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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Raw Story

Trump's evil henchmen are clones of a horrific monster who died in disgrace - At first glance, Roy Cohn, Stephen Miller and Emil Bove share an eerie resemblance, though they hail from distinct eras of American dysfunction. Cohn wa...
Slate

The Case for a Blue Wave - Okay, North Carolina, now’s your chance.
The Verge

Microsoft is retiring its Office Lens app on iOS and Android - Microsoft is removing its Lens scanner app from iOS and Android in the coming months. Microsoft Lens, or Office Lens as it's known to most, will no longer ...
Axios

What to know about the world's great climate collapse - The climate agenda's fall from grace over the past year has been stunning — in speed, scale and scope. *Why it matters*: Whether this collapse in climate...
ProPublica

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing - The post We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing appeared first on ProPublica.
Countercurrents

Book Review: Killing Democracy by Finian Cunningham - “Killing Democracy” should at bare minimum be a university textbook, distributed to every institution of higher learning in America. Ideally, it would be r...
Grist

A major agreement to protect the Amazon is falling apart after 20 years - Amid changing political headwinds, the moratorium on soy-driven deforestation is in danger. What now?
memeorandum

Former U.S. Navy Sailor Sentenced to 200 Months for Spying for China (US Department of Justice) - US Department of Justice: *Former U.S. Navy Sailor Sentenced to 200 Months for Spying for China* — For Immediate Release — Today, the Justice Departme...
Mediagazer

The BBC files a motion to dismiss Trump's lawsuit over how his January 6 speech was edited in Panorama, saying the Florida court lacks "personal jurisdiction" (Yang Tian/BBC) - Yang Tian / BBC: *The BBC files a motion to dismiss Trump's lawsuit over how his January 6 speech was edited in Panorama, saying the Florida court lacks ...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump warns of ‘complete mess’ if supreme court rejects tariffs - US president speaks after saying that any country that does business with Iran will face 25% levy on trade with US - Business live – latest up...
Dissident Voice

Festival of Cowardice: The Cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah - Boards of directors are a funny bunch. Often lacking expertise, claiming knowledge they do not have and insight that never illuminates, its members can m...
Al Jazeera English

Taiwan says ‘general consensus’ reached with US on trade deal - US media reports say tariffs will be cut to 15 percent in exchange for TSMC investment.
Crooked Media

Trump Targets Minneapolis, the Fed, and Greenland - The post Trump Targets Minneapolis, the Fed, and Greenland appeared first on Crooked Media.
Infidel753

Image round-up for 13 January 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the Synthetic Dream Foundation video, click her...
Earth 911

Recycling Mystery: Should You Refill or Recycle Ink Cartridges? - From an environmental standpoint, reusing a product is almost always preferable to recycling it because... The post Recycling Mystery: Should You Refill ...
Novara Media

96: Why Are Women Choosing Looks Instead of Books? - Sure, you look great – but can you spell pharaoh? Ash and Moya start the year with a tough conversation about the beauty regime that rules over us all. Has...
The Week

The ‘eclipse of the century’ is coming in 2027 - It will last for over 6 minutes
Counterpunch

West Papua and the Genocide Mosaic - The patterns of genocide, or the various ways humans go about killing large groups of other humans and their attempted justifications for doing so, are s...
Portside

They Want You To “Quit Demonstrating” - They Want You To “Quit Demonstrating” Mark Brody Tue, 01/13/2026 - 01:44
jobsanger

Donald Trump Is An Immoral Imperialist -
Houston Public Media

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1856: Form and Feeling - Episode: 1856 Form and feeling, a necessary partnership. Today, our guest. Seattle actor Megan Cole, considers a necessary partnership.
World Socialist Web Site

“It’s us against the executives”: Striking nurses in New York City speak from the picket line - Strikers spoke about the conditions that have provoked the largest nurses' walkout the city has ever experienced.
Informed Comment

California’s Palestine Exception to 1st Amendment is Fought in Courts by Progressives - Efforts to legally declare any criticism of Israeli policy to be sanctionable anti-Semitism have reached a crisis point
Consortium News

Minnesota Should Charge ICE Agent With Murder - Marjorie Cohn sizes up the legal considerations surrounding Jonathan Ross’ fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. By Marjorie Cohn Special to Consort...
Mediaite

Minneapolis Fox Affiliate Relays Reminder That ICE Can’t Legally Barge Into Homes Without a Warrant - A Minneapolis news station relayed a helpful reminder to viewers amid the ongoing crackdown by federal agents in the metropolitan area. The post Minneapo...
El Paso Matters

Josue Borrego formally named Canutillo ISD superintendent, promises to listen to community - Josue Borrego was officially named the Canutillo Independent School District's new superintendent Monday, promising to listen to the community. The post...
The Grayzone

Western media whitewashes deadly riots in Iran, relying on US govt-funded regime change NGOs - As deadly riots burn Iranian cities, Western media ignores the shocking wave of violence, turning instead to US government-funded NGOs for data. The one-...
The Hill

House Democrat says Fetterman's Iran remark 'pisses me off' - Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) on Monday took a swing at his Democratic congressional colleague Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) over Iran. In an earlier interview on “...
Techdirt.

A Non-Existent ‘Stranger Things’ Secret Episode Briefly Broke Netflix - The story of Netflix these past several years has been a fairly consistent one, told primarily across a few main pillars. The company has begun hitting sub...
Courthouse News

Paramount accuses Warner Bros. board of deception in Netflix merger - Paramount claims that the board of directors hid the value of Paramount's proposed offer to stockholders in an effort to expedite a deal with Netflix.
Daily Cartoonist

“A Comic Strip is the Perfect Outlet for Closet Megalomaniacs” - The 2026 Garry Trudeau designed Saranac Lake Winter “Cartoonival” buttons and posters are out in the wild. Aaron Marbone at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise...
Claytoonz

Trump’s Morality - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
Brad Blog

After ICE Murder in MN, Local Cops Disowning Fed Policing Practices: 'BradCast' 1/12/2026 - On today's BradCast: We all saw it with our own eyes on video tape. But the Administration is doubling down anyway, vowing to send even more federal ICE of...
Futurism

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims - "This horror was perpetrated by a company that has repeatedly failed to keep its users safe." The post ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “In...
Popular Resistance

We’re Being Lied To On A Massive Scale About Events In Venezuela - On January 3, the Trump administration authorized a large-scale military invasion in Venezuela that killed one hundred people. The US bombed infrastructu...
Liberation News

Washington’s war on sovereignty and development in Venezuela - [image: Mobilization in Venezuela calls for the return of Maduro from US captivity]The war on Venezuela is a war on the very idea that the people of the Gl...
Independent Political Report

Alaskan Independence Party Votes to Dissolve Following Leadership Decision - The Alaskan Independence Party has voted to dissolve following a December meeting of its state leadership, according to a recent statement. Party leaders...
Political Wire

Venezuela Opposition Leader to Visit White House - “President Trump will receive Venezuelan opposition activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado at the White House on Thursday,” the Wall St...
Workers World

Trump’s plans to plunder Venezuela’s oil - [image: Trump’s plans to plunder Venezuela’s oil] Within 24 hours of the outrageous Jan. 3 U.S. attack on Venezuela — with the kidnapping of its socialist ...
Lowering the Bar

Get Lost, 2025 - [image: LTB logo]Hope to never see you again.
San Antonio Report

On 10-stop San Antonio campaign swing, Jasmine Crockett flexes star power - The Senate hopeful's whirlwind tour included stops at six San Antonio-area churches, a gathering at Tony G’s and lines out the door. -----------------------...
Progressive.org

Disability Rights Laws Extend to Prisons - Making prisons accessible is important for inmates and visitors with disabilities.
Antiwar.com

The Ukraine Snare Still Beckons - Despite the widespread expectation that President Donald Trump would end Washington’s entanglement in NATO’s proxy war using Ukraine against Russia, it is ...
The Daily Poster

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s New Food Pyramid Scheme - The Trump administration’s updated dietary guidelines are adulterated with corporate conflicts and questionable science.
Mother Jones

An Expert Weighs in on Hurdles to Suing the ICE Officer Who Fatally Shot Renée Good - If the ICE officer who shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week is not prosecuted criminally, or even if he is, can he also be sued? Lega...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

''Deranged lunatic' - Trump Administration continues to smear Renee Good's name' & other Mon/Tues news briefs - Renee Good moments before she was shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. *Leavitt: Renee Good Was “Deranged Lunatic” Terrorist* - *Renee Good's death in Minnes...
Ballot Access News

Article on the Growth–and Frustrations–of Unaffiliated Voters in North Carolina - Here is an article on Independent Political Report. … Continue reading →
Salon.com

“Unlawful and unconstitutional”: Kelly sues Hegseth, Pentagon over censure - The senator and veteran asked a judge to block a possible punishment from the Department of Defense
San Antonio Current

San Antonio Zoo brings back annual ‘Cry Me a Cockroach’ Valentine’s Day fundraiser - The San Antonio Zoo is again inviting bitter ex-lovers to name cockroaches after their former significant others as part of its annual “Cry Me a Cockroa...
Daily Dot

“Some things never change”: Leonardo DiCaprio making faces at Golden Globes turns into a meme—or two - [image: leonardo dicaprio golden globes meme funny faces] The 83rd Annual Golden Globes took place in Hollywood last night, and, lucky for us, the event ...
Wolf Street

Household Money-Market Funds & Large CDs Hit Records despite Lower Yields. But Sorry, It’s Not “Cash on the Sidelines” - Their balances ballooned even as prices of stocks, gold, silver, *et al.* surged to records. Everything surged. Almost.
Socialist Alternative

Iran’s New Wave of Revolt - Crisis Sharpened By New Threats Of War From Trump & Netanyahu The latest protest movement in Iran, which began on December 28, has spread to all 31 provinc...
SCOTUSblog

Court hears arguments in suit attempting to find companies responsible for damage to Louisiana coast - The Supreme Court on Monday morning grappled with a dispute in Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana over whether oil and gas companies can m...
Rallblog

For Trump, Deprofessionalizing Government Is a Feature - The killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in a Minneapolis suburb has prompted a familiar debate over civil disobedience and government policing o...
CultureMap Houston

'Contractual dispute' compels closure of prime River Oaks steakhouse - One of Houston’s most prominent steakhouses is closing its only inner loop outpost. *Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille* will shutter its location in the *River O...
Scheerpost.com

Texas’ Chilling Academic Freedom Crackdown Sees Plato Passages Excised - A Texas A&M professor was forced to choose between editing his syllabus or teaching another course.
Election Law Blog

“Inside Democrats’ Brewing Debate Over Which States Should Vote First in 2028” - NYT: Democratic Party insiders are beginning to puzzle over one of the more consequential decisions for the party’s future: which states should vote fir...
Vox

Trump vs. the Fed, briefly explained - This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over ...
Eschaton

Happy Hour - Get happy
NPR's Health Shots

Why nearly 15,000 nurses in New York City are going on strike - Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are on strike demanding things like higher wages and more security in hospitals. The head of the of the New York State N...
Ian Welsh

Trump’s Attack On Defense Contractors & The Fed - This is another case of Trump doing the right thing in theory. From Matt Stoller: Trump also issued an executive order to ban buybacks, dividends, and cap ...
Second Nexus

'Heated Rivalry' Star Leaves Gayle King Speechless With Super NSFW Remark On Golden Globes Red Carpet - It may be winter, but *Heated Rivalry* is still hot enough to fog up the 2026 Golden Globes red carpet. That much became immediately clear when *breakout ...
Mondoweiss

Netanyahu says he wants to end U.S. military aid to Israel in the next 10 years - [image: Donald Trump is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after disembarking Air Force One at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel...
Church and State

Could Trump in the midterms be indicted by Congress if massive screams came from us and responsible mass media? - There should be no time to lose in demanding that the spineless GOP senators quickly indict and evict Trump.
The NM Political Report

New Mexico targets oil companies in sweeping environmental lawsuit - By Josh Lee New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and state regulators recently filed a sweeping civil complaint against a network of oil and gas comp...
ArcaMax

Trump’s war footing - At the same time agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol are swarming into Minnesota and other states and cities, Tru...
Environment Texas

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 - 25 years of wildlife, recreation, outdoor sports and clean water The post The Roadless Area Conservation Rule turns 25 appeared first on Environment Texas.
Daily Howler

MONDAY: The New York Times doesn't report it again! - *MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2026* *The insult that hasn't quite barked:* This morning, starting at 6:17, Joe and Mika reported the classic insulting remark. It...
NORML

Multiple States Facing Marijuana Legalization Repeal Threats in 2026 - [image: A person's arm is shown handcuffed in front of cannabis plants representing marijuana criminalization][image: A person's arm is shown handcuffed ...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Minneapolis and the Narrative Election: When Reality Itself Becomes Contested - The killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, and the immediate, starkly divided reactions to it, illustrate how Americans now disagree not just over policy,...
Texas Standard

An NFL hot take: The Cowboys are no longer America’s Team. The Texans are. - Houston seems ascendant while Dallas has struggled to recapture its once-dominant status.
First Draft

The Bumper Stickers Were Warnings - The right's bumper stickers often are about violence against liberals, and one should have pause about ICE's recruitment of such people.
naked capitalism

Coffee Break: Minnesota on ICE, Part One - With the killing of Renee Good, Minneapolis has become the frontline of POTUS Trump's ICE incitement and the reasons why go back decades and across the glo...
Capital & Main

Will an Old Pennsylvania Coal Town Get a Reboot From AI? - Homer City embraces the prospect of jobs but worries the profits and power from a new gas plant will flow to faraway tech companies. The post Will an Old...
Alas, a Blog

We’d All Miss Private Health Insurance - Another collab with the terrific R.E. Ryan. “I Can’t Afford My Spleen” might be a good title for the eventual book collection. I love the way R.E. drew thi...
The Greanville Post

The Imperial Murder Machine Is In A State Of Hyperactivity - CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—There were mounting Cold War tensions with Russia and the US-backed Saudi atrocities in Yemen, a faltering dirty war in Syria, and a half...
Idavox

Connecting the Dots on ICE Murders & Violence - Terror sent to the Twin Cities is federal overreach designed to destabilize and provoke confrontation.... The post Connecting the Dots on ICE Murders & V...
Undernews

Courts and Trump - Peter Baker
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The War is Already Here: Glimpses From the Second Civil War - All the hand-wringing and forecasting needs to end. We are smack-dab in the middle of the Second American Civil War
The Root

How MAGA Is Trying to Change the Midterm Election Rules Should Have Everyone Terrified - With only months away from a critical midterm election, President Trump is getting creative with ways to swing votes in his favor. Read more...
Project Censored

Venezuela, War Crimes, and the Media’s Dirty Work - First up, we welcome back to the program analyst and organizer Leonardo Flores to talk to us about what’s really going on on the ground in Venezuela, con...
Dissent Magazine

If You Want Me to Pay My Taxes - Americans tend to imagine that aversion to taxation is deeply rooted in our national political culture. Not so fast, Vanessa S. Williamson argues in her ...
WhoWhatWhy

In the Land of the Green - [image: NATO, Greenland] Know thy enemy. In the Land of the Green originally appeared on WhoWhatWhy
Crooked Timber

The Tories are dead, long live the Tories (Reform version)! - For the last year or so, left-leaning UK voters have been subjected to the looming nightmare that Reform – a bunch of xenophobes and welfare-state-slashers...
Deadline Politics

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani Names Rafael Espinal To Lead Office Of Media And Entertainment - New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has named Rafael Espinal, executive director of the Freelancers Union and a former New York City Council member, as commissio...
Bonddad

September and October housing construction consistent with government shutdown recession, but also the possibility of “green shoots” - * - by New Deal democrat* On Friday housing permits, starts, and units under construction were finally reported for the first time in four months, sin...
Glasstire

Holding Hard Memories: Allysha Farmer & Anastassia Rabajille Xandre’s “Mourning Harvest” at Interloper Gallery, San Antonio - A person fully expressing the nuanced, amorphous, and gargantuan struggle that is the caring for and witnessing of a death of a loved one would be a fail...
Space City Weather

A fairly typical January week arrives in Houston for a change - In brief: Houston’s weather will behave more typical of January this week, with temperatures both a little cooler and a little warmer than normal at times....
Rewire

Stillbirths May Be More Common in U.S. Than Previously Known—Study - The fetal death rate is particularly high in Black patients, researchers found. The post Stillbirths May Be More Common in U.S. Than Previously Known—Stu...
Democracy Now!

"All the Walls Came Down": L.A. Fire Survivors Fight Foreclosure & Demand Justice in Altadena - We look at *All the Walls Came Down*, a new short documentary directed by filmmaker Ondi Timoner that looks back at the devastating 2025 fires in Los Angel...
The Conversation

Trump lawsuits seek to muzzle media, posing serious threat to free press - The president has sued multiple media companies. He may care less about winning in court than intimidating news outlets, suggest two media scholars.
Texas Observer

A Dallas Megadonor, a New Nonprofit, and the War on ‘Housing First’ - On October 15, 2024, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee held a wide-ranging special hearing in the Capitol’s underground extension. The first subje...
Angry Bear

Nixon or Trump? Which one . . . - A good read as composed by Jack about Nixon and doing a comparison of Nixon to Trump and foreign policy. Jack is another writer I subscribe to. I usually...
Dorf on Law

RFK, Jr. WTF? -- Animal Edition - Last week, I filled in for Jasmin Singer as the co-host (with Mariann Sullivan) of the Hen Report, one of the three weekly podcasts in the Our Henhouse f...
Skeptophilia

The oddest star in the galaxy - I'll start today with a quote (often misquoted) from William Shakespeare -- more specifically, *Hamlet*, Act I, Scene 5: Horatio: O day and night, but thi...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump’s War Footing -
Duck of Minerva

How To Review Efficiently and Fairly - Instead of Dry January, I’m going review free for January after having nearly 80 review requests last year. My New Year’s resolution was to have a healthie...
Off The Kuff

Interview with Melissa McDonough - We move now to CD38, the new district from the 2021 redistricting cycle. I will have three interviews with candidates for CD38 this week, starting with the...
Alternet

An overlooked detail in the Renee Good video - A small detail has stayed with me from the video of Renee Nicole Good being shot to death in Minneapolis by ICE officer Jonathan Ross. In the video, she’...
High Country News

What does ‘time immemorial’ really mean? - [image: Honoring the Ones Who Came Before Us, Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Wiyot Territory, 2009.] An overused phrase goes under the mi...
Common Dreams

Trump’s DOJ Legal Threats Aim to Intimidate the Federal Reserve - This evening, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell released a video statement revealing that Trump’s Department of Justice issued grand jury subpoenas to ...
TalkLeft

Sunday Night Open Thread - There's a lot to break down, from the Golden Globes to Venezuela and its Oil to Minnesota, ICE, Iran, Colombia, Greenland, and the Trump family's unstop...
slacktivist

Smart people saying smart things (01.11.2026) - Take time to listen to Heather Cox Richardson, Thomas Paine, Rebecca Solnit, David M. Perry, Roald Dahl, Sarah Jeong, and Elizabeth N. Saunders.
Field Negro

The Trump Distraction Machine. - This character in the White House is doing everything in his powers to change the storyline and narrative from Jeffrey Epstein and the Epstein files. Th...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

A 'Kent State Moment'—When Power Gaslights What We Can all See With Our Own Eyes, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - * A 'Kent State Moment'—When Power Gaslights What We Can all See With Our Own Eyes* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *January 10, 2026* *There are mome...
See You In 2020

The Zionist right took on the role of the liberal technocrats, & now it must face the storm that they set in motion - When the Zionist right took on the role of the liberal technocrats, it inherited the unprecedented mass backlash that the liberals set this country up f...
Trivial Knot

Link Roundup: January 2026 - This month, the ace journal club discussed a quoiromantic manifesto, translated from Japanese! Probably not the easiest read if you don’t have prior famil...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Resistance Solidarity - Washington – the gangster-in-chief posing as global policeman – refuses to accept any limitations on its actions. If legal authorities, whether domestic or...
The Texas Signal

Jennifer Mathieu: When A YA Author Grows Up - “I still understand adolescents. I work with them every day, but I was in my 30s when my first book was published. I’m firmly in mid-life right now, and my...
Democracy Chronicles

How the U.S. and the U.K. Frame Religion Differently - Watching the news in both countries, I have realised that the media does more than just report reality; it constructs facts from opinion and instructs audi...
Sludge

Right-Wing Group Trains State Lawmakers to Cut the Safety Net - Sludge obtained a conference agenda from the Foundation for Government Accountability that uses the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" as a launch pad for sweepi...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: YOUR LYIN' EYES EDITION. - *Some trippy shit right here.* Just a week after we all hoped for better days in the new year, an ICE officer murdered a young woman in Minneapolis and, ...
The Militant

Tetrosyl workers in UK strike against bosses’ move to cut wages - ROCHDALE, England — After five days of strike action at Tetrosyl’s warehouse and distribution operation here, north of Manchester, some 80 workers are dete...
MintPress News

From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign Leaders - Kidnapping heads of state is not a Trump innovation. It is American tradition. The post From Noriega to Maduro: The Long US History of Kidnapping Foreign...
Debunking Christianity

Honest Sermons about the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 14 - *There is more bragging here about the holy hero’s colossal ego * At 72 verses, Mark 14 is the longest chapter in this gospel. It also gives an accoun...
DeSmogBlog

Reform ‘Cosying Up to Authoritarian Petrostate’ - Senior figures in Reform UK have been developing close connections to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an authoritarian, monarchic state with vast fossil ...
Krebs on Security

Who Benefited from the Aisuru and Kimwolf Botnets? - Our first story of 2026 revealed how a destructive new botnet called Kimwolf rapidly grew to infect more than two million devices by mass-compromising a va...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio January 9, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 01/09/2026 - 03:22 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda...
Edinburg Politics

As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, combat veterans Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Col. Frank Plummer honored by the City of McAllen at Valley’s iconic Veteran’s War Memorial of Texas - FEATURED: Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, during his tour of duty as a U.S. Marine combat squad leader in Vietnam from 1966 through 1968, and Col. Frank Plu...
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...
Discourse

Renee Nicole Good's Murder Is Not Up for Debate - Fascist spin and an abdication of journalistic responsibility won't change what we can see with our own eyes.
The AltWorld

American Conservatives Are Disgusting Frauds - After spending days enthusiastically applauding Trump’s freakish act of imperialist aggression to oust the president of Venezuela […] The post American C...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report December 2025 - Walmart had another six shootings in December 2025, which is lower than usual for the past ten to twelve years at least, and it's especially low for the...
LareDOS

Here on the river’s edge as the water, like time, slips past. Here is the promise of the long view and the close look. - Here, where quiet drowns out the distant rancor of fearmongers, we might, instead, be good neighbors.
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / ECONOMICS / Inflation, unemployment, and President Trump’s speech - By Michael Meeropool / The Rag Blog / January 1, 2026 The following is an expanded version of a commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on , by Michael Meeropol,...
Bracing Views

Gangster Capitalism - The Donroe Doctrine of Regional Dominance, Obedience, and Theft BILL ASTORE JAN 04, 2026 There are at least 30 trillion reasons why the Trump administratio...
The Progressive Wing

1/5-12 News Roundup and Open Thread - More on Venezuela and other stuff,
Two Party Opera

Illegal Orders - Read More
Land Destroyer

New Year Starts, Same Old US Proxy War Continues - *January 3, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - While the United States government poses as “pursuing peace” with Russia regarding the ongoing war in Ukraine,...
Ecosophia

On Hiatus - Things are piling up very quickly for me and so I’ve decided to go on hiatus here and on my blog for the rest of January. I expect to be posting again by F...
Greg Palast

When Venezuela’s President Delcy Rodriguez banged on my door at 2AM - It was 2002 when Delcy Rodriguez, sworn in today as President of Venezuela, came to my apartment in London well after midnight to tell me, a BBC television...
OpEd News

Gender and the Nobel Peace Prize - The fifteen male and ten female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize followed significantly different routes in achieving that distinction. For the purposes...
Avedon's Sideshow

Waiting for Twelfthnight - It has not been my merriest Christmas since I lost two important comrades on the day, so I'm going to ignore most of the other grim stuff for a bit and ...
Progressives Chat

Flashback 1976: Three Teenaged Girls Murdered by Day 20 - Happy New Year 2026! *(Even though this topic cannot be described as “Happy”!)* The year 2026 will mark the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the *...
Seeing the Forest

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Have you ever listened to the lyrics? (See 50 years later version below.) If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the groun...
Unlimited Hangout

Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis - Trump & the Technocratic Tyranny with Iain Davis.
Earthworks

Yara Tries to Get Rich Off of Air Products’ Controversial Blue Hydrogen Project in Louisiana - Concerning news arrived this holiday season: Yara, one of the largest ammonia traders and shippers in the world, could be … The post Yara Tries to Get R...
Web of Debt

Compound Interest Is Devouring the Federal Budget: It’s Time to Take Back the Money Power - Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is “the most powerful force in the universe.” The quote is probably apocryphal, but it ref...
Reading the Pictures

Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was the Scapegoat: Key Pictures of 2025 - Trump killed DEI and called it a win. What he really killed: due process, free speech, sanctuary, and dignity. The post Democracy Was the Target, DEI Was...
nonsite.org

Mystic Realism - During the Vietnam War, Allan Sekula sought to renovate social realism, a practice he associated with Lewis Hine, whom he called a “realist mystic.” Sekula...
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...
Media Lens

Blanked – A Tale Of Two Books - A significant feature of the propaganda system is the suppression of clearly important, credible books which are nevertheless deemed unfit for review in th...
Green Pages News

Hospitals Must Stand Up to Trump’s Tirade Against Gender Affirming Care - Author’s Hot Take: If care is only prohibited for people under 19, that is still over 2 million people who are put in harm’s way because they can’t receive...
Consent Factory, Inc.

A Visit by the German Thought Police - Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my...
Campaign for America's Future

It Is Up to Us to Defend Democracy - Do we have the courage to defeat an authoritarian regime? I believe we do, if we organize strategically and effectively. There is no time to waste. Do we...
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...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Dispatches from the Underclass

Why Israel Has No Future in the Middle East | Nakba Survivor Dr. Ghada Karmi - As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ...
Texas Freedom Network

Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU - Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull th...
Moron Majority

D.C. Jury – “The Case Was A Bunch Of Baloney” - WASHINGTON — In what legal scholars are already calling the most delicious acquittal of the year, a D.C. jury has found a man not guilty of assault after h...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? - No. The post Does Tylenol use by pregnant women cause autism, as Texas Attorney General (and McKinney resident) Ken Paxton alleges? appeared first on D ...
American Prospect

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

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...
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 ...
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...
The Socialist

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Free & Equal

Comparing Tadalafil (Generic Cialis) And Sildenafil (Generic Viagra) - Comparing The Mechanism Of Action Tadalafil and sildenafil are both medications designed to address erectile dysfunction by serving as PDE-5 inhibitors. ...
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...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
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 Updated: June 26, 2024 Guardian Australia on Jun 24, 2024 Stella Assange, Julian Assange’s wife, has released a video stateme...
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

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
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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