Brains and Eggs: Memorial Day 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

Mediagazer

Self-help podcaster Jay Shetty signs a deal, sources say worth $100M over multiple years, to bring video episodes of his show exclusively to Spotify and Netflix (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: *Self-help podcaster Jay Shetty signs a deal, sources say worth $100M over multiple years, to bring video episodes of his show...
The Hill

ABC plays the victim in FCC complaint over 'The View' - The FCC is trying to enforce Section 315 of the Communications Act of 1934, which requires over-the-air broadcast stations to provide equal on-air opportun...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Republicans race to back Ken Paxton as runoff sets up closely-watched US Senate battle in Texas - Donald Trump moves quickly to unite Republicans behind the Texas attorney general as Democrats eye rare opening - US politics live – latest up...
Mediaite

Fidel Castro’s Daughter Pressed on Conspiracy Theory Justin Trudeau Is Her ‘Half Brother’ - The claim, mentioned by Trump in his 2024 book Save America book and pushed by online believers, alleges Castro is Trudeau’s real father, not Pierre Trud...
San Antonio Current

Luz Elena Chapa narrowly defeats Jane Davis in Bexar County DA runoff - Bexar County District Attorney candidate Luz Elena Chapa is moving on to the general election after narrowly defeating Jane Davis in Tuesday’s Democrati...
CultureMap Houston

Houston-based media group establishes new bureau in Galveston County - A Houston-based media company is expanding its coverage of the greater Houston area. Houston Public Media (HPM) announced the creation of the Galveston Cou...
Al Jazeera English

Why is Israel attacking Lebanon’s Nabatieh, the major southern city? - Israel issued forced displacement for Lebanon's southern city of Nabatieh on Tuesday. Why is it focused on this city?
Futurism

Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks - "The blast radius of that agent action was not the service restart. It was everything downstream of the restart, in a system state the agent had no compl...
Raw Story

450,000 New Yorkers losing coverage as Trump's Medicaid cuts hit blue states - Budget constraints are forcing liberal-leaning states that spend their own money on healthcare for noncitizens to scale back that aid, as they grapple wi...
Undernews

Health - *Axios - *About 1.75 million fewer kids were enrolled in Medicaid this January than at the start of the Trump administration, according to the most recent ...
Glasstire

Review: “Daniel Rios Rodriguez: Open this Wall” at Ruby City, San Antonio - Open this Wall at Ruby City’s Studio annex presents an ensemble of paintings by Texas artist Daniel Rios Rodriguez. It’s an autobiographical body of work...
Salon.com

Stephen Colbert gets the last laugh on CBS - CBS filed copyright notices against Colbert's viral "Only in Monroe" comeback. It backfired.
The Conversation

Chilling effects of Trump’s war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that’s the point - A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.
The Progressive Wing

5/27 News Roundup & Open Thread - Texas State Rep. James Talarico joins MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss his reaction to the attacks Ken Paxton lodged against him during his Republi...
Vox

This is what happens when you defund Ebola prevention - Shortly after brandishing his infamous chainsaw on a conservative conference stage last February, Elon Musk attended a Cabinet meeting where, giggling slyl...
Houston Public Media

Incumbent state Rep. Hubert Vo defeated in Democratic runoff - Alief school board President Darlene Breaux defeated Vo, who spent more than two decades in the Texas House.
The Week

Fast and Luce: does Ferrari’s first EV live up to its sportscar heritage? - Controversial EV ‘risks destroying the myth’ of luxury carmaker as investors fear another Jaguar rebrand failure
ArcaMax

Trump and Thune: Just You Wait - Here in Washington, D.C., we endure slights of the president's barking, his constant use of capital letters and his ever-present red ties. These are forms ...
Dorf on Law

Education in Democracy: The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Schools (Guest Post by Ronald C. Den Otter) - My new book, *Democracy in Education: The Importance of Free Speech in American Public Schools*, is about the importance of the free speech of junior high ...
Rallblog

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

Trump’s Latest Move To Restrict Voting Rights -
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...
naked capitalism

Links 5/27/2026 -
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: The Monster at the end of This Humpday - The monster at the start of this Humpday is Ulysses, and Ruben Bolling provides a chance for me to link to my classic examination of books everybody refere...
Axios

Texas takeaways: The night Trump tossed Cornyn - Republican Ken Paxton's 28-point primary rout of longtime Texas Sen. John Cornyn *—* the widest primary defeat for a sitting U.S. senator in nearly 50 ye...
Off The Kuff

Primary runoff results: Statewide - This was a total anti-climax. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton defeated veteran U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in the GOP runoff Tuesday, toppling the four-term in...
Slate

My Husband Yelled at Me for Having Unrealistic Expectations for Mother’s Day. I Didn’t Ask for Much. - I thought I made myself clear.
ProPublica

U.S. Lawmakers Demand Reforms to Immigration Officers’ Use of Tear Gas and Pepper Spray - The post U.S. Lawmakers Demand Reforms to Immigration Officers’ Use of Tear Gas and Pepper Spray appeared first on ProPublica.
Novara Media

Hundreds on Hunger and Work Strike at ICE Facility Accused of Abuses - Hundreds of people are on hunger strike at an ICE detention facility in the US state of New Jersey, with crowds rallying outside to support them facing vio...
memeorandum

Cornyn Crushed: 7 Takeaways From Tuesday's Runoffs in Texas (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times) - Shane Goldmacher / New York Times: *Cornyn Crushed: 7 Takeaways From Tuesday's Runoffs in Texas* — President Trump's record of ousting those he sees as...
Crooked Media

Pope Warns of AI Apocalypse - The post Pope Warns of AI Apocalypse appeared first on Crooked Media.
Consortium News

WATCH: Target Cuba - Ray McGovern discusses the immediate threat to Cuba in the context of the history of U.S. hostility to the Caribbean island stretching back to his earliest...
Seeing the Forest

No, Not Going Back - I live in the UK now. I’m on a trip to Wales. It’s one of those trips they have here with a bunch of old people in coaches taken around to ride steam train...
San Antonio Report

Luz Elena Chapa wins razor-thin Bexar County DA Democratic runoff - The first batch of results showed Davis ahead by fewer than 1,000 votes in what's shaping up to be a very close Democratic primary runoff. -----------------...
Counterpunch

There is No Radical Transformation in the US Without Poor People in the Forefront - An outreach mental health client of mine, years ago – I’ll call him Gregory – had (as a very young child) been beaten across the head by his step-father,...
World Socialist Web Site

Mine disaster in China: Another tragedy in the global industrial slaughterhouse - The mine explosion is another graphic example of the dangers facing miners and other workers around the world as their lives and health are subordinated to...
jobsanger

Democrats Must Face A Hard Truth About The Israeli Government -
Informed Comment

Trump’s Crackdown on Legal Immigrants betrays America - His administration set the refugee admission ceiling at 7,500 people, the lowest level in the US refugee resettlement program's 45-year history
Socialist Alternative

The Xi-Trump Summit & What It Says About The US-China Imperialist Conflict - On May 14-15, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, the leaders of the two major imperialist powers, met in Beijing. This was the “stalemate summit” as some media d...
Texas Observer

The Eternal Recurrence of Colin Allred - And so Colin Allred’s three-year journey through the wilderness of ambition ends more or less where it began. In May 2023, the NFL player-turned-civil ri...
Ballot Access News

Seth Bodnar Submits 30,000 Signatures to Qualify as an Independent Candidate for U.S. Senate in Montana - On May 26, Seth Bodnar, former president of the University of Montana, submitted approximately 30,000 signatures to get on the ballot as an independent for...
Alternet

Republicans send mixed signals after Trump topples another GOP veteran - Some Republicans fretting about the upcoming midterms on social media could not seem to squeeze into a comfortable position Tuesday night after incumbent...
El Paso Matters

Maldonado, Cruz win Democratic judicial nominations in El Paso runoff election - The highest profile races on the El Paso Democratic runoff ballot were two judicial races. The post Maldonado, Cruz win Democratic judicial nominations ...
Courthouse News

Washington state wins challenge against FEMA’s termination of Shelters and Services Program - A federal judge agreed with the state that the Trump administration's immigration law enforcement priorities don't override Congress' funding of a federal ...
Popular Resistance

An Ethically Honest Memorial Day - On Memorial Day, it is my family’s practice to remember and honor all those who have died in war — including but not limited to those who have served in ...
The Verge

Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI? - It's possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV's latest encyclical about AI's impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the f...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Tap The Brakes - 11 x 17 inch high-res color .jpg image, 2.4mb Trump taps the brakes…? “Taps the brakes”? JEEzus, they’re really breaking the Goofy Meter over at the Washin...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s Pottery Barn War - When Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that any agreement with Iran must be “great and meaningful,” or there would be no agreement at all, he appeared to ...
Workers World

San Diego shootings– act of domestic terrorism - [image: San Diego shootings– act of domestic terrorism] One of the victims was Amin Abdullah, a security guard and father of eight children. He had worked ...
Election Law Blog

“Members of Congress won a battle to increase their pay. The war will go on.” - Politico: A federal court has finally weighed in on the sensitive topic of congressional member pay, ruling that lawmakers acted improperly in repeatedl...
Portside

SNAP Enrollment Has Dropped in Every State - SNAP Enrollment Has Dropped in Every State Judy Tue, 05/26/2026 - 19:30
Claytoonz

Data Centers - Please read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.c...
Black Agenda Report

'The people who most love the game won't be able to go': Ajamu Baraka on Resistance to the World Cup - 'The people who most love the game won't be able to go': Ajamu Baraka on Resistance to the World Cup bareditors Wed, 05/27/2026 - 03:38 Ajamu Bara...
Texas Standard

Study finds voting can help you live longer - Voting is typically associated with politics and civil engagement, but a new study finds evidence that voting helps older people live longer.
Common Dreams

Vermont becomes first state in the nation to ban Parkinson’s pesticide paraquat - The Environmental Working Group praised Vermont for today becoming the first state in the nation to ban the use and sale of paraquat, one of the most tox...
Ian Welsh

Don’t Believe Weekend “Peace Deal” Leaks - So, this weekend there was a leak of a possible peace deal. Iran got most of what it wanted in this hypothetical deal. Israel said “we won’t obey any truce...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
Political Wire

Why Silicon Valley’s Big Bet on Matt Mahan Went Bust - “Silicon Valley’s effort to place Matt Mahan in the governor’s mansion is stalling out amid recriminations, donor frustration and second-guessing,” Politic...
IVN

No Ballot in the Mail? California Voters Still Have Options Before June 2 - With the June 2 primary days away, voters who never received a ballot — or lost, damaged, or made a mistake on one — are not out of options.
The Grayzone

VIDEO: Hezbollah leader to The Grayzone—Israel-First Trump ‘turned America into a joke’ - In an exclusive interview with The Grayzone’s Wyatt Reed, Wafiq Safa, a senior Hezbollah official and former head of Hezbollah’s Liaison and Coordination...
Scheerpost.com

It’s The Genocide, Stupid - The DNC finally released its long-awaited autopsy of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign, and it doesn’t mention Gaza. The Democratic leadership’s...
Environment Texas

Renewables grow 11% in first 3 months of 2026 - Solar and wind energy continue to increase in first quarter, while coal output falls The post Renewables grow 11% in first 3 months of 2026 appeared firs...
Sludge

The Consultants Cashing In on Pro-Israel Campaign Spending - A bipartisan network of political consultants—from Reagan White House alumni to Obama and Biden operatives—is raking in millions as pro-Israel groups pour ...
Deadline Politics

L.A. Mayor Race Gets Legal: Bass Mocks Pratt’s Supporters As “AI Cartoons”; Incumbent Broke Election Laws, ‘Hills’ Vet Insists - A week before the primary that could decide who the next mayor of Los Angeles is, incumbent Karen Bass and poll-rising challenger Spencer Pratt got legal a...
Mother Jones

Why Billionaires Pay Much Less Tax Than the Average American - This story was originally published on Gabriel Zucman’s substack, to which you can subscribe here (for English) or here (for French). Last week, Jeff Bezos...
Progressive.org

A Sordid History of Stolen Korean Children - Paige Towers’s new book ‘What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption’ takes a searing look at international adoption.
First Draft

Donald Trump Is A Fuck Up - Failing upward with the Insult Comedian.
SCOTUSblog

Court sides with Trump administration in dispute over immigration judges, declines to hear Florida suit against other states over immigrant driver’s licenses - The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning reversed a ruling by a federal appeals court that had revived a dispute over a policy governing speaking engagements...
The Daily Poster

Master Plan Bonus: The Reagan Order That Shifted Power to the White House - How a little-known executive order helped weaken Congress’s control over federal policy.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

The Men Who Don't Want Women to Vote or Work, or Have Opinions, by Helen Lewis, The Atlantic - *Friends:* *What once sounded “too extreme” to take seriously is increasingly entering mainstream political and cultural discourse. The growing masculinist...
The Root

Marlon Wayans Breaks Silence on Why He Hasn’t Cut Off Dave Chappelle After Trans Jokes - Marlon Wayans having a trans child of his own puts him in a unique position when it comes to his thoughts about Dave Chappelle's controversial jokes. Re...
Techdirt.

Super Meth Isn’t The Hero We Want, But It’s The Hero We Deserve - Our war on drugs began with a simple man with a simple plan. That plan was this: give the government more powers at the expense of civil rights, all under ...
Earthworks

Investors Call for Report on General Motor’s Commitment to Indigenous Peoples’ Rights - At General Motors’ annual shareholder meeting on June 2, 2026, shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on whether the … The post Investors Call f...
Idavox

Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-Wing’ as Terrorists, Akin to ISIL and Al Qaeda - Trump’s real enemy is not foreign. It’s you. Phil Mandelbaum, Unicorn Riot Contributor The White... The post Trump’s New National Strategy Labels ‘Left-W...
Capital & Main

Conditions at California ICE Detention Centers Are Getting Worse, Inspections Find - A state Department of Justice inspection of seven California facilities found overcrowding, poor medical care, inadequate food and excessive force from g...
The Greanville Post

GALLOWAY MONOLOGUE: Trump’s peace karaoke - GW—The war in the Persian Gulf is portrayed as over, marking a considerable victory for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Claims include: Cessation of all host...
Independent Political Report

Independent Rick Bennett Qualifies for November Election for Maine Governor - *This article was originally published by Maine Morning Star on May 20, 2026. It is republished here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Any views expressed ar...
Bonddad

Repeat home sales continue to show disinflation; shelter CPI likely to continue to be a non-factor - - *by New Deal democrat* For the last number of months, I have been putting front and center that housing prices have ceased being an engine of infl...
Daily Howler

THE REMAINS: Did the city council get it right? - *TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2026* *Warring subgroups remain: *Friend, please tell us the truth: Did the city council of Cambridge, Mass. get it right last week?...
Mondoweiss

‘Life itself no longer feels the same’: Gaza faces another Eid al-Adha amid genocide - [image: Palestinian children watch sheep inside a livestock pen in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on May 25, 2026, ahead of Eid al-Adha....
Democracy Now!

"He Was in Agony": Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt - Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup inje...
Infidel753

Videos of the day -- Ruth Aisling - On my post about travel last week, a couple of people expressed an interest in Scotland. As it happens, one of the YouTubers I most frequently watch is Ru...
Space City Weather

Widespread rains return mid-week, some of which may be heavy - In brief: Follow a splendid Memorial Day in Houston, we are going to see the brief return of potentially heavy rainfall on Wednesday. Note that these storm...
Liberation News

Israel applies Gaza model to Lebanon - Though it can bomb, Israel cannot defeat Lebanon's resistance or the will of its people to return to their villages.
slacktivist

Why don’t you come to your senses? - A Texas courthouse has put up a monument to the Eagles. Go Birds.
Earth 911

What Pet Waste Costs: The Litter, Bags, and Packaging Filling America’s Landfills - Every year, Americans bury an estimated two million tons or more of used clay cat... The post What Pet Waste Costs: The Litter, Bags, and Packaging Filli...
WhoWhatWhy

Once in a Blue Moon Event Will Happen Soon. Here’s When To Look Up. - [image: science, astronomy, rare events, May, second full moon, blue moon] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by o...
NPR's Health Shots

Therapists are using AI to take notes. Is it a useful tool or a breach of trust? - New companies are selling artificial intelligence assistance to mental health therapists. The AI tools can help with administration and recordkeeping, but ...
Grist

‘I need Chevron’: The oil company at the center of the California governor’s race - California is trying to phase out fossil fuels, but it still needs gas. That makes for messy politics.
High Country News

The Death Valley opera house that’s sinking back into the earth - [image: The Amargosa Opera House photographed in Death Valley Junction, California, in 2015.] The people trying to save a singular arts landmark face scar...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Biologist and retired police officer win huge monetary settlements for ugly aftermath of Charlie Kirk comments - Charlie Kirk When conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed last year, his followers and supporters promised to ruin the lives of those they ...
See You In 2020

The Zionist right & the “progressive” Dems will unite around brutally repressing America’s people - Amid the release of the Trump White House’s fascistic “counterterrorism” strategy, the Democrats are signaling that they’ll assist in this crackdown pla...
TalkLeft

Memorial Day Open Thread - With gratitude to those who served and died, to our veterans still with us, and to those currently enlisted who are protecting our nation and allies and ...
Angry Bear

Memorial Day History and Pres. Trump’s Plans - Kind of a quiet day here in AZ. I am sure there are some parades and festivities going on around Phoenix. I will not be in attendance. It is one of those...
Brad Blog

Idle Hands… - We’re off this week from both The BradCast and Green News Report, for a much-needed breather. Of course, we never really take breathers around here. Especi...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain — Part 2 - In Part 1, we dissected how the “Praxians”—the Silicon Valley-rooted wing of the global oligarchy—have seized control of the second Trump administration....
Krebs on Security

Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks - Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested the co-owners of two related Internet hosting companies for operating IT infrastructure used by Russia to carr...
The Texas Signal

A Collagist Pieces Houston Together Through Paper - For Treva McKissac, the materials in her collages have to be more than just pretty or unusual paper; they have to be Houston to the bone.
NORML

Why Your Support for NORML Matters More Than Ever - [image: a hand holds up a card with a marijuana leaf cut-out representing support for cannabis legalization][image: a hand holds up a card with a marijua...
Wolf Street

Oh Dear, Condo Prices already Dropped by 15% to 33% in 24 Bigger Markets, Some Back to Where They’d Been 20 Years Ago - Plus, in another 44 bigger cities, condo prices dropped by 7% to 14% so far, as the mindboggling Condo Bubble comes unglued.
Field Negro

The Field Negro news watch. - Here are some of my takes on a few of the most relevant news stories right now. I will start with the war in Iran. Mr. Trump announced last night th...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Pézenas - [image: Pézenas]
The AltWorld

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - The US hypothetically seeking a constructive role among nations rather than seeking dominance over them is for […] The post America’s Future: A Prosperou...
Trivial Knot

Review: I Want to Be a Wall - I write a bunch of book reviews, and review-ish writings on my Pillowfort. Maybe I should port some of these over? I picked out a review I wrote in 2024,...
Land Destroyer

America’s Future: A Prosperous, Peaceful Nation, or a Bankrupt, Violent Empire? - *May 7, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US is at a juncture faced with two choices. It can either manage a transition from global hegemon to a prosper...
OpEd News

Stephen Colbert Deserves to Be Whistleblower of the Year - So I will say it plainly. Stephen Colbert deserves to be named Whistleblower of the Year.
Project Censored

Forged Signatures, Felled Trees: Adani’s Expansion Into Hasdeo Forest - In July 2025, the Chhattisgarh Forest Department recommended diverting 1,742 hectares of dense protected forest in the Hasdeo Aranya region of central In...
Church and State

Big questions with no answers - If you need religion, then embrace it, but don’t allow it to drive you into a secular observance which removes you from true spiritual appreciation.
Texas Freedom Network

The Legal Chat: Constitutional Law Professor Breaks Down Texas’ Ten Commandments in Schools - It’s happening in real time. The Ten Commandments in schools is one of several legal challenges over religion that’s reshaping the national conversation ...
Discourse

Man, What the Hell? RETURNS - The long-lost column returns in this subscribers-only Special Edition episode
The Militant

US hands off Cuba! - US rulers escalate their attacks against Cuba Over the last week, the U.S. rulers launched a dangerous escalation of threats against Cuba. CIA Director Joh...
Rewire

Iowa Restricts Access to Abortion Pills, HPV Vaccines - Plus, a woman gives birth in a Brooklyn courtroom and veterans sue Trump administration over VA abortion ban. The post Iowa Restricts Access to Abortion...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina: How We Would Rate Looming New Republican Maps - A trio of Deep South states are moving to join Tennessee in eliminating heavily Black districts. Alabama and Louisiana are aiming to reduce Democrats to ...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Beast - So I tried to write a column about dog rape. I couldn’t do it. Despite my fear of losing the last of my Substack subscribers, going broke, getting evicted ...
Alas, a Blog

The Search - This strip is drawn by the awesome Mike Lawrence, who really went wild with the chicken fat! I wrote this strip two months ago, after coming across this st...
The NM Political Report

Greater Chaco landscape named one of America’s most endangered historic places - [image: Oil well in the Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape] The National Trust for Historic Preservation unveiled its 2026 list of America’s 11 Most Endange...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on Texas Bicentennial Commission - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, is being joined by other visionary leaders, business giants, and political trailblazers to serve on the Texas Bicentennial ...
Bracing Views

The Gaza Flotilla as Today’s Righteous Gentiles - Persecuted for Helping Victims of Murderous State Violence BILL ASTORE MAY 21, 2026 Several hundred people (428 people from 40 nations, to be precise) conc...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

ACLU Calls on Congress to to Hold Federal Agents Accountable by Allowing People to Sue Them for Rights Violations - ACLU and partners urged members of Congress during Community Safety Week to pass legislation that allows people to sue federal law enforcement when they vi...
Debunking Christianity

Dr. Richard Carrier Highly Endorses My Book! - Thank you Richard Carrier for this enthusiastic endorsement of my book, "The Outsider Test For Faith"! Thanks also for accurately applying the outsider tes...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Capitalist Horror: A Conversation with Jon Greenaway - Jon Greenaway, author of Capitalism: A Horror Story and host of Horror Vanguard stops by for a chat
Lowering the Bar

ChatGPT Confesses to a Crime It Didn’t Commit - And that it wasn't even capable of committing.
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Creation of Situations - Some of my readers may be surprised that with everything else happening in the world, I’m returning to the ongoing discussion of Situationism, that bizarre...
Duck of Minerva

I choose to celebrate Eurovision - There are two posts I could have written about the latest Eurovision song contest. One would focus on another controversy over Israel’s participation and h...
Media Lens

Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion - Any aliens who have been monitoring radio and television transmissions streaming outwards into space from Planet Earth over the past few decades will likel...
Dissent Magazine

George Scialabba’s Lessons in Solidarity - Too often we abandon the terrain of belonging to the right, but new cultures of solidarity are emerging out of our political moment.
LareDOS

LLT auditions for The Lion King Jr. set for May 18 and 19 - Play opens July 30
MintPress News

Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change - From CubaNet to ADN Cuba, some of the most widely cited “independent” Cuban media outlets in Western Corporate media are quietly funded by USAID, the Nat...
Progressives Chat

Massie - The state of Kentucky will hold primaries next week. Tuesday, May 19, 2026. I am interested in the 2026 Republican primary for U.S. House from *Kentucky’...
Campaign for America's Future

Ruth Lopez Spoke Up for Due Process. Now She’s Detained Without Charges. - Americans should demand the release of jailed Salvadoran lawyer Ruth Lopez — because it can happen here, too. Who of us has the right to live without fear?...
Web of Debt

THE ABUNDANCE PARADIGM: WHY AI FORCES A RETHINKING OF MONEY ITSELF — PART 1 - A Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been proposed as a way to cushion the blow of jobs lost to automation. Under that model, everyone receives a modest...
Democracy Chronicles

How the Illinois Democratic Party Increases Voter Apathy - Illinois is an especially undemocratic and arguably unconstitutional state. So much so that you can quite literally be legally punished for voting.
Avedon's Sideshow

It's time we started rockin' the boat - This photo of sunrise in Taiwan is from Joe Garrity's BlueSky account at JBGarrity Photography. Lotta cool pics in his stream. "'Tragic Day for the Freedo...
Greg Palast

9+ million Muslim voters purged in 4 states Trump “SAVE” plan takes a test drive in India - Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE
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...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report April 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in April of 2026, with four of those fatal killing at least five people. One of the fatal shootings was an off...
The Socialist

Stephen Schwarzman Net Worth 2026: Blackstone CEO’s $44.2 - Table of Contents The Genesis of a Fortune: Early Career and Blackstone’s Founding The $41,700,000,000 Cornerstone: Blackstone’s Dominance A Global Portfol...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: NO, *YOU* SHUT UP EDITION. - *My phlebotomist was singing along to this.* One of the key features of the second Trump administration (or, as I like to call it, Tubby II) is the elevat...
The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / MAY DAY! MAY DAY! - NO WORK / NO SCHOOL / NO SHOPPING By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / April 30, 2026 On May 1st, we celebrate the original Labor Day, International Workers Da...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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nonsite.org

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Texas Environmental News

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Dispatches from the Underclass

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The Mind Unleashed

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Downwinders at Risk

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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

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Two Party Opera

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Second Nexus

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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...
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Free & Equal

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The Disorder Of Things

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Dandelion Salad

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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

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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

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Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

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Stinque

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

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

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Eater Houston

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Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Texas Moratorium Network

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Media Myth Alert

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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Chicken Fried Politics

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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

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Washington Babylon

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Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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