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

memeorandum

Trump Is Weighing Backing Darline Graham for a Full Senate Term (NOTUS) - NOTUS: *Trump Is Weighing Backing Darline Graham for a Full Senate Term* — President Donald Trump is considering backing Darline Graham for the full S...
Political Wire

Inside New UK Prime Minister’s Rapid Rise - “Andy Burnham will be the U.K.’s new prime minister after becoming Labour’s leader Friday,” Axios reports. “Burnham vaulted from regional politics to the c...
Salon.com

This new “Cape Fear” has me rooting for Max Cady - In a contest between a difficult maniac and an insufferable family, Javier Bardem’s villain is my hero
Futurism

A Chinese AI Model Just Shot to Number One on the Charts, Sending Shockwaves Through the American Tech Industry - US tech execs are shaking in their boots. The post A Chinese AI Model Just Shot to Number One on the Charts, Sending Shockwaves Through the American Tech...
Debunking Christianity

David Hume “Of Miracles” and Religions (#97-100) with Notes by John W. Loftus - David Hume: “A miracle may be accurately defined as *a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of s...
NPR's Health Shots

Wildfire smoke is like smoking 'half a pack a day.' Here's how to protect yourself - As Canadian wildfires spread smoke across the U.S. the air pollution is dangerous to health. But there are ways to protect yourself. Here's what to know*.*
Daily Howler

NO PEOPLE... Attempted suicide twice, age 12! - *FRIDAY, JULY 17, 2026* *We advise you to pity the child:* "No people are uninteresting?" Would that include the 12-year-old child who is described in...
Al Jazeera English

Plainclothes ICE agents manhandle man during arrest attempt - Plainclothes ICE agents manhandle man during arrest attempt at the Las Vegas airport on July 13, 2026.
Vox

The GOP nomination is Vance’s to lose. And he might lose it. - On a recent episode of Today, Explained, I explored Donald Trump’s ongoing succession wars, and whether the president that’s upended the Republican Party ...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party Nominee Bob Chew Plans $1.1 Million Investment in Colorado Senate Campaign - Bob Chew, the Forward Party nominee for U.S. Senate in Colorado this election cycle, reportedly plans to put $1.1 million into his campaign as part of an...
The Daily Poster

Maine’s Insider Primary Begins - With Graham Platner out, the battle for Maine's Senate seat just moved behind closed doors.
SCOTUSblog

In birthright citizenship dissent, Justice Thomas stakes out an ideological claim of who counts as an American - The Supreme Court’s decision about President Donald Trump’s attempt to narrow access to birthright citizenship left no doubt that a majority of justices ...
Election Law Blog

SDRI Tracker of DOJ’s Voting Data Lawsuits - The State Democracy Research Initiative at University of Wisconsin Law School has this helpful resource, tracking the 31 lawsuits that the U.S. Departmen...
The Week

Sonam Wangchuk and hunger striking in India - The Indian activist is championing a student-led protest against the education system, but his health is declining
First Draft

David Brouillette’s Past Is The Last Straw - There's no chance of redemption for ICE. Or if there is, what's left of America's integrity doesn't have time to wait around for it.
El Paso Matters

Popular Building remodel gets another $1 million; Escobar’s GOP challenger reports little fundraising - This week: Popular Building redevelopment receives another $1 million, while a GOP congressional candidate reports little fundraising in this week's El ...
The Verge

Trump is selling high-speed access to his market-moving Truth Social posts - Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is selling Wall Street faster access to the "most market-moving" posts on the US President's social media pla...
Angry Bear

June retail sales: more evidence of a Boom in consumer spending (even ex-gas) - – by New Deal democrat Let’s take a look at retail sales, especially real retail sales, one of my favorite economic indicators, which was updated for Ju...
Consortium News

Ensuring Israel’s Genocides - As Israel loses popular support, the Israeli-intelligence sharing provision in the now-stalled Pentagon 2027 authorization bill ensures a seamless flow of ...
ArcaMax

Muhammad Ali Knew His Worth. We Can Still Grow From That Lesson. - The first thing Mariel Gardner mentioned was the sound. Cicadas and katydids buzzed while butterflies and bees drifted among bright yellow blooms in Louisv...
Space City Weather

Heat begins to step up over Houston as drier weather sets in - In brief: We have an update on the situation west of Houston this morning. Additionally, we take a look at our lack of rain chances, the increasing heat, a...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump Just Made Some Wild Claims About America’s Election Security -
Off The Kuff

Another ICE roundup - Houston vowed to curb ICE cooperation. Police still waited hours for agents. Houston police officers have spent hours at a time on traffic stops involving ...
Crooked Media

Trump’s Explosive Diarrhea of the Mouth - The post Trump’s Explosive Diarrhea of the Mouth appeared first on Crooked Media.
Mediagazer

Newsweek's publishing revenue is set to drop ~20% this year but it's on track for $100M in revenue due to its healthcare-focused DSP contributing 40% of revenue (Mark Stenberg/Adweek) - Mark Stenberg / Adweek: *Newsweek's publishing revenue is set to drop ~20% this year but it's on track for $100M in revenue due to its healthcare-focused...
Texas Environmental News

MTALL-011 Kasumi Tsukino เย็ดสาวนมใหญ่คัพเจขาวเนียนสวยแตกใน - MTALL-011 Kasumi Tsukino นำเสนอเรื่องราวสุดเร่าร้อนกับสาวนมใหญ่คัพเจ ที่มีผิวขาวเนียนสวย พร้อมกับฉากเซ็กซ์ที่จัดเต็มและแตกในอย่างเร้าใจ
Grist

Line 5 tunnel in Michigan clears major permitting hurdle, in blow to opposition - Despite "adverse" impacts on ecological and tribal resources, state regulators said it's better than an oil spill in the Great Lakes.
Earth 911

Eco-Responsible Travel Tips for the Summer - Tourism now produces nearly one of every 11 tons of greenhouse gases the world emits.... The post Eco-Responsible Travel Tips for the Summer appeared fir...
Two Party Opera

Atomic Swing - Read More
Rallblog

Socialism Never Works - As President Trump and the Right respond to the rising influence of Democratic Socialists by broadly labeling all Democrats as “communists,” a national c...
Counterpunch

We Have Been There Before: The US-Iran MOU and the Algiers Accords - The Algiers Accords were signed at a time when Iran had the upper hand in dealing with the US. After many attempts at diplomacy failed to release the US ...
jobsanger

It's A Government Of, By, And For Billionaires -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1603: Old Galileo - Episode: 1603 Galileo: An old man grieves his daughter and writes his last book. Today, an old man writes his most important book.
World Socialist Web Site

Australian government cynically tries to distance itself from war on Iran - Labor is presenting itself as a bystander to an illegal war that it has enthusiastically supported and actively participated in, including through the depl...
Raw Story

Trump touted vulnerable voting machines with a photo of a 1990s computer game: report - Documents that Trump said supported his election meddling claims relied on a photo of a computer game, per a new report. On Thursday, Trump made a speech...
Courthouse News

Nonprofit asks to renew challenge to Southern California lithium mine - The community nonprofit in Imperial County says the Hell's Kitchen geothermal plant and lithium mine was approved without adequate environmental considerat...
The Hill

Five takeaways from Trump’s big elections speech - President Trump delivered an address to the nation on Thursday evening in which he sought to paint the state of U.S. election security as indefensible. In ...
Mother Jones

Trump’s Election Security Speech: A Good Night for Putin - On Thursday night, after days of buildup, Donald Trump delivered a speech on election security in which he suggested US elections were threatened by China....
Mediaite

Tony Dokoupil Bristles as Senate Democrat Takes CBS to Task for Airing Trump Speech in Fiery Interview - CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil took umbrage with a Senate Democrat calling out the network airing President Donald Trump's Thursday night address "as news...
Daily Cartoonist

Society of Illustrators is Hiring: Exhibitions Coordinator, Curator - We’re hiring! The Society of Illustrators is looking for an experienced Exhibitions Coordinator & Curator to join our team as an Independent Contractor, ov...
Alternet

Trump just made some wild claims about America's election security - During a Thursday speech addressing his 2020 election loss, Donald Trump presented several claims about foreign interference and federal government actio...
Workers World

Boston: Nurses, home care workers strike - [image: Boston: Nurses, home care workers strike] Instead of negotiating a fair contract with the Massachusetts Nurses Association, Mass General Brigham ho...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump rehashes wide-ranging US election claims and releases heavily redacted documents in primetime address – live updates - President accused China of ‘sinister election meddling’ and railed against US intelligence in latest effort to paint a picture of degraded US election sy...
Deadline Politics

Donald Trump Says ABC And NBC Should Lose Broadcast Licenses Because They Didn’t Carry His Primetime Address On Election Claims - Donald Trump lashed out at ABC and NBC, the two networks that chose not to carry his speech live on their broadcast platforms, as he delivered a 25-minute ...
Brad Blog

Energy, Interior Chiefs Beclown Selves for Trump, Fossil Fuel Industry as America Chokes, Drowns, Burns: ‘BradCast’ 7/16/2024 - I need to get to whatever nonsense Trump is going to try to sell the nation in his speech tonight about “election fraud” or 2020 or China or my 10-year old...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: Rebuilding ‘Home’ In The 21st Century - Forced to leave her home country due to political and economic repression under the dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish author Ece Temelkuran s...
Portside

Johnson Says Pentagon Needs More Money for ‘Fighting Communism on Our Own Shores’ - Johnson Says Pentagon Needs More Money for ‘Fighting Communism on Our Own Shores’ jay Thu, 07/16/2026 - 20:35
Antiwar.com

Politicians Should Stop Hiding Behind the ‘Two-State Solution’ Fantasy - Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in Sep...
The Grayzone

ADC sues DHS Secretary Mullin over illegal CBP seizure of Max Blumenthal’s devices - “Just because someone is reentering the country does not mean their constitutional rights evaporate,” declared ADC President Jenin Younes. The American-A...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio could get psychedelic drug clinical trials to help treat veterans - Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is working to bring VA-sponsored psychedelic clinical trials to San Antonio for military and veterans. ------------------------------...
Crooked Timber

The dispensable nation – updated - As I observed last year, the statement that “The cemeteries are full of indispensable people.” is just as true of nations, and in particular the US. That w...
Claytoonz

Grab ‘Em By The Breakfast Nook - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
The Greanville Post

The Mark of a Disgraceful and Uncompassionate Government: New Rule Would Allow More Grizzly Deaths - CBD—The Trump administration keeps escalating its assault on California coastlines and public lands. Our state has some of the strongest environmental prot...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio July 17, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio July 17, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/17/2026 - 04:19 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda R...
Wolf Street

Americans Splurge Online and at Vehicle Dealers, instead of Buying Homes? YOLO? Retail Sales without Gas Stations Jump for 5th Month - Sales at gas stations were pushed by massive price movements of gasoline; we look at retailer categories separately to sort it out.
Environment Texas

Which World Cup stadiums are most environmentally sustainable? - These 10 U.S. stadiums set the standard for the 2026 FIFA World Cup The post Which World Cup stadiums are most environmentally sustainable? appeared firs...
Slate

Democrats Have a Process for Replacing Graham Platner. It’s Controversial. - A dozen candidates are vying to replace the ousted oysterman.
slacktivist

Sinners in the hands of an angry God is a lousy sermon - "There is nothing you can do" is, perhaps, not the most compelling message for a sermon.
IVN

They're ERASING 71% of the Vote: How Maine Democrats Replace Graham Platner | EP48 - This episode of the Independent Voter Podcast dives into the chaos surrounding the Maine Senate race after Graham Platner's withdrawal amid allegations and...
CultureMap Houston

Houston's modern ice house plans fall opening for new Clear Lake outpost - Houston’s growing chain of modern ice houses is heading to the Bay Area. *Kirby Ice House* will open a Clear Lake outpost in September.
ProPublica

Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law - The post Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law appeared first on ProPublica.
Eschaton

Happy Hour - get happy
Undernews

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Common Dreams

Public Citizen Once Again Calls Upon the CFTC to Enforce Insider Trading Laws on the Prediction Markets - Today, multiple news outlets reported that President Trump’s teleprompter operator has been placing profitable bets on Kalshi regarding the content of Tr...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio woman behind viral ‘Where We Roll’ online song released from prison - Phyllis Sentiva Ochoa, the woman behind the San Antonio-themed song “Where We Roll,” which went viral on social media, is out of prison after being rele...
Dorf on Law

A Few Somewhat Random Reactions to the Court’s Latest Term, Part One: Opportunistic Formalism - How bad was the latest US Supreme Court term? Plenty bad, especially for anyone who cares at all about democracy or the rule of law. There were a few r...
NORML

Senate Democrats Reintroduce Comprehensive Cannabis Descheduling and Regulation Legislation - [image: a close-up of a large legal cannabis flower with a soft-focus US flag in the background][image: a close-up of a large legal cannabis flower with ...
The NM Political Report

Commentary: Heinrich’s permit reform push is good for New Mexico innovation, industry - [image: Jon Lipshutz, Campaign Manager, Bregman For NM.] Running a gubernatorial campaign requires coalition-building between state and federal government...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Maine Senate Do-Over, and Rating Changes in Other Pine Tree State Races - In Maine, Democrats are pivoting to find a replacement nominee to challenge Sen. Susan Collins (R) after their candidate, Graham Platner, left the race l...
Ian Welsh

Manipulating Numbers Rather Than Logistics (Oil Version) - If you’ve been following oil prices since the Iran war started you’ve probably been surprised at how low prices have often been. I certainly was, at first....
naked capitalism

How Did We Get Stuck? - Much seems to be moving, but little is fundamentally changing. But can it change, or are we stuck in a particular world system?
OpEd News

The TrumpRepubloFascists' Version of "Grand Theft Auto:" "Grand Theft Elections'" - This column presents a brief review of the major achievements/objectives of the TrumpRepubloFascist government. It also focuses on the upcoming Cong. elect...
The Root

Why It’s Time to Have the Tough Conversation About Self-Love in Natural Hair Spaces - The debate surrounding AmandaUpNext is about more than jokes—it’s about why negative conversations around Black hair have become so normalized in the fir...
Capital & Main

An ‘Exponentially Different Level’ of Billionaire Spending in California - Report details how the ultra-rich are pouring unprecedented sums into state politics to block a proposed billionaire tax and advance a tech-friendly agen...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

We Documented 1,200+ Actions by ICE. Here's What We Found. - A new ACLU report reveals the scale of civil rights violations committed by ICE and the police forces it has deputized — from racial profiling to school lo...
Mondoweiss

She walked toward Israeli gunfire to bring her son’s body home. Her story is one of thousands. - For nine days, Fatima Abu Khammash searched for her missing son across Gaza's Israeli-controlled zone. When they refused to hand over his body, she crossed...
Ballot Access News

Butch Ware Files Reply Brief in California Tax Returns for Gubernatorial Candidates’ Law Case - On July 15, Butch Ware filed this reply brief in Ware v Weber, e.d., 2:26cv-1643. This is the case over the California law that gubernatorial candidates mu...
See You In 2020

The empire’s weaponization of “excess males,” & the civilizational class struggle that can end this evil - There is a connection between the “male loneliness crisis,” and the tools that our government has been using to expand its violence around the globe. By...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Creighton Memoranda: Political Control of the Curriculum Comes to Texas Tech, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., July 16, 2026 - *The Creighton Memoranda: Political Control of the Curriculum Comes to Texas Tech* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *July 16, 2026* *What is happening wi...
Glasstire

Top Five: July 16, 2026 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. 2026 Annual Artists in Residence ExhibitionGalveston Ar...
Bonddad

June retail sales: more evidence of a Boom in consumer spending (even ex-gas) - -* by New Deal democrat* Let’s take a look at retail sales, especially real retail sales, one of my favorite economic indicators, which was updated ...
Texas Observer

Inside the Dark World of Romance Scammers - Amanda Eyre Ward is an Austin writer and author of 13 novels—three of which are set in Texas and the rest scattered all over the world. Her latest book, ...
Scheerpost.com

Rebuilding ‘Home’ in the 21st Century (w/ Ece Temelkuran) | The Chris Hedges Report - Forced to leave her home country due to political and economic repression under the dictatorship of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish author Ece Temelkuran sou...
Texas Standard

Live updates: Flash flood emergency in Kerrville prompts shelter-in-place - Flash flood emergencies are in effect for parts of the Guadalupe River, Kerr County and Uvalde County after heavy overnight rain triggered life-threatening...
Discourse

The Cyclospora Conspiracy (w/Caitlin Schneider) - Plus: Lindsey Graham's death, Mitch McConnell's proof of "life," and the people losing their minds from Graham Platner dropping out
Democracy Now!

Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump's Move to Gut Endangered Species Act - The Trump administration has introduced a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act, a bedrock of successful U.S. wildlife conservation for more tha...
WhoWhatWhy

Things to Keep in Mind Ahead of Trump’s Primetime Election Rant - [image: Donald Trump, World Economic Forum, Switzerland] Donald Trump's address to the nation has been the subject of great speculation. We'll save everybo...
Bracing Views

18 Intelligence Agencies! - So Much Intel, So Little Insight JUL 15, 2026 Yes, it’s staggering. The U.S. government has eighteen intelligence agencies—euphemistically known as the IC ...
The Progressive Wing

7/16 News Roundup and Open Thread - More fallout from yesterday’s vote to send billions to Israel
Techdirt.

Writers Guild Of America Also Sues Paramount, Citing Looming Merger Layoff Bloodbath - Not long after twelve states sued Paramount claiming its $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers would harm market competition, the Writers Guild of Ameri...
The Conversation

After 1776, the founders designed a government that accounts for ‘a degree of depravity in mankind’ - After the colonists declared their independence, designing a government was next. Three of the founding generation said the new government needed to accoun...
Seeing the Forest

24 Years of Seeing the Forest - Seeing the Forest’s first post was on July 16, 2002. That was the “Welcome” post. The next post was a real post. Ralph Nader is a Scab Posted on July 16, 2...
High Country News

The Chinese immigrants trafficked on New Mexico’s weed farms - Migrant workers were trapped in the Southwest’s illicit cannabis boom and treated as criminals — until investigators began chasing their bosses. The pos...
Infidel753

A few observations on wealth - Soon after SpaceX's recent IPO, Elon Musk became, just briefly, the world's first trillionaire. (He quickly lost that status as the stock price fell; it ...
Informed Comment

“Persia Has Become a Holy Land” – William Morris and Iran - What English Artists Found in Their Rebellion against Industrial Britain
The AltWorld

The New Issue Of JOHNSTONE: At Least Lindsey Graham Is Dead - The new issue of JOHNSTONE is now available to order in print or download as a pay-what-you-want e-book version. This […] The post The New Issue Of JOHNS...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Trump Administration abandons attempt to ban hospitals from providing trans care. Decides to endanger LGBTQ foster kids' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *Trump backs off attempt to nationally ban hospitals from providing trans care* - *A victory which means a lot of things. To my cynical side, it means ...
Axios

Buffett and Kalshi: Two views of America's gambling boom - The Oracle of Omaha is concerned that America has a gambling problem. *Why it matters: *Warren Buffett recently retired from Berkshire Hathaway, but when...
Progressive.org

For Soccer Fans Around the World, the United States-Hosted World Cup is Complicated - Soccer is an international pasttime—but the Trump Administration’s xenophobic rhetoric and policy has loomed over its largest event.
Church and State

Please don’t let Donald Trump die before the midterm elections! - Trump‘s current efforts to undermine the right to vote in various underhanded ways are worrisome, but may very well backfire!
Novara Media

Shabana Mahmood Set to Be Chancellor - Burnham has appeared to rule out Ed Miliband as chancellor, seen by many as the progressive choice – what does it mean for his impending premiership? Plus:...
The Texas Signal

Local ICE Partnerships Spur Uptick In Enforcement - “We are seeing much more aggressive coordination between local law enforcement and ICE than we have ever seen before"
MintPress News

Lionel Messi’s Ties to Netanyahu, The Israeli Military and Its Elite Spying Unit 8200 - Lionel Messi has quietly built relationships with companies and security firms closely linked to Israel's military-intelligence establishment. From becom...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 3 - In Part 1, Iain Davis defined the Praxians, considered their openly stated control of the Trump administration, and examined their extensive partnerships...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

There's No Hiding It Anymore: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Ecosophia

Briefing for the Descent, Revisited - It’s long been a source of wry amusement to me that some of my critics like to insist that I never admit it when I’m wrong. What makes that amusing to me i...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Communiqué from an Author of Harmful and Undesirable Literature - So I have been indicted by the Berlin District Prosecutor for authoring, publishing, and advertising a book. I’m not joking. The District Prosecutor is act...
Greg Palast

Thom Hartmann, Detective - Thom Hartmann, the historian and talk show host, has put on his Sherlock Holmes’ deerstalker hat and discovered that the Citizens United decision was based...
Socialist Alternative

ICE Murders Again—Build The Fightback From Houston To Maine! - On the morning of July 7 in Houston’s historic East End, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by ICE. Just six days later, they killed Joan Sebastian...
Krebs on Security

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws - Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the ...
Sludge

Jeffries Opposes Bid to Cut Israel Aid After Record AIPAC Earmark - The House Democratic leader's campaign operation recently took in AIPAC PAC's largest earmarked donation ever, from a billionaire hedge fund investor.
Media Lens

25 Years Of Media Lens – The BBC’s Paul Adams On Iran - This month marks the 25th anniversary of Media Lens. Still in short trousers, we sent our first media alert to a handful of readers on 9 July 2001. For a l...
Earthworks

Freepoint Plastics Incinerator: Still polluting while shutting down - Earlier this year Freepoint Eco-Systems announced that it would be suspending operations at its facility in Licking County. This is … The post Freepoint...
Project Censored

Venezuela’s Earthquake Aftermath: Recovery Amid Sanctions and Propaganda - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Leonardo Flores joins the show again to talk about the fallout from the double earthquake in Venezuela. Leo...
Edinburg Politics

DHR Health’s 2026 Resident and Fellow Graduation Ceremony produces physicians and pharmacists dedicated to providing healing, advanced health care, research, education, excellence, and compassion close to home - FEATURED: Dr. Jessica Guajardo Martin, Designated Institutional Officer (DIO), General Medical Education (GME), DHR Health, addresses medical residents, fe...
Trivial Knot

The efficient fencing problem - Back in the day, I used to post math puzzles, similar to how I post origami today. Today I’m revisiting a problem that I never fully solved. Problem statem...
Alas, a Blog

Two Toms Talking Theology - This comic was drawn by R.E. Ryan, who did a great job rendering my silly version of Colonial America. In 2023, Senator Josh Hawley posted this quote, attr...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CLEARING THE DECK IN MAINE EDITION. - *No, really, is that how you pronounce "kilometre"?* We’re rid of Graham Platner at last. His removal comports with the widely-known difference in approa...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap Update: California’s Official Shrub - In which the proliferation of official things is also discussed.
The Militant

Protests: ‘End US blockade, war threats against Cuba!’ - MINNEAPOLIS — As part of nationwide actions called by the National Network On Cuba to protest U.S. aggression against Cuba, the Minnesota Cuba Committee, S...
Texas Monthly

Does Portland Still Have the Best Texas-Style Barbecue Outside of Texas? - I made this claim back in 2019, so I went back to Oregon to check in on how the scene is doing today.
Progressives Chat

July 2026: Not a Good Start - July 2026 was not a good start. Not for me. I am not alone. My area Detroit, Michigan closed out June and began July 2026 with near-100 degrees in tem...
Dissent Magazine

The Court vs. Democracy - An interview with Julie C. Suk, author of the forthcoming book *The Shadow Court*, on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions and the kind of reforms that w...
Democracy Chronicles

An Inspiring Africa-Middle East Story: Somaliland - Despite limited recognition, Somaliland is forging bold alliances and leveraging its strategic position in the Horn of Africa defy isolation.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Screwed Blue And Tattooed - 14.3 x 12 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb As I post this, we’re still waiting to hear if the Nazi tattoo-wearing, woman-harassing, domestic violence-...
Duck of Minerva

Unmanageable ally? Ceasefire breakdown reveals deeper tensions in US-Israel relationship - On June 19, 2026, as American and Iranian negotiators were set to meet in Switzerland to work through the terms of a fragile memorandum of understanding, I...
Rewire

States May Exclude Trans Kids from Sports: Supreme Court - Plus, how Illinois is protecting abortion patients and abortion pill restrictions go into effect in trio of states. The post States May Exclude Trans Ki...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Field Negro

"What was old is new again". - As I sat watching these masked men march in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this experiment in democracy called America, I coul...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2026 - Walmart had at least twelve more shootings in June 2026, with five of them fatal, and the police chased and caught a thirteenth shooter two days after a...
Idavox

How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Nazi Show Promoter Mad After Having to Take Their Canceled Festival Down the Road - Vengeance is our sayeth the Antifa! “I started having problems once President Obama was elected,”... The post How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Naz...
LareDOS

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension sets informational public meeting regarding New World Screwworm July 8 - Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at LC’s Yeary Library
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Approves Bible in classroom, Flawed Social Studies Standards - Let’s be blunt. Texas public schools are now Ground Zero in the Christian nationalist war on religious freedom in America. From the Bible in the classroo...
Liberation News

¡La historia LGBTQ es la historia de la unidad y la lucha de la clase trabajadora! - Mientras la derecha y la administración Trump avanzan a toda marcha en sus intentos por revertir los derechos de las personas LGBTQ, es más importante que ...
Web of Debt

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The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
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...
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...
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
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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Due Dissidence

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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....
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

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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

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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...
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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Sunday, July 17, 2011

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