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

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

We Come to Bury James Dobson, Not Praise Him - James Dobson Infamous religious leader James Dobson died today. Dobson was a prominent and influential figure of the religious right because he not only...
Election Law Blog

“California voters will decide redistricting in November, escalating battle with Trump and Texas” - L.A. Times: Ratcheting up the pressure in the escalating national fight over control of Congress, the California Legislature on Thursday approved a Novem...
ArcaMax

On The Smithsonian And Slavery: Trump's Whitewashing Of History - On Tuesday, President Donald Trump attacked the narrative long taught in U.S. schools and documented in museums, about the abhorrent, centuries-long practi...
Salon.com

Lil Nas X arrested, hospitalized after reportedly wandering streets of Los Angeles in his underwear - The rapper reportedly struck an officer several times
Raw Story

'It’s a lie!' Small-business owner breaks down over Trump tariffs - A Minnesota small-business owner was brought to tears Thursday afternoon on CNN, talking about the effect Donald Trump's tariffs have had on her olive oi...
Mediaite

House Republican Reminisces About How He ‘Gave My Life To Christ’ in Cracker Barrel Parking Lot - Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) reminisced about how he gave his "life to Christ" in a Cracker Barrel parking lot during a rant against the company's "woke reb...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to terminate $783 million in NIH grants linked to DEI initiatives - By a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to allow the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical resea...
The Hill

Trump admin pausing issuance of visas for foreign truck drivers, Rubio says - President Trump’s administration is pausing all issuance of worker visas for foreign truck drivers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday, arguin...
Workers World

Cuba’s president hails Fidel Castro’s enduring legacy - [image: Cuba’s president hails Fidel Castro’s enduring legacy] Fidel Castro (izquierda) y Malcolm X en Harlem, el 19 de septiembre de 1960. Un ejemplo del ...
memeorandum

California legislators pass redistricting plans to put a Democratic-drawn map before voters (Ben Kamisar/NBC News) - Ben Kamisar / NBC News: *California legislators pass redistricting plans to put a Democratic-drawn map before voters* — Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected t...
Techdirt.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: You Asked, We Answered - Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on...
San Antonio Report

San Antonio City Council divided over police hiring for 2026 budget - The proposed 2026 budget sets aside $1.4 million to fund 25 new patrol officers. But some council members say SAPD really needs 65 officers. --------------...
Futurism

Elon Musk Warns That AI Is "Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System" - If tech-evangelist soothsaying was an Olympic sport, Elon Musk would be drowning in gold (assuming he could pass a drug test, of course). History's riche...
Mediagazer

A reflection on Israel's killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif in an airstrike on a press tent, and Israel's weak claim that he was a Hamas militant (Lydia Polgreen/New York Times) - Lydia Polgreen / New York Times: *A reflection on Israel's killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif in an airstrike on a press tent, and Israel's ...
Political Wire

California Voters Will Decide Redistricting - “Ratcheting up the pressure in the escalating national fight over control of Congress, the California Legislature on Thursday approved November special ele...
The Verge

Microsoft is bringing PC gaming apps and stores to its Xbox app on Windows - Microsoft has started testing another handheld-friendly addition to its Xbox app, allowing PC gamers to quickly install and launch third-party apps like br...
OpEd News

The Shining Black Light (poem) - A poem that feels the pain of the Black man's plight. A change is gonna come, mofos.
The Guardian (U.S. news)

JD Vance previews candidates’ defense of Trump’s bill for midterms in Georgia - Vice-president extolled One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s benefits for families while Senate hopefuls tried campaign material The US vice-president, JD Vance,...
Daily Dot

Shopper adds “I did that!” sticker with Trump’s face to strip steak in Publix grocery store - [image: i did that donald trump sticker on strip steak] A new sticker trend featuring Donald Trump’s face is spreading online, and surprisingly, it’s not...
Al Jazeera English

US Supreme Court rules Trump admin can cut nearly $800m in health funding - SCOTUS decision impacts DEI programmes that include breast cancer research and HIV prevention.
San Antonio Current

San Antonio City Council tentatively agrees to funding deal for new Spurs arena - San Antonio City Council voted 7-4 Thursday in favor of moving forward with a term sheet negotiated between City Manager Erik Walsh and Spurs Sports & Ent...
CultureMap Houston

Avant-garde Hill Country resort triples its modern treehouses - It will soon bearable to spend time outdoors again, making this a great time to start planning trips for camping, hiking, or exploring outside of the city....
Houston Public Media

Calls for pedestrian safety renewed after Houston ISD student hit by driver on Westheimer - After a 15-year-old Lamar High School student was struck and injured while crossing a street near his campus, Houston Mayor John Whitmire said the city wou...
Slate

*South Park* Has Somehow Become Even More Depraved in Its Skewering of the Trump Administration - Watching the show’s new season is the sanest I’ve felt in months.
Deadline Politics

Trump List Of “Out Of Control” Smithsonian Content Includes 2020 “Whiteness” Infographic, Latinos With Disabilities Program & Anthony Fauci Portrait - The White House on Thursday released a list of what they consider “out of control” content at the Smithsonian, after Donald Trump attacked the institution ...
Progressive.org

Stand Up for Diversity in Science - If we believe that science must be by and for everyone, now is the time to fight for the world we want our science to exist in.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of West Virginia Criticizes Governor’s Deployment of National Guard to Washington, D.C. - The Libertarian Party of West Virginia is opposing Governor Patrick Morrisey’s recent decision to send West Virginia National Guard troops to Washington,...
Daily Cartoonist

AI is Killing Illustration Art - There she was: a woman in a pose that suggested she was either about to sell me shoes or ask me to subscribe to her OnlyFans. Her legs spread in a way that...
Courthouse News

No mandamus for Texas AG Paxton - AUSTIN, Texas — An appeals court in Texas denied Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for mandamus relief after a trial court denied his office’s pre-suit...
Second Nexus

Grocery Store Employee's Iconically Bad Decorating Job On $30 Cake Has The Internet Cackling - We all make mistakes. Sometimes the best thing we can do is laugh at them. TikToker @k_bug68 showed herself at the beginning of a TikTok video, appearin...
Vox

Trump’s plan to win the House just took a big step forward - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Popular Resistance

How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies - Above photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Senior Airman Kadielle Shaw, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. When the Trump administration announced massive...
Wolf Street

Sales of Existing Single-Family Homes Crushed, Supply Highest since 2016. Condo Sales Near Low in the Data, Supply Highest since Housing Bust. Prices Begin to Bend - Prices of condos drop year-over-year, single-family price growth “near zero.” West & South take serious hits.
Church and State

Coming Out In The Vatican - Dr. Fèdèric Martel spent four years traveling to more than thirty countries interviewing 1,500 priests, bishops and cardinals.
Daily Howler

THURSDAY: Massachusetts miasma un-muddled again! - *THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025* *New York Times echoes Daily Howler:* The Massachusetts "gerrymander" muddle has been unpacked again! This muddle has been v...
Common Dreams

Assault With A Deli Weapon - As armed, burly goons roam D.C.'s streets, besieged residents say "it's the little things" that give them solace, which is why they've embraced as their ...
The Week

Magazine solutions - August 29, 2025 - Issue - August 29, 2025
Sludge

Gallego Holds Nantucket Fundraiser With Wall Street and Crypto Lobbyists - The Arizona Democrat courted big-money donors, including executives and lobbyists from major financial and crypto firms, as he continues to flirt with a 20...
WhoWhatWhy

Your Dog Has a Unique Ability to Read Your Mind. Here’s Why. - [image: science, nature, dogs, brain, evolution, ability to read people] PICKS are stories from many sources, selected by our editors or recommended by our...
The NM Political Report

Rep. Vasquez calls for permanent tax relief, wage increases for tipped workers - [image: Rep. Gabe Vasquez donned an apron and worked alongside employees at Barelas Coffee House on Aug. 18 while advocating for permanent policy changes...
The Rag Blog

RICHARD CROXDALE / ABORTION RIGHTS / Lone Star Three - By Richard Croxdale / The Rag Blog / August 21, 2025 [This article was originally published at People’s History in Texas (PHIT) and was cross-posted to The...
First Draft

Remember The Epstein Files? - And so do the American people, as the White House found out on its new Tik Tok page.
naked capitalism

Putin and Trump in Alaska: Do Men Make History or Does History Make Men? - At the meeting between Putin and Trump, the question of whether a leader is a product of history or its maker reveals much about them, and us.
Grist

US mines are literally throwing away critical minerals - There’s enough lithium in one year of U.S. mine waste to power 10 million electric vehicles.
World Socialist Web Site

Kenya’s National People’s Council: A petty-bourgeois nationalist trap for the Gen Z revolt - The NPC has been designed to channel the insurgent movement of workers and youth into parliamentary politics, whether as a new independent electoral slate ...
Axios

6 states lead U.S. with most unauthorized immigrants, new Pew study finds - Data: Pew Research Center and U.S. Census Bureau; Map: Sara Wise/Axios California and Texas are among the six states where the majority of the nation's rec...
Brad Blog

'Green News Report' - August 21, 2025 - Follow @GreenNewsReport... (Or use "Click here to listen..." link below.) IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Spain battles its worst wildfire season --- yes, intensi...
Undernews

Meanwhile. . . . - * Robert Reich - *The GOP governors of South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee have all sent their states' National Guard troops to assi...
Socialist Alternative

Texas Floods: Trump’s Cuts Make Capitalism’s Climate Crisis More Devastating - On Friday, July 4th, floods began to sweep across Texas Hill Country. The floods devastated the Hill Country, washing away vacation cabins, youth camps, an...
Alternet

Feds still withholding millions in funds for North Carolina as Hurricane Erin bears down - As Hurricane Erin batters the East Coast, North Carolina has been left in the lurch by a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) badly battered by the...
American Prospect

Trump’s Hit Job Against Fed Governor Lisa Cook - Today on TAP: The real fraud here is the misuse of confidential government data.
The Root

How CeeLo Green’s Meteoric Rise Came Crashing Down - CeeLo Green may not be a name you've thought of in a minute, but that doesn't mean he didn't make a big musical impact. Let's get into it! Read more...
Mother Jones

The Springsteen Generation - The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-sce...
DeSmogBlog

Murdoch-Owned TalkRadio Airs Anti-Climate Attacks Six Times a Day - TalkRadio bombarded listeners with false climate claims after England recorded its hottest June on record, DeSmog can report. The channel, which attract...
Project Censored

The Project Censored Newsletter—August 2025 - Project Censored in the World In late July, Hyperallergic published “Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation,” a detailed, affirmative r...
Mondoweiss

Israel has started the invasion of Gaza City, and is now annihilating one of its most historic neighborhoods - [image: Israeli army tank deploys near the Gaza border, May 20, 2025. (Photo: © Saeed Qaq/ZUMA Press Wire/ZUMA Wire/APA Images)]Despite the Israeli army’s ...
Reform Austin

U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, Paxton aide turned foe, to run for Texas attorney general - U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, announced a run for Texas attorney general Thursday, joining a crowded Republican primary field vying to replace Ken Paxton...
Angry Bear

Public broadcasting cuts hurt red states - Just read that Rhode Island public radio and public broadcasting will have to downsize, but are far from out of business. That looks to be the case for m...
El Paso Matters

El Paso’s heat is killing in record numbers. It may only get worse - In El Paso, heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say not enough is being done to protect the region’s most vulnerable people. The po...
NORML

Federal Appeals Court: Medical Cannabis Consumers Shouldn’t Lose Their 2nd Amendment Rights - [image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a table next to a black handgun][image: A small glass jar of legal cannabis flower sits on a t...
Eschaton

Bidness - I think what these businesse don't get when they try to cater to the supposed "anti-woke" zeitgeist, is that the strategy of including a black person in an...
Rewire

Why Conservatives Really Want to Defund Planned Parenthood - Nothing feels as good to Republicans as taking away health care from vulnerable folks. The post Why Conservatives Really Want to Defund Planned Parenthoo...
Dissident Voice

Mainstream Media? - Allen Forrest is writer, painter, graphic artist and activist who produces many cartoons illustrating the regressivism of capitalist societies. One carto...
Bracing Views

The Business of Nuclear Weapons Is Booming - Part II of a Documentary on the Military-Industrial Complex BILL ASTORE AUG 20, 2025 The business of nuclear weapons is booming in the U.S., as Part II of ...
Scheerpost.com

Is AI Crippling Our Imaginations? - Leveraged buyouts and stock buybacks have been killing tens of millions of jobs, not AI.
Bonddad

Jobless claims suggest our recent good news has been more unresolved seasonal quirks - - *by New Deal democrat* Initial jobless claims have been plagued by apparent unresolved seasonality in the past several years, post-pandemic. I sus...
Capital & Main

We Know How to Reduce Poverty — So Why Aren’t We Doing It? - As Congress rolls back food aid, California families are facing increasing hardship. The post We Know How to Reduce Poverty — So Why Aren’t We Doing It? ...
Glasstire

Top Five: August 21, 2025 - Glasstire counts down the top five art events in Texas. For last week’s picks, please go here. 1. Joey Fauerso: Bedroom Paintings Ruby City (San Antonio)...
Texas Observer

A Venezuelan Was Detained as a “Documented” Gang Member by ICE, Which Refused to Provide Proof - Jesús Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker, says he was en route to work at a construction site on the morning of April 9 when a grou...
Infidel753

Politically homeless - I've been at least Democratic-leaning for a long time now. At the latest, soon after the 2008 election, the "Tea Party" antics and the emergence of Sarah...
Progressive Army

IATA – Instructivo Pagos Interactivos – - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar una guía elaborada por el equipo del Banco Santander, que detalla paso a paso cómo realizar pagos en su p...
Democracy Now!

Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch in 2020 on Telling "Unvarnished" History, Meeting Trump & More - President Trump said Tuesday the Smithsonian Institution was too narrowly focused on negative aspects of U.S. history, including “how bad slavery was.” Tru...
The Conversation

‘These people do it naturally’: President Trump’s views on immigrant farmworkers reflect a long history of how farming has been idealized and practiced in America - Historically, farm work in the United States has been carefully constructed to appear natural, including the racism and labor exploitation that characteriz...
Space City Weather

Healthy shower chances today and Friday, and August should end in about the best way possible for Houston - In brief: Today’s post discusses the favorable setup for rain on Thursday and Friday in the greater Houston area, with the best conditions closer to the co...
The AltWorld

Lebanon’s imminent “Karbala-like” conflict has become increasingly probable - Sheikh Naim Qassem, the Secretary-General of “Hezbollah”, was the subject of a legal complaint filed by a […] The post Lebanon’s imminent “Karbala-like” ...
Dorf on Law

What Hardball Does and Doesn't Look Like (a Dorf on Law Classic) - *In the introduction to my *Dorf on Law* Classic column **earlier this week **("Banana Republic or Legalistic Lawlessness?" from February 2020), I wrote:...
NPR's Health Shots

Pakistan is tapping into solar power at an 'unprecedented' rate. Here's why - Solar experts say there's never been a faster adoption of solar, with panels popping up on rooftops.
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Learning from Captain Scoresby’s Ten-gallon Fir-Cask - In 1810, in the Greenland Sea, William Scoresby Jr., the captain of Resolute, who was... The post Guest Idea: Learning from Captain Scoresby’s Ten-gallon...
The Smirking Chimp

‘Wake Up!’ Former RNC Chair Gives Dems Ominous Warning After Texas Rams Through New Maps -
Skeptophilia

Speaking to the wind - A scarily long list of friends who have been coping with serious illnesses in the last six months has brought home to me how fragile life is. We all *kno...
Crooked Media

Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy? - The post Have Our Screens Made Us Too Distracted For Democracy? appeared first on Crooked Media.
Off The Kuff

House passes redistricting bill - I was going to put this as the last item in the earlier post, but I didn’t want to change that post’s title and I also didn’t want to gloss over that this ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

State Attorneys General: The Top Races to be “Top Cop” - Key battleground states feature state Attorney General races this cycle, with Democrats playing defense in a number of key battleground states The post S...
ProPublica

How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies - by Brandon Roberts, Annie Waldman and Pratheek Rebala, illustrations by Sam Green for ProPublica When the Trump administration announced massive cuts to...
High Country News

Court delays land transfer that would enable copper mine at Oak Flat - [image: The Oak Flat region in Tonto National Forest] The Western Apache and a coalition of environmental groups have fought for years against the Resolut...
The Daily Poster

Why Your Health Insurance Premiums Could Explode Next Year - A perfect storm is coming for Obamacare in 2026.
jobsanger

Deporting Agricultural Workers Will Raise The Price Of Groceries -
Crooked Timber

States of Resistance - Over at Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshall has been making the case that the states are critical sites of resistance to Trump’s lawless power grabs on the ...
Portside

As Israeli Genocide Intensifies, Majority of Americans Support Palestinian Statehood - As Israeli Genocide Intensifies, Majority of Americans Support Palestinian Statehood Mark Brody Thu, 08/21/2025 - 00:18
Informed Comment

America may have invaded Iraq for its Oil, but Solar Power is what Iraqis now Want - Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Iraqi farmers, tired of high electricity bills and frequent blackouts, are turning to solar panels, according to Khalid Al-M...
Ballot Access News

Florida Won’t Bother to Respond in U.S. Supreme Court in Case Over Independent Voters Voting in Primaries - On August 18, Florida informed the U.S. Supreme Court that it doesn’t intend to file a response in Polelle v Byrd, 25-147. This is the case filed by an in...
Claytoonz

Trump-Approved African American History - 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...
Krebs on Security

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years - A 21-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as "Scattered Spider" was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and o...
Antiwar.com

A Nobel for the Donald? - Donald Trump doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not after his unprovoked bombing of a country (Iran) that is no military threat whatsoever to th...
The Texas Signal

Redistricting Bill Passes Texas House - The vote came after a lengthy day on the House floor, that saw Texas Democrats file several amendments to try and change or stall the legislation
Discourse

Everyone is Making Boatloads of Money in Washington D.C. - Political service has never been so lucrative.
Consortium News

NOTE TO READERS: A Pause in Publishing - Because of technical issues, Consortium News will undergo a renovation that will prevent us from publishing from today over the weekend until early next we...
Edinburg Politics

Dr. Marcos Silva, former Executive Director of Rio Grande Valley LEAD, selected to help guide South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs - Dr. Marcos Silva, Ed.D., has been named Executive Director of the South Texas College Foundation and External Affairs. A longtime leader in education and w...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

A Country Sick Since Its Beginning: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - America didn't just get here by accident. Our present state is the result of generations' of undealt with trauma and socipathic behavior
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Creation-Resistance in our Struggle for a Just and Equitable Multiracial/Multiethnic Democracy in an Epoch of Institutional Unraveling, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *Creation-Resistance in our Struggle for a Just and Equitable Multiracial/Multiethnic Democracy in an Epoch of Institutional Unraveling* *by * *Angela V...
Ecosophia

The Narrative Trap - One of the experiences I’ve had tolerably often, over the more than nineteen years that I’ve been writing these weekly essays, is the discovery that a seri...
nonsite.org

Protected: What’s Left for New Orleans? The People’s Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism (2019) - There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Rallblog

Deportation Industrial Complex - The current wave of mass deportations builds on the opposite of a virtuous cycle, in which the government and big business monetize and exploit people fr...
Counterpunch

On Seeing the Future Too Clearly - I spent the summer of 1965 arguing about the Vietnam War. I was 13, and my interlocutor was my 18-year-old camp counselor in Vermont. She was headed for ...
See You In 2020

Gaza is the testing ground for capital’s schemes, & Gaza’s resistance shows the world how to fight back - Above: a mercenary makes a heart sign to the people in Gaza’s “humanitarian aid” cages while the fence bulges from overcrowding. (Telegram via BBC.) U.S...
Ian Welsh

China is a Rich Society. No Western Country Is. - Saw this recently, from the University of Chicago: And it begins. No music history and theory, comp lit, classics, and on and on. pic.twitter.com/e2JxrCbm1...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Listen to Dallas Opera performances on the radio - Opera fans rejoice: Starting next Monday, WRR will broadcast the 2024-2025 productions of the Dallas Opera during its Concert Hall program. The schedule ...
LareDOS

Manicfesto: Don the Fondler – definitely a hypocrite, a tin-plated narcissist, an infantile ranter, a distempered emperor - It’s not so late as it seems nor as early as rumored; but in the crenellated desire for fresh coffee and dull gossip, don’t be surprised if the roof collap...
Liberation News

Texas Democrats surrender to racist redistricting plan, declare ‘victory’ - As the Texas Democrats rejoin their Republican friends in the halls of power, the working class of Texas must keep organizing for a different type of powe...
Texas Standard

Texas promised to winterize its energy grid. An audit found big problems. - Gaps in natural gas regulation could leave the state vulnerable to another winter storm-related blackout.
Dissent Magazine

Damage Control in the Roberts Era - Progressive activists face an increasingly hostile legal environment. What strategies can they pursue?
Idavox

A thank you from One People’s Project - We want to express our gratitude to all that has been able to help us... The post A thank you from One People’s Project appeared first on Idavox.
Debunking Christianity

Richard Carrier, David Kyle Johnson, and I, Oh My! - We three have been invited by Dr. James Sterba to write papers on ethics without God. So far Johnson's and Carrier's papers have both been published. Mine ...
slacktivist

‘We are Christians first, Americans second’ - It's a platitude that American Christians have recited so many times we're bored by it, but it still means something.
Unlimited Hangout

Meet Trump’s CDC Director: Susan Monarez - A closer look at the CDC director’s history and connections reveal that her government career is closely linked to the intersections of re-branded eugeni...
Greg Palast

“His arm slid off like a chicken wing.”Trump plan to kill FEMA will drown small town America - Twenty years ago this month, Coast Guardsman Patrick was one of the first responders sent in after hurricane Katrina drowned Gulfport and New Orleans. He ...
Democracy Chronicles

Short-Term Thinking - When running a democratic form of government, people have to believe that leadership is not just thinking about the next news cycle or the next election.
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...
Trivial Knot

What is identity? - I run an annual survey, and we’re always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure than most people are used to. Somethi...
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.
The Militant

‘Fight for a workers gov’t to prevent another world war’ - MONTREAL — Campaigning together here Aug. 8-9 were Katy LeRougetel, Communist League candidate for mayor of Montreal; Philippe Tessier, CL candidate for ma...
Environment Texas

RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 - How parents, teachers, kids can spend less; have safer, healthier, greener school year. The post RESOURCE GUIDE: ‘Back to School’ advice for 2025-26 appe...
The Grayzone

Israel’s man inside the CIA betrayed the US, new files show - CIA spymaster James Angleton shaped the US-Israeli relationship in secrecy. Newly unredacted files shed light on his wanton betrayal of his country to as...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD EDITION. - *Ah, that's a bit of the old pepper.* I’m on my way out the door for vacation but I can still get mad at stupid shit. Tubby’s seizure of the DC Police De...
MintPress News

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide - Israel’s PR machine is pushing sexualized images of its soldiers to appeal to young men, from social media thirst traps to sex-driven Birthright trips. T...
The Progressive Wing

8/15-8/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - We’re at the Ides of August. Join us for news, music, and commentary after the jump.
Progressives Chat

Trump’s Distractions - United States president *Donald Trump*, during his Campaign 2024 promises, expressed determination to uncover the truth with the *Epstein Files*. Instead...
Lowering the Bar

Alleged Irish Orphan Convicted of Being American Rapist - [image: Rossi side-eyeing the camera]By a Utah jury, following extradition from Scotland.
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Kindness of Strangers - OK, here comes America Road Trip Update No. 3. America Road Trip Update No. 3 is going to be predominantly promotional. It’s also going to be a little sapp...
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...
Texas Freedom Network

TFN Explains: Senate Bill 8 - Learn more about Senate Bill 8, commanding Texas sheriffs to enter into agreements with ICE, passed during the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. [...] R...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Farm Fields - We examine the transformation of classic camp imagery into wreckage and evidence. The post Chatting the Pictures: When Immigration Raids Come to the Far...
GreenSource DFW

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

Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio August 8, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 08/08/2025 - 17:57 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report July 2025 - Walmart had at least ten more shootings in July 2025, including one fatal one, which is fewer shooting deaths than usual, and at least seven more injure...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

The Democrats Find Their “Clear Message” - I’m almost embarrassed to have to confess to having gone for the “Democrats need a clear message” horseshit for this long before some kind of metaphorical ...
Alas, a Blog

(Not) All Jews Are Welcome - Check out the timelapse drawing video for this cartoon! From an October 2024 article from In These Times: U.S. Jewish Institutions Are Purging Their Staffs...
Earthworks

It May Not Seem Like It Now, But A Better World is Possible - Since day one in office, President Trump has done everything in his power to upend environmental justice and climate progress. … The post It May Not See...
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...
TalkLeft

Sunday Open Thread - Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.
Web of Debt

The GENIUS Act and the National Bank Acts of 1863-64: Taking a Cue from Lincoln - This month Congress passed the GENIUS Act, an acronym for the “Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins of 2025.” Designed to regu...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Seeing the Forest

Twenty-Third Blog Birthday - This is the 23rd birthday of this Seeing the Forst’s first post. On July 17, 2002 the post Seeing the Forest explained, Recent polls show that the public i...
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, ...
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

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
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...
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

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

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

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

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
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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Sunday, August 26, 2012

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