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

The Verge

Spider-Man: Brand New Day leak racks up millions of views - A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day was up on X for over seven hours before eventually being pulled. During that time, it reached over 5.9 million accou...
The Hill

Harris cites JFK, Obama among 'most effective' presidents, omitting Biden - Former Vice President Kamala Harris listed at the National Urban League Conference who she thought were the “most effective presidents in American history,...
The Daily Poster

Abdul El-Sayed On Fetterman: "He's Also Just An Asshole" - The U.S. Senate candidate weighs in on Democrats’ biggest liabilities, MAGA’s performative masculinity, and why AIPAC is out to get him.
Futurism

Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut - Gotta fund your research somehow. The post Scientists Forced to Go on OnlyFans After Their Funding Was Cut appeared first on Futurism.
CultureMap Houston

Houston ranked as America's No. 2 least safe city and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, from a very poor safety ranking to a sad restaurant closure. Plus, a vintage car...
Alas, a Blog

A Brief History of Brief Wars - Wow, did this cartoon take forever to make! So why did it take so long? First of all, history-based cartoons always take more time to research. But the res...
See You In 2020

The Luigi movement’s legacy, the next class confrontations, & the mass politics that can bring us to victory - With the rise of Flock cameras and data centers, the Luigi movement has gained a greater kind of relevance. Not because the Luigi movement itself will b...
Mondoweiss

Book Review: Grief and resistance for Palestine - [image: Palestinian children walk beside the Israeli apartheid wall in Aida refugee camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on July 6 2009. (Photo: Najeh H...
Consortium News

WATCH: TWTW — How Close Are We to Nuclear War? - Some NATO and Russian adviser think nuclear war is viable. Would a desperate Israel really nuke Iran? Nuclear weapons expert Peter Kuznick. 8pm EDT Tonite....
Axios

Tillis says Blanche won't be confirmed as AG amid Trump fund fight - Sen. Thom Tillis said Saturday morning that new comments by President Trump about his "anti-weaponization" fund mean that attorney general nominee Todd B...
Courthouse News

August’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland - The rare celestial event will cast the Moon's shadow across parts of Europe and the Arctic, beginning a run of three consecutive summers featuring total so...
Alternet

Here’s the 'legal framework' officials will try for Trump 2028: Rick Wilson - Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson on Friday explained the “legal framework” officials will use to ensure President Donald Trump is able to run for...
Common Dreams

Press Conference to Preview First-Ever IACHR Hearing on Excessive Use of Force Against Immigration-Related Protesters in the United States - The University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) will host a press conference on *Tuesday, August 4, 2026*, ahead of a landmark public hearing before the I...
OpEd News

Beyond Designations: Is Washington Quietly Dismantling the Muslim Brotherhood's Financial Network? - The latest US sanctions suggest a significant shift in counterterrorism strategy. Rather than focusing solely on terrorist designations, Washington appears...
Al Jazeera English

Most Australian teens still online three months after under-16 ban - The Australian government has defended the ban after a report concluded most teenagers had found ways to get around it.
Grist

How wildfire smoke is reshaping childhood - Smoky summers are becoming the new normal across the American West, forcing a generation of children to grow up indoors.
Mediaite

‘Payout Pot for Punks’: Senator Quickly Reacts to Trump’s Latest Anti-Weaponization Fund Push - Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) wasted no time Saturday clapping back at President Donald Trump over the status of the controversial $1.8 anti-weaponization fund...
Mediagazer

Sensor Tower estimate: ChatGPT advertisers grew from around 300 in April to more than 820 in July; retail shopping remains the biggest sector by ad spend (Stephen Council/Business Insider) - Stephen Council / Business Insider: *Sensor Tower estimate: ChatGPT advertisers grew from around 300 in April to more than 820 in July; retail shopping r...
memeorandum

Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts (Associated Press) - Associated Press: *Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts* — Investors looking to get a jum...
ArcaMax

Dr. Fauci's Good Lawyers - 111 times. That's how many times Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid falling into the perjury trap Sen. Rand Paul was setting for him. D...
NPR's Health Shots

Entomologist Stephen Dobson on releasing modified mosquitoes to fight disease - NPR's Scott Simons asks University of Kentucky entomologist Stephen Dobson about mosquito control using modified mosquitoes released into the wild.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Brazil’s HIV advocates say they predicted USAID funding cuts: ‘We would see the trends’ - At the Aids 2026 conference, Brazilian advocates said health systems need to be more independent from foreign funding HIV advocates from Brazil, whose he...
Houston Public Media

A federal judge upheld stricter air quality standards. Here’s what it means for Harris County - The court ruled the EPA must enforce stricter limits on PM 2.5, which is fine particulate matter such as dust, smoke and soot that can be harmful to health.
Salon.com

Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing proves we’re still living in 2020 - Rand Paul's vendetta against the former chief medical advisor shows how we can't move beyond the year from hell
The Root

What You Need To Know About Steven Bartlett, the Highest-Paid Black Podcaster in the World - How The Diary of a CEO host built a digital empire that made him one of the highest-earning creators on earth. Read more...
The Smirking Chimp

MAGA Content Creators Turn on Each Other As Traffic Enters Death Spiral -
Vox

AIPAC helped knock him out of Congress. Now, he says, they’re losing. - One of the most powerful forces in American politics is about to face a major test of its influence — and it may well come up short. The American Israel Pu...
Progressives Chat

Prediction: Nomination for Abdul El–Sayed - I am predicting, with next Tuesday’s [August 4, 2026] primaries in my home state, the 2026 Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Michgan will be wo...
Eschaton

Morning - Slacker Saturday
San Antonio Report

Where I Live: East Side - Joseph Nathan Brooks says many people remember the East Side only for its struggles, but he remembers some thing different. ------------------------------ W...
Off The Kuff

Fox News poll: Talarico 51, Paxton 48 - Wow. President Donald Trump won the Lone Star state by nearly 14 percentage points in 2024, but a new Fox News Poll of Texas registered voters suggests thi...
naked capitalism

Challenges to the Unsustainable Exploitation of Human Beings and Nature Converged Across Civilizations - Starting from ancient China, Hellenism, and India, proto class struggles sought production in concert with nature, freedom, and solidarity.
World Socialist Web Site

The pro-business record of departing Australian union chiefs McManus and O’Neil - In a period marked by unprecedented global shocks, the two leaders of the Australian Council of Trade Unions have served as the linchpin of capitalist stab...
Portside

A People’s Guide to the ‘Commie Corridor’ of Brooklyn and Queens - A People’s Guide to the ‘Commie Corridor’ of Brooklyn and Queens barry Sat, 08/01/2026 - 03:20
Infidel753

Link round-up for 1 August 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Here are a few fun memes. Here are some more, along with some animal sti...
Slate

What We Can Learn From the Popular Movement That Gave Us Gay Marriage - Same-sex marriage was once wildly unpopular. Here's the door-to-door campaign that changed minds.
The Week

The Bayeux Tapestry: more than a work of art - Nearly 1,000 years old, evocative, rich and ambiguous, the Bayeux Tapestry will soon be on show in the British Museum
Ian Welsh

SpaceX’s Rug Pull Is Making Me Laugh - So, SpaceX’s stock is down to $108. It started at $150. It spiked as high as $225. (Hope you didn’t buy it then.) Ouch. This was completely predictable, be...
Informed Comment

How Long will US be Gaslighted by Israeli Ops? Land Blockade of Iran Floated - So is this gaslighting exercise just for the dull and belligerent Trump? Is even he this stupid?
Idavox

‘Quite startling’: Hate crimes spike since mass shooting attack against Islamic Center - Muslims, Jews and the LGBTQ+ community have been the biggest targets. Times of San Diego... The post ‘Quite startling’: Hate crimes spike since mass shoo...
Techdirt.

RFK Jr., Who Is Definitely Not Checked Out Of His Job, To Host A Cooking Show - RFK Jr. has a lot on his plate at the moment as the head of HHS. America is currently dealing with a record breaking outbreak of the measles, for instance....
Raw Story

Trump throws tantrum on Truth Social attacking defiant GOP senator - President Donald Trump posted a lengthy 253-word rant on Truth Social Friday attacking Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) over his opposition to the $1.7 billion ta...
Workers World

Protests continue vs U.S. war on Iran - [image: Protests continue vs U.S. war on Iran] As of July 28, the U.S. was at war with Iran for 150 days, resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians...
El Paso Matters

Estrella del Paso shuts down legal services program for unaccompanied migrant children as Trump ends funding - Organizations that provided legal services to unaccompanied migrant children say the Trump administration is withholding millions in reimbursements and ...
Ballot Access News

David Hatley, Independent Candidate for Tennessee Governor, Has Campaign Fund of $5,700,000 - David Hatley, an independent candidate for Tennessee Governor, has a campaign warchest of $5,700,000, according to this story. There are two other independ...
Lowering the Bar

Former Employee Sues Comcast Over Alleged Pie-in-the-Face Policy - [image: alleged evidence, picture of whiteboard]The highest-ranking salesperson for the month allegedly got to hit the lowest-ranking one.
Election Law Blog

One Year Ago, SCOTUS Issued Late Summer Friday Obscure Order That Led to the Murder of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. - We weren’t fooled then, or now The post One Year Ago, SCOTUS Issued Late Summer Friday Obscure Order That Led to the Murder of Section 2 of the Voting R...
Claytoonz

Slush and Mumble - Read the blog on 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

IMPERIALISM: DECADENT & DOOMED WITH JOTI BRAR EPISODE 60 – YOU CAN’T VOTE YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS MESS - GN—This video, featuring Garland Nixon and Joti Brar, discusses the systemic limitations of modern political systems and the futility of relying solely on ...
Crooked Media

The Doctor is In…voking the Fifth - The post The Doctor is In…voking the Fifth appeared first on Crooked Media.
Political Wire

Hunter Biden Blames Cancer for Father’s Terrible Debate - “Hunter Biden said on a podcast episode published this week that he believed his father, former President Joe Biden was unknowingly suffering from cancer d...
The Grayzone

MI5 directors who plotted IRGC ‘terror’ ban exposed in leaked emails - Leaked emails reviewed by The Grayzone show both a current and former MI5 director secretly lobbied for the British government’s move to label the IRGC a...
San Antonio Current

Ethics Review Board wants more info from councilman accused of sharing man’s email address online - San Antonio Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez, known for his sometimes-spicy social media posts, reportedly faces a formal ethics complaint over one of h...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: "AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE" 21st CENTURY EDITION - *Oooh, this is a* nice* version.* Another week of mayhem and mendacity in the books, and the thing that bugged me most was the show trial of Anthony Fauci...
Daily Cartoonist

Graeme James – RIP - The Economist cover designer Graeme James has passed away. Graeme James Ca. 1960/61 – July 2026 The Economist is reporting the death of Graeme James (or he...
slacktivist

LBCF: Fact and Fiction - Spoiler alert: In a six-page expository suppository, the authors outline their "Bible prophecy timeline" -- and thus tell readers everything that's about t...
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! End oil blockade, war threats - July 26 meetings celebrate the victory of the Cuban Revolution NEW YORK — On July 25 some 80 people attended a celebration here of the 73rd anniversary of ...
Deadline Politics

Paramount Pitches Judge On November Start Of WBD Merger Antitrust Trial, While State AGs & WGA Propose April - Paramount wants a trial to start in November in the antitrust lawsuit brought by a dozen state attorneys general and the Writers Guild America. Not surpris...
WhoWhatWhy

While Congress Waits, New York Tightens the Reins on Data Centers and Chatbots - [image: Allenwood, PA, No Data Center, yard signs] Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) executive order to pause new data center development for one year is just the la...
Texas Standard

Texas officials order contractor on Big Bend area border wall to halt land clearing - Texas General Land Office Commissioner Dawn Buckingham on Friday sent cease and desist letters to Barnard Construction and U.S. Customs and Border Protecti...
IVN

The DNC Insider Leading the Push to Kill Ranked Choice Voting by 2028 - Democratic National Committee are close to adopting a ranked choice voting ban in the 2028 presidential primary, despite its use in Maine and Washington, D...
Glasstire

Artists Announced for the “2026 Border Biennial / Bienal Fronteriza 2026” in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez - The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ) have announced the 33 artists selected to participate in the 2026 Border Bienn...
Undernews

Workers - *Robert Reich -* This month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the labor participation rate — the percentage of people of working age who are ...
Mother Jones

How Michigan Became the Most Expensive Democratic Primary Ever - Next Tuesday’s contest in Michigan between Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens holds a dubious distinction: No Democratic congressional primary in histor...
Independent Political Report

Wisconsin Working Families Party Backs Nine Democrats in State Primary - The Wisconsin Working Families Party has endorsed nine Democrats seeking state office this year, backing a blend of incumbent lawmakers and primary chall...
SCOTUSblog

The court and the “opinions of mankind” - During this 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it may be worth recalling the document’s only identified audience. Rather than single o...
Scheerpost.com

War Crimes Case Re-Opened - John McEvoy Declassified UK The Metropolitan Police Service has reversed its decision to close a war crimes probe into U.K. nationals who fought for Israe...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Government Playing a Dangerous Game With Drone Cybersecurity - Return of the zombie idea that software vulnerabilities can be reserved for good actors
Debunking Christianity

“He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” - *Oh please, give me a break: It's ridiculous bragging! * For a long time I have suggested that people should carefully study—and absorb the truth about—...
Democracy Now!

"Digital Doppelgangers": Naomi Klein Corrects the Record on Viral AI-Generated Quote - During Thursday’s segment about the risks of artificial intelligence, we shared a quote from author Naomi Klein that we later discovered was AI-generated. ...
The Progressive Wing

7/31 News Roundup and Open Thread - Hayley Stevens is losing and is becoming unhinged.
The Conversation

58 years of attacks on the media by powerful leaders trying to deflect criticism, from Nixon to Trump - American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What does...
Angry Bear

Book Review “From Strength to Strength” - – The one-handed economist (site) Daniel Zetland . . . a political-economist from California who now lives in Amsterdam. ~~~~~~~ From Strength to Strengt...
Rallblog

Hamas Agrees to Disarm, Trump Claims | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - Live at 9 AM Eastern & Streaming 24-7 Thereafter: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media e...
Rewire

How ‘Off Campus’ Gets Good Sex Right - The first season of this Amazon Prime series is like an instruction manual for young adults to have hot, satisfying, consensual coitus.
Dorf on Law

Fauci Fifth Follow-up - Yesterday on this blog I discussed Dr. Anthony Fauci's invocation of his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when testifying before the Sena...
ProPublica

For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California’s Warning System for Teacher Misconduct - The post For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California’s Warning System for Teacher Misconduct appeared first on ProPublica.
Novara Media

Burnham Has a Choice: Drop the Palestine Action Ban or Be Cursed by It - Several hundred Defend Our Juries demonstrators gathered outside Westminster magistrates’ court yesterday, many of whom had been told they’d have a hearing...
Two Party Opera

D.C. Improvement Projects - Read More
High Country News

Can the last casino in Primm, Nevada, save a desert community? - A last-minute deal is another bet on the town’s unlikely survival. The post Can the last casino in Primm, Nevada, save a desert community? appeared firs...
Counterpunch

All Rise…For What? Baseball, Conformity, and Violence in the USA - One of the glaring inconsistencies of American life is that the culture prides itself on “individual freedom,” but insists on blind participation in coll...
jobsanger

Willing To Deny Reality Even If Truth Is Staring Them In The Face -
Wolf Street

Inflation in the Overall Economy, Hitting Consumers, Businesses, and Governments, Was Really Bad in Q2, even without Energy - The Fed needs to coalesce and crack down on inflation lest the bond market figures out what’s going on in here… Oops.
Brad Blog

This is What Kleptocracy Looks Like: Trump Robbing U.S. Blind, Republicans Letting Him: ‘BradCast’ 7/30/2026 - A few important explainers on today’s BradCast that I hope will place much of what you may be hearing in the corporate media into more accurate perspective...
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: Why The US Military Is ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ - In their most recent documentary, “Earth’s Greatest Enemy”, Abby Martin and Mike Prysner examine the US military as not only the world’s biggest consumer...
Antiwar.com

The Death Count Trap: Why Tallying Victims Won’t Stop Israel’s Genocide - The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly. Take, for example, a...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report July 31, 2026 - Black Agenda Report July 31, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/31/2026 - 04:30 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
The NM Political Report

GOP senators want Haaland, Stansbury subpoenaed in Epstein probe - [image: A screengrab from the New Mexico House Truth Commission February meeting.] By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. & New Mexico Political Report — State Se...
Environment Texas

Changes to the Endangered Species Act threaten vulnerable wildlife - A reinterpretation of the word “harm” may push some species to—or over—the brink of extinction The post Changes to the Endangered Species Act threaten vu...
Progressive.org

The Urgent Water Crisis in Gaza - Destroyed water and sanitation infrastructure is forcing people in Gaza to rely on unsafe water to drink and clean.
Liberation News

Six months later, the lessons of January in Minnesota cannot be forgotten - The only language the ruling class understands is the language of power - the strike, the shutdown, and militant mass mobilization
Capital & Main

SoCal Cities are Placing Homeless Shelters in Polluted Industrial Areas - Officials are turning to industrial and manufacturing zones to site shelters — and avoid public pushback — a Capital & Main review of 30 cities found. T...
MintPress News

Iran’s Shock Strike Strategy Against US Assets Opens Multiple Fronts - While another lull in direct combat between the United States and Iran has come into effect, other fronts begin to expand and threaten to drown the regio...
The Texas Signal

Data Centers Meet Their Skeptics - In nearly every corner of Texas, bipartisan activists are voicing their disapproval of data centers
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Did the GOP win the redistricting wars? - *THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026* *That's what the Cook Report says: *We Blues! Our tribunes keep stressing the president's approval numbers. Pleasingly, those ...
Krebs on Security

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick - Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time f...
Bracing Views

Golden Dome as a Golden Boondoggle - And Perhaps a Golden Ticket to Nuclear War BILL ASTORE JUL 29, 2026 Golden Dome, President Trump’s ambitious dangerously escalatory missile defense shield,...
Greg Palast

Trump bombed…the audienceHe killed it at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner - I watched the late night yucksters like Jon Stewart and Seth Meyers get a bunch of cheap guffaws out of Trump’s supposedly inept attempt at comedy at the W...
The AltWorld

Anthropocene - We can make a home here. In these ruins. In this shattered civilization full of walking autopsies […] The post Anthropocene appeared first on TheAltWorld.
Texas Observer

ICE Never Stopped Chasing People in Cars in the Rio Grande Valley - As thousands of people from all over the United States came to the Laguna Madre area this past weekend to watch SpaceX’s latest launch in South Texas, ma...
Space City Weather

Heat continues, with a slight chance of rain showers this weekend - In brief: In today’s post we discuss high pressure, and what impacts the region might see from a weak front that will move in from the northeast this weeke...
Earth 911

Reducing Waste: Your Citizen-and-Voter Playbook - Our ability to reuse, repair, and recycle is determined in city halls, state capitals, and... The post Reducing Waste: Your Citizen-and-Voter Playbook ap...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Thirteen House Rating Changes Toward Democrats as Seat-by-Seat Assessment Better Aligns with Our November Expectations - We’re revamping our House ratings this week, which has the effect of bringing the number of seats at least leaning to each party to rough parity after re...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Don't blame Fauci for the COVID pandemic. Blame Donald Trump. Here are the receipts. - In March 2020, Trump told reporter Bob Woodward that he was deliberately downplayed the dangers of COVID. Earlier today, Senate Republicans held a hearin...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2026 - Censored Press News We’ve been researching and writing State of the Free Press 2027, to be published by The Censored Press in December. The 2027 yearbook...
Discourse

Ascending to the Big Mar-A-Lago in the Sky (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: Odyssey talk, choice moments from Lindsey Graham's funeral, checking in on Mitch McConnell, and exciting (derogatory) developments at 60 Minutes
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Checks Have Come Due: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Seeing the Forest

Free Speech - Here’s a free speech question. Rupert Murdoch and his Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and his “Libtards” and “Econazis” were part of an organized, strategic effort...
Socialist Alternative

Justice For Corey Ruiz—Fight Police Brutality With A One-Day Citywide Shutdown - On Wednesday, July 22, police in Madison, Wisconsin murdered a Black man named Corey Ruiz. Three officers held him down while a fourth shot him three times...
Ecosophia

A Tome of Forbidden Technologies - Once again we’re near the end of a month with five Wednesdays, and as regular readers of this blog know well, that means that readers got to nominate and v...
Bonddad

Has America become an “extractive economy”? The ‘tell’ of interest rates and inflation - - *by New Deal democrat* There is a quote, allegedly from Alexander Frazer Tytler over 200 years ago, but apparently actually originating in 1951 fr...
First Draft

WV’s History Rhymes In The Rain - WVians: stop voting for Republicans. They do not care about us, as the latest flooding disaster clearly shows.
Crooked Timber

Malware problem (fixed) - A number of commenters noted a malware problem with the site.It appears to be a well known attack called ClickFix. It’s now fixed, thanks again to Doctor M...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Would You "Press a Button" For Genocide, Or Anything else? - This, of course, sounds like an absurd question, but it was less than two years ago that Eytan Weinstein, the co-host of "Two Nice Jewish Boys" Podcast ...
Church and State

My New Resolution - Salye was distraught over the condition of democracy in the USA. She made me realize that I need to be more active politically.
NORML

Federal Survey: Marijuana Use Continues Multiyear Decline Among Teens, Young Adults - [image: a teen girl holding school books looks disapprovingly at a teen boy offering her a joint][image: a teen girl holding school books looks disapprov...
Texas Environmental News

IDJS-064 Maki -
LareDOS

LC’s much anticipated FlamencoFest offers hands-on workshops at all levels of skill - August 1 tablao performance: an intimate view of the exchange between dancers, singers, musicians, and its audience
Avedon's Sideshow

It's drivin' me mad - Erin Hanson says, "I painted this in tribute to two master artists, David Hockney and Paul Cezanne. It features pines that I saw during my visit to Cezan...
Sludge

Carville's War on the Democratic Left Is Funded by Centrist Billionaires - James Carville's firm has been paid by American Bridge, a super PAC funded by billionaires who also bankroll groups fighting progressives in primaries—and ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Draining the Ogallala Aquifer for AI? Project Matador and the myth of limitless growth, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. & Luke Metzger, Exec. Dir., Environment Texas Research & Policy Center - *Friends,* *I’m pleased to share a newly-published article co-authored with Luke Metzger, executive director of the Environment Texas Research & Policy ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall - 11×17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.5mb (Full title: “Proposed Iran War Memorial Wall With Off-Ramp Bouquet”) There’s something stiffening out there ri...
Texas Freedom Network

Texas Parents Reflect on National Parents Day - What does it mean to be a Texas Parent in 2026? President Bill Clinton establish National Parents day in 1994 to honor, uplift, and support the critical ...
Land Destroyer

The Ukraine War is a US war on Russia - *July 16, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - As the Western media continues shaping narratives depicting a growing divide between the US and Europe regarding...
Trivial Knot

Does everything have an explanation? - My husband described to me a version of the cosmological argument based on explanations. Everything in the world requires an explanation. Since the chain o...
Texas Monthly

They Came to Protest ICE. On the Live Stream, Their Chants Were Drowned Out by a ‘Friday Night Lights’ Theme Song Knockoff. - In the aftermath of the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Houston City Council found a novel way to silence those who showed up to demonstrate.
Earthworks

Victory! Louisiana Residents Defeat Air Products’ Carbon Capture Project - Residents of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” have defeated plans for what could have been the largest carbon sequestration and storage project … The post Vic...
Duck of Minerva

Episode 1: Gates of the West - We're baaack!In the inaugural episode of the second season of Whiskey and International Relations...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: Gerontocracy in America - Matt and Sam talk to Sam Moyn about his new book, *Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It*.
Democracy Chronicles

Statesmen, Not Escalation - As global tensions rise, the world needs diplomatic leadership, not political brinkmanship that risks widening conflict.
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 5: Meaning Beyond Work - Image by ScheerPost.com. Discussions of artificial intelligence typically begin with the question, What happens when the machines take our jobs? For thousa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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

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....
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

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...
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, October 02, 2011

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