Brains and Eggs: Sunday Trick or Treat Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up pic.twitter.com/KQ4e6o9umf
— HumanBeingAwkward (@humanbeingawk) November 28, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Field Negro

The House Negro Power Rankings. - * Kicking off Black History month with my latest House Negro Power Rankings. I am doing this because sometimes the damage from within, is much more det...
Eschaton

He Admit It - Biden guy:
memeorandum

Despite 'Wrong' Comments, Gun Rights Groups Say Trump Has Their Back (New York Times) - New York Times: *Despite ‘Wrong’ Comments, Gun Rights Groups Say Trump Has Their Back* — Activists criticized the president after he blamed Alex Pretti...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Florida Republicans advance bill to weaken vaccine protections for children - But effort fell short of state surgeon general’s promise to end Florida’s immunization mandates altogether Republicans advanced a bill in the Florida leg...
Salon.com

“Try not to get filmed”: Davidson returns to “Saturday Night Live” as Homan, offers ICE advice - Pete Davidson played Trump's "border czar" in a send-up of ICE's inept operation in Minneapolis
Raw Story

Steve Bannon told Epstein Trump was 'beyond borderline' and unfit for office: file - Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist, accused the president in 2018 of being “beyond borderline” and fit to be remo...
Axios

Read: Judge tears into feds for 5-year-old's detention - A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father from immigration detention in a stunning castigation of the Trump...
Al Jazeera English

Mbappe’s late penalty gives edgy Real Madrid 2-1 win over Rayo Vallecano - Unconvincing Real Madrid earn ⁠hard-fought victory over local rivals to move to one point of league leaders Barcelona.
Mediaite

‘The President No Likey!’ SNL Scorches ICE — With Pete Davidson Returning to Skewer Tom Homan - Saturday Night Live's cold open took on ICE operations in Minnesota — with famed SNL alum Pete Davidson returning to play Border Czar Tom Homan. The post...
Futurism

Galactic Monsters Grew in Cocoons Like Giant Bugs, Scientists Say - "They look like a [developing] butterfly or something in this young state that kind of grows wrapped in some sort of gas that also feeds it." The post Ga...
The Hill

There's a psychological explanation for people who are late all the time - We all know somebody who is always running behind, who leaves you waiting alone at a restaurant or shows up to the party last. Maybe you're that somebody.
Political Wire

Trump Lowers Expectations for the Midterm Elections - “President Trump is warning of a possible Democratic victory in November’s midterm elections, seemingly lowering expectations for Republican wins well ahea...
Novara Media

China, AI and the West’s Free Speech Crackdown - Over the past three years, the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has become a flash point for freedom of speech in the West. Expressing solidarity...
Undernews

US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations - *The Guardian - *All vaccine recommendations are being reconsidered by the US’s vaccines committee, according to its top adviser, who in recent interviews...
Glasstire

In Honor of Black History Month - According to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the founders of Black History Month, 2026 marks “a century of Bl...
El Paso Matters

El Paso, West Texas federal courts deluged with challenges to immigration detention - Federal judges in El Paso are increasingly ordering bond hearings and releases for ICE detainees as a surge in habeas corpus filings challenges the Trum...
Daily Cartoonist

Surgery: Rex Morgan Out, Terry Beatty In - Cartoonist Terry Beatty, who both writes and draws the Rex Morgan, M.D. comic strip has had the good doctor and Rex and June’s son Johnny in for surgery th...
Brad Blog

Sunday 'Mirror, Mirror' Toons - ...NEXT WEEK!... * * * As The BRAD BLOG's former longtime toon sherpa PDiddie always reminded us: "With editorial cartooning increasingly an endangered spe...
San Antonio Current

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset - [image: Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat and machinist union leader, won the Jan. 31 special election runoff for Senate District 9 in North Texas. He will face Re...
First Draft

Shield For Murder (1954) - Tagline: Dame-Hungry Killer-Cop Runs Berserk.
Grist

Visiting Oregon? You may soon have to pay a tax to protect its wildlife. - A bill in the legislature would increase the state’s hotel and lodging taxes by 1.25 percent.
The Verge

Antigravity’s 360-degree A1 drone is 15 percent off - Antigravity’s ambitious A1 360-degree drone is 15 percent off through February 9th. The first-ever discount on this model is available across all bundles, ...
Dissident Voice

To Be a Revolutionary Social Worker, or to be a Radical Worker, that is the Question - The dichotomy between the social worker as a nine-to-five state agent and five-nine activist is a crucial one. The question can be summarised as: is ther...
NPR's Health Shots

Gene therapies are out of reach for many who need them to beat diseases - Gene therapy drugs have the potential to cure some diseases, but some have a price tag of over a million dollars. Who gets access to them and who doesn't?
The Daily Poster

LEVER WEEKLY: Justice Derailed - Compensation delayed for East Palestine victims, Democrats’ ICE follies, and more from The Lever this week.
Houston Public Media

Texas Republicans shift messaging around ICE tactics amid election-year risks - With midterm elections approaching, Texas Republicans are publicly questioning ICE's tactics following deadly and controversial enforcement actions. Analys...
Mother Jones

In a Warming World, Winter Olympics Organizers Will Have to Adapt - This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With an icy white sheet still ...
Countercurrents

More than Code: Breaking the Limits of Palestinian Digital Freedom through Endurance and Solidarity - The Palestinian digital struggle is a daily, skilled, and collective effort to carve out and defend a space for legible existence against systems designed ...
Vox

You may not like what comes after Charlie Kirk - Charlie Kirk started Turning Point USA to reach college-aged kids he believed were being indoctrinated by liberal universities. His efforts were thoroughly...
naked capitalism

Links 2/1/2026 -
The AltWorld

An insider view of Iran and analysis of the shifting geopolitical landscape in the region - I was really privileged to be able to sit down and talk at length with one of […] The post An insider view of Iran and analysis of the shifting geopoliti...
The Smirking Chimp

Sunday thought: Green Shoots? -
WhoWhatWhy

Wealthy Foreign Transplant Recipients Leave Sick Americans to Die - [image: Surgeons, operate, heart transplant patient, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA] In a dystopian symptom of late-stage capitalism, organs donate...
Off The Kuff

Menefee wins CD18 runoff, Rehmet wins SD09 - The early Chron headline hedged things, but Christian Menefee was leading Amanda Edwards by almost exactly a two to one margin after early voting – he had ...
Progressives Chat

2026 United States Midterm Elections: Democrats May Sweep - Now that February 2026 has arrived…we are nine months from the general election for the 2026 United States midterm elections. *Due Dissidence* co-host Ke...
San Antonio Report

Q&A: Commissioner Justin Rodriguez explains why county government is becoming a political battleground - Texas' largest counties have frequently run up against the state's GOP in its quest to innovate, putting a bigger spotlight on their leaders. Bexar County ...
Slate

Slate Mini Crossword for Feb. 1, 2026 - Take a quick break with our daily 5x5 grid.
The Root

February 2026 Books By Black Authors We Can’t Wait to Read - February may be the shortest month of the year, but it is full of great new books by Black authors. Read more...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Cumberland Basin - [image: Cumberland Basin]
High Country News

Unique Westerners inspire HCN - [image: Betty Reid Soskin.] Thank-yous, farewells and forthcoming welcomes to the people who keep the organization going. The post Unique Westerners insp...
Mediagazer

ESPN closes the deal to acquire multiple NFL Media assets after receiving US regulatory approval; NFL will get a 10% stake in ESPN as part of the agreement (Andrew Marchand/The Athletic) - Andrew Marchand / The Athletic: *ESPN closes the deal to acquire multiple NFL Media assets after receiving US regulatory approval; NFL will get a 10% sta...
Crooked Media

Why Are Democrats Afraid of Power? - The post Why Are Democrats Afraid of Power? appeared first on Crooked Media.
The Week

Will SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic make 2026 the year of mega tech listings? - SpaceX float may come as soon as this year, and would be the largest IPO in history
Counterpunch

In a Holding Cell with a Transgender Migrant - The politics of the humane opposes, contradicts, and combats the politics of profit, the politics of the machine, and the politics of spectacle. It is a ...
jobsanger

Americans Deserve Law Enforcement That Operates Under The Rule Of Law -
Informed Comment

“How many Kisses might it take:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:35 - This wine jug was once, like me, a miserable lover -- captive to the tresses of a heartthrob
Deadline Politics

Pete Davidson Returns To ‘Saturday Night Live’ To Play Tom Homan In Cold Open Skewering Trump’s Poorly Trained ICE Operation - Pete Davidson returned to Saturday Night Live, this time to play Donald Trump’s border czar as he tries, without much success, to teach restraint to Immigr...
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $766 Billion of Treasuries this Week. Yield Curve Steepened as 30-Year Treasury Yield Rose to 4.87% - The spread between the 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields now the widest since January 2022.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

From Women and Gender Studies to Faculty and Syllabus Surveillance at Texas A&M University, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D., Jan. 31, 2026 - From Women and Gender Studies to Faculty and Syllabus Surveillance at Texas A&M University*by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 31, 2026* *Texas A&M ...
The Greanville Post

Trump’s Attack will BACKFIRE, Iran’s Missiles will CRUSH US Bases - DH—The video provides an in-depth discussion on the escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, highlighting the precarious geopolitical situat...
Popular Resistance

Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, And The Obfuscation Of The Land Question - The years 2024 and 2025 saw a massive upswing in the number of data centers planned and constructed in the United States and globally as part of the race...
Portside

New Year, New Crimes: The Challenges of 2026 - New Year, New Crimes: The Challenges of 2026 jay Sat, 01/31/2026 - 20:24
Claytoonz

Peachy Fraud - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Ian Welsh

A Word On Elite Pedophilia - More Epstein documents have been dumped, and they’re atrocious. It seems like most of the US elite was involved. There are two reasons for this. One is tha...
Ballot Access News

Los Angeles Times Says California Gubernatorial Race is Most Unsettled in at Least Twenty-five Years - On January 30, the Los Angeles Times published this story about the California gubernatorial race. It says this is the most unsettled race for California G...
Election Law Blog

“‘There’s something bigger going on’: State election chiefs rebuff Trump bid to seize voter rolls” - Politico: Democratic state election officials say the Justice Department’s letter to Minnesota over its voter rolls represents a significant escalation, ...
Scheerpost.com

War, Truth, and the Cost of Denial - On today’s episode of Scheer Intelligence, Robert Scheer sits down once again with former CIA analyst Ray McGovern for a rare, unvarnished look at the war ...
OpEd News

Even (especially?) now, aiming for middle ground - Have you noticed that while natural and human systems collapse (i.e. Arctic ice, global biodiversity loss, water tables and clean water, affordable food an...
Bracing Views

AI as a Runaway Bullet Train - Bursting Through the Guardrails BILL ASTORE JAN 30, 2026 The AI hype train is here and is speeding ahead like the fastest Japanese bullet train. It’s a “re...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: January 25th – 31st - Five Years Ago This week in 2021, we looked at the future of net neutrality under the new interim FCC boss, and at how broadband monopolies continued to ge...
Alternet

Critics blast 'Donald Degenerate' after Epstein tipper alleges death threat - President Donald Trump’s culpability in connection to convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is not dying down this week with the release of roughly 3....
Courthouse News

Judge rules ICE can continue enforcement in Minnesota - With an expected appeal looming, this ruling marks one chapter in the legal war between Minnesota and the Trump administration.
CultureMap Houston

Classic Houston steakhouse ranks No. 2 in America and more top stories - *Editor's note: It's time to catch up on the top Houston news of the week, starting with two steakhouses finding the national spotlight. Plus, a Midtown ba...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for January 26 - 30 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The trends in the high frequency data that became apparent after last ...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: Why were the protesters out in the streets? - *SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2026* *Fox & Friends Weekend explains:* Yesterday, on a chilly day, they were at it again. People were marching in the streets--"...
ArcaMax

'Mad Max' Anarchy Is Safer Than Trump's Terror State - Many people assume that Germany instantly transitioned from representative democracy to totalitarianism following the ascension of Adolf Hitler to chancell...
Angry Bear

A lot of BS Before You Get to the Actual Lie - John Amato at Crooks and Liars The “18 Trillion Dollar Lie Should Have Trump Kicked Out of Office” During Pres. Biden’s administration, any mispronunciat...
Skeptophilia

Strange places - In Kurt Vonnegut's novel *Cat's Cradle*, a scientist develops a polymorph of ice with a very strange property. Unlike ordinary ice, that melts at tempera...
ProPublica

What We Saw in Minneapolis - The post What We Saw in Minneapolis appeared first on ProPublica.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 31 January 2026 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o A dog improves a firework show. The railing is not making it any safer. ...
World Socialist Web Site

Strike by 31,000 Kaiser nurses continues, as strike looms for thousands of pharmacy and lab workers - Healthcare workers are being driven into direct confrontation, not only with corporate healthcare giants like Kaiser Permanente, but with the entire politi...
Consortium News

Jonathan Cook: Cheerleading Aggression Against Iran - Corporate media doesn’t represent humanity’s interests. It promotes the interests of billionaires and their hangers-on, who make huge profits from a war ma...
The Texas Signal

Deaths In ICE Detention Escalate - The January 2026 deaths continued the rise in fatalities seen in 2025. That year marked a 20-year high for deaths in ICE detention, coinciding with a 65 pe...
Workers World

Philadelphia: Trump removes historic depiction of enslavement - [image: Philadelphia: Trump removes historic depiction of enslavement] Philadelphia Despite broad public opposition, on Jan. 22 National Park Service (NPS)...
The NM Political Report

Vasquez joins Trump in push to limit Wall Street home buys - [image: In a rare moment of bipartisan overlap, U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, D-N.M., and President Donald Trump have both advanced similar proposals aimed at cu...
Texas Standard

Texas Republicans shift messaging around ICE tactics amid election-year risks - With midterm elections approaching, Texas Republicans are publicly questioning ICE’s tactics following deadly and controversial enforcement actions. Analys...
Common Dreams

Sanders Secures Vote on His Amendment to Cut $75 Billion in ICE Funding and Redirect Those Funds to Medicaid - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today secured a Senate vote on his amendment to the government funding package to repeal the $75 billion funding increase for...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: IS IT FASH YET? EDITION. - *You better run.* Tubby and his mob have been busy, seizing voting records in Georgia (presumably to manipulate in furtherance of his years-long Stolen E...
Church and State

Trump being a racist could bring our country down! - What has happened with Trump proclaiming that the only people we need in this country are white people and people who believe in Jesus Christ.
Progressive.org

The Ethnic Cleansing of Ras Ein al-Auja - The clock is ticking before a new Israeli settlement is built on the ruins of this West Bank village.
Independent Political Report

New Illinois Party Tied to RFK Jr. Presidential Campaign Eyes 2026 Gubernatorial Race - A political organization in Illinois that emerged from the 2024 independent presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and helped lobby for his confi...
Second Nexus

Regal Theaters' Popcorn Buckets For Melania Trump's New Documentary Are Getting Dragged Hard - Social media users are tearing into Regal Cinema's "limited edition" popcorn buckets for First Lady Melania Trump's new *Melania* documentary. *Melania* ...
Moron Majority

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NORML

NORML Argues in Supreme Court Brief That Disarming Cannabis Consumers Is Unconstitutional - [image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint][image: A man closes his eyes as he smokes a legal cannabis joint]"The historical analo...
Environment Texas

Is nuclear energy renewable? - Nuclear energy has produced electricity in America since 1958. But is nuclear energy clean, renewable energy? The post Is nuclear energy renewable? appea...
Mondoweiss

The U.S. occupation of Gaza has begun - [image: President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after joint press conference announcing the U.S. peace plan for Ga...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court will hear birthright citizenship case on April 1 - The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on April 1 in the challenge to President Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship – that is, the g...
See You In 2020

Nick Fuentes has merged with the Zionist right over support for ICE. Marxists must fill the populist power vacuum. - Nick Fuentes, or rather the controlled opposition ideology he represents, has reached the end of a political “half-life.” Now that Fuentes has called fo...
Dissent Magazine

A Crisis of Conflict Resolution, Not Conflict Studies - A response to “The Demise of Conflict Studies” from our winter issue, followed by a reply by the authors.
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
The Militant

31,000 Kaiser nurses strike over staffing in California, Hawaii - LOS ANGELES — Nurses and other health care workers set up picket lines at over two dozen Kaiser Permanente hospitals and hundreds of its clinics across Cal...
The Conversation

I’m a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here’s how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles - A policing scholar and former FBI special agent lays out the established principles of policing and constitutional law that govern how federal immigration ...
LareDOS

Lifelong learning has no limits: LC alum, aspiring writer, delivers commencement speech - Reposted from Tragaluz - A Borderland Journal of Arts and Culture
Trivial Knot

My game released - My game, Moon Garden Optimizer has finally released on Steam! If you follow my blog, you may be aware that I have already made the game available for free ...
Capital & Main

Amid Climate Crisis, Insurers’ Increased Use of AI Raises Concern For Policyholders - States and consumers accuse insurance giants of using technology to slow payouts and drop homeowners. The post Amid Climate Crisis, Insurers’ Increased U...
Dorf on Law

A Little Palate Cleanser: An Expert Veers Out of Her Lane to Say Ridiculous Things About Taxes and Deficits - Because the frightening situation in the US and the world became even more harrowing over the last week, one part of which I discussed with some emotion ...
Duck of Minerva

“Fair Trade” and the revenge against the “Foreigner”: From Chamberlain to Trump - A century before Trump’s tariff threats, Joseph Chamberlain pitched the same idea: use duties as a “big revolver” to force rivals into “fair trade.” That h...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay Number 8 - *There is far too much mediocre, alarming Jesus-script in the gospels* ...
Rewire

The HPV Vaccine, Explained - Federal inoculation guidelines are changing. Our sex health columnist answers some frequent questions about this cancer-preventing vaccine, including who...
Democracy Now!

"Prevent the Bloodshed": Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on Iran Protests & U.S. Threats of Military Strikes - The latest reliable estimates of the death toll in Iran’s recent nationwide protests are growing, potentially reaching the tens of thousands. Some estimate...
The Progressive Wing

1/30-31 News Roundup & Open Thread - More news, videos, etc. in the comments.
Space City Weather

Winter is back for a hot (cold?) minute in Houston - In brief: Another possible hard freeze awaits Houston on Sunday morning with colder air starting once more today. Remember your plants, pets, pipes, and ne...
Rallblog

Is Trump Bidening Out? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and John Kiriakou - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Political cartoonist Ted Rall and CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Texas Observer

Strangest State: Escaped Exotics, Tariffs, Trickery, and Guns - The post Strangest State: Escaped Exotics, Tariffs, Trickery, and Guns appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Seeing the Forest

Abolish ICE — Stop Dehumanizing People - If you give them an inch … And look, now they’re taking their mile. Crossing the border without authorization is a misdemeanor. It only became a crime at a...
Socialist Alternative

The Battle Of Minneapolis & The Way Forward For The Anti-ICE Movement - An epic battle has been unfolding in the Twin Cities, between ICE’s homicidal state terror on the one hand, and the ingenuity, determination, and solidarit...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 30, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 30, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/30/2026 - 05:14 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

Anti-LGBTQ groups launch new effort to overturn gay marriage featuring the same old lies - Forty-seven conservative and anti-LGBTQ groups are teaming up in an effort to overturn the 2015 SCOTUS decision which legalized gay marriage. There is o...
Antiwar.com

The Iran Escalation Machine: Narratives, Sanctions, and the Normalization of Force - U.S. policy toward Iran is frequently sold as a reaction to urgent threats. In practice, it behaves more like a system: narrative escalation, economic coer...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (1.29.26) - Adam Serwer. Rebecca Solnit. Kat Armas. Angela Denker. Heather L. Hart. Mark Jacob.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

What About The – - 11 x 17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb “Now Democrats are trying to translate visceral outrage into political strategy, even though there’s little...
Alas, a Blog

The Future of Journalism is Now - This cartoon is by Jenn Manley Lee and I. This cartoon was originally posted on Patreon on December 19th, 2025. Just three days later, Bari Weiss, the utte...
Liberation News

PSL Statement: Cuba is not a “threat” – End the blockade! - Donald Trump’s January 29 Executive Order declaring Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States is an absurdly false pretext designed t...
The Grayzone

NBA star Stephen Curry’s ties to Israeli intelligence exposed - Less than three years after being named the NBA’s 2023 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion, the league’s all-time three-point leader has begun qu...
Project Censored

The Hidden Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Straining Water, Power, and Communities - By Ella Mrofka Editor’s Note: This is the second of two Dispatches on AI data centers; read the previous article, by Alefiya Presswala, here. The residen...
Web of Debt

The Wealth Concentration Engine: Rethinking America’s Financial Plumbing - A Jan. 17 article on Quartz Markets by Catherine Baab reports that JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America returned nearl...
Greg Palast

The real story of the FBI raid on Fulton County, AtlantaYou are watching the theft of 2026 before your eyes - For god’s sake, let’s get to the REAL agenda behind Wednesday’s-FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION. The warr...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Senate: A Couple of Rating Changes in Favor of Democrats, but Republicans Still Favored Overall - Despite facing what is likely to be a difficult national political environment this fall, Republicans remain favored to hold their Senate majority. The ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: 7 Solutions to Give Your Old Sunglasses a Second Life - In recent years, many of us have learned that “recyclable” isn’t as simple as we... The post Guest Idea: 7 Solutions to Give Your Old Sunglasses a Second...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Battle is Ours: The Check-In with Danielle Moodie and Jared Yates Sexton - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Earthworks

Tribute to Jim & Terry Fitzgerald - by Gwen Lachelt, Earthworks co-founder Jim and Terry Fitzgerald were giants in the oil and gas accountability movement that took … The post Tribute to J...
Lowering the Bar

Judge Finds for 11-Year-Old in Toy-Dinosaur-Assault Case - Assault *with* a toy dinosaur, not upon one.
DeSmogBlog

Top U.S. Oil Lobby API Targets Landmark EU Climate Law, Policy Document Shows - This piece is copublished by DeSmog and ExxonKnews. ExxonKnews is a reporting project of the Center for Climate Integrity. The U.S. oil lobby aims to bul...
Edinburg Politics

Rep. Terry Canales, Sen. Juan Hinojosa, and Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa hail new $10.9 million DPS Hangar 5 as “a fortress of readiness that will house the guardians of our skies” - FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa; and Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen. The three South Texas leaders on Monday,...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Golden Age of America Made Great Again - Has America been made great again enough for you yet? I asked that question back in May of last year in a column titled The Godzilla Window. It didn’t go o...
Ecosophia

Evil Makes You Stupid: A Case Study - Yes, as most of my readers are probably aware by now, I’ve relocated. It’s been a little less than two years now since my wife Sara died; it’s been a rough...
Idavox

H.K. Edgerton, ROT IN HELL! - Uncle Ruckus had nothing on this one. A Black man that loved the Confederacy and... The post H.K. Edgerton, ROT IN HELL! appeared first on Idavox.
The Rag Blog

MARIANN GARNER-WIZARD / REMEMBRANCE / Robert “Bob” Pardun, beloved prairie radical - By Mariann Garner-Wizard / The Rag Blog / January 27, 2026 Robert Pardun was born June 30, 1941 and passed away January 16, 2026 after a long struggle with...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Buried Human Rights Reports Few Ever Heard Of! - Many of the biggest Human Rights groups in the world have been documenting atrocities by Israel against Palestinians for decades, possibly going back to...
Democracy Chronicles

Somaliland: A North-South Korea-like Divide… in Africa - With continued democracy and civic freedom, and now globalization and a start at international recognition, Somaliland's future is in the other direction: ...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Discourse

Discourse Pod #12: One Terrible Year of Trump 2.0 + Oscar Nominations Reactions (w/Katherine Krueger) - Katherine returns to recap the first year of Trump's violent, unrelenting second term.
Krebs on Security

Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? - The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf -- a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices -- recently shared a screenshot indicating th...
TalkLeft

Minnesota and Sunday Night Open Thread - A Minnesota judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the Department of Homeland Security prohibiting it from destroying evidence pertaining...
Avedon's Sideshow

All you gotta do is call - Neat, short little memo with useful graphs: "To: Interested Democrats From: Senators Chris Murphy, Adam Schiff, Tina Smith, and Elizabeth Warren Date: Jan...
MintPress News

Israel Backed Rioters fail regime change operation – Interview with Dr. Mohammad Marandi - Western media sold Iran’s protests as a democratic uprising. Behind the scenes, US-funded NGOs, Israeli intelligence claims, and recycled regime change t...
Media Lens

‘The Weak Must Suffer’: The Eternal Fiction Of The ‘International Rules-Based Order’ - These are exceptional times. The United States has been threatening to take over Greenland, an aggressive move against Europe. Now, and only now, are polit...
Sludge

Hudson River Park Trust to End Longstanding ICE Contract Following Sludge Report - After contracting with ICE since 2004, the Trust tells Sludge it will stop when the current contract ends in June.
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Dispatches from the Underclass

Iran, Venezuela, Palestine: The Collapse of International Law | Craig Mokhiber - We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestin...
Land Destroyer

US War on Venezuela is a War on the Multipolar World - *January 13, 2026* - (Beijing Review - Brian Berletic) - In brazen violation of international law and abandonment of even the illusion of legitimacy, the...
Texas Freedom Network

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Two Party Opera

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Reading the Pictures

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nonsite.org

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Reveal

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Green Pages News

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Campaign for America's Future

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ExChristian.Net

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Texas Monthly

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FrontBurner – D Magazine

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American Prospect

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

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Progressive Army

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

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The Socialist

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Free & Equal

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Rio Grande Guardian

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

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Nina Illingworth

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Stinque

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Bud Kennedy

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

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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...
Ring of Fire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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BEYONDbones

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Border/Lines

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

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Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

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Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

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The Intercept

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

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

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

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One People's Project

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

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So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

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Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

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Eclectablog

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Echidne of the Snakes

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VICE

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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

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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

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

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

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Bayou Brief

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Washington Babylon

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Talking Points Memo

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

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

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

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

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Malady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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