Brains and Eggs: Merry 2013

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/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 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

Futurism

There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry - "People aren’t just dropping their shorts for data centers anymore." The post There Are Signs of Serious Trouble in the Data Center Industry appeared fir...
Axios

Trump ordered to sit for deposition in $10 billion BBC lawsuit - A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Trump to sit for a deposition by Dec. 11 in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC over an edit...
Houston Public Media

This company pioneered transplants with genetically modified pig organs. Now they’ve opened a Houston office - The company’s third such facility will focus on commercial production for genetically modified organs, if and when United Therapeutics receives federal app...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli attacks in Gaza kill four, including a young girl - Four Palestinians killed as Israeli military expands control across Gaza, displacing millions and destroying homes.
Raw Story

White House 'legal freak out' exposes Stephen Miller play to oust Susie Wiles: analysis - A White House legal threat to Politico suggests Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is likely trying to oust Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, according to a ...
Deadline Politics

Politico Corrects Susie Wiles Story After Trump Official’s Threat, But Media Outlet’s Attorney Warns White House Of “Unconstitutional Retaliation” - Politico corrected a report from last week on the role that Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff Susie Wiles played preceding the exit of Katie Zacharia as White ...
Courthouse News

Windfall tax on Big Oil wins backing of EU legal adviser as energy bills bite - A court adviser agreed with taxing energy company profits to ease soaring bills, but experts questioned how far emergency powers should reach.
Common Dreams

Government Drops Appeal, Preserving Win for Plaintiffs in Challenge to Trump-Vance Administration’s Weaponization of Public Service Loan Forgiveness - The Trump-Vance administration has abandoned its appeal in *National Council of Nonprofits et al. v. McMahon*, a *case* brought by a broad coalition of n...
CultureMap Houston

Alt-rock trio Ben Folds Five brings 2027 reunion tour to Houston - Alternative rock band Ben Folds Five is returning to the stage for the first time in 15 years in 2027, including a stop at the 713 Music Hall in Houston on...
Eschaton

FALL FUNDRAISER DAY 2 - One free testosterone level test with every donation!* *not actually true. Venmo! Or Paypal! Or Patreon! Thanks to all!
Political Wire

Federal Judge Curbs Hunt for Noncitizen Voters - “A federal judge on Wednesday restricted the Department of Homeland Security from election-related investigations in nine states, finding that error-prone ...
Election Law Blog

Is Trump Administration Setting Up to Leapfrog Judge Carter (Potentially Even to the Supreme Court) to Get Los Angeles County to Segregate Ballots DOJ Claims May Include Noncitizens? - The case over the Trump Administration’s illegal and unprecedented request for Los Angeles to segregate ballots from an unknown number of people on the f...
Mother Jones

Experts Say Land Venture Linked to David Flippo is “Batshit” and a “Huge Red Flag” - In December 2022, a 20-year-old California woman loaned most of her savings to a venture calling itself Lost Basin Holdings. In theory, the $25,000 loan fr...
Ballot Access News

Working Families Party Asks Voters Not to Vote for One of its New York Legislative Nominees - The Working Families Party of New York is asking voters not to vote for its nominee in the 113th Assembly district. See this story. The party says he is an...
The Verge

You could just get a refurbished Samsung phone on Amazon - I recently bought a used Galaxy phone, and now Samsung is leaning into that market on Amazon after raising prices on its newest phones. Its certified renew...
The Daily Poster

What’s So Radical About Angie Nixon? - The Florida Democrat says she’s no extremist. She’s just running ‘toward the people and what it is that they need.’
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

What the 2027 Rankings Do—and Do Not—Tell Us about Texas Higher Education, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *What the 2027 Rankings Do—and Do Not—Tell Us about Texas Higher Education* *by * *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *October 22, 2026* *The newly released U.S...
Dorf on Law

Taxing the Billionaires: Essential Information About Anti-Tax Dogma - On Tuesday of this week, in "The Other Huge Election Issue: Taxing the Billionaires," I wrote this about next month's US midterm elections: [B]eyond cont...
Independent Political Report

Former Green Party Presidential Nominee Cynthia McKinney Endorses Kentucky Libertarian Jeremy Todd for Congress - Libertarian Jeremy Todd has picked up the endorsement of former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, the Green Party’s 2008 presidential nominee, in hi...
Slate

The Most Ambitious Stop-Motion Movie of All Time Is Here, and It’s Tremendous - The studio behind Coraline is back with another breathtakingly animated—and surprisingly adult—instant classic.
naked capitalism

Job-Based Health Plan Costs Rise, With Little Relief in Sight - Health insurance cost in the US continue to rise to the sky. Guess what? AI is a big driver.
Daily Howler

GENDER: Gurov spoke of "the lesser breed!" - *THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2026* *Routinely, so does Gutfeld:* We don't regard it as his "fault." But the Fox News Channel's Greg Gutfeld is almost surely th...
Glasstire

Géricault, Mel Casas & Deborah Roberts Among Recent Museum Acquisitions - The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) has announced a raft of recent acquisitions, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has acquired works b...
Mondoweiss

We beat the Trump administration in court. Now we’re going to the ICC to hold the U.S. accountable for the Gaza genocide - [image: Aftermath of an Israeli airstrike targeting the home of the al-Tawil family in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, May 26, 2026. (Photo: Hassan al...
Texas Standard

Today on Texas Standard: Texas women bring homegrown horror to ‘Beneath the Bluebonnets’ - A new short-story collection puts Texas women at the center of the horror genre. “Beneath the Bluebonnets: Tales of Terror by Texas Women” gathers eerie st...
Scheerpost.com

As More Unions Oppose ICE and Israel, the Right Is Cracking Down - By Blanca Missé This article was originally published by Truthout The right is trying to gain access to labor unions’ minutes, membership lists, and Zoom c...
Bonddad

Jobless claims continue near historic lows, forecast sub-4.0% unemployment rate - * - by New Deal democrat* Let’s take our regular weekly look at jobless claims. As a brief reminder, I always look at this because, especially in con...
Texas Observer

‘After the Genocide, the Genocide’: A Houston Doctor’s Record of Gaza - On September 24, a federal judge ruled that the University of Texas at Austin had acted within its rights when it canceled a pro-Palestinian protest in A...
ProPublica

Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims. - The post Nuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims. appeared first on ProPublica.
Angry Bear

Eli Crane Voted for Over $1 trillion in Republican Healthcare Cuts – AZ Voting Information - Some Voting Information on Medicaid and the Affordable Healthcare Act issues. I posted some of the information that may not be well known as this is info...
Workers World

Black Panther Party: A 60 year-old legacy - [image: Black Panther Party: A 60 year-old legacy] Sixty years ago, after examining conditions in Oakland, California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, along w...
Space City Weather

Our way-too-early forecast for Halloween in Houston - In brief: Given Houston’s ongoing sunny forecast, we take a trip into the future in today’s post and offer you with a way-too-early forecast for Halloween ...
Alternet

Trump gets chilling prison warning after president’s coup backfired - President Donald *Trump* receives a chilling warning that he could face a lengthy prison sentence in a new analysis examining what could happen if he att...
Novara Media

Alleged Killer of Gazan 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab Goes on Holiday in the US - The Israeli military commander accused of ordering the killing of Hind Rajab has been on holiday in the US – prompting calls for his arrest. The Hind Rajab...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Vivek Ramaswamy campaign ad for Ohio ‘shameful, disgusting’, says Republican congresswoman – US politics live - Nancy Mace said: ‘This ad is going to go down as the most shameful, disgusting, offensive ad this election season’ - Sign up for the Breaking ...
WhoWhatWhy

Why the 10th Anniversary of ‘Black Jeopardy With Tom Hanks’ Matters - [image: Black Jeopardy skit on Saturday Night Live] Two weeks before Donald Trump was elected for the first time, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch that h...
Rewire

In Georgia Election, Affordability Beats Abortion for Student Voters - The governor’s race between Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson is a toss-up. We asked University of Georgia students about the issues that matter to the...
Vox

Islamophobia is getting louder. Why isn’t the response? - Welcome to The Midterms, Actually. Every week I’ll be writing about two things: one big idea or trend I see forming across the 2026 primaries, and one thin...
The Week

Is Saudi Arabia losing its lustre? - Regime’s bold plan to diversify the economy away from oil ‘now faces an existential hurdle with unprecedented Houthi attacks’ and waning confidence among f...
Mediaite

Trump Vents His ‘Concern’ About Dan Sullivan vs. Dan Sullivan Race: ‘This Is CHEATING’ - "It’s ridiculous that the Court didn’t stop this SCAM. Even 1, 2, or 3% could make the difference," Trump wrote on Truth Social. The post Trump Vents His...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Governors: Ohio to Leans Democratic Among Other Changes as Dems Eye Gubernatorial Majority - Moves in Ohio, Michigan, Alabama, and Oklahoma The post The Governors: Ohio to Leans Democratic Among Other Changes as Dems Eye Gubernatorial Majority ap...
Salon.com

The Democrat congressional candidate who won’t be kink-shamed - On Long Island, Chris Gallant’s response to racy leaked images shows the real scandal isn’t his
The Root

The Big Push for Black Poll Workers Ahead of the 2026 Midterm Elections is Real - Jessica Switzer of All Voting Is Local Wisconsin discusses the push to recruit more Black poll workers, why representation matters and how to get involve...
The Smirking Chimp

Why America Hates the Billionaire Barons of Big Tech -
Off The Kuff

November 2026 Day Three EV totals: Look who’s a Talafreako now - It’s Day Three, let’s just get right into it. The 2014 EV totals are here, the 2018 totals are here, the 2022 totals are here, and your Day Three 2026 tota...
Crooked Media

Vivek Is Trash w. Jane Coaston - The post Vivek Is Trash w. Jane Coaston appeared first on Crooked Media.
NPR's Health Shots

5 simple ways to relieve the aches and pains of sitting at a desk all day - Sitting at a desk all day hurts. And it isn't good for us. Strategies to make it a little more comfortable, from eye muscle exercises to alleviate eye stra...
Grist

The hidden history of how Big Oil invented the American Dream - From the family car to the dream kitchen, fossil fuel companies sold a vision of prosperity that depended on their own products. Grist dug up a century of ...
OpEd News

Ilhan Omar and the American Promise: Citizenship, Gratitude, and the Rule of Law - A naturalized American citizen reflects on his 50-year journey from Iran to America, his service to the country, and a 14-month bureaucratic ordeal. Throug...
Infidel753

I voted -- plus a few political odds and ends - I dropped off my ballot at the county drop box on Wednesday morning. No problems -- no federal goons or other miscreants lurking about (the drop box I us...
Consortium News

Rappers for US Regime Change - From Cuba to Senegal and Bangladesh, Alan MacLeod reports on how the U.S. government uses a medium of struggle pioneered by Black artists in New York as a ...
DeSmogBlog

In Pictures: ‘Armageddon’ at Europe’s Swim Spots Linked to Climate Change and Factory Farm Pollution - A version of this article was published in Euronews and Climatica Across Brittany, tractors can be seen trundling onto beaches to remove truckloads of fo...
Land Destroyer

US Cannibalizes Its Proxies and Itself as War on Multipolarism Expands - *September 29, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - For decades, the US has leveraged its many client states as extensions of its own military, economic, finan...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian establishment exploits violent attack on MP to demonise political opposition - The political and media establishment has preempted any investigation of the motivations of Monday’s horrific incident.
jobsanger

Taxes Need To Be Raised On The Rich -
Portside

‘Palestinians Face Far Worse Consequences Every Day,’ Says Brad Lander After Release From IDF Custody - ‘Palestinians Face Far Worse Consequences Every Day,’ Says Brad Lander After Release From IDF Custody Mark Brody Thu, 10/22/2026 - 01:01
Informed Comment

US pulls some Personnel from Riyadh Embassy as Houthi Drones Kill 3 - Drones slammed into the King Fahd Airport at Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, killing one person and injuring eight, some critically.
The Hill

Tiffany, Crowley tangle in only Wisconsin governor's debate: 3 takeaways - Democrat David Crowley and Republican Tom Tiffany faced off in their first and only debate in the race to succeed retiring Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D). C...
Techdirt.

Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & It’s Absolute Trash - Alright, I don’t quite know what to make of what Epic Games is doing with this AI-driven nonsense, but it’s not great. I’ve spent a bit of time trying to a...
See You In 2020

Jewish ethno-narcissism, modern settler-colonialism, & the contradiction DSA’s politics can’t reckon with - If we’re going to defeat the Judeophilic ethno-narcissism that pervades far too many “pro-Palestine” spaces, we’ll need to discredit the ultra-leftist v...
Popular Resistance

The World Rises Up Against The US Neoliberal Order - The current protests against economic distress and deteriorating social and material conditions in several countries stem from one issue: the global neol...
Mediagazer

Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg says the White House told him he is no longer the print pool reporter on Thursday, after Trump snapped at him on Tuesday (Max Tani/@maxwelltani) - Max Tani / @maxwelltani: *Independent reporter Andrew Feinberg says the White House told him he is no longer the print pool reporter on Thursday, after Tr...
Antiwar.com

Trump Finds Out! Washington Is the War Capital of the World - Part 1 In case you are ever tempted to feel sorry for Trumpy – now might be the time. We are referring, of course, to the current shrill crescendo of attac...
SCOTUSblog

Trump administration asks justices to allow border wall construction to continue - The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon, asking the justices to allow it to resume construction of its border wall ...
The Greanville Post

Its Freikorps Time! Together with the organized dissipation of revolutionary energy - RB—The national police forces mirror the para-military groups, a mass of working and lower middle class recruits lead by those aligned with the interests o...
San Antonio Report

CPS Energy is here to help this fall and winter - SPONSORED: For some households, energy costs can add another challenge to an already tight budget. CPS Energy has resources that can help. -----------------...
Claytoonz

Vivek Loves Pedos - Read the Blog and subscribe to my Substack. There are 13 days until the midterms. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, ple...
IVN

Tres candidatos estatales respaldan a los votantes independientes frente a los operadores de los partidos - Una campaña respaldada por líderes demócratas y republicanos busca derogar la primaria no partidista y dejar fuera a los independientes. Pero tres candidat...
Wolf Street

The Unloved 20-Year Treasury Bond Sells at 5.47%, Highest Auction Yield since… (1986*) - The bond market has come to grips with these 5%-plus yields and settles in.
Polygraph (global fact-check)

US adds wrongful detention warning to China travel advisory - The U.S. State Department has added a wrongful detention warning to its travel advisory for mainland China, cautioning that Americans face a serious risk o...
slacktivist

Grifters of the Lost Ark (again) - The "search for Noah's ark" is a scam. It's always a scam. It has always been a scam. So treat the next one as almost certainly also a scam.
memeorandum

Ralph Norman: 'My family is not going to vote for Darline Graham' (Sarah Davis/The Hill) - Sarah Davis / The Hill: *Ralph Norman: ‘My family is not going to vote for Darline Graham’* — Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said on Wednesday he's keeping...
San Antonio Current

South Texas House candidate Brandon Herrera says kittens should be sent to Chinese restaurants - The latest unearthing of an offensive remark by the San Antonio-area Republican comes as a poll shows him tied with Democrat Katy Padilla Stout. The po...
Discourse

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Vile Endgame (w/Producer Sam) - Plus: A vibe check from the Texas early voting frontlines, Bari Weiss (reportedly!) going after Abdul El-Sayed, and against spoilers!!!
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

We Have to Demand Better: The Check-In with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie - A recording from Jared Yates Sexton's live video
Ian Welsh

The World Continues To Seek Alternatives To American Tech - As I’ve been writing for a long time now, as the US abuses its power, other nations move away from it. For example: NEW: Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan and Indone...
Bracing Views

What Does America Value? - War and Weapons, or Schools and Hospitals? BILL ASTORE OCT 17, 2026 The one quote I know from Joe Biden is show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you v...
Progressive.org

The Power of Kneeling - By refusing to make his act of protest personal, Colin Kaepernick’s kneel became replicable for people across the country to express political dissent.
Undernews

Hooked to YouTube - *NBC News *- A sixth grader in Wisconsin viewed 2,204 YouTube videos last school year. In Pennsylvania, an eighth grader viewed more than 4,700. Over th...
The NM Political Report

‘No corporation is too powerful’: New Mexico wins massive $25B ruling against Meta - [image: Attorney General Raúl Torrez speaks at a press conference Friday after Jurors in state District Court found Friday that Meta Platforms Inc., former...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

#MAGAInYourBathroom ad blister Republicans for 'creepy' focus on trans people and public bathrooms - From *LGBTQNation: * The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young ...
El Paso Matters

False pamphlets causing backlash and confusion, Texas transgender rights group says - The mailers, sent by an organization formed last month in Wyoming, implicate a Texas transgender rights group that says it was not involved. The post Fa...
Church and State

Can NAD+ supplements help us age more healthily? Here’s what the science shows - One molecule in particular, NAD+, has attracted growing interest, with claims it can boost energy, improve vitality, slow ageing and even help us live longer.
First Draft

Donald Is His Own Body Man - Donald Trump: Insult Comedian and Ass-examiner-in chief.
Sludge

The Democratic Fundraiser Opening Doors for Big Tech - Helen Milby raises money for the New Democrats, runs a nonprofit connecting tech executives with Congress, and advises the industry-backed Chamber of Progr...
Capital & Main

Jan. 6 Election Deniers Are Back on the Ballot - From California to Florida, Republicans who backed Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election are running for office. The post Jan. 6 Election Deniers ...
Environment Texas

NEW REPORT: PFAS contamination in Texas’ rivers, bayous - The post NEW REPORT: PFAS contamination in Texas’ rivers, bayous appeared first on Environment Texas.
Krebs on Security

Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today - Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix ...
Dissent Magazine

Psychedelic Muskism - Half a century since the start of the war on drugs, psychedelics are now proffered by Silicon Valley not as a threat to American capitalism but as its sa...
Liberation News

The Midterm Curse Proves the Two-Party System is a Dead End - The growing desire across the country to defeat Trump and his billionaire agenda is righteous. But what will a “blue wave” in the midterm elections actuall...
Ecosophia

Public Health: Slow Motion Disaster Revisited - Our ongoing review of my first and least accurate set of predictions about the immediate future of industrial society has had its ups and downs, its hits a...
Daily Cartoonist

Wayback Whensday: Will & Nancy - Will Johnson is an American cartoonist, notable as one of Ernie Bushmiller’s assistants on his daily ‘Nancy’ strip. He worked on the series from the late 1...
The Conversation

Offering cash for votes is quite common – but here’s why it doesn’t work - Money or other material benefits are often not enough to override a voter’s preferences and partisanship.
Rallblog

France “Doom Loop”: Really? | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE: MWF 9-11 am Eastern time & 9-10 am Tues-Thurs & Streaming Anytime • France’s “Doom Loop”: Populist protests explode across France as investors dump...
Duck of Minerva

Huntington wasn’t wrong. He just wasn’t right - Big ideas often get watered down when tested empirically. Scott Appleby’s masterful Ambivalence of the Sacred—which includes deep, rich discussions of reli...
Democracy Now!

"When the Bubble Bursts": Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Reclaiming Democracy from AI Oligarchs - We’re joined by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, co-authors of the book *End Times Fascism*, for a wide-ranging conversation on the multitrillion-dollar globa...
The Progressive Wing

10/21 News Roundup and Open Thread - Early voting continues to be very good for the Dems.
ArcaMax

All of Trump's Men: Don't Blame Them - WASHINGTON -- Once upon a time, a theory made waves in political science courses that it didn't matter who the president was because the U.S. government wa...
High Country News

‘We come from people who work the land’ - #iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region. The post ‘We come from people who work the land’ appeared first on High ...
Two Party Opera

French Student Protests - Read More
Trivial Knot

We’re back - FTB was down for about a week. Bluehost seems to have issues getting its database in order, and every so often convinces itself that FTB’s true owner is t...
Brad Blog

Virginia Voting to Restore Felon Voting Rights; Trump DOJ Creating ‘Felons’ to Undermine California Voters: ‘BradCast’ 10/20/2026 - On today’s BradCast: As voters in one state vote to re-enfranchise voters to correct a century-and-a-half old wrong, our sore loser President is dragging l...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

No Kings, No Threat - 14 x 18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.6mb They’re burnin’ down the house in Paris and, meanwhile, here in Shithole USA, people at the “No Kings” even...
Earthworks

Hearings Spotlight Human Rights Impacts of Canadian Mining throughout Latin America - Representatives from six communities dealing with the impacts of Canadian mining projects in Latin America will testify in a hearing held by the Inter-Am...
Consent Factory, Inc.

An Invitation to My Sentencing Hearing - On Monday, October 26, I will return to the court where I was originally acquitted to be sentenced for a crime I didn’t commit. The public and press are co...
Socialist Alternative

Far Right Gains In Brazil Elections: How Can It Actually Be Defeated? - On October 4, the Brazilian far right won its most decisive triumph since the country’s military dictatorship in 1988. Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL) ...
NORML

Poll: Candidates’ Views on Cannabis Policy Will Play a Role in Voters’ Decisions This November - [image: a person's hands are together holding a button that reads "vote" nestled amongst a pile of cannabis buds][image: a person's hands are together ho...
Progressives Chat

2026 U.S. Midterms: Two Weeks Out - Effective with this topic’s publishing date…we are two weeks out from the general election scheduled for Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Here are some of my t...
Seeing the Forest

Oligarchs Are Using Social Media To Destabilize Democracies - This post was first published at Government Cheese – Chronicling the collapse of democracy, because it belonged there. Social media and other information o...
Crooked Timber

Turns out the Melbourne Mint was about Gold for India - Last week I was in the Public Records of Victoria (PROV) looking at records of the Melbourne mint. My substack about the Sydney mint by rights should come ...
The Grayzone

Exclusive: FBI subpoenas pro-Palestine activists over Israeli weapons plant disruption - Two US-based activists have been ordered by the Department of Justice to testify in mysterious grand jury proceedings, even after they served two months ...
Project Censored

A Spotlight on School Book Bans - On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down and speaks to Kasey Meehan, Director of Freedom to Read at PEN America. They dis...
Alas, a Blog

The Implications Have Become The Monster - This is just an in-joke for me (and for you folks), but I’m pleased by the store sign in panel one, which is blocked by both a telephone pole and a word ba...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part I - From whence come the industrious people? Why spend months reading Marx’s so-called ‘notebooks’ in Theories of Surplus Value, Part 1 (TSVI) when you coul...
Speak Freely (ACLU)

$100 Million ICE “Intelligence” Program is a Domestic Secret Police Agency in the Making - Administration that has ordered agencies to target activists and nonprofits would hire “intelligence” agents within ICE to identify “threats” and investiga...
The Texas Signal

Early Voting Starts In Texas - Even though it has been a generation since Texas has elected a Democrat to a statewide office, the potential for a flip in one or several races seems highl...
Debunking Christianity

Edward Babinski's Foreword To "Why I Became An Atheist" - I've decided to publish whole chapters from my books. I may eventually publish them all, certainly a bunch of them. The goal will be to publish one chapter...
Earth 911

Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babson on Why Climate Grand Challenges Need Buyers, Too - Buyers contracted nearly 30 million tons of durable carbon removal in 2025, more than triple... The post Sustainability In Your Ear: XPRIZE’s David Babso...
The AltWorld

Will Saudi Arabia bow to Trump and ask the Israeli army for help with the Yemeni Houthis? - Why not engage in dialogue with them while excluding Arab and Muslim opportunists? We were not surprised […] The post Will Saudi Arabia bow to Trump and ...
Field Negro

"The Art of The Steal. " - The following is from the website of Representative Laura DeLauro who represents the3rd District of Connecticut. "Pay to Play: Trump’s Record of Corrup...
MintPress News

Iran’s Covert Missile Strikes Revealed, US Threatens MOAB Attack & The Arab-Israeli Plot Exposed - Iran releases the shocking claim that it killed 200 US Soldiers in its strikes on bases in Jordan alone, provoking a denial from CENTCOM and threats to u...
Lowering the Bar

Again I Warn Thee: Fleeth Not by Water - [image: suspect stepping into water]Because this somehow still seems to be necessary.
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: COMMIES AND MUSLIMS, WHO CARES, OH MY EDITION. - *A melody you can play with* Hate to be optimistic but the midterms are looking good. Here’s a glimpse of what the opposition is offering, courtesy of th...
The Militant

Meetings worldwide protest spread of Jew-hatred, attacks - It’s been three years since Oct. 7, 2023, when Gaza-based Hamas thugs — trained, financed and armed by Tehran — swarmed into Israel and carried out the wor...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 - Black Agenda Report October 16, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 10/16/2026 - 21:46 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agen...
TalkLeft

Thursday Open Thread - There has been so much coverage of the war in Iran and the midterm elections, other topics are getting short shrift. Like the Trump family and Kushner's ...
Idavox

The Raid on Ilhan Omar: Political Intimidation Comes Home - ‘For antifascists, the principle should be straightforward: political differences cannot justify allowing an authoritarian government... The post The Rai...
Greg Palast

Paxton-Trump Gun-toting War on Mail-in BallotsViolence as vote suppression - The war against mail-in ballots, crucial to Black, Hispanic and American tribal voters, is turning in to an armed conflict. But, as Edward Ward says, in th...
Texas Freedom Network

Thomas Ray Garcia for State Board of Education - Pol. Adv. paid for by Texas Freedom Network. This fall, voters from South Padre to Matagorda Bay have a superpower. It’s the power to positively impact t...
LareDOS

When everything looks like a nail, odds are you are using the hammer for the wrong job - Every new tool is sold with the dazzling promise of abundance enjoyed in leisure
nonsite.org

Introduction to Capitalism 1996–2026 - If, we take seriously, as the contributors to this issue argue we must, the idea that capital has reached the point where it can no longer afford to (and s...
Web of Debt

Dollar Reset 2.0: Stablecoins, Treasury Bills and the Case for Public Banks - The Digital Dollar Drain, image by ScheerPost Washington’s stablecoin strategy could shore up the dollar by making U.S. Treasury bills the backing for a ne...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report September 2026 - Walmart had at least another seven more shootings in September 2026 including three fatal shootings, two of which were suspects killed by police, the th...
Media Lens

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Unlimited Hangout

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Counterpunch

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Avedon's Sideshow

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Democracy Chronicles

A Big Day for Somalilanders (And A Friend) At The U.N. - Somaliland is a peaceful democracy, thriving with free markets and allies, now seeking recognition to secure its rightful future.
Edinburg Politics

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The Rag Blog

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Campaign for America's Future

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Green Pages News

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Texas Environmental News

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The Hunt Is On for a Million-Dollar Cooper Flagg Trading Card - Millionaires want it. Memorabiliamongers want it. Even the Mavericks want it—and are willing to give up more than a pretty penny to get it.
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
The Mind Unleashed

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Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

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Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
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...
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. —...
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...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

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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...
Bud Kennedy

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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

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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...
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...
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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

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

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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...
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 The post 2023 Year End Campaign! a...
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)

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

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Due Dissidence

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Duffel Blog

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Strategic Culture Foundation

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BillMoyers.com

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Chicken Fried Politics

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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

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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...
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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...
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Louis Proyect

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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Austin 360

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Modern Democracy

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The Metaphor Project

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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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Tuesday, January 01, 2013

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