Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

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

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

Green Party 2024 end-of-the-year Election Reporthttps://t.co/0pZU74nDZz
• Greens win 54.3% of local elections they contest
• 160 Greens currently hold elected office
• Green candidates regain ballot status in 6 states
• Green presidential ticket finishes 3rd in nation pic.twitter.com/I72RZK9fl4
— Green Party Elections Data Base Reports & Analysis (@gpelections) December 30, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Al Jazeera English

Messi scores three goals, secures Golden Boot as Miami beat Nashville - Lionel Messi's 29 goals in 28 matches allow the Argentinian star to finish as MLS's top scorer for the first time.
jobsanger

Trump Got Played Again By Putin! -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1460: Chindogu - Episode: 1460 The little-known Japanese art of Chindogu. Today, the odd Japanese art of Chindogu.
First Draft

Jimmy Smith North Sea Jazz Festival Live - Cheers to Jimmy Smith.
The Week

Sudoku hard: October 19, 2025 - The Week's daily hard sudoku puzzle
memeorandum

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers) - G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers: *Second “No Kings Day” protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 m...
Deadline Politics

‘Saturday Night Live’ Goes With A Domingo Reprise For Cold Open Featuring Sabrina Carpenter - Saturday Night Live skipped major news events this week and went with a Domingo cold open, this time with Sabrina Carpenter’s spoof of Taylor Swift’s “The ...
Informed Comment

Our Fourth Amendment Rights Are Endangered Like Never Before - Trump is trying to disappear the part of the Constitution that stops the government from searching your house — or seizing you — without a warrant. By Mit...
The Hill

Here's what politicians said about 'No Kings Day' - Millions of Americans gathered together for "No Kings Day" protests across the country on Saturday, with elected leaders also participating in — or lampoon...
Mediagazer

A look at the TV journalists who left corporate jobs and built businesses that enabled them to hire dozens of people, using Substack, YouTube, Beehiiv, and more (Corbin Bolies/The Wrap) - Corbin Bolies / The Wrap: *A look at the TV journalists who left corporate jobs and built businesses that enabled them to hire dozens of people, using Su...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump news at a glance: Inflatable costumes aplenty as millions march against president - Republicans mostly silent as protesters turn out in every state to peacefully reject authoritarianism in No Kings rallies. Key US politics stories from S...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

No Kings: A Radical Democracy in Defense of the Founders’ Vision - Friends; *Today, millions marched in cities across the nation—myself included—under the banner “No Kings,” a simple, defiant affirmation of the Founders’ ...
Raw Story

'You used to be conservative': Fox News icon gets brutal fact check for Trump king comment - Fox News political analyst Brit Hume was hit with outrage on Saturday after appearing to reject the premise of the "No Kings" protests this weekend. Hume...
Dissident Voice

The CIA Wins Another Nobel Peace Prize - While millions waited in hopes that the Global Sumud Flotilla would win this year’s Nobel peace prize for its epic solidarity with Palestine, the Norwegi...
Slate

My Son Played a “Prank” on His Cousin. It’s Spiraled Into a Disaster I’m Not Sure I Can Fix. - It was a juvenile joke that went very wrong.
Mediaite

‘Intolerance is a Virtue’: Matt Walsh Slams Zohran Mamdani for Shaming Cuomo Over Islam - Matt Walsh blasted New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani for criticizing his competitor, Andrew Cuomo (D), for not being able to name a single...
Crooked Timber

Death and Capitalism (Part 1 of 4) - Within ten minutes I regretted my decision to walk to Creedon Street in the outback town of Broken Hill. At first, I thought it was the shoes. Stupid thing...
Consortium News

Chris Hedges — 2025 Edward Said Lecture, ‘Requiem for Gaza’ - Journalist Chris Hedges delivers the 2025 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, “Requiem for Gaza” in Adelaide, Australia. Chris Hedges gives the second talk of hi...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'No Kings' rally/protest in Columbia, SC sends a powerful message of defiance to Trump and Republican Party - Americans in cities all over the nation came out to represent during the No Kings rallies. My city of Columbia, SC was no different. Though I did not st...
Popular Resistance

Nobel War Prize - Alfred Nobel’s will spelled out how he wanted to honor those who are accomplished in the fields of medicine, literature, physics, chemistry, and “the per...
Eschaton

Saturday Night - It's alright
World Socialist Web Site

Millions rally against fascism in “No Kings” protests - Reflecting mass anger against attacks on democrats rights, rising inequality and fascism, millions of people have gathered at thousands of demonstrations a...
Mother Jones

There Sure Were a Lot of American Flags at the “Hate America Rally” - The first protester I noticed as I approached the No Kings rally Saturday was dressed as a giant yellow duck. All around, demonstrators were converging on ...
Daily Dot

“Itchy hands and feet”: 15 times people Googled their symptoms—and turned out to actually be right - [image: Mature woman doctor talk with patient about diagnose at doctors office. Reddit text overlay reads, "Reddit Doctors and Nurses: What's the most im...
Daily Cartoonist

41st Annual Stan Cross Awards (2025) - The Australian Cartoonists Association held their convention this weekend and as part of the gathering presented The 2025 Stanleys, more formally known as ...
NPR's Health Shots

For four years she hid her Parkinson's diagnosis. Then she let a reporter follow her journey. - Dr. Sue Goldie and New York Times reporter John Branch recount how a private, years-long conversation about her Parkinson's became a public story.
Axios

"No Kings" protests draw huge crowds across U.S. - Millions of protesters gathered in major cities across the U.S. and in other parts of the country on Saturday to take part in rallies against President T...
Trivial Knot

No Kings, October 2025 - I just came back from the No Kings protest. Last time, we went to the San Francisco protest, which was the largest crowd I’ve ever seen. This time, we we...
OpEd News

Millions Participate in No Kings Rallies! - Millions peacably participate in No Kings rallies in the US and internationally on Sat Oct. 18.
Political Wire

Putin Demands Ukraine Surrender Land - “Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call this week with President Donald Trump demanded that Kyiv surrender full control of Donetsk, a strategical...
Portside

The Zionist Consensus Among US Jews Has Collapsed. - The Zionist Consensus Among US Jews Has Collapsed. Dave Sat, 10/18/2025 - 16:20
Salon.com

“Dangerous precedent”: Rogan again blasts Trump’s ICE raids - Joe Rogan again condemned Trump’s use of federal forces in US cities, calling it a “dangerous precedent”
Socialist Alternative

American State Terror: Charlie Kirk & A New Red Scare - In the immediate wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Trump and a whole gallery of figures across the right made it crystal clear it was not just Kirk’s killer wh...
Angry Bear

Why are “Mikie” Johnson and Eli Crane Robbing Arizona of Congressional Representation? - New elected Arizona Congressional Representative Adelita Grijalva is blocked from taking office due to Mike Johnson delays in swearing her in to office. ...
Undernews

Some blue states not taking climate change seriously enough - * New Republic - *With Trump in death-drive mode on climate, canceling renewable energy projects left and right and even forbidding federal agencies to ...
Techdirt.

This Week In Techdirt History: October 12th – 18th - Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Ajit Pai put the final bullet in net neutrality and decided to move forward with unconstitutional rulemaking on Section 2...
Alternet

Trump opponents have a plan for exposing his 'power' as 'fragile' — not 'unstoppable' - Reporting live from a No Kings Day protest in New York City early Saturday afternoon, October 18, MSNBC's Antonia Hylton told host Ali Velshi that the pr...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

Dispatches Mailbag: Protests, Neo-Nazis, the Long Republican Con, and More - Another edition of the Dispatches Mailbag, where I answer your questions
WhoWhatWhy

Saturday Hashtag: #License2KillOwnership - [image: The Buy Button In Not Enough, 007, Amazon, Kindle, audible] Welcome to Saturday Hashtag, a weekly place for broader context. Saturday Hashtag: #Li...
Ballot Access News

New Jersey State Court Says Counties Cannot Use Office-Group Ballots in General Elections - On October 10, a New Jersey state appellate court ruled that Gloucester County cannot use office-group ballots in general elections, and must reprint ballo...
Courthouse News

Trump’s immigration crackdown weighs heavy on the US labor market - Economists say new immigration restrictions are straining key industries already facing worker shortages. Employers in agriculture, construction and servic...
The Conversation

Pennsylvania’s budget crisis drags on as fed shutdown adds to residents’ hardships — a political scientist explains - Pennsylvania has been without a state budget for over 100 days, and House Democrats and Senate Republicans are $3 billion apart on how much should be spent.
San Antonio Current

Concert review: The Melvins came to sacrifice San Antonio on the altar of sludge - Friday night at Paper Tiger, The Melvins delivered one of the best sets the Alamo City has experienced all year. The legendary group has existed in vari...
CultureMap Houston

Veteran Houston chef cooks up new Menil cafe and more popular stories - *Editor's note: It's time to look back at the top Houston news of the week, beginning with three restaurant openings. Plus, a billionaire family plans to m...
Futurism

MIT Grads Allegedly Googled “Money Laundering” Before Pulling Off $25 Million Crypto Heist - "In 12 seconds, the defendants tricked their victims out of $25 million." The post MIT Grads Allegedly Googled “Money Laundering” Before Pulling Off $25 ...
The Verge

TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war - In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to "TiVo" the new episode of Battl...
San Antonio Report

Ladino to celebrate third anniversary with block party at Pearl - The award-winning Mediterranean grill house Ladino will celebrate its third anniversary with a block party Sunday on its patio. ----------------------------...
Bracing Views

Why War on Venezuela? - Oil, maybe? BILL ASTORE OCT 17, 2025 I wonder why the Trump administration is so interested in Venezuela? Oh, so that’s why. A barrel of oil is selling for...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: "What a piece of work is a [person]!" - *SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2025* *Human dysfunction explained: *Leave it to Shakespeare to place such words in a character's mouth! In this instance, the ch...
Earthworks

In West Texas, Residents Face Drought, Proposals for More Pipelines - This summer, Earthworks embarked on a road trip with partners that started in the Permian Basin, which spans from West … The post In West Texas, Residen...
Election Law Blog

Thurs & Fri: Univ. of Penn Law Review Multiracial Democracy Symposium - You can register for and get more info on the symposium here. In light of recent attacks on multiracial democracy, I’m honored to co-organize The Futur...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for October 13 - 17 at Seeking Alpha - - *by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. About 90% of the high frequency data comes from non-Federal government ...
Reform Austin

Has a New Bird Species Been Discovered in Texas? - Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… A rare bird hybrid has been identified in a San Antonio backyard, marking what scientists belie...
Mondoweiss

Democrats finally seem ready to address the Gaza genocide, but it won’t matter if they don’t support Palestinian rights - [image: Kamala Harris speaking in 2019. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)]Trump’s flawed ceasefire plan has opened a door for Democrats to amend their shameful failur...
Glasstire

“Soy de Tejas” & Cheech Marin: Showcasing Texas Latinx Art in California - What more can I say about Soy de Tejas: A Statewide Survey of Latinx Art? In 2023 I wrote about the first exhibition at Centro de Artes in San Antonio… ...
Ian Welsh

Open Thread - Use to discuss topics unrelated to recent posts. You know the drill. Hup, Hup!
Grist

America’s biggest offshore wind farm will be online in 6 months - Dominion Energy’s 2.6 GW project off Virginia’s coast is progressing fast. The utility has a new, more definitive target to plug into the grid: March 2026.
The Root

13 Times Southern University Proved They Have the Flyest HBCU Band - After decades of debate on which HBCU band is the greatest, here's the best from Southern University. Read more...
The Daily Poster

YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: This 231-Year-Old Law Could Bypass Trump’s Tariffs - An Indigenous group pokes a hole in Trump’s tariffs, the country’s biggest landlords are shaken up, one state kills debt traps, and pig processors pay up.
Vox

The traffic revolution that’s making cities cleaner — and happier - While walking my son to school a couple of weeks ago, I noticed something odd happening on Court Street, a major thoroughfare that runs through our part of...
Progressive.org

Housing Is Needed for Domestic Violence Survivors - People fleeing abusive relationships need specific safety, support, and care.
ArcaMax

Saving Gopher Tortoises Means Protecting Their Homes, Not Just Moving Them - A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida's Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn't know how lucky it ...
naked capitalism

Links 10/18/2025 -
The Smirking Chimp

The Daily Chimp for Saturday, 18 October 2025 -
Skeptophilia

The vanishing island - Ready for a strange story, that has a curious connection to yesterday's post, about doorways and liminal spaces? Let's start with H. P. Lovecraft's famou...
Off The Kuff

Anti-campus protest law blocked - Good. A federal judge in Austin has temporarily blocked key parts of Texas’ new law limiting expression on campuses, halting the University of Texas System...
American Prospect

As Kaiser Workers Strike, ‘Not-for-Profit’ Is Sitting on $67 Billion - Kaiser has doubled down on hedge funds, outside staffing firms, and high executive compensation as workers lag behind.
Scheerpost.com

A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say - News of the strike comes as the US military’s top commander for Latin America has suddenly stepped down.
Infidel753

Link round-up for 18 October 2025 - Various interesting stuff I ran across on the net over the last week. o o o o o Behold the works of stupid people. This Halloween guardian skeleton is ve...
ProPublica

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force - by J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soo...
Democracy Chronicles

Challenges in Contemporary U.S. Leadership - Trump’s presidency raises questions about accountability, governance, and the U.S.’s standing on the global stage.
Crooked Media

Forever Young Republicans - The post Forever Young Republicans appeared first on Crooked Media.
Seeing the Forest

Who Will Stand With Us? - For No Kings Day. (Lyrics below video.) Throughout centuries in every country We’ve faced the wrath and felt the pain Of the tyrant’s sword or the henchman...
See You In 2020

America’s serial murder network, & how the Zionist entity aims to use it for targeted assassinations - To fight back against the terroristic violence that our government is directing against us, we must understand the methods of this campaign. We must acc...
Common Dreams

King Donald the First: Fuck That - The run-up to No Kings Day has seen a crazed wave of hysteria from a right wing shrieking about Hamas, Marxists, Huns, Orcs, Barbarians at the Gate with ...
Workers World

Reports from the Black Power era - [image: Reports from the Black Power era] By Susan Sherrell and Dave Welsh Oakland, California Mural in West Oakland, neighborhood of Oakland, California. ...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS EDITION. - *You still need a drugstore to cure my cough.* Getting this Friday ‘Round-the-Horn (which often turns into Saturday ‘Round-the-Horn or even Sunday ‘Round...
SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court announces it will hear several major cases in December - The Supreme Court announced on Friday afternoon that it will hear oral arguments on Dec. 8 in the battle over the president’s power to remove the heads o...
The NM Political Report

Heinrich agrees with Cardi B’s cost-of-living comments - [image: New Mexico Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich has come to the defense of rapper Cardi B, following comments she made about the economy.] [image: New ...
Wolf Street

AI-Powered Tricolor and its Mushroom Cloud of Fraud Allegations Are a Sign Greedy Lenders Closed their Eyes for Years, Not a Sign Consumers Are “Cracking” or Whatever - American consumers are doing OK on their auto loans.
El Paso Matters

Texas voters have final say on $20 billion package to secure state’s water supply - Texas voters will decide whether to dedicate $20 billion from existing sales taxes to shore up the state’s failing water infrastructure, from leaky pipe...
Texas Standard

Ready for some new music in your life? Look no further than North Texas - KXT host Amy Miller shares some of her current favorites, including Slow Joy, Abraham Alexander and Midlake.
Capital & Main

Oil and Gas Companies Used Banned Toxic Chemicals Near the Rocky Mountains - One of the prohibited substances can cause cancer; new state law forced operators to identify chemicals. The post Oil and Gas Companies Used Banned Toxic...
Lowering the Bar

Nirvana Beats Former Baby’s Lawsuit (Again) - [image: Cropped version of the Nirvana album cover]Please appeal again.
The Militant

Defend Israel’s right to exist as refuge from new Holocaust - Trump says that Hamas thugs patrolling streets of Gaza is OK The release of the 20 remaining living hostages by Hamas — starved, tortured and brutalized fo...
Sludge

Schumer Lines up Behind Centrists in Senate Primaries - In Michigan and Minnesota, Schumer’s reported favorites align with AIPAC’s endorsements and the crypto industry's supporters.
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party of Wisconsin Urges Support for Smith–Mundt Repeal Bill - The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin is urging the state’s congressional delegation to back a bill from Republican Rep. Thomas Massie that would reinstate ...
Second Nexus

Sarah Michelle Gellar Shares Poignant Tribute To Late 'Buffy' Costar Michelle Trachtenberg On Her 40th Birthday - *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* fans continue to mourn the loss of Michelle Trachtenberg, who played Buffy’s younger sister, Dawn Summers. The actress passed ...
Dorf on Law

Democratic Bigwigs versus Their Own Voters, Mamdani, and the Future - There is one truly optimistic story on the US political scene right now, and it is the mayoral election in New York City. With disgraced incumbent Mayor...
The Texas Signal

‘No Kings’ Protests Return To Texas - Thousands of Texans are expected at another round of No Kings protests against the Trump administration all over the state
slacktivist

Young Republicans cheer for racism, Hitler. Yes, actually. - The Politico expose of Young Republicans' gleefully racist chat transcripts may not surprise you, but it will be shocking and surprising to many of your ne...
Discourse

Bird of the Week: Emu - How have we not done this one before?!?!?!
Rallblog

TMI Show Ep 246: “John Bolton Indicted” - LIVE 10 AM Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Tune in to “The TMI Show” for an investigation into former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s federal in...
Space City Weather

Pace of cool fronts may pick up some as autumn attempts to establish itself finally - In brief: Scattered showers and some embedded thunderstorms will dot the Houston area today and Saturday, although we really, really need some rain. A gene...
Rewire

More People Are Freezing Their Eggs—But Most Will Never Use Them - A new study shows that just 6 percent of those who froze their eggs between 2014 and 2021 had returned to use them for in vitro fertilization within seve...
Debunking Christianity

The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 6 - *Bad theology in the Old Testament* Not too long ago I saw a video: a conservative woman being interviewed by a man who wanted to know her opinion abou...
Democracy Now!

"No Kings. No Thrones. No Crowns.": Millions to Protest Saturday in 1000s of Cities, Towns Nationwide - Even as President Trump has cracked down on dissent and sent troops into multiple cities, organizers of Saturday’s anti-authoritarian “No Kings” protests e...
Krebs on Security

Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk - Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with menacing messa...
High Country News

Watching the Oregon ash vanish - The emerald ash borer is killing the native tree. How do we make the most of the time while it’s still here? The post Watching the Oregon ash vanish app...
Counterpunch

Walls of Shame, Hall of Fame: Barenboim in Berlin - The Berlin Wall was breached on the night of November 9th, 1989. The German Democratic Republic was done. East Berliners poured through the suddenly open...
Brad Blog

'Roberts-Mandering': Activist SCOTUS Repubs Appear Ready to Gut Rest of Voting Rights Act: 'BradCast' 10/16/2025 - I was hoping for at least some optimism from my guests on today's BradCast regarding the future of the landmark Voting Right Act of 1965. I'm sorry to say,...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio October 17, 2025 - Black Agenda Radio October 17, 2025 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/17/2025 - 06:21 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agend...
Antiwar.com

President Trump Goes to War! - “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker,” U.S. President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address. He promised to “measure our success… most imp...
The Greanville Post

Col. Larry Wilkerson: The Iran War Threat RETURNS — But Iran Has Transformed into a Military Giant! - DW—The dramatic shift in American public opinion, particularly among Jewish Americans, who increasingly view Israeli actions as war crimes, signals a seism...
Texas Observer

‘Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History - Greg Abbott intends to run for reelection to a fourth term as Texas governor in 2026, which if served to completion would secure his spot in the history ...
LareDOS

Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez awarded APHA’s 2025 Sedgwick Memorial Medal for Distinguished Service in Public Health - SaludAmerica!
Greg Palast

Palast, Hartmann Speak in San Diego, LA this Friday, SaturdayTwo evening talks — plus Palast at No Kings this Saturday - Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann to take the crown off King Donald’s comb-over. Three chances to catch their act.... READ MORE
DeSmogBlog

Reform Conference Sponsor Called Farage’s Rhetoric ‘Very Far-Right’ - The sponsor of a flagship event at Reform UK’s annual conference has accused party leader Nigel Farage of adopting “very far-right, very anti-immigrant” ...
Project Censored

Legacy Media Is Failing Trans People - By Shealeigh Voitl The same day that Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk, co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, at Utah Val...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

The Daily Mail deems this cheesy new Chili’s dish “disgusting” - I’m sorry to link a Daily Mail article in the sophisticated forum that is Frontburner, but only the DM would be deranged enough to write the headline: “C...
The AltWorld

Middle East on edge of long war fueled by US, Israel - Abdel Bari Atwan warns that the aggressive policies of the United States and Israel have pushed the […] The post Middle East on edge of long war fueled b...
Unlimited Hangout

City-States Without Limits – Part 2 - In Part 1, we discussed the NRx technocrats’ ideas and how they have influenced the city-state model that seeks to capitalise on the global proliferation...
Earth 911

What To Do When Your Water Tastes Bad - It’s understandable that Americans are concerned about water quality these days. Not only is the... The post What To Do When Your Water Tastes Bad appear...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Maine Senate Primary Tests Whether Democrats Will Keep Deferring to Their Leaders - Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of part...
Avedon's Sideshow

I'm just a wandering on the face of this earth - Very seasonal photo of a tree near Glastonbury Tor by Mike Jeffries. "Trump's Blueprint to Crush the Left Draws from Decades of Counterterrorism Policy: *...
MintPress News

Aaron Maté: Gaza, Gas, and the Real Estate Empire Behind Trump’s Deal - Journalist Aaron Maté joins Mnar Adley to discuss Israel’s ceasefire with Hamas, the lopsided prisoner exchange, and how Larry Ellison’s CBS takeover cem...
Texas Freedom Network

A Chance for Change: TFN Endorses Cy-Fair Candidates - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. A lot of folks might feel overwhelmed or even powerless in the face of the seemingly constant stream of corr...
ExChristian.Net

True Believers and the Iron Grip of Belief - It never ceases to amaze me how completely a human mind can be taken over by belief. Once someone decides they have the truth, there’s no reaching them wit...
NORML

FBI: Marijuana Possession Arrests Comprised Over 20% of All Drug-Related Arrests in 2024 - [image: a police officer handcuffs a man's arms behind his back while another officer in the background uses her radio][image: a police officer handcuffs...
Dissent Magazine

Know Your Enemy: How Charles Murray (Almost) Predicted the Trump Era - Matt and Sam read Charles Murray’s 2012 book, *Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010*.
Ecosophia

The No-Ego Ego Trip: An Interlude - Every year or two I field an earnest message from someone who’s just discovered that the human ego is the cause of all the world’s problems. The sender’s i...
Progressives Chat

Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! - The October 3, 2025 episode of HBO’s *Real Time with Bill Maher* included among its guests *Van Jones*. Van Jones can be described in three words which a...
WAWG Blog

Creating a Democratic Socialist State in USofA - I asked Proton’s Lumo AI tool about creating a democratic socialist state in the United States of America. Our authoritarian capitalism has led to massiv...
Church and State

Put Trump‘s day of triumph in Gaza in perspective - Trump's constant efforts to dismantle our democracy will continue and he will stop at nothing to install his authoritarian regime.
The Grayzone

Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows - The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighb...
Edinburg Politics

Sen. Hinojosa, Rep. Canales, Rep. Guerra praise grand opening of $145.7 million UT Health RGV Cancer and Surgery Center in McAllen, hint at much bigger expansion in upcoming few years - Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, and Rep. Bobby Guerra, D-McAllen, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, praised the grand opening o...
Field Negro

Almost there. - *" Mr. Field Please blog about your thoughts on the Charlie Kirk killing".* I have been getting a lot of those requests lately via email and other int...
The Progressive Wing

10/13-10/19 News Roundup & Open Thread - Today is NoKings National Protest (second one). I hope to join my comrades. The shutdown continues…more news, videos, and of course, your comments after th...
Environment Texas

95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 - Entanglements are bad news for whales–and 2024 was a bad year for entanglements The post 95 whales were entangled in the US in 2024 appeared first on Env...
TalkLeft

Remembering Diane Keaton - R.I.P. Diane Keaton. The incredibly accomplished and uniquely gifted actor, interior designer, photographer, fashion icon, and single mother of two, who ...
Claytoonz

ICE ICE Terrorists - 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...
Idavox

The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Became Part of ICE’s New Facility in Broadview - David Morgan At first glance, the story of 1900 S. 25th Avenue in Broadview, Illinois,... The post The Segerdahl Saga: How a Small Printing Company Becam...
Media Lens

Blinkered Bowen: The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’ - On the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel, with Middle East peace talks underway, BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen asked, ‘Will Isr...
Liberation News

Hegseth’s speech: Beyond the spectacle, a racist purge of the military - Iraq war veteran explains what Hegseth's speech really means: purging the military to create a lily-white, all male "Crusader Army."
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Voter Enthusiasm - 11×17 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 694kb I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these days comes from the five minutes or ...
Duck of Minerva

Antisemitism, Israel and the Problem with no Easy Solution - Debates about Israel and Palestine have, as one scholar remarked to me, become the “third rail” in British academia. That needs to change. The terror attac...
Alas, a Blog

They Think They Own The Road! - A cartoon by me and Becky Hawkins. Becky writes: In recent years, I’ve become involved with local organizing efforts around safer streets. I’ve had some ga...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2025 - Walmart had another thirteen shootings in September of 2025, with at least four deaths including one officer involved fatal shooting and two suicides, t...
Web of Debt

How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain - The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independen...
Reading the Pictures

Chatting The Pictures: The Grand Climate Disconnect - The video explores how the calm tourists, vast canyon, and looming smoke capture both beauty and danger, echoing classic landscape art. The post Chatting...
Progressive Army

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

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The Rag Blog

ALICE EMBREE / BOOK REVIEW / Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973 - By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / September 29, 2025 This review is a cross post from Alice Embree’s Substack. Rag Radio with guest Martin Murray: Alice Emb...
nonsite.org

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Campaign for America's Future

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Screwston Antifascist Committee

Missouri City GDL Neo-Nazi Identified as Douglas Earl Landrum - Summary Douglas Earl Landrum has been responsible for distributing numerous white supremacist flyers and banners in the Houston area in 2022 and 2023 on be...
Consent Factory, Inc.

Back in the U.S.S.A. - OK, I’m not back in the U.S.S.A. quite yet, but I’ll be there Sunday night, assuming (a) the German officials allow me to leave, and (b) the Guardians of A...
The Socialist

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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.
Rio Grande Guardian

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

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

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

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

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

Israeli Terror in Lebanon: Inside the Pager Attacks | BT Documentary Exclusive - On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communicatio...
Land Destroyer

US Still Dangerous Despite Limits of Military Production - *July 9, 2025* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - The US has recently paused the shipment of some weapons and munitions to Ukraine “due to worries that U.S. weapon...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Reveal

From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth - [image: A woman with long dark hair sits on a bench swing. She wears a black short-sleeve top with shoulder cutouts and dark ripped jeans.] Several propos...
Countercurrents

The Light of “Heart Lamp”: Amplifying the Voices of Muslim and Dalit Women on the Global Stage - Indian writer, lawyer, and social activist Banu Mushtaq has been awarded the International Booker Prize for 2025. She received this prestigious recognition...
Ring of Fire

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

Seniors Revolt as Trump Messes With Their Healthcare - Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is here — and it’s got America’s elderly supporters raising hell (and their canes). Promised cheaper, better healthcare, they’...
Southeast Texas Record

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

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

Feminist Peace In Question - Our final piece in the symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace is a reply from our authors to the contributions by Nicole, Mohamed, Helen, and Laura. It ...
Texans For Public Justice

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

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

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Equality Texas

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

Tesla Shares Fall After Massive Drop In Sales - Tesla’s stock value has taken a significant hit, dropping over 9% following a sharp decline in sales across the UK and European Union in January. This down...
The Reality-Based Community

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CPI's Danger in the Air

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

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

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

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

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

41: When Do Good Habits Become Dark Obsessions? - Moya and Ash tackle a mystery question about breaking bad habits, with a frank discussion about open relationships, exercise and disordered eating (content...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Green Pages News

Why a vote for Kamala Harris for president is a wasted climate vote in California – vote Green instead - By Mike Feinstein If you are a climate voter in California, you could be throwing away your vote if you vote for Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party nomine...
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

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

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

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

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

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
Dandelion Salad

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road to Hell -
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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