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

MSNBC fires analyst Matthew Dowd over Charlie Kirk shooting remarks (Joseph Gedeon/The Guardian) - Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian: *MSNBC fires analyst Matthew Dowd over Charlie Kirk shooting remarks* — Dowd said the slain activist's words may have fue...
Raw Story

'This will not end here': how political violence comes in waves - *The fatal shooting of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, has brought renewed attention to the climate of political violence...
Mediagazer

MPA: streaming will make up $5B of $15.8B projected to be invested in video content in the Asia Pacific region in 2025, passing traditional pay-TV, a first (Naman Ramachandran/Variety) - Naman Ramachandran / Variety: *MPA: streaming will make up $5B of $15.8B projected to be invested in video content in the Asia Pacific region in 2025, pa...
Mediaite

Trump Shreds ‘Radical Left Group of Lunatics’ Over Kirk Killing — Urges Non-Violent Response from His Supporters - President Donald Trump entertained a few questions from the press while on his way to Marine One on Thursday afternoon — during which he again slammed “r...
The Verge

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats - Anthropic will now let its Claude AI chatbot “remember” the details of previous conversations without prompting. The feature is only rolling out for Team a...
Political Wire

Trump Claims ‘Big Progress’ in Finding Charlie Kirk’s Killer - President Trump said there has been “big progress” in finding Charlie Kirk’s killer, and told reporters he has an “indication” of the motivation, the Wall ...
Vox

Donald Trump is lying about political violence - Charlie Kirk, the influential right-wing activist, was shot and killed Wednesday on a college campus in Utah. The shooter is still at large, and as of this...
Salon.com

After Charlie Kirk’s murder, what lies ahead could be terrible - Something is profoundly broken in America — and we're all at risk
Houston Public Media

Naked cyclists to ride from Houston’s East Downtown for body positivity, safety - The nudity is intended to demonstrate the vulnerability of cyclists and to destigmatize the human body. The naked ride will be followed by a nude music con...
Al Jazeera English

Majority of Brazil top court panel votes to convict Bolsonaro of coup plot - Brazil's far-right former president faces the possibility of decades behind bars.
Second Nexus

TikToker Hilariously Calls Out Target After Champion Pants Feature Awkwardly-Placed Front Pleat - Sometimes you can just tell when something was designed *for* women, but was not actually designed *by* women. Take, for instance, the new pleated pants...
The Week

The Week contest: Racoon’s regrets -
slacktivist

What I learned from the murder of Jo Cox - In 2016, I briefly imagined that I understood how explicit fascism and political violence would affect public opinion. Then I quickly came to understand th...
Mother Jones

No, Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way - Tragedy is a powerful shaper of narratives. In the aftermath of the horrific assassination of MAGA champion Charlie Kirk, a husband and father of two, it w...
Daily Dot

“Please don’t do this”: Man purchases the last ticket left at Ariana Grande concert—reserved for disabled people - [image: fan buys handicap ariana grande tickets] Ariana Grande is heading back on the road next year with her *Eternal Sunshine* tour, which will support...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio City Council censures Meza Gonzalez over DWI charge - District 8 Councilwoman Ivalis Meza Gonzalez had a blood alcohol content at least twice the legal limit when she was arrested two months ago, court reco...
Techdirt.

How Palantir Is Mapping Everyone’s Data For The Government - When the U.S. government signs contracts with private technology companies, the fine print rarely reaches the public. Palantir Technologies, however, has a...
Slate

I Won’t Let My Teen Daughter Babysit My Sister’s Kid. I Have My Reasons. - I'm not the bad guy!
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Dragnet for Kirk’s Killer” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: The DeProgram show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou gives you the dop...
Axios

"I'm f***ing sick of it": Charlie Kirk shooting sends Congress' civility crisis into overdrive - The shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk threatens to bring the already hostile relationship between Democrats and Republicans in Congress to a...
Common Dreams

Paramount Acquisition of Warner Brothers Should Be Rejected – Will Trump Let it Slide? - Paramount Skydance is preparing a majority cash bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that is reportedly backed by the Ellison family. *Robert Weissman, co-pres...
The Hill

Wiles describes ‘sadness’ among White House aides after Kirk death - Chief of staff Susie Wiles described the grief among White House aides following Charlie Kirk’s assassination during an appearance at a university the day ...
Discourse

You Really Don't Have to Give It Up to Charlie Kirk - Sanitizing his legacy helps nothing except the fascist project he promoted.
Futurism

Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered - Fresh off of making unsubstantiated claims about "the left" being behind the assassination of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk, billionaire Elon Musk is re...
The NM Political Report

New Mexico senators blast Republicans for blocking Epstein document release - New Mexico Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Lujan on Thursday denounced their Republican Senate colleagues for voting down an amendment that ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Terence Crawford: from a bullet’s glancing blow to boxing’s biggest stage - From an Omaha gym to a Las Vegas stadium, Terence Crawford has built a career solving problems others can’t. Now he must out-think size, history and Cane...
Wolf Street

CPI Inflation Dishes Up another Nasty Surprise, as it Tends to Do - Fed’s Nightmare, but it’ll cut anyway: CPI, Core CPI, and Core Services CPI all over 4% annualized. Goods prices spiked for Used Vehicles, Food, Gasoline.
World Socialist Web Site

Starmer welcomes President Herzog to reaffirm Labour’s support for Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians - Starmer’s readiness to meet Israel’s head of state confirms that he fully supports Netanyahu’s genocide of the Palestinians despite his making the token ge...
The Texas Signal

Garland Film Festival Highlights True Texas Tales - Some of the biggest names in Texas history will take center stage at Garland's "It Came From Texas" film festival
Courthouse News

Ex-union accountant asks judge to toss suit over secret recording scandal - Santos Leon has denied making the illegal recording or posting it on the internet, but he still wants anti-SLAPP protection from Gil Cedillo's lawsuit.
San Antonio Report

Council censures Meza Gonzalez for ‘irresponsibly drinking and driving’ - The resolution publicly condemns her actions, noting that "she put the public at risk" and her pending criminal case has hindered City Council business. --...
El Paso Matters

Grito, kermeses, art mark Hispanic Heritage Month in El Paso - El Paso celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with concerts, kermeses, workshops, the annual grito and Lincoln Park Day, highlighting Latino traditions aga...
CultureMap Houston

7 quirky and unusual places to stay in the Texas Hill County - For weekend warriors looking to escape Houston, the Hill Country offers more than just wine tastings and antique shopping. The rolling hills hide some of t...
The Greanville Post

America Fractures After Charlie Kirk Killing - GEO. HAZIM—The growing sense that America is shackled to Trump, Israel, and the military-industrial complex fuels perceptions of corruption and illegitimac...
Independent Political Report

Green Party Condemns Supreme Court Decision Allowing ICE to Resume Profiling in Los Angeles - The Green Party of the United States denounced a Supreme Court decision this week allowing federal immigration officials to resume stops in the Los Angel...
American Prospect

On Political Violence - Today on TAP: Over the same issues that Lincoln cited at Gettysburg
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Ken Paxton’s office won’t answer this - On September 1, a law requiring that every public school classroom in Texas display the Ten Commandments went into effect. Only, if you walk into some cl...
The Conversation

‘This will not end here’: A scholar explains why Charlie Kirk’s killing could embolden political violence - Kirk’s killing reflects a broader political impasse in the US, where a significant percentage of the population supports political violence of some form.
WhoWhatWhy

Charlie Kirk’s Unfortunate Death and the Reality It Reveals - [image: Charlie Kirk, American Comeback Tour, Tennessee] Charlie Kirk was devoted to convincing American college kids that the 19th century and the values ...
Mondoweiss

Western leaders aren’t cowards for continuing to support Israel — they’re committed imperialist ideologues - [image: President Donald Trump meets with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, European Commission President Ursula von...
The AltWorld

Frappe dans la mer des Caraïbes et pression sur le Venezuela - Donald Trump a déclaré que le matin du 2 septembre, sur son ordre, les forces armées américaines […] The post Frappe dans la mer des Caraïbes et pression...
naked capitalism

If There Is No Welfare State, What Will Europe’s Social Contract Be? - The welfare state is the underlying social contract that has kept Western European nation-states together since World War II. If it ends, as some politicia...
Consortium News

When Australia Defied US Nuclear Plans - Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, in 1981, established a high-water mark for Australian sovereignty over U.S. nuclear-capable bomber operations, write Richard...
First Draft

9/11: History in a Vacuum, Revisited - I still feel the same way about 9/11 and its fallout--angry at the fucking GOP which enabled all its post-attack horrors.
Progressive.org

Fighting Forward: Why Teachers Need Collective Action More Than Ever - Individual solutions can’t mitigate burnout, but organized teachers are looking for solutions to widespread dissatisfaction.
Krebs on Security

Bulletproof Host Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions - In May 2025, the European Union levied financial sanctions on the owners of Stark Industries Solutions Ltd., a bulletproof hosting provider that materializ...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - September 11, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Trump Administration is taking its War on Wind and Solar...
Capital & Main

A/C Saves Lives During Heat Waves. Will Los Angeles Require It for Rentals? - In the city's asphalt-covered lower-income communities, residents suffer more from heat illness. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez discusses her plan to f...
Eschaton

Sources - The NYT has one saying the MAGA CHUDS infiltrating the FBI are lying:
Environment Texas

Solar driving American energy growth - With renewables on track to meet more than a quarter of America’s electricity in 2026, solar energy drives the growth. The post Solar driving American en...
Undernews

Multi-ethniciity - *NY Times - *U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Wednesday that she was halting $350 million in federal funding for some of America’s most...
The Daily Poster

The Secret Curriculum That Rewired America’s Judges - For decades, big business-funded economics courses have been pushing the nation’s judges to the right.
Ballot Access News

Procedural Win in Cornel West’s Pennsylvania Ballot Access Lawsuit - On September 11, U.S. District Court Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan, a Trump appointee, issued an opinion in West v Pennsylvania Department of State, w.d., 2:24c...
OpEd News

Tomgram: Mattea Kramer and Sean Fogler, Real Estate Roulette - The federal takeover of Washington, D.C., rightfully attracted extensive media coverage, but an executive order called Ending Crime and Disorder on America...
The Root

The Best Black Looks of New York Fashion Week So Far - From celebs like Oprah and Audra McDonald to influencers, Black folks are stepping out in style! Let's take a look! Read more...
Deadline Politics

Charlie Kirk Killing Sees Mocking ‘South Park’ Episode That MAGA Activist Called A “Badge Of Honor” Taken Off The Air, For Now - Paramount has taken down — sort of — a recent episode of South Park that mocked Charlie Kirk in the aftermath of the MAGA activist’s assassination on Wedne...
Election Law Blog

NOT “By All Means Necessary” - In light of yesterday’s tragic events, I am posting an excerpt here from Randy Kennedy’s essay we published earlier this week at the NYU Democracy Projec...
Texas Standard

North Texas Ukrainian community comes together for art, dance and rock music against backdrop of war - The concert was a celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day, hosted by the Ukrainian Cultural Club of Dallas.
NPR's Health Shots

TB is the #1 killer among infectious diseases. A new study says its toll could mount - New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.
Dissident Voice

Language, Mind Control, and 9/11 - An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the instrument of the mind, becom...
Project Censored

The Great Nonprofit Purge - Through funding freezes, regulatory threats, and legal manipulation, the Trump administration is pressuring nonprofit organizations to fall in line—or fa...
Daily Howler

FALSE SPRING: Who committed yesterday's murder? - *THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2025* *Are we nearing the end of a spring?* This morning, we flashed on the passage from Hemingway's memoir, *A Moveable Feast*—...
Bonddad

As consumer inflation shows more signs of re-acceleration, the Fed is being forced to pick its poison - -* by New Deal democrat* The Fed is really facing a no-win situation. Between the recent employment reports, the QCEW, and even this morning’s jobless...
Glasstire

Top Five: September 11, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s 2025 Fall Preview picks, please go here. 1. Breadth of Latino/a Voices Art Museum...
SCOTUSblog

The dissent that would’ve criminalized flag burning - In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. Please note that the views of ...
Infidel753

Miscellaneous observations - Better my own path to Hell than someone else's path to Heaven. o o o o o Hating things that are popular doesn't make a person sophisticated. o o o o o I...
Rewire

Who Gets a Third-Trimester Abortion and Why? Doctor’s New Book Unpacks Politicized Procedure - Abortions after 28 weeks are exceedingly rare. Patients need the treatment for a variety of reasons, writes Dr. Shelley Sella--and every one of them 'des...
Progressive Army

RESO-5756/2025 Presentación sistémica de la Carga y del Manifiesto de Consolidación de Exportación para la vía aérea. - Estimados socios, buen día Se adjunta Res. 5756/2025 relacionada al nuevo trámite digital: Los exportadores y transportistas deben presentar los manifiesto...
Democracy Now!

Global Sumud Flotilla Vows to Keep Sailing to Gaza; Israeli Drones Accused of Striking Two Boats - We speak to two activists aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla as it prepares to set sail for Gaza in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade. In recent days,...
Scheerpost.com

Bob’s Newswire: September 11, 2025 - *In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to p...
ArcaMax

Murder Can't Be Erased - Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record-- criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by hav...
Dorf on Law

Mourning The 20th Anniversary of the Roberts Court Part III: The Rule of Law or The Rule of People? - In *Marbury v. Madison*, one of the most important cases ever decided by the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall made at least three major mistake...
Space City Weather

Houston’s weather forecast is so dull our update today consists almost entirely of GIFs - In brief: Today’s forecast is our GIF to you, our beloved Houston readers. Houston’s weather will be unchanging for awhile, and it’s been five years since ...
Angry Bear

Revoking visas of Palestinian President, etc. - As a world leader, Rubio and Trump’s actions make no sense. The US is supposed to make it easier for officials from all nations who want to attend the UN...
Alternet

'Idiotic genre of degeneracy': 'Maggot-crawling depravity' of Epstein birthday book revealed - With all the warranted focus on President Donald Trump's cartoon contribution to the 50th birthday book of the late, convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein,...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Snap Shots - I cried when they shot Medgar EversTears ran down my spineAnd I cried when they shot Mr. KennedyLike I’d lost a brother of mineBut Malcom X got what was co...
The Smirking Chimp

The Future of the Democratic Party (if it has a future) -
Skeptophilia

Flash in the pan - "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." So wrote William Shakespeare in *Hamlet*, and if anything, i...
Crooked Media

Can The Left Reclaim America’s Story? - The post Can The Left Reclaim America’s Story? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

Abbott bans THC for those under 21 - Why didn’t we just do this first? THC products will remain largely legal in Texas, but will be banned for minors and current regulations further enforced u...
ProPublica

After 17 Years, DNA Tied a Man to Her Rape. Under Massachusetts Law, It Was Too Late. - by Willoughby Mariano, WBUR, with additional reporting by Todd Wallack, WBUR This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partn...
Grist

Ahead of COP, Africa aims to become the continent of climate solutions - The continent’s 54 nations outline a bold vision for climate action and pledges to present a unified position at the global meeting later this year.
High Country News

Access to public land? There’s an app for that - Tech is facilitating land access in new, and sometimes fraught, ways. The post Access to public land? There’s an app for that appeared first on High Cou...
Earth 911

Easy DIY Skincare Recipes That Truly Care for Skin - We’ve all heard the statistic about the skin being the body’s largest organ, but opinions... The post Easy DIY Skincare Recipes That Truly Care for Skin ...
Counterpunch

The Killing of Charles James Kirk: Violent Speech Leads to Violence - There are so many words and cliches condemning the killing of Charles James Kirk, and none of the refrains are unique. "We need to dial back our discours...
Democracy Chronicles

A Presidency That Cost Us Respect - Trump’s presidency, in my view, has weakened institutions, and left America's global standing diminished.
Workers World

PDF of September 11 issue - [image: PDF of September 11 issue] Download the PDF IOF out of Gaza, ICE out of Philly! U.S. hands off Venezuela and Cuba! To fight martial law plans Our m...
jobsanger

Today's Republican Party Rejects Lincoln's Dream For This Country -
Informed Comment

“Take the Cash in Hand:” Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:12 - Quatrain no. 12 in the first edition of Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám concerns the imperative to live in the moment and take our pleasures w...
Portside

All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela - All Elements in Place for a US Decapitation Strike on Venezuela Mark Brody Wed, 09/10/2025 - 23:40
Popular Resistance

Chris Hedges Report: The Death Of Holocaust Studies - Raz Segal, an Israeli historian and an associate professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, analyzes how the weaponization and d...
Antiwar.com

Hey, POTUS, How About a Department of PEACE! - Part 1 Well, the Donald hit the nail on the head, albeit surely not by purpose. That is to say, Washington DC is indeed the War Capital of the World – so t...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace loses it after being confronted about her 'gender-affirming care'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - *Editor's note - Charlie Kirk was assassinated today. He was a homophobic, racist bully and an all-around terrible human being, but he didn't deserve to ...
Claytoonz

Sorry, Charlie - 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...
Reform Austin

Abbott Expected to Set New Restrictions on THC Products in Texas - Following negotiations during the Legislature’s second special session, Gov. Greg Abbott is preparing to issue an executive order to regulate hemp-derive...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: September 2025 - My PC is out of commission right now, so no origami this month. Still got a handful of links. Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults | Ozy Brennan – When...
Church and State

Trump’s foreign policy - Not only India, but Brazil and Canada have become centerpieces of distrust of America because of Trump's use of tariffs often for poor reasons.
Ian Welsh

A Brief Taxonomy Of Corruption - I was discussing Indian corruption with Sean-Paul the other day, and we had to really break down what we meant by corruption. That lead to a simple classif...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Deserve Better: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - We can stop this. Today.
Sludge

Lobbyists Cash In on Both Sides of PFAS Fight - California water ratepayers are funding lobbyists who simultaneously represent chemical companies that oppose PFAS regulation.
Ecosophia

A Vision: Anima Mundi - As we move from the first to the second half of Yeats’s programmatic essay “Per Amica Silentia Lunae,” we leave the territory of poetry and the arts and pl...
Texas Observer

Life in the Time of Hurricanes - Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from the first chapter of Life in the Time of Hurricanes by Rod Davis, out this month from TCU Press. It is rep...
Bracing Views

Genocide Is Apparently OK in Gaza - Lesson from the LA Holocaust Museum BILL ASTORE SEP 09, 2025 The LA Holocaust Museum recently suggested that “Never Again” is a fundamental lesson of the H...
NORML

Georgia: Clayton County Commissioners Enact Marijuana Decriminalization Ordinance - [image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table next to a small kitchen scale and two small bags of marijuana][image: Handcuffs and a gavel sit on a table n...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Supreme Courts: Retention Elections in PA, an Open Seat in WI, and Much More - Key state supreme court races to watch later this year in Pennsylvania and then across the country in 2026 The post State Supreme Courts: Retention Elect...
The Grayzone

Israeli ‘tip’ preceded Australian claim that Iran plotted bombings - A new report suggests Israel played a key role in establishing the narrative that Iran was behind attacks on Jewish-focused establishments in Australia. ...
See You In 2020

Bronze Age Pervert & the KKE: working to sell the Trump White House’s Venezuela regime change war - Since Washington invaded Iraq, there has emerged a current of pro-imperialist actors who retrospectively oppose the Iraq war, while endorsing every new ...
Crooked Timber

My down the back of the sofa theory of the emerging stage of capitalism. Plus, Australian magpies. - Mr Magpie has always been a bold friend. He sits at the table with us when we are outside. In the warmer months when we often leave the back door open he w...
Socialist Alternative

Trump’s War on the Climate - For years we’ve been experiencing countless air quality warnings due to mass wildfires, record high temperatures across the globe, and sea levels rising at...
MintPress News

MintPress News Faces Shutdown Amid Unprecedented Attacks on Truth - For 14 years we’ve exposed empire, propaganda, and genocide. Now, with funding slashed, our future depends on you. The post MintPress News Faces Shutdown...
Earthworks

Three Years Later, Survivors of Jagersfontein Disaster Still Seeking Justice - This week marks the three-year anniversary of the deadly collapse of the tailings dam in Jagersfontein, South Africa. The post Three Years Later, Survivo...
Idavox

Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it Sounded it Would Be - A Nazi rally by any other name stinks all the same. Andy Fleming On Sunday,... The post Xenophobic ‘March for Australia’ Was the Violent Nazi Rally it S...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 2 - Learn more about Senate Bill 2, the school voucher bill, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] Read More... The post TFN Explains: S...
Lowering the Bar

Can You Get a DUI in a Barbie Jeep? Again, Yes - This may be the only thing that Texas and Canada have in common.
Alas, a Blog

The Cities Are Full Of, uh, “Crime” - This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. From an article by Sara Libby in the San Francisco Chronicle: Trump and other members of his administration, while...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE/ DOCUMENTARY FILM / The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2025 Cross-posted from Alice Embree’s Substack. The documentary portrait of folk and protest singer Barbara D...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The MAGA kids are not all White: Tokenizing Black Conservatism - Friends: The *Washington Post*’s profile of CJ Pearson’s “Cruel Kids Summer” party shows how Trumpism is being rebranded: young, multiracial, and “fun.” D...
Dissent Magazine

Falling Leaves - How do we know when democracy is gone?
Debunking Christianity

How Strong is 2nd/3rd Handed Testimony? - From Jack Johnson on Facebook. He studied Biblical academics and counseling at Baptist Bible College, Baptist Bible School of Theology, Trinity Seminary. ...
The Progressive Wing

9/8-9/14 News Round Up and Open Thread - The U.S. Open just showed Donald Trump on the screen for a second time and he got booed for 30 seconds straight. Fans are pissed off. This is the clip that...
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...
Greg Palast

Bobby, why are you threatening my life? - Bobby Bobby, Bobby Kennedy, my dear dear friend of so many years, my co-author at Rolling Stone, Bobby, why are you threatening my life? Why are you threat...
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...
DeSmogBlog

Reform’s New Board Members: What Have They Said About Climate Change? - After skipping Parliament’s return from recess this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has flown back from Washington DC to kick off his party’s annual ...
The Militant

Labor Day reflects growing working-class resistance - Labor Day marches, rallies and other events across North America reflected the step up in union battles today and the thirst of union members for a working...
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...
Duck of Minerva

Benjamin de Carvalho - Dr. Benjamin de Carvalho joins the Hayseed Scholar podcast. Ben was born in Switzerland to a mother from Norway and a father from Brazil. Ben talks about h...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - Our last open thread is full. Here's a new one, all topics welcome. What I'm following: Marco Rubio in Mexico, and his comments at a press conference aft...
Unlimited Hangout

The Peter McCormack Show - The Peter McCormack Show.
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report August 2025 - Walmart had at least eleven more shootings in August of 2025, with two of them fatal, both by self-inflicted gunshot wounds, at least one which was suic...
Black Agenda Report

Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera - Inequality in Kenya: View from Kibera bareditors Tue, 09/02/2025 - 23:00 North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights
LareDOS

Unleash your voice: the power of public speaking - Toastmasters International is here to help!
Progressives Chat

‘Chat’ Update … MLB Notes - Now that September has arrived, I want to note that the July and August schedule for blog topics will continue through the remainder of 2025. *Progressiv...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC - A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few weeks ago, has ...
Edinburg Politics

A vision realized: Dr. Leonel Vela retires, leaving behind a legacy in Valley medical education - The son of farmworker parents who labored in the crop fields that sustain Rio Grande Valley families, Dr. Leonel Vela grew up with limited resources but de...
Reading the Pictures

The Machinery of American Cruelty: A Visual Testament - How photographers are documenting the Trump administration's campaign of terror against immigrant communities. The post The Machinery of American Cruelty...
Web of Debt

Unaudited Power: The Military Budget Nobody Controls - The U.S. federal debt has now passed $37 trillion and is growing at the rate of $1 trillion every five months. Interest on the debt exceeds $1 trillion ann...
Avedon's Sideshow

I got wounds to bind - "The Calm Summer Evening by Serghio Ghetiu The day after I posted it, I woke up and found an email from Blogger saying they'd deleted my previous post fro...
The Socialist

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alicublog

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nonsite.org

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Campaign for America's Future

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Texas Monthly

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Liberation News

La guerra de Trump contra los sindicatos del VA es una guerra contra los veteranos - El gobierno de Trump declaró el 6 de agosto que cancelaría por completo los contratos sindicales de casi 380,000 trabajadores sindicalizados del Departamen...
Media Lens

‘Israel Says’ Is Not Journalism - Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside...
ExChristian.Net

Crises of Faith — Starts to New Possibilities - *By Thomas L. Lenczowski ~ * Some beyond strange, wrong-headed beliefs we expected to die have taken hold, even some based upon known falsehoods. A “ch...
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

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Two Party Opera

American Experiments - ↓ TranscriptFour panel comic featuring Ronald Reagan in front of the White House south lawn, surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire. He holds a sig...
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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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...
Free & Equal

President Trump’s First 100 Days – Free & Equal’s Christina Tobin on NewsNation - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
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

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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

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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
WAWG Blog

My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News - ——— Check them out! ——— The post My Most Recent Postings Are Shared at Op Ed News appeared first on The WAWG Blog.
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

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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

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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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...
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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