of “No Work, No School, No Shopping.” Th...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
Earthworks

Indigenous Communities Demand German Automaker Respect Indigenous Peoples’ Rights - by Jan Morrill, Earthworks, Member of the SIRGE Coalition & Edson Krenak, Cultural Survival, Member of the SIRGE Coalition Guarani … The post Indigenou...
Rewire

The Anti-Choice Movement’s Obsession with Abortion Pills (Podcast) - Conservatives are running a multi-layered campaign to try and ban abortion pills entirely. The post The Anti-Choice Movement’s Obsession with Abortion Pi...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Congress overturns 20-year mining ban near Boundary Waters - U.S. Senate vote puts beloved wilderness area at risk of toxic pollution The post STATEMENT: Congress overturns 20-year mining ban near Boundary Waters a...
Dissent Magazine

Power and Abuse in the United Farm Workers - The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned ...
Ian Welsh

China Thinks Ahead To Reduce Its Reliance On Petroleum - Near the start of the war I noted that the real issue with petroleum shortages wasn’t gasoline, it was diesel, bunker fuel (ships) and jet fuel. Diesel is,...
Texas Observer

‘La Gordiloca’ Lost at the Supreme Court but Won in Laredo - It’s the day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to revive her lawsuit against the local officials who orchestrated her arrest nearly a decade ago, and...
Sludge

Spouse of Intel Committee Member Makes Timely Quantum Stock Purchase - MAGA Rep. Greg Steube’s spouse bought stock last month in a quantum computing company whose share price boomed when it reached a technical milestone and wa...
The Progressive Wing

4/16-17 News Roundup & Open Thread - During remarks on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spoke about aid for Israel. More news, videos, tweets, candidate information, et...
Discourse

Tucker Carlson Is Not Your Anti-War Ally - Liberals are hyping Carlson's opposition to the Iran War. All they’re doing is boosting an unrepentant, pathologically dishonest bigot.
WhoWhatWhy

After Him, the Deluge: Trump Creates a Tough Environment for GOP’s 2028 Hopefuls - [image: Trump, RNC 2024,] At the rate he is going, Donald Trump will leave a political and economic wasteland in his wake that will be extremely difficult ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Places We’re Watching as Virginia Votes on a Pro-Democratic House Map - Next week, Virginia will vote on a ballot measure that would, if passed, allow Democrats to impose a gerrymander--if the state Supreme Court doesn't inte...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Libs of TikTok fails in attempt to generate problems for USC's drag show event - *Editor' note - I was aware of this so-called controversy when Libs of TikTok sent out its initial tweet. I chose not to write about it because I didn't...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We're Reaching the Moment of Truth: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Américo Paredes Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. Emilio Zamora on Art, Memory, and Movement: A Conversation We Cannot Miss - *Américo Paredes Distinguished Lecture featuring Dr. Emilio Zamora on Art, Memory, and Movement: A Conversation We Cannot Miss* *“The young Chicano and C...
Project Censored

Fewer Vaccine Mandates Result in Fewer Doctor Visits for Kids - Every year, schools remind families to keep up with their children’s vaccines. But according to Sarah Carr for the Hechinger Report, the recent rise in v...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of the Dérive - Our explorations of Situationism, that eccentric twentieth-century offspring of a drunken amour between avant-garde European art and radical post-Marxist p...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
Krebs on Security

Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition - Microsoft today pushed software updates to fix a staggering 167 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and related software, including a...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
The NM Political Report

Sam Bregman’s campaign laid off staff ahead of finance deadline - [image: Sam Bregman] By Pat Davis — In the days leading up to a critical fundraising deadline, Sam Bregman’s campaign for governor laid off staff in areas...
Duck of Minerva

The Gulf is a vital lynchpin of global stability, and it goes far beyond energy - The US and Israel’s war on Iran and regional instability threatens to disrupt critical global migration patterns. These serve as vital pressure release val...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE preliminarily approves social studies TEKS, reading list - Your April SBOE Rundown Texas Freedom Network, our Teach the Truth coalition, Texas Rising students, and other education advocates organized a strong, un...
The Grayzone

UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout - Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in solitary confinement. If convicted, the six Pale...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
The Greanville Post

Rescuing TGP from a severe attack. - This option only applies to Single Post Template Styles 1 & 2. if you wish to hide Featured Images from automatically appearing on all posts, you can selec...
Media Lens

Nuclear Genocide – The Threat And The Ceasefire - Given the ‘mainstream’ structural filters that reflexively whitewash the crimes of ‘The Good Guys’ – ‘us’, by doctrinal fiat – we have often wondered how t...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Capitalism: 404 - 12×18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first got the word going around that the Citibank building in Dubai had been bombed, my first thought ...
Texas Environmental News

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE EDITION. - *The original orchestrations are grand, but this is just irresistible.* Pam Bondi’s departure is meaningless — Tubby has a huge crabbucket of equally loat...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales to help fight decision by Trump Administration to cut $7.4 million from HOPE for Small Farm Sustainability in the Valley - The non-profit Holistic Organic Practical Education (HOPE) for Small Farm Sustainability, headquartered in Harlingen, on Monday, March 30, 2026 announced t...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Socialist

Roger Williams Net Worth 2026: The $74.66M Auto Dealer’s Fortune - Table of Contents The Foundation: Williams Auto Group’s Enduring $34.2 Million Value and Legacy Real Estate Empire: A $33 Million Portfolio Rooted Deep in ...
LareDOS

Laredo Center for the Arts vandalized: the violent disarray of so tranquil a place for the arts bespoke a disconcerting rage - Person of interest in custody
TalkLeft

Pam Bondi Fired, Todd Blanche to Replace Her - The rumors are true. Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi. Todd Blanche, one of his personal lawyers from his criminal trial in New York and a former federal...
The Rag Blog

JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity - By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Jan Lance...
Consent Factory, Inc.

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - The House Negroes have been very active of late. As a result, the House Negro power rankings have to be constantly updated. Here goes. 10. *Tim Scott:...
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Idavox

A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous immigrant - Don’t just be an ally. Be an effective one. Dear Vermont, With everything going on... The post A letter to Vermont from your neighbor – from an anonymous...
Campaign for America's Future

El poder se construye una conversación a la vez - Ninguno de nosotros, por sí solo, puede detener la violencia ni construir un futuro mejor. Para lograrlo, nos necesitamos unos a otros. Para construir un p...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

Fireside Chats - Read More
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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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