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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

memeorandum

HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown (Chelsea Cirruzzo/STAT) - Chelsea Cirruzzo / STAT: *HHS employees to be fired as White House enacts mass terminations it blames on shutdown* — It's not yet clear how many worker...
Eschaton

Look At What You Made Us Do - (The thing we had long planned to do but now we are going to try to blame on you) Probably didn't tell gramps before he went for his "physical" (48 hour ...
Mediagazer

The NYT says its journalists won't sign the Pentagon's revised press pass policy, saying it threatens to punish them for First-Amendment protected newsgathering (The New York Times Company) - The New York Times Company: *The NYT says its journalists won't sign the Pentagon's revised press pass policy, saying it threatens to punish them for Firs...
Raw Story

‘Pathetic!’ Mike Johnson ripped by colleague for ‘running scared again’ - Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) blasted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday for adjourning the chamber for another week, and thereby, sending lawmakers ...
Slate

One of Our Oldest Sci-Fi Franchises Is Back. The New Movie Is Woefully Out of Step With Our Moment. - Every generation gets the Tron movie it deserves. That’s bad news for the new one.
Daily Dot

More frogs (and other creatures) join in the Portland ICE protests: “New characters have been unlocked” - [image: frogs multiply in portland] The frogs protesting ICE in Portland are multiplying. Earlier this month, videos of someone dressed in a frog costume...
Al Jazeera English

Elon, me and 20 million views: A conversation with Grok - Musk’s post about my Al Jazeera column on whiteness drew millions of views—and an unlikely conversation with his AI.
Futurism

The James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims - Woah. The post The James Webb Appears to Have Spotted “Dark Star” Powered by Dark Matter, Paper Claims appeared first on Futurism.
Political Wire

National Guard Deployments Are Very, Very Expensive - Marc Novicoff: “The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million… and that’s the figu...
The Hill

Congress can save seniors’ access to medications before it’s too late - The Preserving Patient Access to Long-term Care Pharmacies Act has been proposed to protect access to essential medications and pharmacy services for senio...
The Week

‘Porsche’s luxury credentials are now hanging by a thread’ - Opinion, comment and editorials of the day
Alternet

'Inconsistent with our core belief': This university is the first to reject Trump’s 'compact' - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first school to publicly reject President Donald Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher ...
Vox

Saudi Arabia’s comedy festival is no laughing matter - Earlier this month, comedians, including Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson and Bill Burr, flew to Saudi Arabia to perform at the inaugural Riyadh C...
World Socialist Web Site

10th anniversary of Ankara bombings by ISIS which killed over 100 people - The massacre was part of the spread to Turkey of the war for regime change in Syria launched in 2011 by Washington and its regional allies, including Ankara.
Second Nexus

Taylor Swift's Story About How Travis Kelce Drunkenly Met 'Barbie' Director Greta Gerwig Is Too Good - He’s Just Travis. At least that’s how Taylor Swift describes her fiancé—a man who can catch a football midair but apparently can’t tell an Oscar-nominate...
The Verge

You can still snag LG’s C4 OLED TV at half the price - It’s normal to feel some FOMO after a big sales event like Amazon’s fall Prime Day, but don’t worry — not every great deal has vanished. LG’s 48-inch C4 OL...
Mediaite

Russ Vought Announces Firings of Federal Workers: ‘The RIFs Have Begun’ - Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced on Friday that his office has started firing federal workers. The post Russ Vought Announc...
Texas Standard

Ken Paxton has amassed millions of dollars while in public office - Paxton is currently running for the U.S. Senate seat held by John Cornyn.
Church and State

Reality Seems to Be Gaining Traction: Religion Is Fake News - Christianity is peddling an inferior product, one that cannot withstand critical investigation.
Axios

Trump officials confirm mass federal layoffs have begun - The Trump administration has begun its much-anticipated layoffs of federal workers, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced Fri...
Dorf on Law

How Could Even the Most Pessimistic Predictions Not Be Pessimistic Enough? - When writing a column like this one, it is no longer possible to provide a manageably short list of the unprecedented things that are happening in the Un...
WhoWhatWhy

Europe Pledges $600M for Clean Energy Projects in Africa - [image: climate crisis, global warming, clean energy, Europe, $600B pledge, Africa] Europe Pledges $600M for Clean Energy Projects in Africa (Maria) The ...
Courthouse News

Supreme Court redistricting fight sounds the death knell for Voting Rights Act - The justices’ ruling could help Republicans add 19 safe seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, potentially securing GOP control for a generation.
Mondoweiss

Now that a Gaza ceasefire has been reached, will Trump force Israel to end the genocide? - [image: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the White House on September 29, 2025, to discuss Trump's "20-Point Plan" to end the Gaza war. (Photo: ...
Earthworks

Americans now own a stake in the Thacker Pass Mine. What can we learn from its flawed permitting? - The Thacker Pass mine demonstrates that the flawed permitting process for mining projects in the United States cuts Indigenous Peoples … The post Americ...
San Antonio Current

Texas grid operators and regulators iron out new rules for data centers - [image: An aerial photo shows a QTS Data center under construction.] New state legislation seeks to address grid challenges from hosting large energy user...
Techdirt.

DHS Sends A Journalist Back To His Home Country To Be Tortured Because ‘Live Streaming’ ICE Activities Is ‘Threatening’ - America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful...
SCOTUSblog

The justices return — and so do the relists - The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is avai...
naked capitalism

Down to the Wire for 2025 Fundraiser, Help Hit Our New Donor and $ Targets! - Help us with this last push to meet the final fundraiser goals! Invest in this community!
Houston Public Media

ACLU urges schools to reject any prayer, Bible study policy after state law takes effect - The Texas legislature passed a bill this year that would allow schools to allot time for teachers to pray and read religious texts. The ACLU calls such a p...
The Militant

Defeat of Hamas crucial to prevent a new Holocaust - Two years after the worst pogrom against Jews since the Nazi Holocaust during World War II, the defeat of Hamas remains key to preventing it from carrying ...
Capital & Main

It’s Brown And Burns Your Eyes. In Small-Town Texas, Clean Water Is Elusive. - Plagued by climate-driven weather extremes, communities that need help improving water quality are being left behind. The post It’s Brown And Burns Your ...
Krebs on Security

DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS - The world's largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Melania Trump says eight Ukrainian children seized by Russians have been reunited with their families - First lady had pleaded for children in letter that Donald Trump delivered to Russian president at meeting in Alaska First lady Melania Trump said on Frid...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: In ‘One Battle After Another,’ El Paso becomes Hollywood’s lens on Latino migration and U.S. labor struggles - Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest movie uses El Paso’s immigrant landscape as the backdrop for a chaotic political drama that questions Hollywood’s shallow ...
CultureMap Houston

San Antonio-based coffee shop brews up 2 Houston locations for 2026 - One of San Antonio’s most acclaimed coffee shops is coming to Houston. *Merit Coffee* will open locations in the Heights and near West U. in 2026.
Undernews

Learning to live with those different than you - *Sam Smith – *One of the ways I’ve survived as an independently minded guy is that from an early age I learned that others weren’t like me and I figured ...
Ballot Access News

Texas Republican Executive Committee to Meet on September 11 to Consider Keeping Certain Republican Legislators Off 2026 Primary Ballot - The Texas State Republican Executive Committee will meet on Saturday, October 11, to decide whether to block certain Republican legislators from running fo...
Deadline Politics

Bari Weiss Memo Queries CBS News Staffers On What They Do, What’s Working & What’s Not - Bari Weiss, the newly installed editor in chief of CBS News, sent out her first memo to staffers, asking them how they spend their working hours and what t...
Dissent Magazine

Close Attention - An interview with Frederick Wiseman.
Daily Howler

SENDS IN THE CLOWNS: Clowns pretend to discuss those health care costs! - *FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2025* *CEO's imitation of life: *Imitations of (human) life are frequent among us humans. In yesterday morning's report, we treated ...
Election Law Blog

“How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland” - NYT: In the fight over deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., Democratic leaders in the city and state have pleaded with President Trump and...
NORML

Major Alcohol Producer Links Cannabis Legalization to Sales Decline - [image: A person sitting at a bar holds up their hand saying "no" to an alcoholic beverage representing choosing cannabis over alcohol][image: A person s...
Salon.com

“Boots” shows us what training warriors looks like - The Netflix show follows a closeted Marine and questions the type of courage that Pete Hegseth’s 1990 test ignores
NPR's Health Shots

More than 20 kids in India have died from contaminated cough syrup. Who's to blame? - The cough syrup was contaminated with industrial chemicals. Experts say this is no accident. It's the latest case of what is being called a global crime.
OpEd News

Kirk, Vance, Trump, and the American Christian Nation Party - At the funeral of Charlie Kirk, several of the speakers made reference to the connection between the deceased, and the Republican Party, to God and Christi...
Bonddad

The “Big Picture” nowcast and forecast - - *by New Deal democrat* We are well into our data blackout, as no federal economic data whatsoever was released this week. Even sites that functio...
Crooked Media

Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack - The post Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack appeared first on Crooked Media.
ArcaMax

Bill Press: Call it what it now is: The Department of Revenge - It’s hard to warm up to James Comey, and I never will. In fact, more than anyone else, I think Comey’s the one who saddled us with Donald Trump. As FBI dir...
Rewire

ICE Fears Put Pregnant Immigrants And Their Babies At Risk - Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health—and the health of their p...
First Draft

Some Unsolicited Advice For AI Tech CEOS - No one likes you, and the same is true for AI.
San Antonio Report

Just as San Antonio and TxDOT were getting along, rainbow sidewalk fight erupts - [image: Construction workers inspect the nearly finished rainbow crosswalk at North Main Avenue and West Evergreen Street.]San Antonio is known for pushing...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
The Root

Why Rolling Stone and Pitchfork’s ‘Best Of’ Lists Are Rage Bait! - Why Pitchfork's Best Rap List Is Infuriating and Let Us Not Get Started With Rolling Stone's Best Songs of the Century Read more...
Democracy Now!

"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It - Writer Cory Doctorow returns to *Democracy Now!* to discuss his new book *Enshittification*, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how onli...
Debunking Christianity

A Major Gimmick of Religions: The Promise of Eternal Life - *But how to get it? New Testament authors didn’t agree* I recall how stunned I was, many years ago, when a devout Catholic women told me about sitting w...
The Conversation

Political violence: What can happen when First Amendment free speech meets Second Amendment gun rights - Political violence, made easier to carry out by the proliferation of guns, harms democracy by shifting the field of political disagreement from debate to a...
Glasstire

Feminist Figuration in the South: Lorena Lohr’s “Desert Nudes” & Lauren Fleniken’s “Honky Tonk” in Dallas - Lorena Lohr: Desert Nudes at Galleri Urbane, September 6 – November 10, 2025 The exhibition Desert Nudes brings Lorena Lohr’s paintings to Dallas, synthe...
Scheerpost.com

Academic Freedom Under Siege: Brian Rosenberg on the Threats Facing Higher Education Today - Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Amazon / YouTube / Rumble In this episode of Scheer Intelligence, Brian Rosenberg, a noted educator and commentato...
The NM Political Report

NM’s vaccine shake-up: Governor acts to set independent immunization standards amid CDC turmoil - [image: A bill that temporarily allows New Mexico to formulate its own immunization policy was signed Wednesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. ] [image: ...
Space City Weather

Drought slowly creeping into Houston, with slightly cooler temps and more dryness expected into next week - In brief: Dry weather will continue in the Houston area for the foreseeable future with warm to hot afternoons and somewhat pleasant mornings. Drought is e...
Rallblog

Deprogram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “So, the US DOES Control Israel” - Live 9 am Eastern and Streaming 24-7: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou bring you up to date on the ceasefire deal seekin...
Mother Jones

From Medicine to Mysticism: The Radicalization of Florida’s Top Doc - In early September, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo took the podium at a Tampa news conference to make an unprecedented announcement: He planned to e...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Pot Pourri (That There’s French) - We’ll start with an obvious news story that tells a lot about the depths to which we have plunged. As Alcaraz notes, this year’s Super Bowl gains a special...
slacktivist

LBCF: Driving to O’Hare - Wherein Rayford Steele and the authors attempt to explain the problem of evil. It does not go well.
ProPublica

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America - by Melissa Sanchez and Mariam Elba Leer en español. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a new...
The Smirking Chimp

Want To Know Who’ll Be Our Next President? -
Skeptophilia

Taken by the flood - It amazes me the mental gymnastics the biblical fundamentalists will go through to use scientific studies to shore up their contention that the Bible is ...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Robbie McDonough - At the end of my HISD interview cycle, I noted that I had reached out to District V candidate Robbie McDonough but had not heard back from him. That happen...
American Prospect

How Antimonopoly is Enduring Despite Trumpian Corruption - Public pressure and partisan attacks have yielded some new cases, and citizens are waking up to corporate power’s harms.
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Grist

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening? - The U.S. workplace regulator is considering a federal heat rule — if the shutdown doesn’t delay it further.
The Daily Poster

It’s The Corruption, Stupid - Democrats have a chance to revive their party and save American democracy. Will they take it?
High Country News

The case for national monuments - Can one of the nation’s best conservation tools survive? The post The case for national monuments appeared first on High Country News .
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest for Economic Gain Is Like …. - This week’s quote is from scientist Edward O. Wilson: “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is... The post Earth911 Inspiration: Destroying Rainforest...
Counterpunch

Flights of the Imagination: Jesus Christ Superstar at Tempelhof Airport - Founded in 1947, the third and youngest of Berlin’s great opera houses is the Komische Oper—the comic opera. In the rubble of war, it took up residence i...
jobsanger

Senate Refuses To Stop Trump's Executions Without A Trial -
Informed Comment

“From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:19 - With no. 19 in in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the theme turns away from the glory of kings as a flash-in-the-pan...
Portside

A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed - A Shortlist of Federal Data the Trump Administration Has Tampered With or Destroyed jay Thu, 10/09/2025 - 23:48
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
See You In 2020

Economically crushing “Israel” isn’t China’s responsibility, it’s the duty of the global working class - Above: protesters blocking an Italian port to prevent shipments to the Zionist occupier. The reason why I feel a need to counter the accusations about C...
The Greanville Post

Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Gaza Isn’t Just Israel’s War — It’s NATO’s Silent Battlefield - DW--The conversation delves deeply into the cultural war waged through control of narratives in schools, universities, media, and internet platforms, highl...
Brad Blog

Trump Labor Dept. Warns Trump Immigration Policy Sparking Food Shortage, Farmworker Crisis: 'BradCast' 10/9/2025 - Well, buckle up for today's jam-packed BradCast. Though you might need a shower after a portion of today's show regarding new details on Trump and Epstein....
Popular Resistance

‘Left’ Except For Haiti - At the recent United Nations General Assembly meeting, Gustavo Petro gave an impassioned speech on behalf of the Palestinian people. It was quite rightly...
Antiwar.com

When Presidents Kill - During the past six weeks, President Donald Trump has ordered U.S. troops to attack and destroy four speed boats in the Caribbean Sea, 1,500 miles from the...
Workers World

A national call to action on Oct. 14: In memory of George Floyd - [image: A national call to action on Oct. 14: In memory of George Floyd] Build the Movement! Unified Resistance vs. Militarism & War from Portland to Gaza ...
Progressive.org

Draw a Red Line Against AI in Nuclear War - Modern AI is unlike traditional computer software—and potentially devastating.
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Fron the archives: 'A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2' is the gayest horror movie you will ever see - *A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2* is considered by many to be a very subversively gay horror movie. Of course when I watched it, I was surprised and pleas...
Reform Austin

Governor Abbott Fundraises After Sending Texas Troops to Chicago - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas Gov. Greg Abbott began fundraising off his decision to send Texas National Guard troops t...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 10, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford bareditors Fri, 10/10/2025 - 04:12 Black Agenda Radi...
Ian Welsh

Russo-Ukraine War Update - ~by Sean Paul Kelley I’m going to relay a conversation I had on X today with everyone here. It’s just easier this way, as I dislocated my shoulder yesterda...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Independent Political Report

Conservative Party’s Irene Estrada Receives Local Coverage in NYC Mayoral Race - Irene Estrada, the Conservative Party of New York State’s nominee for mayor of New York City this November, has recently received local media attention f...
Wolf Street

Amazing How the Money-Printing World Has Reversed - Balance Sheet as % of GDP: Fed, ECB, BOJ, BOE, and Central Banks of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden
The Grayzone

Samantha Power secretly colluded with Israel to enhance UN role, leaked emails show - Behind closed doors, the noted ‘humanitarian interventionist’ successfully lobbied for Israel’s inclusion on important UN committees even after the Human...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: I Grieve - Politicians, the police and the media want millions of us to imagine we are alone in grieving the slaughter of Gaza’s children — and that our grief is sham...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Common Dreams

Millions Of U.S. Children Could Go Hungry Next Week If Trump’s Shutdown Persists - Next week, should the government shutdown persist, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) could run out of fund...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Leading with Conscience: Dr. George I. Sánchez, Dean Charles R. Martinez, Jr., and the Wisdom of Praxis, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Leading with Conscience: Dr. George I. Sánchez, Dean Charles R. Martinez, Jr., and the Wisdom of Praxis* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *Professor, De...
Discourse

Donald Trump Is No Peacemaker - Don't believe anyone who tells you otherwise.
Unlimited Hangout

City-States Without Limits – Part 1 - A powerful group of Silicon Valley oligarchs are using the Trump administration to push for the construction of privatized city-states in the US. Their i...
Angry Bear

ADP Unemployment Report - Late Report on by Angry Bear U.S. (un)employment. Just did not think of it. ADP says private sector sheds jobs as government shutdown halts data, October...
Texas Observer

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting - On September 24, a gunman shot at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Dallas, killing two immigrants, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes and...
Environment Texas

Solar panels lasting longer than previously thought - A new study highlights long term effectiveness of solar panels The post Solar panels lasting longer than previously thought appeared first on Environment...
Dissident Voice

From There to Eternity - I often wondered at the bewildering manner in which fellow Jews embrace a foreign nation and act against their own and their native country’s interests. ...
Greg Palast

The LAST American PresidentGot democracy? - Thom Hartmann’s new book, *The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party and a World on the Brink*, is one giant fact check on the Whopper-in-...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map - Earlier this week, Utah Republicans proposed a new House map that includes two new competitive seats. It is one of several that a judge will consider ahe...
The AltWorld

Trump’s Gaza peace plan won’t work, it’s an ultimatum under genocide - The so-called peace plan put forward by U.S. President Trump is a non-starter that won’t work, according […] The post Trump’s Gaza peace plan won’t work,...
Crooked Timber

Delighted to be proved wrong - A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice mi...
Claytoonz

Half-Naked Squirrels - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The Texas Signal

Building A Haunted House One Piece At A Time - Sculpture Month Houston's yearly exhibition at the Sawyer Yard Silos is not strictly Halloween themed, but it’s perfect for spooky season.
ExChristian.Net

“They Were Never True Believers” — The Convenient Dismissal Clause - When I first started questioning my faith, I noticed something odd. People didn’t really want to hear why I had doubts. They wanted to classify me. The mo...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Dictator in Our Heads: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - Fascists seek to colonize our minds and realities. Resistance begins by refusing them the ability
Ecosophia

A Vision: The Principal Symbol - Now that the preliminaries are out of the way, it’s time for us to plunge into the depths of Yeats’s Vision. That’s easy, in a certain sense, because Yeats...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Happy Birthday, Opal Lee - We’d be egregiously amiss if we didn’t point out that Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” turns 99 today. In 2022, Trinity Hawkins sat down with L...
MintPress News

Gaza Surgeon: Starmer “Has Blood on His Hands” - In a powerful MintCast interview, Dr. Mohammed Tahir condemns Keir Starmer’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, calling Britain’s recognition of Pale...
Infidel753

The horror - Today marks the second anniversary of the largest and most monstrous massacre of Jewish people since the Nazi Holocaust. After the men of Hamas breached ...
Lowering the Bar

Lawyers Say Chief Justice “Calm” Despite Flying Shoe - The lawyer who threw the shoe was reportedly suspended before the day was out.
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, will not seek reelection, but vows to “give it everything I have until the very end” of his term in December 2026 - Longtime State Rep. R.D. “Bobby” Guerra, D-McAllen, on Thursday, October 2, 2o25, became the most recent member of the 150-member Texas House of Representa...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Sludge

Israel’s New U.S. Influence Campaigns Target TikTok, Churches, and ChatGPT - In the wake of SKDK’s cancelled contract, three firms newly registered under FARA are executing influence operations in the U.S. for Israel.
Project Censored

Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! - Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in Bann...
Democracy Chronicles

Medieval Muslim Thought Experiments and America’s Founding - There is a line of brilliant thought experiments that stems from medieval Islamic Central Asia and Spain, through the European Enlightenment and to Thomas ...
The Progressive Wing

9/6 – 9/12 Talarico Takes On ‘Billionaire Mega Donors’ & More - Talarico talks fighting mega donors, priorities in Senate bid State Rep. James Talarico says his campaign for the U.S. Senate is about taking on “billiona...
Trivial Knot

Origami: 2nd Brillouin Zone of the fcc structure - So let’s talk about photo organization. I have 13 years of origami photos, and every month on this blog I select one to share. How do I avoid publishing ...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
alicublog

SATURDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: GLIMMERS IN THE GLOOM EDITION. - *Still hits.* A day late on ‘Round-the-Horn, sorry, had to hang some cup hooks. (Many years ago I did a newsletter for the Ogivy ad agency and got to loo...
Socialist Alternative

Fund Healthcare, Not ICE—Mass Workers’ Action Needed to End the Shutdown - The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, more commonly known as WIC, provides food assistance to 6.8 million low-income ...
WAWG Blog

Replacing Authoritarian Capitalism With Democratic Socialism - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about replacing authoritarian capitalism with democratic socialism. Just as authoritarian capitalism replaced authoritarian...
TalkLeft

Dems Hold Strong, Shutdown is Here - The Democrats did not cave to pressure from Donald Trump and the cadre of Republicans in Congress who blindly follow him. The federal government has shut...
Bracing Views

Fat Generals Are the Problem! - Hegseth’s Absurdity Masks a Far Scarier Issue BILL ASTORE OCT 01, 2025 The military historian Dennis Showalter once told me that he didn’t care about the a...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
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 ...
Progressives Chat

From 🔴 to 🔵 and 🔵 to 🔴 and… - The United States has been experiencing some electoral patterns which are worth keeping in mind. I reserved this calendar date, one year and one month ahea...
DeSmogBlog

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda - LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has ...
Two Party Opera

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The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: House Bill 7 - Learn more about House Bill 7, banning the mailing of abortion medications, passed during the 2025 Second Special Legislative Session. [...] Read More......
Avedon's Sideshow

It may sound good to you, not to me - Suddenly Facebook seemed to be accusing me of being a robot, and it presented me with a button to prove I wasn't, but when I clicked it, nothing happene...
LareDOS

Fundraiser: A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands - The Laredo Center for the Arts presents A Night in Spain: From Castilla to the Borderlands – an evening that brings together art, literature, food, and mus...
nonsite.org

What Comes After Liberalism? - Justice Sotomayor’s dissent reflects some of the best principles, the most attractive values, of a liberalism—liberal capitalism—that we on the left have b...
Campaign for America's Future

Aguanta, todo va a estar bien - Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
Field Negro

Dictatorship Versus Democracy. - I'm baaack. It's been a minute field hands, but I have been so overwhelmed with the fall of our democracy that I honestly didn't know where to start wr...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

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

Chemtrails - Atrios makes a great point about right-wingers. You can’t appease them because they’re nuts. They’ll always want more. Florida passed a law banning airplan...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 - [image: Sunday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: August 17, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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

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

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

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Free & Equal

Cialis - What Other Drugs Could Interact With This Medication? When taking Cialis, it’s crucial to be aware of potential interactions with other medications. Thes...
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...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Buzzflash

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

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