Brains and Eggs: Sunday Legitimately 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

Mediaite

NY State and City Officials Arrested at Protest of Democratic Senators’ Vote Against Israel Weapons Ban - New York State Assembly Member Claire Valdez and City Councilor Tiffany Cabán were arrested Friday at a ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ protest inside the offic...
Slate

My In-Laws Asked Us for an Impossible Favor. My Husband Has Made It Even Worse. - I'm at capacity.
The Verge

Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links - Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a messag...
Mediagazer

South Park will be leaving HBO Max on August 5 after Paramount+ secured exclusive global streaming rights; HBO Max has been the US home for the past five years (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter) - Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: *South Park will be leaving HBO Max on August 5 after Paramount+ secured exclusive global streaming rights; HBO Max...
Axios

Crypto donations flood Trump's super PAC - The crypto industry has donated more than $26 million to President Trump this year, according to newly-filed campaign finance disclosures. *Why it matter...
Houston Public Media

Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutting down after losing all federal funding - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump sign...
Al Jazeera English

Trump orders nuclear submarines closer to Russia in escalating war of words - The US president has exchanged barbs with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, who warned of 'how dangerous' Russia can be.
The AltWorld

اليهود يهربون من الامارات لماذا؟ حزب الله يعود لتصنيع الصواريخ.. وخطاب الحية يربك ترامب والمنطقة ما السبب؟ - اليهود يهربون من الامارات لماذا؟ حزب الله يعود لتصنيع الصواريخ.. وخطاب الحية يربك ترامب والمنطقة ما السبب؟ The post اليهود يهربون من الامارات لماذا؟ حزب ...
memeorandum

Five things investors should ponder on crypto (Gillian Tett/Financial Times) - Gillian Tett / Financial Times: *Five things investors should ponder on crypto* — Yes, there are risks, but we should recognise that the underlying tec...
Courthouse News

South Korea’s jailed ex-leader Yoon resists questioning by taking off prison uniform - Yoon's imposition of martial law, which brought armed troops into Seoul streets, lasted only several hours before lawmakers voted down his decree unanimously.
Raw Story

Karoline Leavitt's 'fawning tirades' are beginning to backfire: column - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lavished praise Thursday on President Donald Trump in what columnist Greg Sargent called “one of her most ob...
Eschaton

Sure Why Not - Putting this "conspiracy theory" to rest. Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned associate Ghislaine Maxwell has been moved from a detention facility in Florida to ...
Ballot Access News

No Labels Party Changes Its Tune; Now Looking to Run Candidates in Arizona in 2026 - The national No Labels party fought hard against candidates trying to run under its banner other than its 2024 presidential ticket, which never materialize...
Election Law Blog

Nick Stephanopoulos Blogging Next Week - Please direct any tips and comments to Nick. Thanks Nick! The post Nick Stephanopoulos Blogging Next Week appeared first on Election Law Blog.
Techdirt.

He Was Asked About His Tattoos And A TikTok Video In Court. Five Days Later, He Was In A Salvadoran Prison. - This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, ...
Mondoweiss

U.S. and Europe play games with a Palestinian state while Israel starves Gaza - [image: President Donald Trump motorcades with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer from at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, en route to Glasgow P...
Daily Dot

“I’m sooo super jealous”: TikToker shows off custom suit Ben Platt wore to the Met Gala—that he bought off The RealReal - A dermatologist scores actor and singer Ben Platt's actual Met Gala look secondhand from the luxury consignment site The RealReal. Fan are reacting to th...
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: COVID-19 and Cancer, NIH Weaponized Against the People, Consciousness, AI and the Internet, and Famine - Part the First: How Do You Awaken Sleeping Cancer Cells. Short answer: Inflammation. Speaking from experience, anyone who have ever been treated successf...
Wolf Street

Slowing Supply of Immigrant Labor & Slowing Job Growth Keep the Job Market “in Balance” and the Unemployment Rate Low, Push Up Wages. Powell Talked about It - The Fed’s dual mandate is “stable prices and maximum employment, not so much growth” in employment, he said at the press conference.
The Week

5 cultural and scenic trails to wander on four wheels - Leave the hiking shoes at home
WhoWhatWhy

A Very Good Summer for Butterflies or a Return to Average? - [image: science, nature, insects, butterfliy population, superlative summer, analysis] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or reco...
Alternet

'I’m just not going to participate!' MAGA lawmaker accuses CNN host of 'trying to trap' her - Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears was short on direct answers in a Friday interview with CNN ‘Inside Politics’ host Manu Raju. Earle-Sears is the Rep...
Political Wire

Trump Sends Nuclear Subs Towards Russia - “President Trump said Friday that he’d ordered to nuclear submarines close to Russian waters in response to nuclear bluster from former Russian President D...
The Hill

Cambodia to nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize for helping broker peace deal with Thailand - Cambodia floated plans Friday to nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for helping broker a ceasefire agreement that helped the country end it...
CultureMap Houston

Where to shop right now: 12 Houston shops with fresh summer finds - Back-to-school chaos is here, but even for those who are avoiding the sales tax holiday beginning August 8, Houston's shopping scene is still packed with h...
Undernews

Economy - *Hartmann Report - *Republicans may be fixing to crash the economy again — Republican presidents oversaw 10 of the last 11 recessions and the Republica...
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy to test new method of removing carbon from natural gas - CPS Energy is partnering with a Washington state-based company to test out a cleaner way of using natural gas in San Antonio homes. ------------------------...
World Socialist Web Site

Wes Streeting boasts of Labour government’s war on resident doctors - The problems health workers sought to resolve through the unprecedented strike wave of 2022–24—low pay and the degradation of the National Health Service—a...
Second Nexus

MAGA Rep. Gets Brutally Ripped After Claiming Biden Defenders Are 'In A Cult' - Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky and chair of the House Oversight Committee, made headlines *this week by accusing* President Joe Biden...
Capital & Main

Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids - Capital & Main has documented nine Americans who have been held in federal custody after observing or protesting immigration raids. The post Border Patr...
Bonddad

A note on ISM manufacturing and construction spending - - *by New Deal democrat* I don’t have time to write a complete report on the ISM manufacturing index for July, and the construction spending report ...
Futurism

Horrifying Video Shows Amusement Park Ride Breaking Apart Mid-Ride - Terrifying video footage going viral on social media shows an amusement park ride splitting in half and collapsing in western Saudi Arabia. The video sho...
Salon.com

Over 1,000 pounds of frozen ground beef have been recalled due to potential metal contamination - A recall was issued Tuesday following a consumer complaint
Deadline Politics

Corporation For Public Broadcasting To Shut Down Operations After Loss Of Federal Funding - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down its operations after the loss of federal funding, marking the end of almost six decades as the ent...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Gavin Newsom may call special election to redraw California congressional maps - Governor announces possible move as Democrat-led states seek to respond to planned Texas redistricting California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, may call a sp...
Dorf on Law

Social Security Privatization Fantasies and Conservatives' Insanity - How is it possible that Social Security was in the news again this week? One answer is that the accumulated outrages of the past six-plus months are mos...
Rallblog

DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou: “Steve Witkoff’s Gaza Vacation” - LIVE 5:00 pm Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: On “DeProgram” with political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou, the world’s focus is...
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Spurs hosting annual 'Back to School Bash' this Sunday at Frost Bank Center - The San Antonio Spurs' annual “Back to School Bash" will take place Sunday at the Frost Bank Center, allowing kids heading back to school to stock up on n...
MintPress News

The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding - From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA's secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's ...
Consortium News

The Chris Hedges Report: This Is Not a Drill - “Any opportunity that I get, I will speak out” — Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters on the imperatives of love and resistance in the face of repression. By C...
OpEd News

Huge Public Health Win in the Battle Over Food Dyes--Ignored by the Left! - Great news from the Alliance for Natural Health: "companies like Kraft Heinz and PepsiCo have agreed to eliminate petroleum-based dyes by 2026-- a move sup...
Mother Jones

Interest on Student Loans Is About to Skyrocket for Low-Income Borrowers - When President Joe Biden announced the creation of the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) program in 2023, Sarah Letsinger enrolled immediately. Graduat...
American Prospect

A Turning Point for Gaza? - Suddenly even Israeli right-wingers are noticing the ongoing famine.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Our SMU Issue Is Here - For the last several years, SMU has tried to position itself as Dallas’ school. And now, with Kevin Jennings leading the university’s best team in 40 yea...
Texas Standard

This photographer took a 50-year road trip across Texas. He was looking for brooms. - Randy Mallory spent half a century taking photos of Texas. His new book takes you along for the ride.
NPR's Health Shots

Do neck cooling fans really help you beat the heat? - You might see more people wearing a neck cooling fan to fight the summer heat. But can they really help? We talk to experts about how our bodies deal with ...
Independent Political Report

Forward Party-Aligned Mayors Hosting Discussion Panel - Forward Party-aligned Mayor Jeni Arndt of Fort Collins, Colorado, and former Augusta, Georgia Mayor Deke Copenhaver will host a virtual panel next week f...
DeSmogBlog

BlackRock Pivots from Sustainability Evangelists to Fossil-Fuel Funders - Claim to be verified: BlackRock offers its global clients sustainable investment products, which allegedly exclude fossil fuels. Context: In the first qu...
Bracing Views

Persistent, Pernicious, Perpetual, and Permanent War - The Real Enemy of America BILL ASTORE AUG 01, 2025 The real enemy of America isn’t Russia or China or Iran or any other country. It’s America’s own pursuit...
Vox

Vox hosting Entrepreneurship, Explained live event - Vox is bringing its expertise to local small businesses and entrepreneurs in a unique Entrepreneurship, Explained event presented by Verizon Business. On ...
Glasstire

Two Visions: Alex Da Corte’s “The Whale” and Robert Peterson’s “Somewhere in America” - Alex Da Corte: The Whale at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, March 2, 2025 – September 7, 2025 What makes a painting a painting? This is the central…...
nonsite.org

Protected: When the Investor Class Goes Marching In: Twenty Years of Real Estate Development, Privatization and Resiliency in New Orleans - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Dissident Voice

The World Divided - An interesting news report revealed the discovery of a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in a southern India cave. Earth’s inhabitants pon...
First Draft

When Authoritarianism Gets Personal - My coworkers are U.S. citizens from Mexico. Will they be allowed to return from a visit to their hometown?
Daily Howler

HELLO STRANGER: The Fox News prankster did it again! - *FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025* *It may be too late to turn back: *Last evening, at 10:01 sharp, the little guy with the boatload of anger started his "cable ne...
El Paso Matters

El Paso homeowners face city property tax hike; UTEP trims budget over federal cuts; unemployment rate increases - In El Paso news this week: How the city is misrepresenting a proposed tax increase, why UTEP is making budget cuts, and what wage record the El Paso met...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 2 - *Matthew 5: Highly prized, but deeply flawed, Jesus-script * Christian clergy and theologians—drawn to their profession by devotion to Jesus—are committ...
SCOTUSblog

The morning read for Friday, August 1 - Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: The post The morning r...
The Conversation

The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US? - The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for reparations. But getting to that ...
Democracy Now!

"Unprecedented Power Grab": Trump & Texas Try to Create 5 More GOP House Seats with New Gerrymander - President Trump is pushing for a major redrawing of Texas’s congressional districts to favor Republicans and shape the outcome of future elections, includi...
ArcaMax

Why Sometimes the Forest Needs a Little Fire - Unless you're roasting marshmallows, it's hard to think of fire in the woods as a good thing. We all watched wildfire devastation play out earlier this yea...
Space City Weather

Slightly less hot weather and a more active weekend of showers expected for Houston - In brief: Unsettled weather will return to Houston today through Sunday or Monday. Isolated heavy downpours are possible in spots, along with some locally ...
The Progressive Wing

8.1-8.4 Open Threads - Hola amigos y amigas. 🙂 Well, it’s the first of August. Here in ECFL, that means we go into the peak of the hurricane season which now lasts well into No...
Rewire

Without Public Notice, U.S. Olympic Officials Exclude Transgender Women From Competing - The committee's move—a break from global standards—is intended to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order barring transgender women from wom...
The Root

Shannon Sharpe’s Legal Troubles Just Took Another Turn for the Worst - Just when it looked like Shannon Sharpe's week couldn't get any worse, it seems to have done just that. Read more...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Par For The Course - The countermeasures indeed do not seem to be working, though a cynic would suggest that the whole matter might fade and become yesterday’s news if Dear Lea...
Antiwar.com

Climbing Aboard the Titanic: Trump’s New Ukraine Policy - When Donald Trump entered the White House for his second term as president, he had an excellent opportunity to extricate the United States from the quagmir...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Fake News — One of the Worst’: Trump Snaps at ABC Reporter for Asking About Epstein -
Skeptophilia

Halting the conveyor - Today we have three stories that are absolutely horrifying in juxtaposition. The first is a paper that came out a couple of days ago in *Nature*, describ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Cameron Park now boasts ‘A Cultural Center of Hope’ - Cameron County's park director, Joe Vega, says La Esperanza is the first “universal” park in South Texas. The post Cameron Park now boasts ‘A Cultural Ce...
Off The Kuff

Friday redistricting roundup - Let’s take a moment and pour one out for the real victims of the proposed Congressional redistricting, Texas’ Republican Congressional incumbents. Democrat...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1975: Jimmy Hoffa Disappears - Last Wednesday was July 30, 2025. It marked 50 years since the anniversary of the disappearance of Teamsters Union president *Jimmy Hoffa*. Born February...
Scheerpost.com

Keep Immigration Raids Out of Schools - Most Americans oppose ICE raids on schools, which lead to absenteeism, disruption, and long-term threats to learning for all students.
Progressive Army

Simplifican la importación de alimentos e insumos industriales - ARCA redujo la cantidad de trámites que se requerían para esas importaciones, además de eliminar el régimen de información para el transporte de caudales L...
Angry Bear

New FDA labeling for opioids - My personal experience with opioids began in 2002. I was in a bike accident that landed me in the hospital with a broken clavicle, four fractured ribs, a...
ProPublica

Alaska Ignored Warning Signs of a Budget Crisis. Now It Doesn’t Have Funding to Fix Crumbling Schools. - by Emily Schwing, KYUK This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with KYUK Public Media and NPR’s Station Invest...
Grist

Can protecting nature be nonpartisan? - A conservative push for environmental stewardship clashes with federal policies that expand drilling, logging, and deregulation.
High Country News

What the presence of sheep means to the Diné - [image: Flocks grazing on the range, Tolani Lakes, Leupp, AZ, 1936. 87.45.189. Reproduction of gelatin silver print. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology Archive...
Crooked Media

How Many Nobel Prizes Can Trump Win? - The post How Many Nobel Prizes Can Trump Win? appeared first on Crooked Media.
See You In 2020

The NGO left is attacking Burkina Faso, but it won’t convince the masses to hate Traoré‘s revolution - Washington’s regime change network has launched new attacks against Burkina Faso’s revolutionary government, with LGBT rights being the focus of the pro...
Counterpunch

Fascists on the CPD: Why Is It So Hard to Fire Proud Boy Cops in Chicago? - Screenshot from YouTube For many years, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has harbored at least two dozen members of the Proud Boys, Three Percenters,...
jobsanger

Gerrymandering Is Cheating! -
Informed Comment

The quiet War: What’s fueling Israel’s Surge of settler Violence – and the Lack of State Response - By Arie Perliger, UMass Lowell Since Oct. 7, 2023, as Israel’s war against Hamas drags on in the Gaza Strip, a quieter but escalating war has unfolded in t...
Nina Illingworth

The Skinny: Friends and Enemies - As July drew to a close, the fascist Trumpenreich focused on identifying friends and marking out enemies; knives are being sharpened, and The Skinny was ...
Idavox

The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Zohran – And Antifascists Take Them On - Those organizing against the Muslim Socialist frontrunner of New York City Mayor said they came... The post The Archie Bunker Brigade Comes Out Against Z...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 1, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/01/2025 - 08:28 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Popular Resistance

Final Two Handala Volunteers Freed From Israeli Occupation Prison - This morning, the final two Handala volunteers held in Givon Prison–Christian Smalls from the United States and Hatem Aouini from Tunisia–were freed via ...
Brad Blog

The Art of the Corrupt, Phony, Unlawful, Pretend Trade Deal: 'BradCast' 7/31/2025 - As discussed on today's BradCast, there are a few things you should know about all of these supposed Donald Trump "trade deals" you have been hearing about...
Workers World

U.S. out of Korea! - [image: U.S. out of Korea!] Anti-imperialist activists rallied and marched in New York City on July 27 to say “U.S. out of Korea!” “U.S. out of the Philipp...
The Texas Signal

Haunting New Exhibit At The Holocaust Museum Houston - The newest exhibit at The Holocaust Museum Houston includes materials and artifacts from a vault that have never been displayed before
Sludge

Senate Panel Advances Stock Trading Ban for Lawmakers, With Trump Exemption - In a contentious hearing, a Senate committee narrowly voted to advance a bill that would ban lawmakers from trading or owning stocks, digital assets, and o...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Nancy Mace - 'I'm a proud transphobe.' Social media - 'That ain't all you are, honey.' - Congresswoman Nancy Mace (Rep- SC) has made a complete ass of herself online again. FALSE: I am not quitting Congress. TRUE: Proud transphobe. pic.tw...
Portside

In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote To Stop Arming Israel - In a First, Majority of Democratic Senators Vote To Stop Arming Israel jay Thu, 07/31/2025 - 20:05
The NM Political Report

Rep. Vasquez finds overcrowded ICE facility detaining mostly non-criminal immigrants - [image: U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez. Vasquez found the Otero County Processing Center "bursting at the seams" with over 1,100 detainees in a facility designed...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Was The Gaza Genocide Predicted By The Bible? - To many this may seem like an insane question, but a large number of people believe in it, even if there's nothing *mystical, prophetic, or no influence...
The Greanville Post

Israeli spyware firms are fueling the global surveillance state - GRAYZONE–Also blacklisted by Biden as part of the same executive order was another Israeli spyware maker called Candiru, whose hacking software did not att...
Common Dreams

Increasing Bombardment in Kyiv Threatens Lives and Medical Care - Early this morning, residents and staff from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kyiv, Ukraine, awoke to the sound of explosions. The city came under heavy...
The Daily Poster

How Big Tech Powered A Justice Department Coup - After a secret lobbying effort, Trump’s Justice Department ousted staff and reversed course on Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed megamerger.
Progressive.org

Trump Just Halted a Stride for Wage Equality - The squatter’s Department of Labor withdrew a rule that could have ended subminimum wages for workers with disabilities.
The Rag Blog

BRUCE MELTON / CLIMATE SCIENCE / It’s flooding down in Texas - Climate change has undersized our world’s engineered infrastructure, and increased modern flood safety has created complacency in a flood world far differe...
Church and State

The mRNA Revolution Isn’t Over-Now It’s Targeting Cancer - How a recent study may have just opened the door to a universal cancer vaccine that trains your immune system to kill tumors.
Discourse

The Worst Campaign Book Season of All Time Is Here - A feast for the middling political mind is just ahead, with upcoming releases from Kamala Harris, John Fetterman, and more.
Reform Austin

Unregulated Development at Core of Texas Flood Tragedy, Experts Warn - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… As Texas lawmakers hold hearings on flood preparedness in the wake of the deadly July 4th weeke...
Claytoonz

Irritating Screechy Blowhole - Read the blog at my Substack, and please become a subscriber. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through P...
The Grayzone

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation partner endorsed Hitler, called Muslims ‘rapists’ and Palestine a ‘shit hole’ - Matthew Murphy, a former Green Beret and president of Sentinel Foundation, has recently praised Hitler on Instagram and claimed to be conducting ‘manhunt...
Ian Welsh

Oddly, Canada Has More Leverage In A Trade Deal Than Anyone Except Maybe China - Trump: Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Ca...
Texas Observer

‘Shaky’ Audio Series Is a Messy, Real Look at Disabled Life - There are many words you could use to describe Nicole Tompkins, the disabled protagonist of “Shaky,” Audible’s recent 9-part comedy audio series: passion...
Project Censored

The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand - In August 2019, an influential inside-the-Beltway platform called War on the Rocks published a proposal to automate fighting nuclear wars with artificial...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 12 High-Impact Changes To Reduce Your Pet’s Carbon Footprint - While pets can impact the natural world, there are actions you can take to reduce... The post Guest Idea: 12 High-Impact Changes To Reduce Your Pet’s Car...
Infidel753

Mendacious memes - Meme images seem to add credibility to a statement, in the eyes of many internetters. Slap a sentence across a picture (even one of no obvious relevance),...
Greg Palast

Katrina Redux: Trump Drowns Texas – Are You Next? - Kevin Patrick is the president of the board of directors in the small town of Villa Park, Illinois. He’s a veteran of the Coast Guard, a patriot dedicated ...
Crooked Timber

Moral Deskilling – or, why you spend more time on admin than doing your job. - At the Sydney Gleebooks launch of Graeme Turner’s new book Broken, an audience member said: I spend more time on admin than doing my job. I raised the micr...
Liberation News

Trump’s attack on trans health care aims to divide working people - Trans people, immigrants, Medicaid recipients: we are all under attack by the same enemy.
slacktivist

Innocence, identity, and blood libel (part 2) - It's all about pride and moral anxiety and Satanic baby-killers.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander - A proposed Republican gerrymander of Texas could allow them to gain five extra seats, although not all of these gains are guaranteed. The post Texas Repu...
Krebs on Security

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites - Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people wit...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Authoritarianism as Clarity: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - The masks have come off
Ecosophia

A Few Notes on Matriarchy - You don’t actually understand an idea until you know its history. That lesson is one that most people have been doing their level best not to learn in rece...
Trivial Knot

Waking up, past tense - Do you like waking up? Yeah, me neither. I prefer that all my waking be done strictly in the past tense, i.e. to be woke. I’m looking at my drafts bin and ...
Alas, a Blog

Comic: We’ve Got Nothing Against Immigrants, Except the Immigrant Ones - I’m chuffed to again collaborate with R.E. Ryan, whose last cartoon with me was “Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless” over a year ago. I love the way his drawing r...
ExChristian.Net

Symptoms of being caught up in an unhealthy, compulsive and destructive Christian lifestyle: - *1) Jesus fetish.* Those afflicted with Christianity develop an obsessive fixation on a man known as Jesus Christ, an ancient cult leader who they say 'lo...
Unlimited Hangout

Bad Faith Podcast - Bad Faith Podcast.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Rethinking Masculinity: On "How to Be a 'Real' Man" with Lilly Sing and Guest Nikhil Taneja - *I am happy to learn about vlogger, Lilly Sing, whose body of work includes her powerful and timely conversations, including this one with Nikhil Taneja ...
Democracy Chronicles

Why My Stance on Marijuana Has Narrowed - The scientific landscape surrounding cannabis is not static. As research progresses, a more nuanced and, frankly, more concerning picture has emerged.
Avedon's Sideshow

Someone waits for me - "Moonlight Surf" by Charles Vickery, American painter (1913-1998) Don't let anyone con you into thinking Colbert was fired for having bad ratings. As with...
Stinque

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

Honoring Cannabis Trailblazers in the Disability Community: A Disability Pride Month Reflection - [image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabis leaves][image: The Disability Pride flag flying against a background of cannabi...
LareDOS

LTGI auditions for Austen’s Sense and Sensibility set for Aug. 1 and 2 at LC Shoebox Theater (T-30) - Opening night, Sept. 25: expect an all-in, fast-paced production laced with humor, heart, and bold theatricality
Consent Factory, Inc.

America Road Trip Project - Here we go. The slightly crazy idea I floated back on July 9 has evolved into an actual book project, which will take place on the road all across the USA ...
The Militant

SWP supports, builds union fights, campaigns against deportations - There is growing interest in the Socialist Workers Party and its candidates today, spurred by the party’s activities in support of labor battles and its wo...
Socialist Alternative

Release Imam Ayman and All Arrested Protesters! - On July 17 in Cincinnati, a group of community members, faith leaders, and left groups gathered peacefully to protest the reprehensible detention of Imam A...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: FUNNY-SAD VS. FUNNY-MAD EDITION. - * I keep the telephone beside me all the time* It’s been one of those weeks where the bright side and the dark side are one and the same – namely, that ...
Environment Texas

From report to response: Standing up for swimmable waters - New data reveals widespread bacterial contamination at U.S. coastal and Great Lakes beaches, prompting a Congressional response. The post From report to ...
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...
Lowering the Bar

Defendant Recruited Seven Actors to “Testify” in Fraud Trial - [image: image from a "12 Angry Men" play]"Are you a real lawyer?" one of them asked defense counsel.
Texas Monthly

To Texans Like Me, Ozzy Osbourne Was More Than Just a Rock Star - Over the course of his rollicking career and life, the Black Sabbath front man, who died Tuesday, became an unlikely Lone Star hero.
Earthworks

Communities at Risk: New Barrick Tailings Dam Sparks Environmental and Human Rights Concerns in the Dominican Republic - People living near the world's sixth-largest gold mine are taking legal action to protect their communities, ecosystems, and their rights. The post Commu...
Duck of Minerva

Is there a strategy behind Rubio’s State Department cuts? - The foreign policy world is still making sense of the Trump Administration’s massive cuts to the US State Department last week. Under Secretary of State Ma...
Dissent Magazine

[SAN FRANCISCO EVENT | July 30] The Milk Tea Alliance - A conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom.
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, endorses Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and former Edinburg Mayor Pro Tem Johnny García in seeking city’s top elected office - Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, has endorsed Omar Ochoa for Edinburg mayor in ongoing political campaign that also features former Edinburg Mayor Richard M...
Field Negro

Be careful what you wish for. - It is really hard to write political journals or blog posts *(whatever you want to call what I do)* in the age of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. ...
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...
TalkLeft

Friday Open Thread - In other news this week: DOJ fired prosecutor Maureen Comey. Anyone know why? Was it because of her father, because of something she did in the Ghislaine...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

ICE Unmasked! - “I was in Austria during the War. I am not programmed to respond in that area.” — US Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to Chris Hayes, 07.15.2025 If candy-assed,...
Media Lens

The Righteous Ego – A Different Kind Of ‘Special One’ - The Successful Ego, of course, raises itself above others on its ‘special’ achievements. Football manager, José Mourinho, enraged egos everywhere by saying...
Seeing the Forest

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Reading the Pictures

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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...
Web of Debt

Why Public Funds Should Be Deposited in Publicly-Owned Banks - Credit to JustMoney.com for the image, editing and posting. A thriving economy requires that credit flow freely for productive use. But today, a handful of...
ROAR Magazine

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Organizándonos para afrontar la crueldad - Pronto, cada uno de nosotros tendrá su propia historia que contar sobre un hospital que cerró o un ser querido que falleció, se enfermó, pasó hambre o se v...
Two Party Opera

OH BB BEE - ↓ TranscriptA two panel comic showing the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) as a giant dollar bill. A portrait of George Washington in a MAGA hat is labeled ...
Texas Freedom Network

‘We still have work to do’: How Texas Rising is Fighting for Queer Liberation During Pride 2025 - Texas Rising celebrated Pride Month 2025 as an act of resistance amid constant attacks on LGBTQIA+ people at the state and national levels. [...] Read Mo...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
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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...
GreenSource DFW

New green networking group sprouts up in North Texas - *The new Sustainability Coalition of Texas group held its first networking event in Grapevine in February. Courtesy of Facebook.* May 14, 2025 A new Tex...
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, ...
The Socialist

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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 ...
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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...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Global Day of Action Against Elbit Systems: A Report Back on Houston Actionists Blockade of BNY Mellon - This article details an action from early December. It was strategically withheld for publish until December 21st, the Global Day of Action Against Elbit. ...
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

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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...
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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