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

Raw Story

'Horrible pick': MAGA turns on Kash Patel over bungled Kirk manhunt - After FBI Director Kash Patel dropped the ball during the scramble to find the killer who shot pro-Trump activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, an increasing num...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Charlie Kirk assassination proves how spiritually rotten Nancy Mace's soul is - Usually when I wrote a post about the exploits of someone who wants to eliminate our equality, some of y'all say "we're not surprised " when you read it. H...
Mediaite

Dan Abrams Says Kash Patel ‘Is in Way Over His Head’ and ‘Deserves No Credit’ for Capture of Kirk’s Alleged Killer - Chief legal analyst for ABC News and Mediaite founder Dan Abrams said on Friday that FBI Director Kash Patel “is in way over his head”, and that he ...
Al Jazeera English

Asia Cup: Post-conflict India vs Pakistan cricket match divides opinion - Ahead of India vs Pakistan at the Asia Cup, fans and experts predict the post-war acrimony to overshadow the cricket.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Live Updates: Family Member Alerted Officials to Suspect in Charlie Kirk Killing - *Friends:* *In a democracy, no death like Charlie Kirk’s should ever happen. A society that claims to value life, liberty, and justice cannot tolerate the ...
Axios

Advocates urge Trump not to destroy $10 million in contraceptives - Planned Parenthood and 75 other advocacy groups are urging the Trump administration to halt the planned destruction of $9.7 million worth of contraceptiv...
Eschaton

Friday Evening - Enjoy
The Guardian (U.S. news)

US environment agency could end reporting of greenhouse gas emissions - The mandatory program, which required 8,000 facilities to report their release, will be ended to reduce ‘bureaucratic red tape’ The US Environmental Prot...
The Verge

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation - While I generally respect The Wall Street Journal, every once in a while it sees fit to remind me that it is, in fact, owned by Rupert Murdoch. This time, ...
CultureMap Houston

The Tailgate 2025 wins over Houston with gameday food and fun - A relatively mild late fall evening set the stage for the fourth edition of *The Tailgate*, CultureMap’s all-out party devoted to everyone’s favorite way to...
memeorandum

Right-Wing Activists Urge Followers to Expose Those Celebrating Kirk Killing (New York Times) - New York Times: *Right-Wing Activists Urge Followers to Expose Those Celebrating Kirk Killing* — The widespread and fast-moving campaign has already re...
Mediagazer

Paramount condemns a boycott of Israeli film companies after 4,000+ people sign a Film Workers for Palestine pledge to not work with some Israeli film entities (Variety) - Variety: *Paramount condemns a boycott of Israeli film companies after 4,000+ people sign a Film Workers for Palestine pledge to not work with some Israe...
Daily Dot

Women are sharing the cute things their partners do in the “Not Mr. Darcy but” meme - [image: not mr darcy meme] The “not Mr. Darcy but” trend has TikTok users romanticizing moments from daily life. The trend’s videos include recordings ...
The Hill

LA County confirms child's death due to measles complication years after infection - The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health this week reported the death of a school-aged child due to a rare complication occurring from a measles ...
San Antonio Current

Someone asked Texans to identify their favorite brands. The answers won’t surprise anyone. - [image: Texans love 'em some Blue Bell Ice Cream, or so a new survey says.] We apparently have a fondness for homegrown burgers, beers and sodas. The pos...
Slate

How a Murder in Charlotte Shaped Reactions to Charlie Kirk’s Killing - The ways the two deaths were shown—and withheld—reveals the uneasy role of violent video in our digital lives.
Political Wire

Document Contradicts Trump’s Claim About Fed Governor - “A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that...
Houston Public Media

Meet the special election candidates running for a Houston City Council at-large seat - In a crowded race, success is “all about name recognition” — and money, according to political experts. From plagiarism accusations to out-of-state politic...
Undernews

Health - * Reuters -* Trump health officials are planning to link coronavirus vaccines to the deaths of 25 children as they consider restricting which Americans s...
Election Law Blog

“Brazil’s Former President Was Convicted of Plotting a Coup. What Comes Next?; Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years in prison for conspiring to cling to power after losing the 2022 elections.” - NYT: Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison on Thursday for overseeing a failed coup plot after losing ...
SCOTUSblog

Groups urge Supreme Court to direct Trump administration to spend billions of withheld foreign aid funds - Lawyers for groups challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to freeze billions of dollars in foreign-aid funding on Friday afternoon urged the Supr...
Courthouse News

States are taking steps to ease access to Covid-19 vaccines as they await federal recommendation - At least 14 states have announced policies this month to ease access.
Workers World

Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar - [image: Hamas in response to assassinations in Qatar] The Islamic Resistance Movement–Hamas issued the following statement in response to Israel’s bombing ...
Popular Resistance

The Historical And Contemporary Role Of Neocolonial Caribbean Governments In Supporting US Militarism And Imperialism - The Caribbean region is a clearly militarized zone with the United States at the helm. Today’s militarization in the region is reminiscent of the kinds o...
The NM Political Report

‘Systematic failure’ alleged in lawsuit against Albuquerque health facility after resident’s death - [image: The Rehabilitation Center operated by Genesis Healthcare in Albuquerque / nm.news] [image: The Rehabilitation Center operated by Genesis Healthcar...
San Antonio Report

Bexar County leaders: Spurs’ entertainment district will help fund East Side redevelopment - County Manager David Smith says about a $70M-$80M could go toward amenities that East Side residents were once promised, but never received. ---------------...
The Conversation

Yes, this is who we are: America’s 250-year history of political violence - The US has long fused politics and violence, often through firearms. To claim that such shootings betray ‘who we are’ is to forget that the US was founded ...
Techdirt.

The Judiciary Is Breaking Down: Federal Judges Now Openly Revolt Against SCOTUS Shadow Docket During Live Court Hearing - We’ve been tracking the growing judicial revolt against the Supreme Court’s shadow docket nonsense, from individual district judges getting snarky in footn...
Crooked Timber

Is Deep Research deep? Is it research? - I’m working on a first draft of a book arguing against pro-natalism (more precisely, that we shouldn’t be concerned about below-replacement fertility). Tha...
El Paso Matters

A new study shows how the deck plaza could transform El Paso’s future through a $1 billion economic boost. - El Paso is on the cusp of a transformative investment that promises to reshape downtown, reconnect neighborhoods, and generate nearly $1 billion in long...
Vox

How Charlie Kirk remade Gen Z - In the hours and days after Charlie Kirk’s killing, the breadth of people — particularly younger ones — sharing grief and shock on newsfeeds, Instagram sto...
Ballot Access News

Missouri Legislature Passes Bill to Make it Almost Impossible to Use the Initiative for Constitutional Amendments - On September 12, the Missouri legislature passed HJR3. It would amend the Constitution to say that a constitutional initiative can’t pass unless it receive...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Charlie Kirk Suspect Arrested” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On the “DeProgram” show with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, we dissect ...
The Week

Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s death renew debate over online censorship - Social media ‘promises unfiltered access, but without guarantees of truth and without protection from harm’
NPR's Health Shots

Typhus, a disease once nearly eradicated in the U.S., is on the rise in Texas - Texas is seeing an explosion of cases of typhus, a disease that – if untreated – can be fatal. Typhus was almost eradicated from the United States, but now...
First Draft

Maybe I’m Amazed - Cheers to Paul McCartney.
Reform Austin

University Professors Dissatisfied With Teaching in Texas - A survey applied to 1,162 Texas professors, by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), shows that almost half of them consider applying...
The Progressive Wing

9/12-9/18 News Roundup & Open Thread - Weather is kind where I live at the moment. I think I’ll open the bar early for happy hour. News, views, and music…after the jump.
Progressive.org

How State and Local Republicans Are Disenfranchising Voters to Stay in Power - In Miami and Texas, Republicans have recently fought to undermine the will of voters by disregarding term limits and redistricting procedures.
Futurism

When Astronauts Enter Space, a "Dark Genome" Activates in Their DNA - Researchers have found that an human stem cells are constantly under stress in the microgravity of space, activating hidden, ancient sections of DNA, cal...
Common Dreams

EPA Seeks to Roll Back PFAS Drinking Water Rules, Keeping Millions Exposed to Toxic Forever Chemicals in Tap Water - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will no longer defend rules that protect people from unsafe levels of PFAS “forever chemicals...
Church and State

Trump now pulls a TACO on Chicago! - This use of the crime issue to propel his authoritarian agenda certainly equates with all of his other standard approaches.
Texas Standard

Rising costs of insurance and utilities eating into property tax relief efforts - The U.S. Census Bureau offered a sobering report that follows efforts from Texas lawmakers to bring down the property tax burden.
Wolf Street

“Canada: The Industrial Implosion” v. the United States - Stunning charts of how investment in industrial machinery & equipment collapsed a decade ago in Canada but stayed on track in the US.
OpEd News

Trump declares war on peace - Desperate to deflect attention from the Jeffrey Epstein files, Trump has declared war on anyone and anything he can think of, apparently. That includes Tom...
Brad Blog

SCOTUS Suspension of 4th Amendment Rights Poses Ominous Threat to Constitutional Republic - Even if nothing else was taking place at this perilous moment, the September 8 SCOTUS decision to temporarily suspend both a presumption of innocence as we...
The AltWorld

Trump’s Cartel Hoax: US Uses Venezuela to Sell War - Washington slapped a $50 million bounty on Maduro and sent warships to Caracas, but experts say the […] The post Trump’s Cartel Hoax: US Uses Venezuela t...
Consortium News

‘Forever Wars’ Authorization Finally Repealed by US House - One foreign policy expert said these congressional authorizations “have become like holy writ, documents frozen in time yet endlessly reinterpreted to just...
American Prospect

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Pretexts for Cancellation - On our live show, David and senior editor Ryan Cooper discuss the murder of Charlie Kirk and the propensity to blame political enemies for lone individual ...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: The Case for Democracy - Matt and Sam talk to Osita Nwanevu about his new book, *The Right of the People: Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding*.
Deadline Politics

Utah Governor Says Social Media Is “A Cancer On Society Right Now” As He Laments Spread Of Video Of Charlie Kirk Killing - Utah Governor Spencer Cox called social media “a cancer on society right now,” as he lamented the proliferation of graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassi...
World Socialist Web Site

European ruling class mourns Charlie Kirk, embraces far-right - The promotion of Kirk as a martyr would be impossible without the collusion of social democratic and “liberal” publications and politicians.
WhoWhatWhy

Republicans Use Kirk’s Murder for Anti-Free Speech Purge - [image: charlie kirk, culture war] Charlie Kirk spent much of his career advocating for a free exchange of viewpoints and debating those with views that di...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Vaccine “Side Effects,” Outdated Theory of Disease, “Life” on Mars, and More on Liberalism - Part the First: Unintended Side Effects of Vaccines. From Science-Based Medicine this week: Unintended Side Effects HPV and Shingles Vaccines—Reason for C...
Mother Jones

Shoulder-Checks and Smoking Weed: The Petty Crimes Being Prosecuted Under Trump’s DC Crackdown - “Good afternoon,” is how Magistrate Judge Heide Herrmann welcomed detainees into DC Superior Court room C-10 when it was their turn to stand in front of th...
Progressive Army

Referencia: Suspensión excepcional de plazo. Vía Aérea. Aeropuertos Argentina 2000. - Estimados socios, buenas tardes En el día de ayer el Presidente de la AAACI Sr. Germán Raña estuvo reunido una vez mas con el Sr. Director Gral. de la Adua...
The Greanville Post

NORDSTREAM SABOTAGE : The gaseous fart that killed Europe - ERIC BLAIR—Why does the USA buy the vast majority of its nitrate fertiliser from Russia, which, out of 35,000 sanctions against Russia has somehow escaped ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Threat No One Wants to Talk About - As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer
Salon.com

Missouri Republicans aren’t being subtle about their power grab - The state GOP is getting rid of fair election maps so they can grab another congressional seat for Donald Trump
The Grayzone

Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals - A Trump insider and longtime friend of Charlie Kirk tells The Grayzone how the assassinated conservative leader’s turning point on Israeli influence prov...
Second Nexus

Bride In Tears After NYC Firefighters Surprise Her At Her Wedding To Honor Her Dad Who Died On 9/11 - On September 11, 2001, 343 firefighters were lost while responding to the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City. Among them was New York ...
Dissident Voice

There Was a Boat. That Was the Only True Part. - This was what the President of the United States initially lied: “Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike aga...
Independent Political Report

Vermont Progressive Party Holding Statewide Reorganization Meetings Throughout September - The Vermont Progressive Party is conducting a series of caucuses across the state this month as part of its 2025 reorganization process. According to a c...
NORML

California: Lawmakers Advance Legislation to Governor’s Desk Halting Tax Hike on Commercially Available Cannabis Products - [image: marijuana money][image: marijuana money]"California NORML is proud to have taken a leadership role sponsoring this bill. Cannabis is already heav...
The Root

Whoopi Goldberg Explains Why She Can’t Retire Yet, But the Internet Just Isn’t Buying It - Whoopi Goldberg, veteran actress and TV host, won't be slowing down anytime soon. But people online can't seem to figure out why not! Read more...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: WHAT'D I MISS EDITION. - *Saw *Velvet Goldmine * recently; it was a whole vibe,and this tune certainly didn't hurt.* Been a few weeks! Yes, even workhorses such as myself have to ...
Daily Howler

THE SEVERAL AMERICAS: Jesse went with a four-letter word! - *FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025* *It was a dangerous word: *At this site, we're inclined to cut some slack for people who are fated to comment, in real time,...
Capital & Main

ICE Raids Take Toll on Latino Mental Health: ‘It’s Been Nonstop’ - Therapists describe greater stress, anxiety, anger and fear among Latino patients in Los Angeles since immigration raids intensified in June. The post I...
Glasstire

Reseña: “Navigating the Waves”, fotografía cubana contemporánea en el Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Editor’s note: This article is also published in English on Glasstire. Find that here. Nota de la editora: este artículo fue publicado originalmente en i...
Debunking Christianity

A Comment On Charlie Kirk - With regard to the killing of Charlie Kirk, bad ideas that are communicated respectfully still cause harm and must be opposed even though the person who ...
MintPress News

Trump’s Phony “Cartel” Plot to Invade Venezuela - Washington slapped a $50 million bounty on Maduro and sent warships to Caracas, but experts say the so-called Cartel of the Suns is a U.S. invention to j...
Dorf on Law

How Should We -- Or Should We -- Talk About Violence When We Don't Know What Motivated It? - At the top of his show last night, Stephen Colbert said this: Folks, the country is still shocked and horrified by yesterday's assassination of conservat...
Mondoweiss

In display of ‘humiliation,’ Israeli army detains over 1,000 Palestinians at random in West Bank city - [image: Israeli soldiers deploy at the entrance of the Tulkarem refugee camp, February 5, 2025. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)]Following the Tulkarem ...
Rewire

Louisiana Has Not Monitored Public Funds Given to Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Centers - The state's department of children and family services "could have paid pregnancy centers for services ineligible for funding under state law,” a report ...
Bonddad

August real average wages and nonsupervisory payrolls: some signs of flagging but no recession signal yet - - *by New Deal democrat* Now that we have the consumer inflation number for August, let’s take a look at real wages and income for ordinary workers....
ArcaMax

How South Carolina's 'Angel Tree' Was Saved From Development - When Samantha Siegel's best friend took her to see an old live oak tree on Johns Island in South Carolina, she had no idea it was about to change her life....
Democracy Now!

Nepal's "Gen Z Protests" Topple Government Amid Anger over Corruption & Inequality - Following massive, youth-led anti-corruption demonstrations in Nepal, the country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime mi...
Alternet

'Massive Mafia-like blackmail operation': Why 'spooked' Trump is 'scrambling' over Epstein - President Donald Trump has weathered scandal after scandal, including bankruptcies, public divorces, lawsuits and the possibility of imprisonment, accord...
Texas Observer

‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border - On a late-April weekend, I went down to Eagle Pass to look at Operation Lone Star (OLS), Governor Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar piece of political th...
Space City Weather

Second summer takes hold in the Houston area for the foreseeable future - In brief: Today should be dry and hot in Houston, but the isolated to scattered shower chances will (sort of) return this weekend. Temps will remain pretty...
Angry Bear

“Abundance Denied” - Building and investment is stifled by the current regulatory regimes. Hence abundance denied. Of course, to gain some of the abundance Sam Walker discuss...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: After Further Review … - Yesterday I said that anyone doing a Charlie Kirk cartoon a day later would have to do something particularly good. Some did well, some not so well, but I ...
Earth 911

Earth911 Inspiration: What Is Wealth? - Today’s Earth911 inspiration is a quote from R. Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path. An essential early... The post Earth911 Inspiration: What Is Wealth? ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s Cynical Use of the Kirk Assassination -
Skeptophilia

Looking for a signature - Finding unequivocal evidence of extraterrestrial life is not as easy as science fiction makes it sound. The problem is, we're biased toward detecting *terr...
Ian Welsh

A Mercifully Brief History of Mathematics - I’m a trained historian. At least I consider myself one, with a Master’s in History and in International Relations, I think I qualify. But, today I must co...
Off The Kuff

Let’s find a Democrat for CD35 - We’ve gotta compete in these redrawn districts. While a number of Republicans are eyeing [the redrawn CD35] — in addition to the Texas GOP’s preferred cand...
ProPublica

Elon Musk Pushed Back on Our Reporting on His Houston Tunnels Plan. Experts Say His Comments Are Misleading. - by Yilun Cheng, Houston Chronicle ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon a...
Scheerpost.com

‘Surprising Savagery’: US Court Prohibits Attacks On Journalists Covering ICE Protests - A United States court concluded that border patrol and other federal agents “unleashed crowd control weapons indiscriminately and with surprising savagery,...
Grist

Data centers gobble Earth’s resources. What if we took them to space instead? - A sci-fi idea is gaining supporters, from billionaires to city councils. Whether it's feasible is another matter.
High Country News

Resistance to data centers rises on the border - In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center...
Crooked Media

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk - The post The Assassination of Charlie Kirk appeared first on Crooked Media.
Counterpunch

The Agile and the Aged: Paris Comes to Berlin’s Musikfest - Midway through its near non-stop, culture-packed calendar running from August 30th to September 24th, the Berlin Musikfest last weekend brought two Frenc...
jobsanger

Democrats Must Provide A Credible Way For People To Share In The Nation's Prosperity -
Socialist Alternative

Charlie Kirk Assassination: Fuel For The Far Right - Far-right activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk was shot and killed yesterday at Utah Valley University. Kirk spearheaded the right-wing youth movement in r...
Informed Comment

European Parliament asks for Recognition of Palestinian State, Upholds halt to Aid to Israel - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, passed a resolution asking European Union member states to recog...
Portside

The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting - The Far Right Is Already Blaming the Left for Charlie Kirk’s Shooting jay Thu, 09/11/2025 - 22:10
Sludge

Blue Dog Democrats Vote for Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget - The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of self-described fiscal conservatives led by Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), largely voted for the GOP-crafted bill p...
Antiwar.com

Taking the Constitution Seriously - Last week, the President of the United States did not take the Constitution seriously. He ordered the murders of 11 people who were riding in a speedboat i...
See You In 2020

Palestine’s armed resistance is the center of the anti-Zionist struggle, & our movement must treat it as such - Image from Edinburgh University Justice for Palestine Society After last year’s U.S. election, the two most prominent organizations within Palestine’s r...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio September 12, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 09/12/2025 - 02:54 Black Agenda Radio · Black Age...
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...
Discourse

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

How do we think about 9/11 in 2025? - I used to feel compelled to write something on 9/11. Some of this was just to participate in the discourse, some out of fear that failure to do so would me...
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
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Democracy Chronicles

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

What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - Why was the left so unsuccessful in crafting a powerful alternative to the agenda of the city’s business elite? A partial answer to this question can be fo...
Campaign for America's Future

The Story of the Rider and the Horse - History shows us there is a fast and slippery road from the loss of freedoms to the overreach of power. If we allow our rights to be stripped away, we lose...
Texas Monthly

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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